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The United States is far different from Germany, each state acts internally like a separate country in many ways, and we have a House & Senate to ensure the less populous states do not get drown out by the larger states.

The electoral college was envisioned the same way, the founding fathers didn't want the uneducated masses electing the president directly, so they set up this arcane system where the governor of each state gets to appoint a certain number of electoral college voters, then they vote for president. They can generally vote how they please, to the point that a few have misspelled candidates names and not been counted as having voted for any candidate.

What this system ends up creating is an area where in many states, your individual vote literally does not matter since a vote in California is worth nearly nothing compared to a vote in Florida or Michigan. Also, the US media loves to dogpile on this and erroneously call states and guess at electoral college votes months ahead of when they'll vote. Comparatively, where the United States has set up democracies we do not do this, such as Iraq.

As to change, that is not going to happen short of people going out and taking action to fight for the future. Us americans are very depoliticized and non-participatory in our political parties, both major parties essentially lay dormant till national elections come around.

We need to get out in the streets and fight for the future we want to see, Martin Luther King didn't sit back at home and wait for a better America, nor did the readers of Silent Spring. Change in America can be had, but it takes activism, which most Americans think of as a dirty, unfamiliar thing with serious risks (due to how our media portrays it). We need to mobilize & empower Americans to fight for a better future.
I was surprised to get a winner on generation 7 the first time I started the trainer. Subsequent trials were much worse.
To be more succinct:

You can't feasibly try enemy combatants in a civilian court of law - and that creates a legal limbo situation.

Obama was the most 'legally educated' President in 100 years and if he couldn't solve the problem, I'm not sure anyone will.

It will take some time to figure that one out.
One possible source of tasks for this process is the bug backlog from open source projects.
I'm going through the stand ford cs224D videos, only done 3 videos and they are very theory focused, lots of math equations. Any one know other good materials on NLP using neural networks?
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Wireframing definition. Why wireframing is important
The TPP had very specific political goals - it created a common market for the US, a couple of Latin American countries, and most of the major East Asian and South Pacific economies... but NOT China. The idea being to both bind American allies in Asia more closely to it, and to ensure that if/when China wanted expanded trade with TPP members it would have to deal with rules that had originally been set by the US and its allies.
The Mac version is great. Will try this on my Windows box later.
This is the primary reason that you shouldn't make hiring decisions based on the test/problem results alone.

The interview problem should only serve to be a conversation catalyst. If they got some help with the problem, outsourced the problem or simply googled prepackaged solutions to the problem then they are going to have a really hard time talking through the context of how they solved the problem.

What you're testing for here is communication skills and, if possible, a really basic datapoint that may indicate their technical ability. The latter is very subjective and incredibly difficult to test for but the former is arguably a lot more important if they are going to be working as a part of a team.
Watch the videos made by Jurafsky (Stanford) as a starting point.

They are quick. This will give you an overview of classical NLP.

From there, you can dig more where you want.
> Fibre To The Node is to the street, Fibre To The Home is into your house.

OH, that's why I couldn't remember the second one, I confused it with the first one. Thanks.

> There are places that have been stuck at “in development” for about three years now, and none of the areas that I ever look at seem to change. NBN has been much hyped, but has fizzled much more than you’d expect. Or hope.

I see. I've talked to Telstra people (instore tech support) while discussing other things, and my understanding of their consensus was that if a given area doesn't seem to be moving, you could probably use it's stuck-ness as structural support for something.

> I want to move out of Melbourne to a place in the country with good Internet supply (Stawell vicinity, mostly), but it’s surprisingly difficult to find housing in NBN-connected areas. Take Stawell for example: at a broad level you look on that map and see it’s covered. But it’s not: everywhere around it is covered, but Stawell itself is not covered.

I'm in the North Shore area of Sydney myself, smack bang right in the middle of the new Sydney Metro project (a ~20 minute bus ride away from the closest station), and to be honest I do wonder if the NBN service to those new buildings (which does light up green on the map...) is actually live and functioning. There's no cable in this area and my current ADSL2+ is... right now my modem says 13102kbps - 12.79Mbps. My situation is similar: little dots of NBN connectivity (I see where all the new developments are!) but... crickets chirping where I live. Which, to be fair, isn't a major town center, just a suburb like any other, but still. I'm glad I'm moving soon.

> I’m not certain why, but I’m guessing there are difficulties in the line-of-sight fixed wireless installations.

Wait, what? I thought the NBN was all fiber and satellite. How does this work?
It's not a lack of crime that causes it but a lack of solved crimes. Violent crimes for example, if a violent crime gets reported in Germany they solve the crime in 80% of the cases but in Holland just 40%.

People organise neighbourhood watch WhatsApp groups to prevent crime instead of relying on the police to fix things. Within ten years these groups will probably grow into armed and organised right-wing groups. And there's a constant flood of people trying to get into clubs with shooting ranges, the only way to get a gun legally in The Netherlands if you're not in the police or the army.

So people don't trust the government anymore in protecting them and they take rights into their own hands. Not a socialist paradise that's so right and just that nobody commits crimes anymore.

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Edit 2:
I'm not telling that it's not a safe place. I'm telling that when something does happen you shouldn't rely on the police to fix it.

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Thanks for the down votes without knowing the facts.

There are many sources, this is one of the more recent:

https://duitslandinstituut.nl/artikel/10090/opvallende-versc...

WhatsApp neighbourhood patrols:

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/02/29/waken-met-whatsapp-rukt...

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenland/article/detail/27997...

Apart from that every shooting range has a huge waiting list nowadays. Just pick the ones closest to you.
We need another genetic network that will play against successful birds, posing gates in a way that will kill them.

Robot wars, all that!!!
Belgium has an abysmal track record when it comes to prisons. It's been repeatedly convicted for treating prisoners like cattle, for putting psychiatric patients in regular prisons without treatment etc.

Sending some prisoners to Dutch prisons (including a prison boat, iirc) is one of the best things that's happened to the Belgian penal system in years. Sadly it's only a temporary relief, and it's been cancelled (and resumed) several times.
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Yes, it is icky, a bit scary the first time you put it together, but it works and doesn't break or cause issues.

Considering the cables are made by the same company as the box itself (WDLabs) and that we've sold almost 1000 boxes and haven't had a single person tell us the cables were problematic and considering I've personally put together a dozen boxes and taken them apart and together again many times and still encountered no issues I think I can safely say: it is just fine.
Xcode is fundamental to the development for iOS, their cash cow. Apple would never ever make itself vulnerable by moving Xcode to a platform they do not control. Apple is so much about control that they even maintain their own programming language. By moving Xcode to Windows, Apple would give Microsoft the keys to Apple’s future. Not going to happen.
Yes, which is interesting, as 2 hours != the weekend..
Going by the article, it doesn't look like they'll need to advertise - someone who works there will already have a friend in mind to fill those shoes.
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They are importing prisoners from Norway too :P
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The thing I liked most about their hiring process that it seemed to be done by permanently overworked people that didn't bother to give me any kind of answer after I worked all that hours and pushed a working solution.
yeah, that is what it is. The price is lower than the separate USB3 hard drive kit from WD so it is hard to argue it is expensive, though.

The OS is put together by Canonical, until now it was based on Ubuntu 16.04 and they'll soon update it to Snappy Ubuntu Core so you get a fully 0-maintenance solution.
He's the lead developer at LinuxMTD (http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/); (no wonder I seem to remember the "infradead" name from somewhere).

More about him, here: http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/
yes, coming later this month.
Which is also mentioned in the article.
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It was written the day before the election, because the author liked the fake certainty offered by Wang (who seems to have just discovered correlated errors). Both Wang and the Wired author seem to be unaware of http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/...
But regardless, my entire point is that the truth of these claims is the least important thing about them...

That much is clear, and the source of our differences. I do care about reality and I don't mind if bad people have learned true facts.

Yes, the motivation is to justify and perpetuate a distribution of power that's favorable to the groups where those ideas are found.

And the motivation for studying evolution is to reduce people's faith in the one true god, and prevent them from getting to heaven. Therefore I can refer to an individual evolutionist as a satanist.

When discussing the history of ideas we do not attempt to track every single person's motivations

You aren't discussing the history of ideas. You are discussing specifically whether I am a "scientific racist" and "white supremacist". And you've defined these terms as people having specific motivations which I don't share.
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Actually, IF this were true and they really were breaking the conservation of momentum law, then by special relativity in most of the reference frames they must be breaking the conservation of energy law.

So if this were true then they could build a perpetual motion machine too. IIRC one possible design was to put two em-drives with opposite directions at the opposite sides of a carousel.

[Disclaimer: I think that this is an experimental error and that the conservation of momentum and energy laws are safe.]
yeah, the Pi isn't a super platform for this.

We've made the box hardware-compatible with the oDroid C2 so people have an upgrade path - I understand Linux 4.10 will have out of the box oDroid C2 support so it shouldn't be too much after that that Canonical's Ubuntu Core will support it, too, and users can pick one up if they like.
> Frans Carbo, the prison guards' representative from the FNV union, says his members are "angry and a little bit depressed". Young people don't want to join the prison service he adds "because there is no future in it any more - you never know when your prison will be closed".

Well this truly sounds abhorrent.
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I've lived in the Netherlands for over 20 years in 5 different cities (in a small town like Geldermalsen as well as Amsterdam) and I have never experienced anything like that..

In all the places I've lived I (and everyone around me) always felt extremely safe.

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EDIT: those are some weird sources:

- first link is a dutch website called "Germany institute". It doesn't say anything about 40% non solvency (or 80% solvency in Germany).

- second link talks about how neighbourhood watches have grown five fold, to a whapping 661 watches over 17 million people.

- third link is a belgium website talking about an extreme right winged finnish watch that has been to the netherlands one time.
Will botnet build of smart kettles and smart ovens burn houses, neighbourhoods and cities?
A part-time job salary is about 850-1200 yen/hr [1]. So the rent is pretty high. And there are additional payments (like key money, deposit money, insurance money) one has to pay upfront.

[1] http://baito.mynavi.jp/kanto/area_13/kodawari_6/
Well, it is cheaper than the pi-drive disk alone ;-)
As a person who spent his last 6 years making EVERY SINGLE MISTAKE presented in this article, I have to agree: it's solid advice.

Unfortunately, I may not have accepted it 6 years ago. I justified writing everything myself by saying I was learning. I justified buying C++ books by saying I wanted to be a "true" game developer. Then I justified switching to another language by saying I needed faster iterations and prototyping. I spent hours and days trying to make everything work on both windows and linux.

Me and a couple of friends just released our first game on google play last week [1]. It's stupid and only our friends and family played it. We didn't monetize it (it's 100% free, no adds) and we didn't promote it anywhere. It was made in two weeks, spending a few hours each day. I'm not very proud of it, but I'm extremely proud of myself for pushing through and finishing it.

Hopefully, our next game will be something people will actually like.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manabreak
It's more that people have a higher expectation of what a device can to, and that generally means what the software can do.

I mean right now there are computers you can get that are orders of magnitude better in every dimension than the first Apple computer, that you can buy for less than $100 (I'm talking about the Pi and its ilk). But to make it do something useful there has to be a lot more effort expended to add peripherals and write proper software to match people's expectations.
Forget where I read it, gliders might be a popular recreation on Mars due to low gravity and low air traffic.
I've lived in the Netherlands my whole life. It is true that the solved crime rate is pretty low, but the rest of your comment is complete nonsense.
Any data to back that up? I've lived all my live in Amsterdam and this is the first time I've heard of this. It sounds made up.
1. it is open source so you can actually trust it
2. it is based on software used in serious enterprises so if you want more of it, you can get that
3. it has a big and healthy ecosystem of customers, contributors and apps so it isn't going anywhere
No?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US is now run by a guy who thinks the EU sucks, that Brexit was great, and whose best buddy in Europe is Nigel Farage.

And is it not the case that the most popular politicians in other core countries are all anti-EU?

Let's see how this plays out.
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At that point, the makers of such devices should be punished with a lot more than just a recall.
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I always think that usage of such technologies can be only in some cases – mostly for small companies, which are not sure that this product will be maintained more than few years. Like, it is not that bad to use it in startups, in some small projects, or if you have pretty strong and enthusiastic team with a lot passion, which are ready to dive into new cool technology. Moreover, in the short term it can be even more beneficial, because you can attract even better developers, who like cutting edge stuff.

But the problem is what if this product will be maintained throughout years? Then to support it, you have definitely hire much more skilled engineer than for the same in stable JS framework. I completely understand about types, strict rules how to write Elm code, etc, but there are literally no guarantees that it will be the same after some time, that new developers will pick it up quickly, and, if you decide to rewrite it much later, there is a big chance that you'd have to rewrite it completely (this applies for JS too, but there are quite a lot of success stories of gradual integration of new framework).

To summarize, I don't think it is bad, it just doesn't scale and creates big technical debt, so you'd pay for it later; though it is a great chance to attract very skillfull and passionate developers – so, it is all about risk.
Well, have you ever heard of NSA mass surveillance by Obama? Zero Days (the documentary) is very revealing too...
I bought her book as a gift for my teenage sister, who is smart but also kind of a rebel. She loved it. Amoruso went from freegan anarchist going dumpster-diving to running a successful business, and so had lots of unique insights and perspectives. My sister would never read a standard life-advice book, but Amoruso is someone she could relate to.

For people saying business books are all nonsense -- why is business seen as a uniquely luck-based activity? No-one says, oh, some bridges collapse and some don't, so books about civil engineering only reflect survivorship bias. Business can't be reduced to a formula, but it can be broken down into smaller areas, each with its own principles (sales, marketing, recruiting, product development, etc). Amuroso learned these areas very quickly when she was getting started, but made some mistakes when things got bigger and the challenges increased.
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The case is designed to be able to house a 2nd 1TB hard drive. We don't have software support for RAID yet but we would welcome contributions very much.

I agree with some others here that backups are more important and this would have priority from my pov. Sadly nobody has built a complete backup app for Nextcloud yet.
Agreed, but the open question is how to determine that a household is "vacant" (turns out it's harder than one imagines).

I'm a big fan of the: if it's not registered as your primary address in tax filing documents it's treated as an investment property and is taxed as such. If no one has that address as a primary address then it's treated as investment + vacant.
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And if this were a normal election we would have time for genteel debate about this subject, but currently, the President-elect is preparing a plan to send armed paramilitary troops into neighborhoods like mine to try to forcibly remove 11 million people. So those are all real cute cocktail party questions and all but all of them are meaningless until I can answer the question of how can I prevent the promised onslaught of violence in communities like mine? How do I keep my friends and neighbors safe? How do we keep families together? It's pretty unseemly to be asking abstract, philosophical questions about immigration generally when, across the street, armed goons with assault rifles are physically separating families from each other and dragging people off to detention centers.
A typical response here would be, "Have you tried just switching out your main hard drive to a non-SSD and making that the default install location? Good luck!"
They are not an EU member in the strict sense, but they participate in a lot of EU treaties (e.g. Schengen) in order to have access to European markets and labor force - the problem is that these treaties are interlocked, i.e. you can't only pick the parts you want, it's all of the rules or nothing at all.
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Dutch national here. I'm pretty sure this is largely due to lenient prison sentences, no prison sentences at all for minor offences, and unsolved crimes.

The cold-blooded convicted killer of the frontrunner in the Dutch elections in 2002 was released after 12 years, something which is unthinkable in other countries.
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The reinvention of COBOL?
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So in 2 hours (according to the article, not this comment) you expect a candidate to deliver a functional reactive single page javascript app, with localstorage offline storage, searching (perhaps with filtering over a "category" model also), responsive, ideally with some form of test coverage & tested on multiple platforms.

I have a long way to go it seems! It would definitely take me more than 2 hours to do that to a standard I'd be happy with. And there's no way I'd submit "what I had" in 2 hours if I could sneak off and spend more hours of the weekend doing it & return something polished.

Do you penalize people who give something "too good" or query them on whether the _really_ only spent 2 hours doing it?
Yeah, no wonder - you rape somebody here and you have to clean the streets for a week. If you're unlucky that is.

Police officers are too busy with mobile speed controls. They don't (dare) arrest anybody who's foul-mouthing them in their face. They have become laughing stock.

Crime sentences (duration) are deplorable. Solved crime rates are way too low.
It is facinating how complex 4G networks are, compared to SS7 powered networks. It's like Boeing 747 compared to the ww2 war planes. Obviously, you have more vulnerabilities on the larger attack surface.
Apparently the Dutch are not as smart as the Americans.
It's simple:
1- Legalize Guns so people can shoot each other over anything
2- Privatize Prisons so that greedy CEOs can take over the "business"
3- Create laws that can criminalize you for any stupid thing you do, procedures that make everyone frustrated, and an economy that keeps you bankrupt most of the time