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> of numerous people of psychic phenomena, UFOs, and the supernatural are invaluable.

No, not at all. How would that be valuable? If psychic phenomena, UFOs and the supernatural were definitely real things that could help your difficult to solve problems, just not well understood and could vary in effect from person to person then they would be valuable. But they are not any of those things.

> Anecdotes aren't data

They definitely are.

> data isn't always applicable

Oh, certainly. 5 internet peoples say Drug Q helped with craziness syndrome even though that's an off-label use doesn't mean it will totally definitely work for you. But if you've tried everything else, 5 anecdotal experiences is far better than the 0 anecdotal experiences and zero studies of the zero other options you have.

> other people are frequently more concerned with themselves than helping you

How is this at all relevant? Maybe because a doctor gets kickbacks for prescribing a drug and so prescribes that drug despite it not being likely to help much? But that's just a good reason not to rely solely on your doctor. Nobody is more concerned about you than you. Doctors can have ulterior motives and can be working with out of date information especially when it comes to off-label uses of drugs. Common off-label uses became common because of anecdotes. And sometimes those anecdotes spurred the company making the drug to get it approved for that use. This isn't at all like UFOs.

> your mileage will vary

I am well aware of that. But some people are getting mileage out of it and the worst that could happen is I get no mileage just like am getting now (not right now, but before I found the right meds).
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Great job! this is a harder problem to solve than most people would imagine.
There is at least one hard-left feminist who ended up on GGAutoblock because Randi Harper just disliked her.
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> IMO developer mode seems like a nice way to keep standard users fenced in.

The whole reason why the BBC funded the original micro was to end the distinction between developer and standard user – everyone should at least understand it.
From the sounds of it, it's more like Rad-X from the same games.

(Rad-X increases your radiation resistance, RadAway removes radiation poisoning)
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Thanks ... I've been seeing those on google analytics ...
I'd wager that you are probably not the target of a lot of this abuse, though - so you likely wouldn't have seen much of it anyway, and wouldn't be as affected by it. (For instance, I'm betting @imadefood doesn't get a lot of tweets from eggs calling you any four-letter profanities that begin with "cu".
Sorry, that was supposed to be everything, not anything.
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Yes, one way to grapple with the concept of "random" is to define it as "unpredictable", but that does imply that the randomness of an event is contingent on the observer.

According to Information Theory, the measure of the information content of a message is its unpredictability.

This seems to imply that randomness is information. (This is also supported by Kolmogorov, randomness is less compressible, therefore must contain more information.)

An interesting question is, where does this information "come from"?

And yes, if the omniscient God can predict everything He is an observer to Whom nothing is random.

Now, is He trapped in a static Universe, or can He effectively "stir the pot", and bring "new" information/randomness into existence? But at this point the discussion moves from mathematics to philosophy and right into theology, so ... um... yeah...

Numbers, eh? What a trip.

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I just realized this comment is basically just rehashing what chriswarbo said... :-/
The most useful one is an invoice generator that looks at a bunch of Markdown files of work I've done for clients (I'm a freelance writer) and generates an invoice from them.

It can either generate an HTML report with various stats and graphs or create a draft invoice in Freshbooks for sending to the client. It used to take me a couple of hours a week to invoice, and now it basically takes no time at all.

I can't really share it because it's got some hardcoded client details, but I'm considering generalizing it into a txt2invoice utility other people can use. It's also massively over engineered because I used it as a learning project for Elixir. Every time I learned how to something new I tried it out on this tool, which means it spins up lots of processes it doesn't need and does fancy stuff with messaging, genservers and supervision trees which are entirely unnecessary, but that's part of the fun.
True, but one could probably come up with codewords for any really personal reminders.
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I didn't get that sense from the article. It was all about influence. False stories influence people's opinions, and that may have encouraged voters to turn out or not for their candidate.

There was a lot of false and misleading information distributed online during this election, and literally spoken by the candidates (one more than another).

The biggest lie is actually at the heart of Trump's campaign, that he can bring back the jobs. Those jobs he's talking about haven't just been outsourced to other countries, in many cases they have been automated into oblivion. Trump promised to bring these back, but how can you bring something back that doesn't exist?

Mind you the Dems and Clinton had no substantial story to weave for the people that are hurting from the lack of these jobs. So people chose the fiction over no substantive story. It's an uncomfortable thing to tell people that everything they know is irrrelevent in the modern economy.
1) All anti-bias statements should include body-weight / shape. Far too many people are abused/discriminated against on the basis of their weight.

Referring to this sentence:
> Our hateful conduct policy prohibits specific conduct that targets people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.

2. What steps are you taking to address the seeming divide between left/right abuse enforcement? For instance, AssassinateTrump was trending for a time. Will you offer evidence showing that you are banning abusive political speech from the left and right?
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"Fake stories" are not the biggest problem, and focusing on them could fix surface issues without addressing the underlying echo chamber effect. This piece is better than most, but I wish all people arguing for Facebook and Google to stop enabling opinions to be manipulated weren't so distracted by simple lies. It's the series of cherry-picked facts that create a narrative that we have to watch out for.
This "fake news" thing goes all the way back to the founding of our country (USA that is). It has always been a problem. And the solution now is the same as then - be critical and know thy source.
What about making the case that it did happen because of misinformation instead of focusing on my comment history?

I have said a lot of things on both sides and is hardly just some troll. We all have our triggers, this is one for me so whats wrong with that?
Are there are any consumer protection laws that would help here, for example, to obtain a full refund if it is proven that a manufacturer and retailer sold you a product full of spyware?
Maintaining existing nuclear power is very important and politically difficult:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/atoms-for-green-energy-what-...

New nuclear would be great in the long term. It's not the heart of what we need, but a useful part of the portfolio. The heart of what we need is integrated transmission supporting rapid rollout of all clean sources:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/does-denmark-ho...

In the US, the new administration is vociferously opposed to any progress. Do NOT let them use nuclear as a wedge issue. They oppose targets in principle:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-c...

Nuclear AND wind AND solar and especially long term planning are all good. Keep your eyes on the prize.
It does not mean always as in "the same voter every time." What it means is that if more than two voters have a preference ranking which is digested by a social choice function, the outcome should not be exactly the same as any individual voter. I argue that doesn't make any sense, because there are plenty of situations where the best choice of ranking might coincide with the preferences of a particular voter, completely by coincidence.
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Hello, a bit off topic but what rss reader do you use to pipe?
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I don't fully know why people are so anti-nuclear in general.

I'll be the first to admit that wind and solar are what society should aim for, but I don't full that, with our current implementations of them, that they're quite ready for a 7-billion-people level of energy needs.

I feel like nuclear could be a good way to get us using (relatively) clean energy and get people using electric vehicles in the relatively short-term.
Not a lawyer, but I think this case is well covered, at least in Europe. Users can't be held responsible when the offer looks legit and the average person couldn't tell that it's illegal.

Now what would be really interesting is a web torrent site that looks professional and broadly claims to be a legit service funded by ads. Right now, that would be a legal loophole. Not that it prevents right holders from sending cease and desist letters, but they'd be legally void.
How are you doing LinkedIn import? We had it at https://standardresume.co, but lost it when they closed off the developer API.
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What @adrianN said. Some other version control system.
12 Trump hit pieces in one day alone. More like establishment propaganda paper, I don't think they would have given Jeb Bush or Rubio such a hard time.
You should have links to specific views. So someone could just share a url to a specific size.
We are all in denial.

As a non-FB user, I hit every day a Facebook captcha to test if I'm a bot, each time I land near a Facebook site. When it's not a captcha, a panel hides a third of the Facebook page.

I have a "shadow" empty FB account that I sometimes use: if I'm logged in, anything I watch online ends up polluting recommendations and suggested sites. I looked up information on Syria and Trump the other day - I now have creepy sites displayed on my suggested sites. I also get giant "YOU ARE NOW QUITTING FACEBOOK" alerts anytime I try to click a link to, yes, go to this address.

We all obsess on Google/Apple for privacy and yet do not hold Facebook to any standard regarding an open, honest web.

I feel we're all getting slowly conditioned by Facebook (and others) to stay siloed. To fear that the web we browse will have "consequences" and that we should avoid being curious altogether.

It's by now clear that the entire purpose of FB is to build a "unified profile" that advertisers can track on- and offline.

We're all in denial on the consequences of this unified tracking. If we were in the Renaissance, anonymous publications like Spinoza's would be impossible. Free speech and opinion _requires_ freedom to change mind, wander around.

This has to stop.
I'm scared people are going to keep pushing for social media to implement stronger filters.

I believe very strongly that the free flow of information (even when it's just wrong) is critical. Information gives people power, but withholding information takes power away. If a company like Facebook implements the filter, we're giving that power to them and hoping they are ambivalent.

The solution to fake news is for people to learn how to live in this new world. There used to be only a handful of news organizations, but now there are an infant amount of them. This is GOOD, it's democratizing, but it puts a burden on us as citizens, and consumers of information to understand the motivations of the authors.

This is an opportunity we should be happy to have and be scared of technological or manual solutions that threaten it.
If you end up in the crosshairs of a user with many aggressive/abusive followers, seeing their tweets in your mentions ruins the SNR of your twitter experience.

There's a reason why celebrities have had the "quality filter" available for ages. A very high volume of tweets makes it more difficult to use twitter to communicate.
It doesn't matter whether the fake stories actually had any effect on people's political leanings, because the media narrative is that they did. Ultimately, the mainstream media are in denial. Every single media organisation backed Clinton, including ones that had never backed a presidential candidate before, they published articles pointing to this as reason to vote for her whilst insisting that it was ridiculous to believe they could in any way be biased towards her. They were absolutely certain she would win, mocking those who though otherwise. They were wrong. Rather than look inwards, they found a scapegoat.

That's why they don't care about the 130,000 retweets for a fake claim that people were chanting "We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want our great country back" at a Trump rally from a known British hoaxer, or the quarter of a million for a photoshop of Trump's parents in KKK outfits, or any of the other fakes that don't fit the narrative.
I think the key is that some accounts are verified and some people choose to use their real names. Bullying seems lower for the average Facebook user because everyone can see exactly who's calling you a fat loser. And bullying on 4chan and the like seems pretty low because everyone's anonymous so no one knows if you're actually fat or not. Twitter is this weird overlap where some groups share who they really are, but the harassers are free to hide behind anonymity.
I dont' believe he can bring them back either but it wasn't based on a lie and I am pretty sure he means it which is why he wants to dig into the resources and rebuild infrastructure.

That does not make it a lie anymore than "yes we can" does.
It's not entirely their fault. The linked obituary doesn't list a cause of death either.
They are right to focus on notifications. That's where the annoying or hostile crap accumulates (abuse, spam).

I think it would be valuable to split notifications into two areas. Low and high value notifications. High-value would tend to be stuff associated with accounts you follow, and maybe unfollowed, verified accounts judged as 'high quality'. Everything else - interactions from 'randos' - gets filed as low-value.

Nothing needs to get hidden from users who want to see every time anyone interacts with them.
Sure, that answers the question of how many licenses they have and why. But it doesn't answer the question of what rationale could be used to think that 38 licenses would be good for 100k installs.
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Using a central license server can be used to license the number of concurrent users. I've installed software on thousands of computers as part of a base image that only had 25 concurrent licenses paid for. The usage pattern meant that we rarely exceeded the number of concurrent license, but the software was widely used enough that it made sense to deploy everywhere. In the end we also asked for the limitation to be removed because of several issues (eg; the check out process for off-network usage was cumbersome and locked up licenses for too long, the license server wasn't great at releasing license and we'd frequently have to manual release them). After monitoring our usage over a period of time the software company agreed that removing the license server was the best option to address the issues. I have no knowledge of this case, but this is one scenario where the number of licenses would be so much lower than the number of installs.
Nuclear power is extremely expensive and does not allow for peaking power. In the US company's are shutting them down early because operation costs are to high, let alone construction. So, on the surface it seems relatively useless for meeting our long term energy needs.

The only 'advantage' seems to be making money for companies that build or operate nuclear power plants. Thus, there are going to be plenty of experts backing them.

PS: While the carbon in natural gas produces CO2, the hydrogen atoms in it combine with Oxygen to form water making it a lower carbon source than Coal. If the goal is a rather arbitrary 32% lower emissions then natural gas can help reach that goal.
Absolutely right. Git will not last forever. We've already had had VCS, SourceSafe, Perforce, SVN...
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>> I think it's too early to tell if these fake stories had any effect on people's political leanings

Facebook isn't the only place people get 'fake news'. Just look at their peer groups. My cousin is a member of a labor union and they tell all kind of goofy tales about what will happen is candidate X gets elected or candidate Y gets elected. You should hear the coffee shop rambling the old men do at Tim Horton's in the morning. And you should heard the rambling the young kids do at the independent coffee shop at night. All of it is just FUD.
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It began with 'C', I don't like to use or even mention it when there may be Americans present, and it was plural...

I never said it was a particularly clever review. Although it did seem heartfelt.
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> the NYT is pretty far from a Democratic Propaganda paper.

If that's true, why did the New York Times just apologize for their abysmal coverage of this election cycle?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-reader...
I totally agree with you. The Volt seems like the perfect car, but I ultimately picked the Prius over the Volt for 2 reasons: the Prius looks a lot better and, more importantly, has a lot more interior space that I need. The Volt felt both heavy and cramped, like a flawed first generation product. The 2nd gen Volt is a big improvement.
> Russia will be virtually impenetrable to missiles using satellite navigation

Wow, that's one wishful thinking, especially considering lame attempt to disrupt them when missiles basically already approached their target.
The negative definition of 'unable to predict' is a definition that depends on the contextual information of an observer - is what I am saying.

By that definition, nothing is truly random - it just depends on the ability and knowledge of an observer in a given context.

You say 'geiger counter is random'. Well - what if you had a scanner, and a powerful computer, and knew the arrangement and composition of the material, and could 'predict' on some level, when those atoms would produce radiation (I know this is probably impossible) - but suppose you could. Then it would not be 'random'.

I wonder if we can consider 'randomness' as an inherent quality of a system ...

Though I admit 'something that is not predictable' is a nice way to communicate it, maybe even help regular people understand it better.
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Doesn't seem specific to electrics. I owned several trucks that couldn't tow that trailer. Towing capacity has more to do with the frame, brakes, and cooling than it does with energy and power. Still I think someone will make series hybrid pickups at some point. They already make big rigs that way.
This is great. I've never had the time to learn how bookmarklets work, but your tool just let me make a simple one in under a minute.
> Was this even reported on main leftwing media?

If you include NYT in this, yes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/video-dnc-trum...

> another example is the recent backlash against Breitbart

Breitbart was taken over by Steve Bannon after Breitbart's death, and it seems (inarguably to me) like it took a turn after that point. When you have headlines like "Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew", you're going to attract negative attention.
I used to analyze mobile malware and the line of what was OK and what wasn't really came down to how big the company was. If it was an unknown firm set up as analytics / advertising, it was fine to block. If it was a mega analytics / advertising it was not malware because it was a massive company.
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I believe that multiple gear ratios could make sense for high-end EVs. For example, the Model S P100D's top speed of 155MPH is pretty low for a car of such power and low-end acceleration. And its acceleration tends to fall off at higher speeds (if you watch drag races against high-end ICE cars, the Tesla tends to stomp them initially, then the ICE car starts to catch up after a few seconds) and I have heard that being able to change gear ratios would help with that, although I certainly could be misinformed.
The reporter could have done some investigating.
https://knife.ai, which is an email analytics tool.

I'm proud of it because it's something I've always wanted to use and create.
You'd be surprised. imadefood is one of many entities I deal with. There's always someone that wants to start something. Best just to ignore.
Being discussed hurts a submission's rankings. They do better when they are the kind of thing that people upvote to bookmark for later, and never get around to reading.
There's a degree to which it is a zero sum system. If wind and solar is where we should be eventually, then resources put into nuclear now aren't going into wind/solar research and infrastructure building. And nuclear's not cheap.

Plus, while nuclear can be done safely, it often isn't, and when it fails, it fails catastrophically. So it's scary for a lot of people. People have to trust not just that nuclear _can_ be done safely, but that it _will_ be done safely. That second one, especially, is a big leap for lots of folks.
People don't want to see the world as it is, they want to see the world as they see it.

Twitter has decided that instead of focusing on showing the world as it develops, instead of closing the digital divide and creating a space for the "new media"...

They want to be a social network. And make money from it. (yeah, right)

I want a better Twitter to exist someday. I might make one myself (and no, GNU Social isn't good enough yet). But that Twitter would have to be focused around things that are happening, around global occurrences and real news. Not some stupid internet catfights that could be solved by turning one's phone off for a day.
This is actually true only to some degree. Of course, you can't create your own full-fledge game, but in terms of automation you can do a lot. You like to listen to certain radio, but it has shitty interface? Build site/app/etc to address it! Yes, it will be small and won't do anything else, but for you it will be helpful, so you will do it with passion.

The same applies for other "utility" stuff – you can create your own flashcards service, which will be super convenient exactly for you, and so forth. So, don't underestimate yourself – software often is good only to some use-cases, not for yours.
I've been using this for years. Really really nice both practically (the data is useful) and conceptually (I always use this or OpenWeatherMap to explain to students what an API is)
Maybe an hommage to the good old Hot Dog Stand theme?