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> You would expect Baltimore or Chicago to crush DC thanks to their famous gang violence but maybe those states don't provide statistics

D.C. has a high violent crime rate, but Republican politicians recently don't trumpet it to attack the local government and the party behind it the way they do Baltimore or, particularly, Chicago's, perhaps because while D.C. has an elected (and Democrat-dominated) city government that is allowed some latitude, it's government is Constitutionally a Congressional power, and Congress regularly exercises that power to prescribe local policy or veto local government acts, so they'd end up pointing the finger at their own failures if they were to blame government in D.C.
All those things are. The question is, how much do these things affect the above? This has been going on since W Bush on; the Obama and to the present, and as of yet, the impact would seem surmountable, i.e. negated by the majority of people who travel anyway and conduct business anyway.
According to a number of interviews I've heard, e-mails are the least effective means of lobbying congressional representatives.

in-person > phone > lettermail > e-mail
This comment has many extraordinary claims. Some strong evidence would change them from claims to knowledge.
Is a new thing? Is everyone trying to enter the country now suddenly getting all their electronic profiles and devices searched? I don't remember this being a problem a couple years ago.
Can we acknowledge that this specific event happened last October, before Trump was elected? I am 100% not a Trump supporter, but the article is definitely trying to have people infer that it has to do with Trump's travel ban when it does not.
My wife and I have been using YNAB (You Need A Budget) for years now and absolutely LOVE it. It's truly been a game changer for us. Before we found YNAB I would've agreed with you, but now I point everyone to it.

I hated Mint, and Quicken, and Microsoft Money (back in the day), but for us YNAB really nails the sweet spot. It empowers you with your money without bogging you down.
> But the problem is they get traction by operating at a loss, so when they try to run profitably they inevitably fail as people bawk at the prices.

Well, in a competitive environment like Uber vs Lyft, both companies subsidize the service to the benefit of the customers (and employees) in an attempt to maximize market share.

There is a lot to gain by becoming the market leader in a service like ride sharing or grocery shopping. The market is very big and it's a basic need that most people have.

If anything, I think there is too much expectation by investors that a success in a non-ridesharing market will generate earlier-stage financials that look like Uber's.

With Instacart, the value add is such a no brainer. Imagine if everyone had to go to a shop, park, and walk around picking out mail that had been addressed to them. It would be hugely inefficient. This is why the postal service delivers mail to everyone's home.

The service is considered so essential to the functioning of society that it's viewed as a legitimate state-run monopoly and aggressively subsidized.

Most people spend significantly more time grocery shopping than they do picking up letters and parcels. This is a significant amount of leisure time wasted.

Instacart can also easily swoop in and source certain high-margin goods on its own, or offer price comparison or even auction-style services where merchants bid on the virtual cart and it is fulfilled by the merchant offering the lowest price.

All these are obvious next steps for Instacart, which wisely sees Grocery stores as a relic of the past ready to be replaced by something better.

Grocers are market makers who specialize in understanding demand patterns. This is what makes a grocer successful, but grocers must spend lots of money simply to help alleviate the drudgery of being at the store shopping for one's self. One place near where I live features an elaborate player piano, hot bar, oyster bar, and wine bar!

Most customers don't buy the oysters or a glass of wine, but having those side-acts makes being at the store pushing a cart through aisles feel less like demeaning, robotic drudgery.

Instacart has found a better way. You take out the app, easily search for products, see recently/frequently purchased products, set up a delivery time, and you're done. It all arrives as if by magic.

Maybe someday the shopping will be done by actual robots and the delivery by drone. But even in that world, the market-maker wisdom of local grocers will be just as relevant as it is today, and the high quality shopping experience of the Instacart app will be at least as useful.
I assume things like that get easily resolved with international treaties as other countries get retaliatory measures. Eg if Canada set up mandatory cloning of US citizen phones at the border when they try to enter, the tables would turn, so people would start complaining. This is how visa waiver programs came to be, how tax agreements get created etc.
Time isn't really the limiting factor for those two activities.
Overhead of localtime() is well-known, just RTFM. Anyway, this article provides very good explanation.
No. It ended up being Rev C before we got to production.
> Unfortunately universities are capitalist organizations

Most traditional universities are either state institutions or private charity nonprofits, neither of which are "capitalist organizations" in any normal sense of the word.
Not as distant as you think. Travel organisations avoid even layovers in the US (in Europe at least) just like they would war zones and North Korea. And some (but definately not all) companies have a wiped devices policy for US bussiness trips.

When it comes to stuff like this the US is graded on a curve. The same incidents under Obama feel like friendly diplomacy might make it better. Now, maybe Europe and places like Canada should just return the favor. A bit like how travel visa's are often a reverse FU. Ever notice how many destinations dont charge tourists visum costs except when you are from the US or another country that would charge them as well?
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Majority of the interview questions for software developers are retarded. It's either too academic (reverse a linked list) or too specific (What is the difference between StringBuffer and StringBuilder in Java?).

To answer your question - none.
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I'm not US citizen. I have no one to contact and no one cares about me. And I will never travel to USA.
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no, i was referring to the "mail system" analogy
On either side, the worst part is, I don't have anything to hide. I just don't want anyone digging through my personal messages or photos etc just because they can. I'm not a criminal, nor do I have any criminal history, I pay my taxes and all that other good stuff you check off a list when you go on a rant like this. Someday maybe I'll have a reason to fly in. For the interim, I remain maple dip-less.
I'm always nervous entering the US and Canada. My declarations are always proper, and I carry nothing I'd be upset to have searched. The feeling is just anchored. I get searched a lot and then let go. Waste of time for all concerned.

I hate the airport security checkpoints too. I'm worried something of mine will be stolen if I get separated from it. For anyone else who feels this way, a good tip for US travel is to opt-out of those body scanners. It will take you a bit of extra time to get through, but the TSA will get your stuff from the xray and put it in a separate area, and they will always put on new gloves before touching it. They do this not out of basic respect but because they're going to test their gloves for explosives or something, but I'll take what I can get.
NeXTStep with its DisplayPostScript based WindowServer was an amazing playground for these kinds of shenanigans. Perhaps the most extreme was "Project Akira", a fully functioning NFS server you could launch by opening an EPS file. ( http://www.wizards.de/~frank/franksprojects.html )

Slightly less malicious were a whole bunch of EPS files that would play havoc with your screen: "gravity", which would make all your windows drop to the bottom of the screen, "black hole", etc.

Fun times.

Maybe I should release my Postscript tools for OS X?
> to now simply not wanting to visit due to these sort of policies and actions at the border.

I think that's actually the best way to achieve change in this case. Will suck for the tourism industry though.
Destroy all Governments. Embrace Consentism. This shit is going to continue and get-worse unless.

https://richclarke.liberty.me/consentism/
Maybe but you'd have to prove a gay man was more likely to be turned back than a straight woman suspected of being involved in sex work. Never the less, their being non-Americans would seriously deflate most Americans' concerns about profiling.
> Based on the lead chart itself ... the situation is not as dire as the article makes it to appear.

The lead chart shows the U.S. ranked 32nd of 35 nations, for both women and men. (My quick count might be off by a little.)

In addition, this sounds bad to me:

[The U.S.] has the highest infant and maternal mortality rates of any of the countries in the study, and the highest obesity rate. It is the only one without universal health insurance coverage and has the “largest share of unmet health-care needs due to financial costs,” the researchers wrote.

Tellingly, the United States was the first high-income country to see a halt to the pattern of increasing height in adulthood, a reliable indicator of improving public health, according to Majid Ezzati, a professor of public health at Imperial College London, who led the research team.

Some Americans get a “bad start to life in nutrition and education” and suffer “high rates of homicide,” Ezzati said. “And then lack of universal insurance. Some people probably get diagnosed too little and too late.
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Thank you! links are fine of-course; the more the merrier.
"More fit" in this article seems to exclusively mean "weigh less." I would argue that that is a very superficial definition of fitness.
Download the app, Instacart might be there. I know it's in a lot of the Chicago suburbs.
Amazing how apt some of them seem, it looks human-curated.

This one feels so right -> These hoes so trifling

no idea...lost -> desolation

the skeleton war -> take shelter now
I didn't understand the proof for 0.5 + 0.25 + ... = 1 itself.
By his visual number line analogy, wouldn't 2/3 + (2/3)^2 + ... = 1 too? Visually, that too seems to "approach" 1.
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So, a story from my wife...

Back in high school, her friend had received a scholarship to visit DC. Being young and from Cambodia, she and her friend at the time had a rosy impression of the US from movies and other media. The assumption must have been that DC, being the capital, would epitomize the glamorous, American-dream image that is exported globally. Apparently on the first night there though, the friend decided to go out exploring the city but very quickly ended up in a dodgy area. Already a little perplexed by the surroundings and some strangely-behaving characters that were wandering around, the friend heard a commotion from above and looked up to see four guys sitting in a tree, yelling and smoking crack / meth (or maybe weed, but I'm guessing not). After returning from the trip, the friend faced some incredulous reactions in response to this story from their other classmates, but now that they're older and more aware of reality in the US, it's probably not so unbelievable.
Maybe Archytas of Tarentum?

A mathematician (~425BC) who experimented with kites and other lightweight designs for flight. One particularly interesting story suggests he made a wooden dove powered by... Well, we'd suggest it might be compressed air or something of the like.

I'd guess Ford is saying the experiments don't matter, because they didn't take the experiment and make it useful, like those kites made by Mozi and Lu Ban, which were used as early warning systems and similar tasks.
> you'd have to prove...

Fortunately and unfortunately this is not how rallying works. You'd have to convince the right club, event and advocacy group organizers that this would produce turnout, coverage and possibly even results. Note the size of the protests against Donald Trump's recent immigration ban.
If a lot of people tell you - "I'd definitely want that". Build it. Ideas don't exist anymore.

Just ask people for their requirements, that'll be your idea.
>blacklist specific ones

Enumerating badness has always been a very bad idea.
it's not clear to me if they store the files on their servers so others can access them when my computer is offline
The law only exists to the extent that it is enforced. If customs says "give us your passwords or you're not coming through" and you don't have a lawyer handy, then "give us your passwords or you're not coming through" is now the law (until a judge overturns it and possibly charges the officer for breaking another law).

If you can call a lawyer and don't mind waiting several hours, you can challenge it. However most people don't have a lawyer and don't know what to do and are afraid of the officers.
Have a few questions .. (1) doesn't it seem like this only works for elements that have an ordering as well a binary operation multiplication, subtraction and addition defined on them, making it too specific ? (I'm talking about the whole 2x - minelement) (2) If I have a variable hanging around a stack, is it still a stack? (3) When I pop out the min value in the stack, and want the next min Value, how do I get that,? seems like the previous min value still sticks around? (4) With comparisons and 1 value that hols state, do I really need to transform the values going into the stack?
From what I heard this is actually how it happens. Roughly speaking, upon first connection of the implant the subjects can't do anything at all basically. They have to train themselves and to some extent the software to work together, so that the different patterns in firing of the neurons get matched to different letters. (or movement, or whatever is attached at the output side of the software).
Whenever I see a book that seems interesting I add it to my to-read list which I use Goodreads for. I have a script that will randomly select a book from the list and if it still seems interesting to me then I'll read it.
First, IANAL, and I am not an expert for the situation in the US. So you're probably right.

But in the UK, you can go to jail for not disclosing your cryptographic keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

Here is a story of a person who went to jail for not disclosing his keys: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/?page=1 He said he kept silent "because of principle", but I guess he might also have gone to jail if he told them "I don't remember" - Officers would not believe him anyway.
Since you mention DVDs, I assume you've listened to the commentary. I find them almost as entertaining as the episodes themselves.
There is a very interesting Podcast on the tipping vs service fee debate on Freakonomics:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/

It shows how the "Hospitality Included" program removed tips from their restaurants. I guess its not always the idea, but also how you implement it. Instacart tried to do the same thing but appear to have totally botched it up
Ok, we agree then.
55 employees:

https://pando.com/2014/02/24/whatsapp-bought-for-19-billion-...
What's the memory usage there? Is it on the order of what can be used for games? Often memory is even more constrained than CPU time
On the other hand border agents, DHS, even under Obama pretty much had little critical oversight on how they adjudicated law and were quite immune to public opinion. [what was that Cuban, then boy who was returned to Cuba at Fidel's request despite public opinion?]
All my VPSes run in UTC, no exception. What I'm talking about here is my desktop machine. I strongly prefer to run that in localtime.
I kind of love it!

Are they all in iframes?
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By that logic, everyone is self-taught. So perhaps that line of reasoning proves too much, rendering it potentially suspect.
Well, Jira has an 80/20 problem: it tries to do the 20% that satisfies 80% of the users (cases.) so far so good, but when you trip over one of the details that make up the remaining 80% you're SOL. JIRA-1330 is my favorite :)
"What is fundamentally incompatible in a tolerant society, is toleration of intolerance."

This. My love of free speech and a free exchange of ideas is entirely compatible with my refusal to allow my platform to amplify messages of hatred that I find repugnant.
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And besides, it still wouldn't help. They could hand you a device and tell you to log into your social media accounts. If you say you don't have the passwords because of whatever technical measures you cooked up to make them temporarily inaccessible, you're back to, "Don't do that next time. You're not entering today."
I wonder about that. Craigslist operated with 28 people (in 2009) and served 20 billion pageviews a month. Whatsapp had 50 staff for 200 million active users when it was bought. PlentyOfFish for many years operated off one person, making a million or two in revenue off tens of millions of users.

I kinda suspect that most tech businesses hire employees because they have money, not because they need them. Obviously there's some operational cost, particularly when you're charging money from a customer. But for consumer or small-business products that offer a well-defined product in exchange for either advertisements or a small monthly fee, there's really not all that much work needed to serve a marginal customer.
Cool project, seems like a nice improvement over what I've used in the past (suds). Also has some features that Lark currently lacks (SOAP 1.2 / HTTP bindings / rpc / WS-Addressing / WSSE).
Have you looked at Gnu Cash (http://www.gnucash.org/features.phtml)? I'm not recommending it because I don't use it, but I've heard good things about it.
Don't let the shitbag xenophobe minority convince you to not visit our country. Stick it to 'em by bringing your foreign ass here and enjoying the hell out of the place.
Why not make their javascript run in WebWorkers and provide a DOM-like interface for all the things? That way you can kill infinite loops etc.
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> The free market can be contained and guided.

A market can be, but a free market is specifically one that is free of government intervention to "contain and guide" it.
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Does that mean we don't try?
I think the political mood has changed. Note that this happened in December (edit: October) yet is finding coverage two months later.
Let's face it, if wearable fitness devices told you the complete truth, you'll stop wearing them.
> "...the primary reason to wear the devices isn’t to lose weight — it’s to be more active. But even in this respect, it didn’t work nearly as well as we might hope. In the IDEA trial, those who employed the technology were no more physically active than those who didn’t. They also weren’t more fit."
It's scary how often this happens to me. Including mentally mocking "daaarryl daaarryl" whenever I meet someone with the name.
Even a standard CSV download would be a step up.
I'm impressed they get that much accuracy from the motor cortex. I posted this[1] before - I imagine detecting signals at the spinal cord would provide even greater accuracy (not necessarily in this case). I'm really excited either way.

I'd like to know more about the implanted array though. My impression was that all arrays induce scarring and lose effectiveness over time.

Also, isn't paralysis in ALS caused by the death of motor neurons? If that's so, what exactly was the array sampling? Is it just that there's too few neurons to control muscles, but still enough to type?

[1] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2014.00...
And for people who are not US citizens, the solution is pretty simple too: Don't travel to the US.
> our bad habits cut across all other demographic lines. I know just as many unhealthy rich people as poor people.

Thanks for the story and I know little about Alabama personally, but I'd be very surprised if the data said that health and healthy habits are not dependent on wealth.
"Seeing someone like Milo get pummeled in a debate does incredible damage to his brand and his ideas."

Internet trolls are not visiting universities to engage in vigorous intellectual debate in good faith. They're on campus to raise their profile and gain a patina of respectability. They are entitled to their free speech. They are not entitled to get access to large platforms to spread their message of hate.
That's one take on it, but these error types are vastly more lightweight than exceptions when the code isn't hitting the happy path (and there's little difference when it isn't).

Plus, when I write Java I have to constantly specify new Exception types. I don't see anything wrong with having to do it for Go when I really want more or less data depending on circumstance.
I also live in NZ. I've seen a few places prompt for tips but typically only in areas tourists frequent. I always just tip nothing.

I'm pretty sure they are just doing it to bait Americans.
Actually October, according to the article.
True, but it'd be especially painful if you use a password manager. Presumably they're going to demand the master password, so you're left changing everything.

If you were dealing with a reasonable system, a compromise might be to unlock the accounts for them (without them seeing the password) and allow them to review the contents in your presence. That way you know exactly what they've seen, and that they're not holding onto anything, but they should still be able to do any necessary screening. Unfortunately the system appears to be weighted rather more toward maximum intimidation than reasonableness.
If the alternative is just to go back to Canada, why would they want to hold you anyway?
I am getting tired of people implementing "deep learning to convert foo into bar" and staking a claim on the name "foo2bar".

It leads to "AI hallucination", where even if "foo2bar" doesn't work, people assume that it's the one right AI for turning foo into bar. When someone gets better at turning foo into bar, the typical response will be "is that just foo2bar?"

This happened absurdly backwards with doc2vec, which after word2vec everyone talked about as if it were a real thing, until Radim Řehůřek finally made a reasonable implementation of it under that name.
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And, of course, the United States is based on the concept of natural rights. Hence the Bill of Rights saying, "Congress shall may no law".

Americans 4th Amendment right wasn't created by the 4th Amendment, but merely acknowledged by it. All human beings have an inherent right to privacy -- to suggest otherwise as a US citizen is self-contradictory.
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