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You think trigonometry is taught in primary school?

You miss the point also: I was taught trig in high school, and I remember SOHCAHTOA, etc - but until I looked at lines drawn on a unit circle and worked put what secant, sine, tangent and their corresponding ratios meant I didn't really understand trig.
I agree. I was presented with #male nudity...
VPC (Amazon Virtual Private Cloud) issues with crafted network packets
Xt_sslpin: match SSL/TLS certificate finger prints at the netfilter level
On the one hand, the goal of Unicode is to be able to encode all scripts, historic and contemporary. The swastika made it into a number of scripts before the Nazis ruined it for everybody, and so if Unicode is to encode those scripts, then it needs to include that character. It's easy to argue that it doesn't belong in the emoji block, but instead with the glyphs for the scripts that include it, but this is a technical detail that does not present any obstacle whatsoever to its use.

On the other hand, removing an emoji does not, in any way, prevent expression of the concept it describes. It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth, particularly when justified by what amounts to magic-bullet media theory, but to call it censorship is frankly absurd.
sentencing by tribunal. maybe one person could be in a bad mood, but all 3 at the same time?
My understanding is that all native american populations are from a relatively small and homogenous population that walked into Alaska 16000 years ago.

Which means that they're much less genetically diverse than the rest of the world.

This is hard to reconcile with the claims in this article.
> What is NIMBY for microhousing based on?

This is an ongoing argument in Northern Virginia (which is not quite as expensive as SF / Seattle / NYC, but probably only one cost tier below that) and the major arguments are basically the same issues that apply to all "just build more housing, stupid" proposals.

Basically, if you suddenly build a lot more housing, you'd start to strain the infrastructure of the community in other ways. That strain is really, really unpleasant to other people who share the infrastructure, and so current residents -- who are often already feeling like things are strained and getting worse over time -- would rather avoid making things worse. The easiest way to avoid making things worse is just to control the number of residents, and the easiest way to do that is to control the amount of housing. If you don't live here, you're probably not using the infrastructure. QED.

In many ways, building more housing is the easiest problem to solve when it comes to urban infrastructure. Providing a heated place out of the rain just isn't that hard, compared to (say) transportation or schools or figuring out sustainable economic balance.

Existing residents are probably (very reasonably) suspicious that once a bunch of tiny apartments are air-dropped in, and then a bunch of people move in to fill them up, that there won't be any solution to any of the knock-on problems that will inevitably result -- parking, traffic, school overcrowding, tax-base changes, stress to physical infrastructure like gas/water/sewer/electric systems -- until those systems become untenably broken. I mean, I can't speak to Seattle, but those things are already an increasingly-severe problem today, with the current number of residents, in my area, and people don't have much faith in government's ability to fix them; so the idea that the situation will be improved once everyone installs a couple of backyard apartments is ridiculous. (And then there are questions like: how are these backyard apartments going to be taxed? Are people who move in really going to pay more in taxes than they consume in services and infrastructure impact, or is this going to externalize costs via taxes on everyone else? There's no clear answer to these questions, and people are reluctant to become the test case.)

If you want more housing, you need more infrastructure. If you want more infrastructure, either you need a very different funding model or you need better government and more trust in that government. Our government is largely (perceived to be) broken, and public infrastructure is (perceived to be) broken or breaking, and so the unsurprising result is that nobody wants to build more housing and add more strain to a system that's well beyond its design capacity anyway.
I recently bought Ulefone U007 for 50EUR (720p IPS display, 1GB RAM, 32-bit MTK quadcore) in order to use it as a display for my Phantom 4 drone. Well, it turned out to be too slow for real-time video feed so I made it my OSMAnd navigation device permanently attached to my bike. In any case, imagine in 1-2 years a 1080p/2GB/Sony13Mpx camera phone will be available for 50EUR - why would you invest in a premium one?
What could happen is your cash becoming more valuable in a deflationary spiral. My take is you're incurring the opportunity cost today on your cash reserves. Your present value is based on a belief that the future will be deflationary over inflationary. You could model this with an estimation of the present value of your cash holdings as a function of how long you hold it and your expected inflation rates.
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> But until there's some better solution, the underlying problem that parking requirements were created to solve still exists.

But that problem is still a luxury problem. It's not some fundamental right for people to own a car. If you want luxury benefits, you should have to pay luxury pricing. I'm not saying you shouldn't have the right to own a car, just that, like any luxury good, it shouldn't be cheap.

In Seattle there are many public transportation options. Sure, it could be much better, but it's still available and quite feasible to use.
The one still married to Slick Willy.
I use Magit myself and love it, but it still has a truckload of commands, and to avoid shooting yourself in the foot you have to know what they do (crack open "man git" again), which ones to use and when to use them, and often even how git works in detail under the hood.

Magit certainly makes working with git easier and faster, and combined with the power of emacs it makes for a very powerful tool. But it has still been very far from simple or elegant for me, once you get beyond the basics of what git can do.

I personally see this as a design problem with git, which a tool like Magit can mitigate but not solve.
> Angela Merkel (relevant: probably the only physicist head of state)

That's actually fascinating. She was a physical chemist research scientist, not just undergraduate [1]. I wonder how many other scientist heads of state there have been.

Margaret Thatcher was a research chemist (food scientist) [2], but that's the only other one I know of.

Edit: she was the first British Prime Minister with a Science degree [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
[3]: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n11/david-runciman/rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat
Back in the days when my team used QC, we'd refer to MI products as "QA products without QA done on them."
Why are the islands known to accelerate genetic changes specifically? Is it because of sun exposure?
What's going on with live chat?
$500 x how many victims?
for the rest of it there is http://git.io/git-tips
The Anime Economy – Part 2: Shiny Discs
I believe that a lot of conservative people would find a picture like that offensive. We have to keep in mind that Facebook's audience is in the billions.
I don't need to be a carpenter to say that maybe building a barn out of cotton candy and air balloon animals might not be the best idea.
As great as this is and large step for other countries very soon, decarb can only be achieved through transport efforts. transport makes up over 1/3s of emissions so why residential/commercial consumption energy efficiency is great, it is a tiny fraction of achieving overarching goal
If you think I'm arguing that it made sense to remove the analog output, you're mistaken. It's absurd to me. It's perfectly sensible however to want wireless headphones (or speakers), but Apple hasn't introduced anything new here in that regard.
Although I generally disagree with the parent comment, I have to say that AWS actually IS overpriced. Just look at Cloud plattforms like OVH.com or even digitalocean.com, they charge almost nothing for the traffic, whereas it comes at a whopping 0.09$/GB at AWS.
If you aren't dependant on specific AWS products like DynamoDB you will definitely find a much better deal elsewhere.
Tech Doping: How Paralympic Sprinters Game the System
I agree. Class time is much too valuable to be lost on such minutiae. However, I'd expect a good university to:

a) Explain the value of version control and actively promote its usage

b) Drop some hints on which good version control systems are out there, one of which is git, then let students pick, learn and run with their own choice

It'd take all of half an hour, with great benefits for students.
> presumably because most or all of the people you have writing the copy are white millennials, and probably men

Jokes on you--I'm black woman
Elderly people love, really enjoy, their Nixplay[0]. I call it "Facebook[1] for grannies". Putting the names of people below the pictures helps people with mild forms of dementia to repeat & remember the names of their beloved.

The Nixplay device is quite good, regretfully the UX of their website is horrendous. And there I see a problem. If someone would build a selfhosted version of "Facebook[1] for grannies" with an Raspberry PI: open source projects are not known for their excellent UI/UX designs.

Time will come, and given the feedback I hear on the Nixplay, I expect that one day we'll have these devices all over in houses of elderly, either connected to a special screen or connected to the TV set.

[0] nixplay.com

[1] replace with Instagram, Flikr or your favorite photos sharing app/site
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I am reminded of when I worked on a financial analytics app and we constantly had to remove the Zimbabwe stocks. They'd all gone up 1000's of percent and ruined all the other data on the chart (appearance-wise). Why? As the Zimbabwe currency lost value and became worthless, the stocks denominated in that currency held their real value. I would expect to see some version of this play out in the stock market today.
I don't think you even need to invoke such a controversial argument as "all non-human lives don't matter". Drastic climate change is likely to impact every species. Considering the vast amount of cheap, safe, carbon-free power that's available from hydro, it's probably the right call for salmon to take one for the team here.

I live in the heart of the PNW and most of my power comes from COAL. The rest; natural gas. It's insane. We could power three states by damming a few rivers. I'm not an expert, but I also think it's more than possible to do that in a way that still let's salmon spawn, depending on how well things like fish ladders and run-of-the-river actually works. I'm pretty sure BC get's the majority of their power from hydro, and from how much time local fishermen spend up there, the salmon are doing just fine.
I'd prefer to have an obscenity in my password if a customer service representative is seeing it. That would help communicate my frustration with their system. Saves me from having to voice that same obscenity, most likely.
Personal experience. Those "race" elements in official forms – and, more so, the use of that word in everyday media speak – I only saw in the US, and they'd be impossible where I come from.
I think this is a protest and if the protest is huge they will need to tolerate this photo even if it is against their policies.
A didactic video with a talking head and no use of the video medium whatsoever is extremely annoying. What about that video couldn't be done equally well or better in writing?
For neither use case I'd use gaudy animations.
Jira is good compared to Bugzilla and others (not mentioned the complete piles of crap like ClearQuest that couldn't even get basic search right and a "nice" proprietary one that required 2fa for logging in to bugs. Of course it was IE only)

"Kids these days" don't know how long it took for Jira to appear

It is "bad", but it is bad compared to what Google puts out. Not a corporate tool.
V8 is not a browser. It's just a JavaScript engine. For a browser, you'd need a rendering engine and some networking code.

For a list of headless browsers, see [0]. Not all entries in that list run v8.

[0]: https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers
I remember a little while ago my dad went to an academic lunch with Dr. Craig Venter in Chiapas (MX), he was talking about sampling DNA from the Americas to register genes that could potentially help medical research and are endemic to the region.
Yes, both astrophysics codes and MD are basically "n-body approximations" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_simulation although if I understand correctly universal simulations do explicitly model general relatively

Personally I find the "particle mesh". If you model the N-body calculation this way, you can solve for the field (potential) by converting to fourier space, doing some FFTs (which computers are really, really good at), then converting back to real space. This works in both astro and molecular simulations, really well.
Geothermal also produces radioactive waste! Water gets pumped into the ground, becomes steam, the steam rises, and is used to generate power. The steam brings with it toxic sludge, which needs to be disposed of. Not sure why, but they don't wanna pump the sludge back into the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power#Environmental...
The CIA is one of the US' greatest assets. It's not going to be "exposed" and go away. Sure, many of it's atrocities might come to light and the public will be mildly upset. But the CIA isn't going anywhere.
Not everyone is solid/upper middle class...
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That may be so but the take away should be it's not just intuition but it's documented and contributes to scientific knowledge and inquiry and may lead to direct improved knowledge about those pops leading to better medical understanding and treatments... And no just for them but other genetically divergent groups around the world.
The Guardian is a British newspaper. In the UK we still consider it torture. I think the UK has basically always reported it like this - we do not see eye to eye on this topic.

Crucially, the CIA's aggressive covering up says something about the perceived risk of the public and legislature knowing fully about this.
Americans have really thin skin because they fought a civil war over whether people with one color of skin could own people with a different color of skin. And until very recently,[1] people with one color of skin had to go to different schools than everyone else, they couldn't get married to each other, etc.

[1] To put things into context, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and the other tech luminaries in their generation would have gone to segregated schools had they been born in the south instead of in California and Washington. If Ken Thompson had exercised his right to vote in his native Louisiana when he turned 18, he would have done so on ballots that, pursuant to state law, listed the race of each candidate.

The Voting Rights Act (which made it illegal to have "whites-only" hotels) and Loving v. Virginia (which ended laws banning interracial marriage) are roughly contemporaneous with UNIX--both being products of the late 1960s.

One more fun fact: Americans' approval for black-white marriage crossed the 50% mark sometime between the release of Windows 95 and Windows 98: http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh....
> whole point of existence is human flourishing and happiness.

Because humans are gods. Right. Unbelievable.
A human also cannot accurately recommend a movie, which means it's not as trivial a task as it seems.

Anyway, an algorithm judgement should not be blindly trusted, and there should be plenty of checks to make sure someone doesn't accidentally get NaN years of detention, but it could have its use.
These are fantastic! I'm totally going to make use of this. Any chance you'll do the same for other input elements? :)
Given the the various aspects of this launch, satellite for Israel, growing competition for Russia's current monopoly on manned launch capacity, entrenched players disliking the new launch kid on the block etc.

It would be naive not to acknowledge that several nation states and other powerful and knowledgeable tech entities would have an interest in a dramatic failure like this.
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> Inadequate parking does have a negative impact on a neighborhood, and it's not the only way to nudge society in the direction of driving less.

Sure, there are better ways to push people, and that's now why I want less parking, that's just a pain-point we shouldn't be trying to fix.

> Unsustainable or not, most people do have a car, and it is a major nuisance when there is inadequate parking around housing.

So? A nuisance that those people can avoid if they chose too. Sure, they have a right to own a car, but there's not right to avoid nuisance.
Dams are an ecological disaster, just as much as burning fossil fuels. Dams have directly caused or are causing the extinction of several species around the world, that is not counting all the permanent environmental impacts a dam creates.

Hydro is a green energy source if you define green as simply not burning fuel.
I has too many features that are hard to explore and barely work at the moment, I'd suggest bringing the number of things down, but make them work and make it clear how an organizer signs up and benefits from doing so.

I don't think I want to move my event tickets there, but would use the tools if they helped me do the organizing stuff. Hope to check it out once the tool is in decent shape.
How I fixed Unix atime with 10 lines of code and feminism [video 2016]
Hi. We use both. VersionOne for sprint planning/tracking and Jira for bug tracking.

Oh, and the VersionOne stories all link back to Jira which contains the original story for the functionality.
They can, though?
I think that something rather different may take place: celebrity voices will be copyrighted (or granted similar protection under law) by the individual themselves or their estate, and licensed for use.

David Attenborough, Morgan Freeman and Billy West: call your offices.
Some background for those concerned with inflation:

The US dollar is backed first and foremost by the global reserve status of our currency, which it became in 1971, as (probably the most important) part of the Bretton Woods System. As long as nations need US dollars to purchase crude oil, the US dollar will continue to be globally valuable.

Secondly, the US has a powerful military, including hundreds of essentially forward operating bases and air fields, lying in wait, all over the world.

Third, and as a secondary property of our military and economic strength, many countries are owed many billions of US dollars. This is because, due to the strength of the US military, T-bills (essentially bets made on the US dollar) are purchased by many nations. When other countries bet on the US dollar, they're creating a vested interest in the US dollar not collapsing, which increases the US leverage (leading to things like money printing).

None of this is meant to make you more too comfortable, because, despite all of the above, China, Russia, Libya, Iran, Brazil, South Africa, and, at times, India, have been attempting to reduce the US dollar hegemony by creating other means of trading oil.

For instance, Libya's late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, created a gold backed currency for trading oil (this is the reason NATO invaded Libya and killed Gaddafi). Russia and Iran made agreements to trade food (from Russia) for Oil (from Iran), which Russia would then add to its exports, acting as a trade proxy for Iran. This, combined with Iran's efforts to pipe natural gas and oil to China, is the reason for the supposed "Iranian nuclear threat". China has also recently created the Shanghai Gold Exchange, as a means to further commoditize fiat currency (china has very large gold reserves). BRICS has created a competitor to the Western-dominated IMF in the past 24 months, which also threatens the US reserve currency's backup plan, which is called the SDR (Special Drawing Rights). The list goes on; not to mention the calls Xi Jinping has directly made to remove the US dollar as a reserve currency (IOW, this isn't exactly covert, as of about mid 2010).

As you can see, considering our posturing in the South China Sea, and considering what happened to Gaddafi, the US won't acquiesce to losing its reserve status. So, the US dollar is not going to "collapse", lest we find ourselves engaged in total war (with China, et al). So, as long as you don't plan to bail on the US in a total war scenario, you're, in my opinion, safe to invest in USD.
V8 is just the JavaScript runtime, not a full browser environment (i.e., no DOM, etc.) If you want to use V8 headless, you can either use NodeJS or you can link it into your own C/C++ code to run JS scripts, which is what I did a while ago for a project that needed a scripting hook.

If you want to run a full browser environment headlessly, take a look at PhanthomJS or SlimerJS, or use one of the fake DOM thingies for Node.
Queue #opNorthKorea because Clinton. Mission accomplished. Yay.
The solution is restorative justice, where the focus is on repairing the harm rather than punishment.

For example, sending a drug addict to prison for 10 years doesn't do anything to alleviate the harm of the crime, and in fact is harmful in and of itself, just in a different way.

The law needs to maintain a much closer balance between hurting people and helping people. While hurting criminals does have a deterrent factor, we do have to make sure that after we hurt them we build them back up so they don't reoffend. In the long run, skipping the "build them back up" step is more dangerous than skipping the punishment step. Our laws currently falsely assume that skipping the punishment step is the most dangerous thing to do.
Design Patterns Experiment W. Moderator Variables to Generalize Across Contexts
Well, one thing we have to do for sure is inject tests into the system.

Hire actors to play defense, prosecution, etc, without the judge knowing. Change one variable, and see how different judges react. Black, white, male, female, handicapped, etc. Witnesses, victims, defendant.

At a minimum, publish scores of Judges, so the public can make informed decisions.

Justice has to be blind, or there's no fucking point.
Isolation. See The Galapagos + Darwin's studies on the birds there. Also: Madagascar (film + land mass)
I Googled "islands accelerate genetic changes" and the results show stuff like:

The restricted scale, isolation, and sharp boundaries of islands create unique selective pressures, often to dramatic effect.
Parking laws did, pretty much, fall from the sky one day on a bunch of stone tablets, usually reflecting terrible data. if you want to read 750 pages on the topic, read Donald Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking.

They usually are designed to produce neighborhoods where no one ever needs to spend any time searching for a free parking space— which leads to a great deal of suffering for anyone not in an automobile, since such neighborhoods have vast expanses of surface parking that are completely inhospitable to human beings, and are very difficult to serve with public transit.

They also often require an amenity that is very expensive to produce (parking spaces, especially structured spaces) be provided for free, which incentivizes people to own cars and drive everywhere— exactly what we don't want in urban areas, since cars pollute a lot, are dangerous, and require huge amounts of scarce land to store and transport.