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I've had my property stolen by the police twice. The first time was 14 years ago when I was falsely accused of stealing two cell phones. There was a video surveillance tape of the theft, two other guys clearly did it but the store employee tried to claim I knew them. He happened to be the boyfriend of an ex-girlfriend.

It took me a year to fight it and when the charges were finally dismissed, I got all my property back except my $500 cell phone. It was a basic misdemeanor charge but I was threatened with an unrelated felony if I didn't take a plea deal. I refused and the prosecutor moved to withdraw the case citing lack of evidence, preventing me from winning via acquittal.

The fact that I was falsely accused of stealing two cheap cell phones and then the police stole my phone instilled a permanent distrust in the police.

Then recently, I got involved in a dispute with a roommate and all my property was taken to a police warehouse. When I went to get it, the police officer told me there had been a robbery and all my stuff was stolen. About $6000 worth including priceless family items.

I'm a white guy who doesn't break the law, although I am a bit politically active and rebellious. What I have experienced by the police and justice system is enraging and disenfrancising. If I was surrounded by poverty and crime, and had no hope for the future, I could see myself becoming emboldened against the police and turn into a life of crime.

The way they treat people is wrong. The plea bargin system is a worse crime than most of the petty offenses people do. The way they treat you in jail is malicious and purposely antagonistic. It's a mild form of torture that doesn't rise to sensational levels but it perpetuates and sustains an atmosphere of distrust and hatred towards authority figures.
> someone at some point in the family of "Cartoon Republican Villain" was also a poor sob with a single shot to make it.

Sure, at a time of much greater economic opportunities, (i.e. after WWII), than people starting from $0 have today.
Just to offer a slight counter-point re: privilege.

Where I grew up, telling someone "I want to go to vocational school instead of college" was no different from telling them "I want to be a prostitute when I grow up". Hell, even joining any form of armed service was extremely frowned upon.

In many cases, this led to otherwise bright, gifted people becoming "failures" because they were too afraid to do what they wanted and instead followed the socially acceptable path (college) where they never had any hope of succeeding. They struggled to finish useless degrees they never wanted, earned a decent chunk of debt in the process, and ended up with soul-crushing jobs, the main benefit of which was the fact that they earned enough money to continue showing up at their soul-crushing job for many years to come.

Hooray, privilege!
I've read a OAB statements that what exists is "personal insolvency".

If you prove that (yes, you have to prove it, including hiring lawyers and all to do that), then you can't own or manage business for 5 years, all your assets are sold, and all future earnings are used to pay debts.

Also, you can't use banking services and credit cards for 10 years, and can't do any commercial transactions for 5 years.

The deal is so bad, but so bad, that in many Brazillian states the amount of people that ever tried that, is zero.
I'll just leave this here: http://www.metafilter.com/98974/This-isnt-your-grandfathers-...

Although it's important to point out that he wasn't psycho, and his preferences don't seem directly shaped by the treatment..
> So why do we think we can reason ourselves out of emotions?

Well I think I'm doing it all the time. Annoyed about how some clerk treated you? Rate the importance of that on a scale from 0 to 100. Take 2 minutes pondering the heat death of the universe. Rate it again. Compare.
It took me a couple of weeks before I saw the capture animation. The game had serious issues at launch.
Feelings dictate how one acts. Even if you can fail, if you feel you can't, that is going to affect quite a bit how you approach things, or if you approach them at all.
The best thing would be to ask overweight people to pay higher health insurance premiums.

We would have healthy, good-looking population in no time :-)
Kudos for thinking that up. But it has to be said -- what an utterly demented programming environment.

We're 20 years in now with JS/CSS/HTML, and still no light at the end of the tunnel.
Tesla have held their value better because there was a shortage, but increasing supply and competition / availability of other models is putting downward pressure on used prices. But all these cars have advancing technology. My view is buying a slightly more expensive electric car today is jumpstarting the future for other people. And if you prefer, you can buy a very cheap used ev today - if doing so, the key thing is to figure out if the car has reduced range. Teslas don't generally have a problem with this because they cool the battery pack when recharging, not other cars do that.
Why would you expect that though?

It is indeed the state of things today but I can't, from a technical standpoint, see how this is a natural or "normal" conclusion.
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The fun thing is that XMLHttpRequest is much better designed as an API. The poor design of the script element objects caused problems when HTML5 tried to standardize it: https://hsivonen.fi/script-execution/
It's all good! I only even make the nitpick because this is an _incredibly_ anticipated feature, and I don't want people to have unrealistic expectations about how far along it is. I considered not even saying anything.
The name is from Orwell as you guessed. The idea is that we need an open source computer that protect privacy to enable freedom of speech ;-)
Thanks for describing MS-SIM - I've always been concerned about using L2 or similar metrics for image similarity. Is there any work on learning an image similarity metric? I would think if you Mechanical Turk'd a bunch of A/B images (with or without perturbations of various sorts or even totally different images) and asked the user to score the similarity you should be able to learn a pretty interesting scoring.
Yandex Completes 3 Year Migration from Oracle to Postgres
My Rockchip Chromebook doesn't have proprietary microcode, libreboot supported, costs $200. Only proprietary issue is the 3D acceleration
Most accidents are also decisions. They just often involve unconscious ones, or ones made in a split-second without thinking (e.g. "do I swerve this way or that way?"). Humans aren't that good at doing detailed cost-benefit analyses during split-second decisions, and so we call the results "accidents", but all that really means is the human wasn't skilled enough/fast enough to prevent the problem, whereas a computer in many cases will be. If a driverless car is forced into a situation where it has to have a potentially-fatal collision with someone, a human in the same situation would have the same problem.

So really, the only question comes down to, what's the ethical approach to deciding how an AI should prioritize human life? If a driverless car is forced into a situation where it must kill one of several people, who dies? (in practice that probably comes down to figuring out which action is the least likely to result in a fatality, even if all actions are extremely likely to result in one they're not going to have identical probabilities) And perhaps more interestingly, if the car has to decide between probably killing its driver, and probably killing someone else, which way does it decide? (though again, this probably comes down to which person is more likely to survive the accident, and that's probably going to be the driver because they're protected by multiple safety systems whereas someone walking along the road is not)
The model x is the closest to a suburban, 3 rows of seats are available, it can tow.
Nvidia AI Car Demonstration
But why? Isn't it big news that string theory has finally been proven?
I got a kick out of this, thanks!
The reader monad removes 90% of the syntactic overhead of dependency passing. That's the point.

If you want dependency injection as you've defined it, you can use (if we're talking about Haskell) typeclasses or, by extension, implicit parameters, to do dependency injection in the way you like.

It's still much safer and easier to reason about than Java-style dynamic dependency injection.
Changing the World While You Sleep: Connecting Travelers to a Deeper Purpose
> The battery itself is projected to last about six months without being connected to power.

It seems like a lot of the security of the device depends on active scanning (e.g. the LDS clamshell mesh, the IMU, the temp sensor, etc.), which stops working after 6 months. Is the vector of a malicious actor taking the device and waiting 6 months before breaking in considered not worth protecting against?
I am talking specifically about sex offenders.
Embracing remote work to travel the world
many corporations enable internal moves, and it can be easier to get a new job inside because you're onsite, and thus more easily recruitable, you meet people, you learn of opportunities before they're public, etc.; though obviously, not a guarantee.
Ingress ran on App Engine. I was one of several people working with Niantic at the time to address application architecture issues to avoid App Engine anti-patterns.
I'm porting llvm to 6502 assembly language so we can do this on the target.
I thought it already had been.
What's meant by character is that your skills with money management won't tell you where to spend money when its discretionary, and what level to set your discretionary shares at.

Some people will fritter away their wealth on useless things, even if they know that they can make guaranteed returns by investing in X. Some people will continually reinvest in bad ventures, each time thinking the risk is worth it.

There's no skill to say what is too much risk. That's a judgement call that everyone has to make for themselves.
Well my hypothesis would be that Microsoft and Box tends to work the other way around as well (biz product -> consumer)...though then again a generality like that for companies of massive size is tough statement to make.
WhatsApp won't comply with India's order to delete user data
Really cool. Think about adding common umlauts like ü, ö etc. so more people can use it :-)
I'm curious why only students can apply? Why not allow individual developers or companies as well?
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Even if you get paid more, you still spend time learning knowledge and skills which aren't easily transferable to your next employer.

You can't get that time back so long-term it's probably better to develop software in a more modern ecosystem.

Having said that, I don't know your local market or industry.
I love Watsi. I added the extension.
To your point, in Washington state electric car owners pay $100 a year extra tax to cover road use, since we don't buy gas, and that's how most road work is funded. $100 is actually a high bill, it worked out to about 20k miles of driving. This problem of increasing fuel efficiency is already hurting the ability of states of pay for their road work. I think the inevitable change is either paying a fee like ev do already per year, or paying based on mileage (and the usual argument of I wasn't even in the state most of the year).
Well the population is very small, so you can have the culture but do you need such infrastructure?
I think some of these are good insights. There is no question that society will change a lot over this century, I'll be curious to see if it changes in a way that anyone predicted.
How would I know if it is a lie? Until that is elucidated - anecdote is perfectly sufficient for speaking informally.

I notice you also left out (conveniently) the 2nd definition:
"an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay."
Tesla plans to use all their battery production, for model 3 and the solar power battery packs.
>People who come from poverty or communities rampant with discrimination often times have to work harder for opportunities. But hard work is hard work, and there is fierce competition at every level, no matter who you are. I hesitate to take anything away from anyone's success.

Tell that to the kid making iPhones in the Foxconn facility. Success isn't where you are, it's how far you've come. By that metric the most successful thing you can do in life is have a father like Sam Walton.
Quadratic, not exponential. d/dx(e^x) is e^x. That's actually why e is called the natural log.
It's sent as an attachment, but I've uploaded it to TinyUpload: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=824213354083530...
There are many police departments that should be brought up on RICO charges.
Another Tesla on autopilot crashes in Germany
What an odd coincidence that I just experienced Deja Vu this morning. I was a having a conversation with my wife, and about two sentences in I was able to predict the next three, because this exact conversation had happened to us in one of me dreams month ago.

I was a mundane conversation about her preparing to go out with our child. But it isn't something that would be "normal" because she was meeting with a very specific friend, which was part of my recall of the event.
Are You a Moral Manipulator?
Charlie has always been anti-Microsoft.

Still, he reports real news events despite his clear bias. So I find that reading his page every now and then is worthwhile (like today's article). He is prone to hyperventilating however.
This is why we need to stop only caring about the presidential election and focus on local politics.
Yeah, people should never be able to make friendly jokes about competitors.
Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Last time I tried, it was on a machine with a spinning disk... It looks like I should try again with a SSD, which are a lot better with regard to random access.

Your search term is "Quassel". What happens if you search for a term that matches a lot of rows? This is the case where ts_rank is very expensive. I'd be curious to look at the explain of such a low-selectivity query.
Would it be possible to software process images taken by large numbers of amateurs of the same point in the sky to get even better results even cheaper?
Now that MIR has landed, lifetime improvements are now blocked on porting the borrow checker to use the MIR directly, which also involves shuffling it after the MIR phase of the compiler. It's definitely a priority for the near future, but in the immediate term I think most of the focus of the devs is going to be on getting incremental recompilation to a usable state.
> it's the user's agent

I completely agree, but if I configure my agent to break some assumption you made in your code then I have no one but myself to blame.

One can break just about any piece of software by messing with the environment in which it runs. It's a shame that we rarely check or document these kinds of dependencies.
> United says the program’s costs are “negligible” because its own technical department provides the computing power and the unpaid interns work with existing employees to collect and load the data.

Not having to pay people is a great way to save costs.

Considering how valuable the benefit United received, United could have coughed up the money.
Regarding the trustworthiness of social institutions, there are mechanisms for creating more trustworthy systems on top of less trustworthy parts. A simple example is TCP. It is a leaky abstraction at times, yes, but it is more trustworthy in the face of adversity than UDP is.

This is not to say that our current batch of social institutions are even as trustworthy as TCP, just that it is possible to build institutions that are, and that we have a lot more experience as a civilization with debugging social institutions than we do debugging software. Thus, I do not think it is paradoxical to lean on social institutions to reign in raw human nature.
Thanks, this and your other response are very useful!
Alcoholic drinks aren't universally labeled, and even when they are the value is dubious. You can see a proof number on liquor bottles but that tells you nothing about its effects on your physiology. You still have to educate yourself.

You can argue a compelling interest for labeling food allergens, because they can kill people almost immediately. Calories can't.
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I really worry about encouraging amateurs to trade with money they don't have...
There have been a few numbers about the crash. It's there, but Pokemon Go still remains one of if not the most popular mobile game on a day to day basis.

Even with the servers stabilized the game has plenty of other issues that need addressing. The "nearby Pokemon" window is still broken and shows no sign of ever getting fixed. People in suburbs and rural environments are still stuck playing in extra grindy hard mode. The distance tracking has a speed limit that is way too slow (10.5kph) and noisy so it largely fails if you jog and or get on a bike. The gym battles are comically out of balance (slow defensive Pokemon are blatantly overpowered).

They shouldn't be hard problems to fix but Niantic doesn't seem interested. They toyed with a half-fix to the nearby Pokemon window, but only deployed it in their hometown and then seemingly forgot about it. It's clear the client has enough data to do the launch style footsteps (see: all of the PokeRadar apps on the store), but for some reason Niantic has no interest in re-enabling it.
<Semi-Related Anecdote> I remember a friend of mine was working at Dropbox as an intern when they were only a few hundred employees, and we would tell me stories of these "R&D" brainstorm sessions - unofficial meetings where they would just spitball crazy ideas on where the industry was going or new product ideas, and collect them for future hackathons and the like (the best ones I'm guessing got put into the actual product roadmap.)

My favorite idea he mentioned was this assertion that the industry was moving towards a "cloud-within-a-cloud", or "a cloud of clouds." We both laughed for a good few minutes over how silly Silicon Valley terminology could sound sometimes.

Turns out this mysterious person was ahead of their time...</Semi-Related Anecdote>
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I'm not aware of any place on earth where someone who has $24 million in wealth is considered 'middle class'.

That's $180,000 annually at a measly 0.75% interest (what my peon savings bank currently gives) for doing absolutely nothing. If you can quit your job and ride on 180k passive, risk-free income, you're not middle class.
Wired has some stats from a 3rd party: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/pokemon-go-just-fine-without/
If by "systematic way" you mean a group of programmers clueless about system
administration hacking together some custom Ansible scripts, then I wouldn't
call it progress.

Sysadmins have tools to automate their work for a long, long time (cfengine,
bcfg2, even Puppet and Chef predates DevOps hype). DevOps didn't bring
anything new to the table.
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Announcement for Suspension of TURKTRUST SSL Business
Nice, but it's disappointing that they do not mention any hard numbers such as concurrent players, requests per second, traffic, etc.

That makes the article a lot less interesting and worthwhile.
The story of how Cray and his team created the CDC 6600 is really great [0]. Cray decided they had to get away from corporate interference so he picked a bucolic town a couple hours away from corporate HQ, moved his whole team there, and they worked in peace to develop a machine that was 10x faster than anything else.

It's unclear today if quantum computers will be useful, just as it was unclear in 1962 if supercomputers for large scientific numerical calculations would be useful. It'll be interesting to see.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Wizards-Su...
Not facetious at all.

If I take that molecule and find that I can acquire perfect pitch as an adult or easily learn a new language, was my brain "damaged" prior to taking the drug?
I'm with you in a lot of this. I grew up poor and all I've known is poverty. I clinch my pennies but I'm generous when I'm able. But I do have a very real awareness of my impending doom, be it a financial mishap or whatever.

If it wasn't for 'Obama Care' I wouldn't be on Strattera for my ADD. Nor would've I been suggested this [1] for my anxiety, by my doctor. It's helped me significantly, a DIY assistance for coping with anxiety.

I have a mild form PTSD. When you said 'flashbacks...middle of the night screaming'. It triggered an affirmation that I do have PTSD. I've been struggling with this idea for quiet some time but...it's mild and not constant. I know you're not a doctor nor do I want to get into all the details but growing up in an abusive/malnorished home, it's very real. Heck, I became homeless as an adult too.

Finally, I want to gently suggest you look into getting help. Meaning, a shrink. Either doing talk therapy or consider medications, if they are truly needed. Keep in mind, it's not a black/white science. You'll need to experiment with your treatment to find what suits you best. I went on 4 different ADD meds before Strattera was a solid fit. Adderall helped but...the side effects were bad. Also, soonish, I've be working with someone to help aid my psychological restoration. ADD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and assertiveness will be my topics that I'd like to tackle because even though I'm doing decent now, I do need a helping mind to help me navigate through these issues/challenges in my life.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160623918X/ref=oh_aui_sear...
The Startup Funding Graduation Rate Is Surprisingly Low
No one is moving the goalposts. The problem with the current state of AI is that there's very little, if any, intelligence inherent within it. I don't consider a bunch of connected computers beating a human at a board game AI - that's just computers doing what they do best. And when we reach that point where consciousness has really been simulated, regardless of the extent, then we will have achieved a milestone in real AI that we can build upon. But, until that day comes all we can do is to continue trying to reverse engineer how brains actually work and process information.

This is why it's always amusing to me whenever people call Google the future Skynet or try to enact laws for AI. We're so far away from real AI that I have my doubts we'll even get there.