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Well, if you really want to ensure they pay damage claims you must ship your packaged product to UPS Chicago testing facility (or approved ISTA testing facility) to get your Packaging approved to ensure it's adequate for the application.

I work in Packaging design and love problem solving. Any startups that need custom Packaging designed (design is usually free as value added service to get the mfg contract) feel free to PM me to discuss. I love to help/advise whether it becomes a mutually beneficial Business relationship, or a one sided help you only situation. ;)
Game studios in California hire QA mostly as contractors. Because of the regulation all these contractors get a "break" of 3 months after every 12 (or 18 months?) to prevent them from becoming FTE from the point of view of the law. From what I can tell, the only people hurt by this are the QA themselves. They either need to find a new job or live off their copious savings for 90 days to return to the job they already had.

This is not "double Irish" scheme, a bright 8 y.o. could have figured this outcome, yet, this being California, people still vote for the people who bring these laws on them. Boggles my mind.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Everyone should keep in mind that junkies are people too and the causes of their situation are virtually always much more complex than just a moral failing on their part.
Oh... oh gosh. This is exactly what happens between my girlfriend and me. I'm guessing this is what will probably happen years into the future. Thanks. ;)

I'd like to think that much of the time she generally understands me, and bless her heart she really does her best, but sometimes when it gets late my ability to maintain conversation just tapers off and crashes. Now I'm not sure if it's me being rude or it's just some mental block that happens! I really want to believe it's the latter, because my ability to stay engaged diminishes after about 9PM and my mind wanders. It's like a conversation shut-off valve clicks in my head.

The plus side is that she is probably better at reading me than I am, so she usually detects when I'm reaching that point before I do.

I swear we've even had the same conversation.
You are clearly not from Texas. Nothing is 10 minutes away. Public transit is a joke. I realize this is a chicken/egg situation, but it's probably not changing anytime soon here.

Honestly, it's not an issue (in Houston) at all. I like driving and the fact that everywhere has parking is perfect. If I'm going out I just pay for the uber and call it a night. It's cheap enough down here anyways.
This person shouldn't even be in jail.
It's not just the US. People here in London would happily spend four figures on their (ultralight aerodynamic) bike.

My perspective: I used to be like you and spend around $250. The bikes would break more easily (although maybe with an insurance/maintenance plan I would have been happier).

Meanwhile, everyone else spends four figures a year on transportation (driving costs about £1000 a year, the tube costs the same). I figured if I would buy an expensive bike once it would justify the cost over many years.

I bought a folding bike (a brompton) rather than a road bike - it cost around £900. They last for decades if treated right. So the cost, divided over the years of use, is negligible compared to other modes of transport.
This has become really common. Most modern malware sandboxes attempt to greatly accelerate the system clock to account for this, in addition to trying to detect and intercept long sleep (or equivalent) calls.

Like most long cat-and-mouse games, modern malware families all use a combination of many different tricks and anti-sandbox/analysis techniques. The sandboxes play whack-a-mole at the same rate as malware keeps adding more moles.
> Crucially, this means they are not widely observed in printed standard English, which in turn means they can't be relevant to training a language model to understand printed standard English.

I agree that they're not widely observed in written English, but they are consistently observed in the WSJ, which was the origin of this entire debate.

As lqdc13 pointed out, NLP still isn't even consistently good at understanding standard English. One could reasonably posit that that's due to the inherent ambiguity and inconsistency of most writing and that focusing on a narrower, standardized document corpus (the WSJ) you could get better initial results. What, exactly, is controversial about that? Do you really think that the language of the WSJ is no more consistent and formalized than the language of Twitter users?
That's why Houston has tunnel system: https://www.downtownhouston.org/district/downtown-tunnels/

Which makes downtown quite walkable any time of the year.
Fascinating article.

This bit jumped out as extreme - is this usual, or a rarity? :

"Each morning, before she is allowed to eat, the daughter-in-law must wash the feet of her husband’s parents and then drink the water she has used to wash them."
Little humble brag, but here is a CodePen demo I made a little more than a year ago with a similar idea in mind:

http://codepen.io/bennettfeely/details/pjgrRL?preview_height...
Across a sample size of 12 trips total.
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Virtually all data used to predict crimes or recidivism is fraught with human bias, for example. Not sure that we want to reproduce the bias of criminal justice system in any prediction problem involving this type of data.

Read anything written by Solon Barocas: http://solon.barocas.org/
Because the building sank 8 inches, did the builder subsequently need to fix they entrance to the building? Does one step down into it from street level?
I was skeptical of the title. (Really, since it links directly to stripe.com, and with HN link title guidelines, my immediate assumption was that they'd written an obnoxious blog post.)

Immediate impressions:

1. It loads really fast!

2. Really dig the color palette.

3. Good typography and spacing for the most part.

4. There's some weird UI elements, like the slightly shaded background on the link just below the nav.

5. I like the non-device-specific screenshots, but they are pretty pixellated on my 1440p screen.

6. I could die happy if I never see a gears icon again.

7. Use of animation is a mixed bag. The hover menus are pretty and behave nicely if you intend to access them, but there should be a brief delay before they open in case I'm moving my cursor past them. (Preferably menus should be opened with a click/tap.)

8. I'm not using Stripe, so I can't really evaluate the docs as a real user. But they look nice and they're very readable, which is a damn sight better than most of what I'm used to seeing.

8 addendum. The single expand/collapse side menu is disorienting though. It creates moving targets to reduce noise.

8 addendum 2. Boy it was confusing that the "stripe docs" logo is two distinct links.

Overall very visually compelling. I'm still super impressed with how quickly things load.
Hang in there. I'm kinda in the same boat. I think bupenorpine did help me. I wish it was easier to get. I can say this, I believe it helped me with my drinking, and I'm on genetic bupenorpine, not the Suboxone(has nalaxone).

As to friends--I am very lonely. I think I'm friendly, but don't have friends. Part of my problem is I made friends with people much older than myself, and they die, and I am not a extrovert. It seems like all my friends were extroverts. When I was younger, it seemed easier to remain friends with exes, but as I've aged, they moved on, or as one told me, women can't be friends after a certain point in a relationship. If I knew that, I wish I didn't push for intimacy. I look back, and I miss the friend I made in that relationship more than anything else.

I haven't wanted to wake up in years, but I'm still here. Just when I think I've had enough of it, I have days where I feel o.k., not o.k. like in my twenties, but not suicidial.

I know exercise has been mentioned here too much, but light walks have really helped me. I do need to do them daily.

I really don't have any advice, other than hang in there. I do know we are not alone. I wish it was easier for men to find friends.
Why bother opening 3 word documents when you could modify the predicate to only terminate the program if less than 0?
Neither example is very descriptive and thus not helpful. Using cusswords only puts the other people in an emotional frame of mind, which hinders rational thinking that would otherwise help correct the problem, but I suppose this also depends what exactly the discussion is about. If you're talking about a marketing campaign that is intended to appeal to emotion, then sure, "It sucks" conveys the emotion. If you're talking about packaging logistics, "It sucks" isn't any more helpful than "It's bad". Also, bear in mind that, depending on who you're talking to, some people may secretly harbor less respect from you. People notice when you cuss, esp. if you usually don't. It shapes their perceptions of you.
That said, I do wonder how much tolerance society has for cussing now since many people are starting to accept it as normal. It's as if people are left with the emotional attachment without the actual meaning. How many people here thinking of what "fuck" actually means when they hear the word? Or are you just stuck with the negative connotation?
> The US was put in a shitty position by the opportunistic Soviet intervention.

US was not put in shitty position by soviets. US wanted soviets open war on east, and the soviets agreed that they will, within 3 months, once war with Germany is over. Looking at the timelines it appears to me soviets only kept their word they gave to americans at the Yalta conference
My thoughts as well. Does anyone here have any insight on if it's misguided to worry here? Second, what exactly, if anything, can be done to fix the lean, or prevent it from leaning any further?
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That he feels depressed and lonely?
Tall buildings built to seismic code are some of the safest structures to be in in an earthquake. Though you'll probably need a change of underwear afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisWbAXfyWI
You'd be surprised at the sheer amount of idiotic and degrading customs in Indian culture. Parts of it are beautiful and the culture as a whole is steeped in tradition, but the majority of the social customs are absolutely despicable.
So I was wondering this as well. Walking by the building I never noticed. Checking Google Maps Street View I also couldn't tell. So I'm curious how this works. It's sank a total of 16 inches; 8 of which happened after it was completed. So why does it not look funny? Am I thinking about this wrong?
My Hyundai won't let you pair a phone while moving, but it will let you switch which previously paired phone it is connected to while moving. It's critical for couples that share cars.
I wonder if the person who made the switch thought it was the funny thing to do or the good thing to do.
Many San Francisco buildings are placed in a zone called the liquefaction zone. There are maps that show which areas will suffer liquefaction in the event of an earthquake.
This is a wonderful explanation. How do you avoid cyclic dependencies?
Holy crap you're not kidding! That's incredibly cool and terrifying at the same time! I wonder how this tower in SF compares and if it did meet seismic code, will the sinking and leaning eventually take it out of code?
"When I skip big gatherings of strangers, I’m not just being a little rude to the individual people around me, I’m being uncivil in a larger sense. The more we isolate ourselves from new people, the more isolated and segregated our society is likely to become. Those casual interactions in dog runs and at kids’ hockey games are the ones that are most likely to cross social and economic barriers. They expand my little world as well as the overlapping bubbles that create a society."

I went back to the article and found the problem, right here, where she ties together being uncivil in the inevitable human interactions of our day (e.g., bringing your bad energy into the dog park) with how you choose to build community beyond that, implicitly comparing her choices with yours. That's the default tone of the self-congratulatory prig.

Yes, it is good to stretch your comfort zone to meet new people and help build community without choosing situations that would make you miserable. Strangers? Ipso facto good? Rubbish. She may have scared more people off getting out than she inspired as some misguided soul is right now looking at Meetups, choosing "random after dark random networking with drinks" over the LUG. Sure, join the political group or the book club if it inspires you.

"Years ago, I was habitually late. “I can’t help it!” I declared to an expert in time management (I’d turned my effort to reform into a magazine article, as writers do, which gave me the excuse to seek professional help)."

And by the way, showing up late is garden variety selfish behavior that directly harms at least one other actual human being. The author managed to slip in a less insidious self congratulations here, too, a lot of work for one sentence.
I would suggest complaining to your local branch. You basically have proof that there was no genuine attempt at delivery. The driver will get in trouble.
> It's leaning 6 inches so I'm assuming it's going to continue to lean further and further each year

Why? Maybe it's settling into a new spot and the leaning will taper off. I think we need to wait and see what the experts say on this.
This can't be said without noting that in many parts of India (at least today) these types of customs are unheard of. It's a far more diverse country than I think you give it credit for.

That being said, these practices should certainly be condemned everywhere.
I wish this was more pithy. But I 'ask a historian': When did privacy become considered an inalienable right?

Still, the autonomy of US Tech companies internationally would scare me too... especially as a smaller nation (some corporate incomes are larger than national GNPs).
Load testing tools such as Apache Bench or JMeter might be good at measuring performance. Personally I think a single sample might not be good enough.

Otherwise you can just grab data from various requests and feed them to R.
You might be interested in the story of the Citicorp Center, a building in NYC that was dangerously susceptible to being literally blown over.

>...LeMessurier calculated that a storm powerful enough to take out the building hits New York every 16 years. In other words, for every year Citicorp Center was standing, there was about a 1-in-16 chance that it would collapse.[0]

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...
It's only entrapment if they force you to do it against your will
Hey, as a glass owner, maybe this will at least give privacy advocates something else to yell at for a change...
No. Besides some cracks in the sidewalk you can't tell that it has sunk. (I work across the street from the Millennium Tower).
I think "scare quotes" the phrase is by it's nature a pejorative and is often used and/or interpreted as one; sometimes absolutely appropriately. The definition matches close enough, using it can be something like an ad hominem attack. I'm trying to use the typographical tools I have to express ideas, not to take cheap shots at terms I don't like.

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> I don't think declining social events is being a jerk. Regardless of whether one is an introvert or not, or whether one is motivated to decline by said introversion.

I think frequent refusal to face discomfort for the benefit of others is rude. You have to strike a balance in your life, but there are a lot of ways to strike that balance which are profoundly selfish.

I don't know you, but I've known too many people that went out looking for labels for themselves and when they found them identified with them and let them define who they were. Taking tenancies of a thing and having them reinforced and piled on until a personality trait gets turned into a a problem. I think teaching people that there's this introvert/extrovert dichotomy should be considered harmful because it misses the complexity of people and pushes folks towards extremes instead of enlightening them about themselves.
Malware might be designed to run a kind of self-test to see if it's been tampered with, in order to A) prevent detection and reverse-engineering and B) discourage code reuse by other malware writers
Every religion has got traditions and customs, all of them based on myths that have been followed for ages and we call them by different names - traditions & customs are a couple of them.
We, humans, have a unique ability to create myths and imagine so that there is an ever-growing sect of people that keeps on growing. The more the people following a particular belief(myth), the larger territory it acquires on the planet. The larger territory is a representation of the power of the leader of the sect.
Oh fair enough. That thought never crossed my mind. I kinda assumed if it starts leaning then gravity is only going to make it lean further. At least that's what it sounds like each time I read about it. But I don't know anything about structural engineering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sure, we also go and poop out in the fields every day. NyT like most occidental publications intend to shock and awe their customers under a guise of enlightenment. Much as does the colonial crowd here. This dance has been going on for two hundred years you see.

I'd be very wary of the native "mantric" repetitions which are often the source of such articles,
http://www.hipkapi.com/2011/03/26/indian-way-of-westernizati...

In any case, it's so damn boring. You can read some old British book from the 30s and get done with this whole charade at once!

(Source: I've spent enough time in Indian villages)
I don't think this is entirely accurate.

It's absolutely the case that the South was motivated to secede by the issue of slavery. It is not the case that the North was, they were motivated by the preservation of the Union. Lincoln said as much. Abolition was used by the Union as a weapon, not as a cause unto itself.

It's seen as revisionist to question the moral character of the US Civil War, but you have a President who said explicitly that he would preserve slavery if it would preserve the Union, and abolition that exempted Northern states.

Slavery was (partially[1]) abolished in the US not because there was some high-minded federal government that thought it was the right thing to do, but because abolitionists worked hard for generations to compel it. The fact that a war was fought over it only speaks to the fact that slavery was so entrenched in the Southern states that it considered the progression toward abolition an existential threat.

[1] Slavery was never fully abolished in the US, and we should be careful not to forget that. It's no mistake that the amendment to restrict slavery to punishment for crime also coincided with the beginning of a trend of criminalizing activities and lifestyles of former slaves and their descendants.
I hate to be a negative person, but what is it with web designers completely ignoring accessibility? It's built in to the browser!

Stop removing the damn focus outlines .... http://a11yproject.com/posts/never-remove-css-outlines/
> But I simply can't. It's not that I haven't tried. It's that, even after 6 years of going to that bar, and being friendly with all, some more than others, I'm still not comfortable with group interaction. My mind wanders, I end up pulling away slightly. After a minute it just seems easier to go back to my spot at the bar.

Do you find that it matters how many people are in the conversation? For me, once there are 4 or more other people to follow (assuming they're speaking fluidly rather than slowly and deliberately), it seems like my brainpower is completely consumed just following the dynamics of the interaction, and I have almost nothing left over to process my own thoughts on the topic of conversation. I seriously have no idea how people do it.
There's a saying that whatever your impression is of India, you can find it there and also find the exact opposite.

That being said, I've never heard of this custom.

Overall, I thought this was a fantastic article.
This really might sound like an apologetic defence but what happens in one house in a country of more than a billion people is not "Tradition" or a "Custom". The world is bizarre. How do I know? I live here and I have experience of a LOT of rural families. This is not a custom. But yeah when it suits the narrative a single anecdote can be interpolated to say just about anything.
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Thanks. It must have pulled down the adjacent sidewalk with it, creating a more gradual slope then.
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If the malware attempts a CPU test that maxes out the host CPU, will it be obvious that the system clock is sped up?
This article is a pile of just-so bullshit designed to appeal to baby boomers so they can convince themselves that voting against unemployment benefits isn't going to directly screw over a whole bunch parents and children from all over the social strata.
Unless I am losing my memory, I remember learning in geology class that seismic waves travel the least in clay and most in rock.
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The area just outside the building should have sunk down with it.
A building can have a tuned mass damper[1] to help counteract the swaying. You can even turn that into a tourist attraction of sorts.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohKqE_mwMmo
Just a few questions. Are you doing this because of white guilt? Do you come from a wealthy white background? Do you/did you have a trust fund? What about the tens of millions of dirt poor non-minorities in the country? Do you think there should be more women and minority tech founders than the proportion of their respective population?
It's revealing that Wells made this letter to Joyce and not the other way around. To the artist, the audience only becomes important when they're either a patron or a subject. And, even then, they often don't matter much. But, to Wells, the audience is the purpose - and his work, a product.

To consume art is to allow oneself to momentarily seep into the mind of another. And, if done with 'soul' unshielded and open, it's one of the most intimate actions possible for a sentient being like a Human who is eternally imprisoned within a vessel of imperfect sensors.

Joyce is an artist. And, to read him - well, the experience may not be enjoyable - it may actually be uncomfortable, painful or even bizarre or alien. But, it's what he is.
This allows you to paste in a link and discuss the website, as well as gather materials for research.

I'd like the ability to join many others who are learning the same thing. I think we need a method of referring to sub-topics so others can join in on the conversation. So many answers and information is stuck in forums with a generic thread title. Information will only grow- how can we better self-categorize the content we create so others can find it?
That may be a study with similar intent, but writing "fragile" or "this side up" definitely feels like it should have a significantly different psychological effect on the handler than that of an image of a TV.
Air conditioning solves the problem perfectly well. 10 minutes walk in 98 degrees with high humidity.. every part of your body is soaked in sweat.
I am an introvert but I am aware of the importance of building friendships.

So I took up on cooking and invite people to dinners at my house (the largest was 45 people). People are more relaxed in a home cooked dinner and they tend to like you.