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I watched the first few episodes and really didn't like it. I wasn't aware that the plot of the show moved past the episodic crap of the first season. Maybe I should pick it up at season 2?
Georgia Tech Student Donates 5M United Airlines Miles Earned via Bug Bounties
Yes nicotene gum is definitely safer than smoking, and also safer than playing russian roulette.
I'm able to use hangouts.google.com in both my personal Google Apps domain and my work's Google Apps domain. Almost certainly a setting buried somewhere deep in the Admin Console. :(
Covering ~35 years, there's already a pretty high compression ratio even without zipping the text.
I don't know. I think the writer is just spreading awareness.
A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe
For instance, Wells Fargo's Way2Save has 0.01% interest (compounded daily at 0.000000274%), and a $5 monthly service fee for minimum daily account balances less than $300.

So if you deposit $299 on 1 January, and are over 18, you end up with $239 on 31 December. Yay for that -20% interest rate. So make sure you deposit that extra $1 to hit $300. But if the daily-compounded interest is rounded to the nearest $0.01, you don't even get any interest unless you have a balance of $18250.91 or greater. In order to get the minimum possible $3.65 daily-compounded interest on a balance of $300, the APY has to be at least 1.2167%.

Just be honest and say the rate is 0%, man. It's no wonder all those Wells Fargo employees had to commit fraud to open more of those accounts. PT Barnum's maxim notwithstanding, there just aren't enough suckers in the world to open a new Way2Save account of their own volition.

My spouse recently suggested that we open savings accounts for the kids, so I pointed out the abysmally low effective interest rates on accounts . We're opening investment accounts for them instead. Kids, the way to save is to dump everything in index funds and forget it's there.
To be fair why would anyone have a savings account? The interest is terrible and there are withdrawal limits.

With interest rates being what they are keeping liquid cash in a checking account seems optimal
Yes it's not WORSE than cola.. but even 12 ounces has more sugar than WHO suggests for the entire day[0].

So while the concept of "OpenCola" is cool, it's closer to "OpenDiabetes".

[0] https://authoritynutrition.com/how-much-sugar-per-day/
Academic studies? No, sorry, I can't find any either. Here's a a source of anecdotal evidence, FWIW. http://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=18612&name=NI...
Does that include your cable company DVR, your PS4, your doorbell, your wifi-enabled refrigerator, your thermostat, and the 50 other devices in your home that contain (or are) computers?
America loves to live on credit and extend into the future. I appreciate your comment quite a bit for its humor and sarcastic tone.
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Short-term federal debt funds like VFISX and VSGBX have very low risk and do better than most savings accounts. The risk is probably close enough to zero for most people, considering it's basically all interest rate risk on short-term U.S. federal government bonds.
a.k.a the way things worked before the First World War (OK, 1913, but close enough). The size and cost of government has increased so astronomically beyond the levels that existed under that earlier taxation regime that it's hard to imagine.
Holding wealth in the dollar means holding wealth in a depreciating asset. Gold, silver, bitcoin, real estate, etc much preferred.

But given that my income and expenses are head up (at the moment), I'm in the same boat ... 7k net in and 7k out, a lot of which is me re-buying my own CC debt with loans from lending club, etc.
Programming is pretty broad, as others have observed - in part of my world, scene reconstruction for machine vision tends to drag in tensor calculus, but the average enterprise developer is safe with the basics - also, good libraries mean you have the ability to use functions and processes you need, as opposed to getting recurrent nightmares about numerical stability when you have to code the realization of a complex process yourself
Who would say that?
I can attest to this, I used Survata several years ago and I was very pleased with the service, very high quality results.

I'm glad to read you're still around and still maintaining that high quality of service. I look forward to being able to use your service in the future :)
well I also didn't tought bad about MacOS sierra and I'm a developer.
What I really hated was iOS 10. I mean after ~9 years they move the goddamit camera to the lockscreen right side, so that I open the camera since I always "played" with the lockscreen before and that always stresses me. Also why should I want to access everything from the lockscreen? this is just stupid.
UX changes that do more harm than good.

Edit: Oh and Clock Sleep timer swipe delete, doesn't work anymore. If I put a Clock into "sleep" and than still woke up after 5 minutes I can't remove the sleeped timer.
> The fact he was carrying a gun, and trying to act out against police in the first place, is not going to engender him any sympathy in the public at large.

Corrected: The fact he was exercising his 2nd amendment rights, and trying to inform citizens that their 4th amendment rights were about to be violated, is not going to engender him any sympathy in the public at large.
I get utterly bored with new sports within 3-6 months. This has happened with every sport I have tried, no matter how much I loved it at the beginning.

Some people enjoy repetition. Some... really don't.

For me the challenge is to keep finding new interesting sports.
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So, they are doing some sort of picture processing (probably a CNN) in the cloud and based on it apply a variety of filters locally, on the phone. That means they don't have to run the processing again for every adjustment.

It's a nice idea, but isn't it already becoming crowded in this app segment?
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I don't think so. I'm currently a stay-at-home dad of a 10 month old and we've found that my instincts regarding the baby are often better than my wife's. She often has no idea what to do and defers to my judgement.
McLauren is one of the companies that builds good prototype cars for others. If Apple wants to fool around in the car space, McLauren can build them some demos.
They definitely use the voicemail transcription feature as training/test data for their NLP stuff
Oh, bleh, dumb luck then. It should really use GeoIP.
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...Why? What could this possibly do for Apple? This doesn't seem to make sense.
I frequently, as a married dude, get reminded of the following very important point:

Just because I feel like something should be a particular way doesn't mean it is.

Put another way:

Just because you disagree with something personally, does not give you the right, as a well educated, smart, rich person, to look at it for 15 seconds and throw it out as garbage.

Every one of us does this all the goddamn time and its intellectually dishonest at best.

I know that many of us make reasonably good money. I know that most of us are friends with people of a similar education and income level.

This doesn't mean that the reason 69% of Americans have no savings is because they are sagely putting their money in the market or some other better structured investment vehicle.

The vast majority of those people are broke.
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I've never publicly called out a company that rejected me. It's not that hard to exercise some self-restraint.
I see the HTML that weebly produces now isn't quite as horrendous as it used to be! :D
The vast majority of diets fail in the long run. Fat people forced to lose weight develop the symptoms of starving people and obsess about food, and always quickly return to their previous weights after release. During diets their metabolisms slow down to keep them at the same body weight despite the decreased calories.
> The "people in power" don't want unarmed black people getting shot. They get no conceivable benefit from that.

The benefit the people in power get from internal racial or ethnic distrust is that is that whenever non-elites of the dominant ethnicity are scared of an oppressed ethnicity and blaming them for problems, they aren't questioning the economic elite and the existing power structure; this is why elites in many countries have stoked such distrust many times, in many places, in the past.

Police abuses can be both an effect of such tension, and -- when encouraged by the elites, whether directly through policies commanding abuses or indirectly through an absence of effective accountability -- a means of stoking it (especially since sustained abuses will inevitably produce a reaction which can be leveraged to further the fear of the oppressed group by the dominant group.)

The idea that elites in power get "no conceivable benefit" from internal ethnic strife is simply not accurate (now, it may be that the benefit is short-term and overwhelmed by a long-term costs, but even if so elites being myopic enough to chose that short-term benefit despite the long-term cost is hardly uncommon historically.)
The way corporate PR works, that could mean the discussions are over and it's a done deal.
This has to be a total rumor. There's absolutely zero reason for Apple to buy the whole car company. I could see them buying a smaller manufacturer, but McLaren? Really? I just don't see it.
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That doesn't appear to be the case - it's just very thin glass.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5998/macbook-pro-retina-displa...

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+Retina+Display+T...
I just like the neat and intuitive column block classes. I would have never done something so organized myself.
According to UCI regulations, all equipment used in races must be available for sale on the market, so in theory, they don't have better bicycles.

However, chances are Cervelo only manages to deliver their newest designs to British cycling in time for important races.

The scenario likely is somewhat like this: Cervelo develops new bikes in cooperation with British cycling, as that gives them a rich sponsor willing to pay for experimental designs.

Also, bikes like these bikes are custom sized to their rider, and making one takes lots of time.

British cycling doesn't have any incentive to finalize their design months before the Olympics because that would give Cervelo time to make bikes for the competition, and would rob them of time in which they could try out yet another bike.

So yes, others can order those bikes, but chances are they cannot get them delivered in time.

Also, chances are that British cycling knows better what kind of bike they want. Not everybody has the resources to evaluate zillions of minute variations on a bike frame in a wind tunnel.

(Some background info at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/olympics/british-... (2012))
I find that hard to believe. Europeans don't have retirement investments? Even if it's just a pension they have some sort of portfolio even if it's not managed by the individual.
In line with this development, the United Nations also recently decided to release a unanimously ratified declaration regarding antibiotics [1]. It concerns educating the public on the use of antibiotics, development of new antibiotics, and surveillance and regulation of current use of antibiotics on humans and animals.

[1]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/un-signs-groundbre...
This link (while lengthy) actually has the chance of leaving you less confused after you read it.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
I was convinced by the advocates for Omega 3's. Then my dogs destroyed my cofffee grinder (used to make flax seed meal), I realized that I'd never noticed a benefit, and stopped.

The modern diet is overloaded with Soybean Oil, an oil which should only be used as biodiesel. It takes years of a low-PUFA diet to obtain all the benefits. Some degree of temporary relief may be provided by Omega-3 supplementation, but this intervention doesn't address the cause of any condition.
We need a national income that is indexed to general economic productivity, then households that make 54k in total will all have at least 10k in savings on average, if that 54k is on top of a national income based on a fair calculation of general economic productivity.
>> Internal controls are a thing.

That's what ACL is...The encryption doesn't improve the security of the data if the keys are not stored securely. Simply put the data security is as good as the ACL of the keys is. For your peace of mind you may want to know the processes(i.e. audits, ISO standards/certifications) rather than a marketing keyword("encryption", "military grade" etc). Encryption may be part of that framework but I don't think it's relevant enough to be advertised as a stand alone 'product'. You can be sure that your account balance is not encrypted. It's the ACL process that protects you from a rough employee.

We already know that Google has a relative good security process in place. However this is not about security in the first place. It's about privacy. And here encryption brings no privacy gain because Google has the keys so as I previously said it's just marketing BS. Most people are not worried that Google gets hacked. They are worried that Google is selling their data to 3rd parties for profit and to governments for political reasons.
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Come on, Tolkien was a devout Catholic and the LOTR is a pretty overt moral "pilgrim's progress" tale in the vein of medieval allegory. I enjoy the books, but I wouldn't exactly say Tolkien worked in any gray areas. The closest it comes to that is Frodo not throwing the ring in.
Exactly. That's how I managed an app (basically a port of lots of stuff from Linux) for macOS years ago. I depended upon MacPorts as my build system, lots of patching to match our in-house build on Linux... but wrapped an entire Python etc universe inside the app.
Is that yearly/daily/monthly?
But i feel css can later turn into a programming language in the future
To explain a bit more what I mean by interest rate risk: Imagine I buy $1000 in EE bonds today. Then tomorrow, conditions change, and the government starts selling 20-year bonds with a 7% rate. My bonds are now worth much less than $1000 -- no one would buy them from me on the open market, except at a substantial discount, since they could just buy the higher-yield ones for $1000.

These conditions that led to a higher interest rate are probably also leading to a higher inflation rate. So my $1000 is locked up for 20 years in an instrument where it's decreasing in real value.
Even more off topic, but have you got a source for that? :)
Hi David!

This looks pretty fantastic! Well done on getting this together and launching! I think we should always congratulate folks who get to the launch phase, no matter their size/age. :-)

I have a friend that reached out to me about setting up a website for her business that she's starting with some friends. I was originally going to suggest Shopify to her, especially since we're in Canada.

I went to your pricing page, and saw that you have more plans, present them in CAD, and are more competitive than Shopify. Am I to assume that means that this is open to Canadian/international customers?

Also, Shopify shows their transaction fees, which seems to be broken down by credit card type. You show your Weebly transaction fee, but then say this is on top of Stripe/PayPal's fees. Perhaps it might make sense to provide details and/or a link to their rates so a customer can evaluate it?

Finally, Shopify has a 14 day free trial that is compelling to "casuals" to try and evaluate before they jump right in. I know that would be appealing to my friend. Is there an equivalent option from Weebly?

Those are the questions I had for now, without diving too deep into the actual platforms. Ultimately, my friend is completely non-technical, and I don't have the time to support her regularly, so a solution like this that's mostly hands-off is perfect. Kudos!
Your link shows new Macbooks were released less than six months ago and iMacs less than a year ago.

The only things there more than two years old are the MBP non-Retina, which is essentially an obsolete line, and the Mac pro, which Apple has never seemed massively invested in.
I agree with most of what you say, save a few things:

Re: The politics and hacktivism [...] like some middle class hipster kids decided to overthrow society on a whim.

... _yes_, I think that's the point. The mere fact that it's possible and the consequences of this is the drama.

Re: Price ... frankly I like the way he's characterized in this show. Some people have very simple motivations and this makes them very dangerous and the perfect antagonists. He's surrounded by people more nuanced or conflicted than him, which makes that interplay interesting.

How can someone so unrelenting be undermined? That's what I want to find out.
This is probably the reason I'm willing to watch the show. The writing is pleasantly, surprisingly intelligent at times.
> That doesn't work. The only way to "destroy an entanglement" is to bring the entangled particles back together.

Suppose a proton A is entangled with a proton B. If B hits an anti-proton C, it gets converted into pure energy(maybe light and heat?). If it's impossible to destroy entanglement, then the subsystem consisting of the light and heat must be entangled with the original particle.

Observations:

* The dimension of the vector space has increased, since there may be many constituent photons released. So it may be impossible to assign a specific dimension to any quantum state.

* What is the rule for determining the resulting quantum state? Is there a book or article?

* If you convert a particle entirely into an electromagnetic wave or gravitational waves, and then reconstruct it, does that preserve entanglement? What is the rule for describing how the dimension of the vector space changes as it undergoes multiple transformations? If entanglement is allowed to propagate to a continuous field, then it seems like you'd have an uncountable infinite dimensional vector space to describe its state.
I do it only because I find it useful to segregate my cash savings from the rest of my money.

But you have a good point, especially because the survey asked specifically about savings accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12549863
It is actually how Americans express the implication through a form of sarcasm. I don't know the exact term for that kind of expression , it isn't a direct sarcastic attack.

Instead of saying the whole org is bad, it expresses that the org 'is going bad'.

So even in the land of "free speech" alot of criticism against their institutions is veiled in various ways.
>Finns don't really learn swedish

Which is funny, considering how many years (6 I guess?) the Swedish language is a compulsory subject for Finnish-speaking Finns.
After the fact, to you know, "cover our asses"
> Director #1 decides it would be cool to have a single unified messaging/video app that works across all platforms; Director #2 decides it would be cool to have a messaging app that's perfectly customized for mobile phones and Random-Guy #3 decides to do a 20℅ project on a messaging app that integrates AI functionality. Instead of trying to pick a winner, and telling everyone else to abandon their projects, Google allows all 3 visions to play themselves out on a small scale

Yes, absolutely!!

> and then doubles down on the winner

…I'm not so sure about that step ;-)
Will the Investigatory Powers Bill mean handing over the keys to the kingdom?
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Eggs in the basket? How do you guys use sd cards?

I never keep anything on them for long, I can imagine folks that only have a tablet might neglect moving photos off their cameras
Sounds (and looks) very similar to what the Prisma app does: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neuralpris...

In fact, the "Dystopia" filter in PicsArt Magic Effects appears to be based on the same artwork as the "Transverse Line" artwork in Prisma.
Even in countries with robust social security programs, I imagine many would see value in having more money than the baseline government benefits provide.
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I suspect that at a certain age shows like Fight Club or Mr Robot are deep and edgy, but when you've been around the block a bit the world is less black and white and a lot more grey. I hate to play the ageist card here, I really do, but teen or 20 something me would be over the moon for Mr Robot. Modern me, not so much. The whole "we must crush The Man(TM) and only then will we have utopia" is just too much to swallow, even if the show flirts occasionally with criticizing that message, but that is the take-away if you remotely relate to any of the protagonists. If anything, a rational look at this show makes Elliot look like the dangerous psychopath that he is and the "bad guys" are the ones trying to make sure everyone keeps their jobs and homes.

I also think the whole Chinese domination against a weak and emotional West is a tired cliche, the same way the 80s had Japanese domination over a weak and emotional west in fiction. Mr Robot could be our Rising Sun (1993), where it will seem ridiculous, baiting, and pandering to future viewers.
I've been confused by the positive comments it has gotten from people in tech - I found it unwatchably bad and that it actually got worse (not better) as time went on.

Everything from the 'machine' itself, to the cringe acting and writing, dumb tech concepts (woman who 'speaks' for the machine) and all their vigilante killings that only happen in New York. I couldn't take it.

Watch Halt and Catch Fire - it's a thousand times better.
Hold the phone. Using MD5 upfront opens you up to a significantly increased collision probability. That has to degrade the security here.
Yes, and much of the QNX development community abandoned QNX when they did that.
I'm not sure I see how that's ironic.
I personally would prefer some kind of flat tax.

Property tax is despicable. In effect, you rent your own property from the government. Can't pay the taxes? Then they take it from you. It happens to people on fixed incomes often enough.
That answer is really missing something because it doesn't predict that Bell's Inequality would be violated.
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Vastly reduced government income, as well as reduced trade leading to recession.

There is simply no way to make it revenue-neutral unless the tariffs are so high that foreign trade is almost entirely eliminated.
who was the normal one in Seinfeld?
I hate it that they equate "how much you have in your savings account" with "how good you are at saving money." Even if you ignore retirement savings, what about Checking accounts? What about Roth IRAs that can have all of the principal removed tax and penalty free? A person could be REALLY good at savings and just have chosen that their liquid cash stays in checking accounts and emergency funds stay in their Roth IRA.
Very much appreciated!

Do you self-invest, or hire a professional, or mixed?

Currently I'm managing my own stocks. My employer, my IRA and other monies I'll never get to see.
I've had good success putting my laptop away and only using an inconveniently-located desktop when I want to do Computer Stuff. I can still go spend a lot of time on it (sometimes you need to, sometimes you actually want to), but it's a conscious choice to go do that. I can't just carry the cancer that is the Internet around the house with me, flip the lid open "just to check something" and surface two hours later having accomplished nothing.