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American deer hunters alone constitute the largest military on Earth (save perhaps just behind China). That's 18 million well-equipped snipers (never mind the other 50M armed citizens). ...and a very large fraction of the military would likely be on the side of the deer hunters (complex cultural explanation omitted), so the assumption of the army remaining loyal to the government under such circumstances is in grave doubt.

BUT...

The issue at hand isn't overthrowing the government, it's denying the weak their tools for defending themselves from violent assault. We have due process for doing so; the bill being disparaged in the lead article ensures doing so is in fact via due process, and not simply a faceless bureaucrat checking off a box on a form for some trivial reason (which is a serious problem).
[citation needed]

There was a rumor last month which Nintendo refuted.
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Yes, it’s hard to visualise for some people, but it’s the same reason why a small sailboat can turn with a flat rudder.
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I am familiar with long-short arbitrage. I'm sure that long-short arbitrage is swell for the hedge funds that use it and have the resources to manage their shorts very carefully and millions of dollars to absorb losses when they screw up.

I think it's completely irresponsible to present that as "without market risk" to an audience that doesn't have similar resources and in some cases doesn't even understand what a short is. I think that presention should be disparaged.
On another point, I've never understood the fascination with the ease of being able to own guns in the US.
Every time I see something done with it, versus what native code can do on the exact same hardware, I reach the conclusion it is only useful for DX 9 class graphics or just plain prototyping.
And not only that, but also removing their existing collections of videos and replacing it with their "Made by Netflix" shows that mostly amount to shovelware.

I'm about ready to drop them, just like they've dropped MASH, soon to be X-Files, and many many movies.
YouTube used to have a star based ratings system too. I wonder if they drew the same conclusions.
Isn't this a faulty premise in the first place? To overthrow a tyrannical government without (large part of) the army on your side seems infeasible in the age of cluster bombs and armored vehicles. So before armed civil war it seems logical to use alternative approaches:

* Non-violent resistance (cripple the economy).

* Appeal to dissident factions in the army and have them do the fighting, after all the US army is pretty closely connected to the populace, and if you can't get them on your side you've already lost.

* Have a sufficiently pluralistic system in the first place so that concentration of power to an extent that extreme becomes impossible.

There just seems to be such a mismatch between goals and means when it comes to small arms and prevention of tyranny.
What is spooky action at a distance?
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Unfortunately, the disagreements are not minor anymore, as you can see on the social networks and in the streets of the USA.
> ableist

Good job with the slur there.

> We wouldn't be hearing ableist arguments if the topic were anything other than guns

I hold the same opinion on bombs and other things too, if it makes any difference.
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I agree mostly and I am in a similar position. What I don't entirely agree with is that "procrastination is a massive fear of mental activity". For instance, even though I'm not a big gamer, when I procrastinate I can spend hours playing one of my favorite strategy games and strategy games require quite a bit of mental activity. I think procrastination is a fear of boring mental activity, something that doesn't provide immediate reward.
Bummer. I understand why they do it but I think it's too coarse. I'd much rather know how many people thought a movie was fantastic and not just decent.
I decided to check that claim, and I'd say it holds up reasonably well: http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Biggest_game_system_launches I admit I'm eyeballing it there, but there isn't a great correlation between launch day/week sales and ultimate success.

Even the WiiU seems to have been at least a modest success upon launch: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/11/how-successful-was-th...

Still, I would definitely take a strong launch over a weak one if I had a choice. :)
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If someone is trying to rob/assault/rape/kill you, when you otherwise are unable to defend yourself against a superior-strength assailant, you may find a gun much more useful than a car. Hard to drive when you've been beaten to death.
Netflix Is Abandoning Star Ratings in Favor of Facebook-Like Thumbs
What's next. Just a thumb up like on Facebook?

Rating is a hard problem. No system works universally well. IMDb (Amazon property) for example uses 10 stars, Amazon uses five stars. Facebook use thumb up ("likes"). Games ratings are often in percent 1-100% (summarized by metacritics.com and others). School systems around the world use A, B, etc or numbers like 1-5 or 1-6 for grades.
I still have no easy solution to the "same box" changing IP's because you booted up a new test cluster. I guess that's the point of DNS.
Same. They dropped Peep Show and that was about the only show I Liked that was still on. Plus King of the Hill and Spongebob, but they took those off ages ago.
And I suppose you personally test the physical security measures of every retail store you shop at?
Virtual classes are better in some ways and inferior (to in person) in others.

I'm currently applying for a masters in computer science and debating between attending a program in person or online. One advantage of attending in person is immersing myself in a class room full of students, aligned with a similar goal in mind. An online course, on the other hand, offers me more flexibility (I'm working full time at AWS) and saves me time on commuting.

Although I'm constantly studying on my own and leveraging online courses, I'm leaning towards an in person program for a couple reasons. First, I recently moved to Seattle and the university of Washington (UW) offers a program tailored for working professionals; this is a great way to not only meet other people on a similar path, but, most importantly, receive in-person feedback from the professors (as well as other students). Feedback, as well as networking, is really difficult to replicate with an online format.

On an separate note, I have yet to find an online masters in CS that offers a thesis—all the programs I researched only offer course based work.
Why are they dropping shows? Does it save them money somehow?
I read something (on HN actually) awhile ago about how Amazon seems to be actively trying to kill Netflix, not by going after subscribers but by going after licenses for programming by over-bidding.

I think Netflix though is making more off of their in-house produced content these days so I wouldn't say they're in danger, they just might look quite different in a few years.
Not if you simultaneously BUY ON THE OTHER MARKET.

Jesus.

You also can't lose money beyond what you put in (on the exchanges that allow for this), your position just gets terminated.
Because taking money from disabled people and using it to help mostly not-disabled people creates second-class citizens. These videos in their current form are discriminatory.
But the UX of the current rating system sucks. Rating stars are very small and you have to hover them to know you can rate. Only if you watch a movie to the very end you will see a clearer rating functionality, but even then you have few seconds to use.

I bet many new users don't even know they can rate. I wonder if people aren't rating much because the UX sucks, not because it's a 5-star system.
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Good thing people don't need a gun to get to work every day, otherwise we'd see lots of cognitive dissonance there too.
I can't imagine any film that conveys a message, cinematography, style, and meaning that could be encapsulated with a simple thumbs up or thumbs down.

What a disappointing simplification.
Not necessarily. For instance, some academic journals are on their way to allow interactive 3d plots in the pdf files [1]

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Another way to look at it: how do you expect people with zero economic power to be able to afford even a robotic servant?

Social security is beneficial to capitalism right now because people still have economic power. Paying a small portion of the people to stay idle home rather than become criminal makes society as a whole more productive. What happens when the productivity of most humans isn't needed anymore to keep the machines running?

What incentives does the market have to keep people alive when they don't serve it anymore?
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> but also removing their existing collections of videos and replacing it with their "Made by Netflix" shows that mostly amount to shovelware.

You are not wrong

"US Netflix offers only 31 of IMDb's top 250 movies, study shows"

"David Wells, Netflix’s chief financial officer, was quoted by Variety stating that the company wants half of its content to be original productions over the next few years." [1]

RIP Netflix!

1. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/14/us-netflix-imdb...
> The fact that full aerobatic and military jets do, is because they usually don't have that curved 'fish' shape cross section, but are usually symmetrically shaped on the top and bottom of the wing.

Fair enough, it is symmetrical, but still has a lot of shape to it - only time I've been inverted was in a grob 103, and was a passenger for that part of the flight, here's the cross section of it's little sister which is also fully aerobatic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grob_G_102_Standard_Astir...

My point in the gp post was that since one can fly inverted, the shape of the wing is not the only fact. I think you and I are saying the same thing.
I recently started to explore quantopian. Do you plan on integrating R lang?
I work a Belgian hosting provider, directly uplinked to our datacenter via Cogent/TINET. The same happened here.

There's no hardware cause, it appears to be a minor chrome update combined with a QUIC server-side update (unconfirmed) that caused issues. As soon as Chrome auto-updates to the next minor release, things appear better (but not fully fixed).

It's entirely in the browser <-> Google server-side, ISPs have nothing to do with this.
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California allows for another person to contact the DMV to suggest that a person of any age needs a reexamination. [0]

[0] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_...
Not necessarily. A common pattern for load balancers is terminating TLS and communicating with backends unencrypted/unauthenticated.
The current rating system is not a running average of how all users ranked the movie, but represents users with similar taste to yours. The same move could show a different rating for different users.
Which they hopefully won't allow to be used for 3d pie charts, but visualizations where being 3D is actually useful.
I think it's a great move. Maybe on a similar note, one of the reasons I really like and find more use out of Foursquare is the way their rating system works compared to the five-star Yelp rating system. For example, in Yelp I found that all "good" restaurants are in the above 4-star rating, and that's all the information I can get out of that rating. With Foursquare, they have turned the upvote/downvote/neutral rating into a number between 1-10 that tells me more. Above average is 7+, something unique about the place 8+, truly exceptional 9+.

It just seems to me it's a simpler way to rate something by a user, and at the same time classify it more adequately.
I would talk fundamentals for a while (basic computer architecture, system resources, how a web browser works) then offer some advice on conducting goal-oriented research (how to research any topic sufficiently in a given time frame).
Not sure the process, but it's possible on YouTube to allow community members to add captions for your videos (after approval by the channel owner); who knows, maybe a few generous folks with some spare time would do the work for you
Regardless of this issue, the QUIC protocol is still fascination and deserves some attention: https://ma.ttias.be/googles-quic-protocol-moving-web-tcp-udp...

This looks like an implementation error, either client or server-side.
Good point.

Is there any leeway to adjust your heading slightly and then correct back?
...And some places have "lighter" snow than others.

I have seen experiments, where you fill a large glass with snow from the alps - and another with snow from the Rockies (US/Canada). When melted, there is only half the water in the glass from the Rockies - which is why it is powder-heaven for snow-freaks (such as myself).

I have no idea about the science - why it is this way.
Yeah I did check them out, the side-toolbar-plugin is really nice, but I figured I would be making too many customisations on it in the long term and would end up replacing it completely. So made one on my own.

Just noticed the issue, thanks for pointing it out!
I tend to get tunnel visioned while working on front-end! :)
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Quick update: I found a way to cut firebase usage back down to $400/mo even with the higher traffic.
I'm curious, how (if at all) do you verify how well your models are performing on the user's data?
The point of a thing matters less than the use of the thing. We've seen truck attacks in Europe kill more people (in a single event) than the largest mass shootings in the US.

Is that an indictment against cars? The whole of your life depends upon the good will of others.
If you have many reviewers, you don't need to get more information than thumbs up or down from each person. How much people thumbed it up is a good indicator.

Star-rating can be too much detail, anyway: if you're comparing two shows, and one has a higher fraction of five-star ratings, but the other has a higher fraction of ratings that are four or above, which is better? Star ratings can be too much detail and cause confusion.

If you want more detail from each person, you can ask specific questions with a yes/no answer, like, "Were parts of it boring?" or "Was it violent?" That's probably better than star ratings.
TLS MITM devices also break required components of TLS, such as TLS client certificates. If you want to have TLS sessions with mutual authentication it can't go through the MITM.

A way forward might be to start requiring TLS client certificates for business products. :-)

For us, we use TLS client certificate authentication to authenticate almost all our users so any TLS MITM breaks that and is unacceptable. This is really common and tens of millions of people use TLS client certificates this way everyday -- mostly with client certificates on smartcards.
> The streaming service said it had been testing thumbs up and down ratings “with hundreds of thousands of members” in 2016 – and it led to 200% more ratings being given.

I don't understand why engagement is the right metric here. If someone isn't sure how they feel about a movie, why is it a benefit to have them spew their half-formed thoughts into a like/dislike rating?
I could be wrong, but I believe automation will change that simply because it will be easier for the corps to provide more services to employees without having to hire/control more people that are not necessary for the corporate city to function. It will also be easier to manage all these people using advanced automation/ai, and make the whole enterprise more profitable.
It might not look like the old school corporate campuses with one corporation controlling everything, but more like cities with high concentration of similar businesses. These corporations usually have so much power in these cities that they basically control them.

Also, when automation starts to really impact most jobs on the market, we can expect that there will be some increase in crime. People will move towards safer areas, and corporations will be happy to provide them.
Same experience here. Math et al are technique oriented at that level. You simply have to practice to get good at it, no way around it. Just like comprehending a jump shot is no substitute for taking hundreds of shots a day if you want to get good at it.
3D plots can useful when the data is intrinsically 3D. But forcing a 3D plot on 2D data, like a pie chart, makes it hard for a viewer to develop an intuition for the data.
Cool to see a project like this open-sourced regardless of it's profitability, fintech/trading is usually such a black box.

Are there any other examples of trading systems like this that are good to read for someone with a passing interest in building simple trading systems?
I use amazon channel instead of Netflix now. I subscribe to channel for a while and watch their content exclusively till I am ready to move on. I am currently watching the excellet Xive Tv channel on amazon [1].

Netflix is waay overhyped for what they actually have in their catalog.

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Video/b?benefitId=xivetv&node...
I've had problems with QUIC in various networks (corp, home) mainly in Singapore for more than a year. Until the point I disable QUIC as one of the first steps when I encounter GMail connectivity problems from Chrome/Chromium on a fresh machine.

I find it odd that QUIC is enabled by default when it apparently has poor fallback capabilities to "non-QUIC" mode.
The UX on their web app may have this issue, but they have different methods for rating across their platforms. Some are easier than others.
All of the major payers have standard interfaces for submitting electronic claims now. The payers aren't a barrier to launching a new EHR.
What I mean is creating sounds programmatically. Representing musical notes and chords in code.
I have found with the current 5 star rating system that anything with less than 4 stars isn't worth watching.

And anything with 5 stars has a 50/50 chance of being worth watching.

So, for me, any simplification is welcome.
I didn't get anything out of this blog-post except a bunch of numbers based on the default parameters (such as leader election timeout) of various systems. Here is the link to the
EPaxos paper it purports to discuss though:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf
From #6:

> In addition to mitigating en route midair collision hazard, SLOP is used to reduce the probability of high-altitude wake turbulence encounters. During periods of low wind velocity aloft, aircraft which are spaced 1000 feet vertically but pass directly overhead in opposite directions can generate wake turbulence which may cause either injury to passengers/crew or undue structural airframe stress. This hazard is an unintended consequence of RVSM vertical spacing reductions which are designed to increase allowable air traffic density. Rates of closure for typical jet aircraft at cruise speed routinely exceed 900 knots.

Seriously, "unintended consequence"? It seems quite obvious in retrospect.
Chain of command and training and logistics are at least as important to a military as rifles.

US hunters constitute a population armed with rifles, not a military.
Maybe I'm missing it because I'm on my phone, but where's the code?
Indeed. RDS saves like 1 day setup. No ongoing difference.
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Don't forget RFC 2818 (HTTPS) which Chromium (and thus Chrome) recently broke mandatory features of: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=308330...
Sorry for the ignorance but :

1- will devices remain backwards compatible with webgl 1 ?

2- will three.js be able to easily update to this version ?
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Compared to rocks, ice is not that dense. You can try yourself: it's easy to pickup a big chunk of ice, even with a shovel, while a similarly sized rock is impossible to lift.
What does this say about their algorithm? Forget UX/UI.

I feel as though this devalues their recommendations to you.
The star system didn't capture that either though
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Of course, you can have all those things and still be slow. Medium.com pages, for example, are pretty bloated for a blog. But perhaps Google is fine with an inaccurate proxy for "fast."
It is my understanding that the motivation in seeking out consensus algorithms with strong leaders (or equivalent) as opposed to horizontally weighted peer-to-peer ones is due to the performance penalty imposed by the latter in the general case. Structuring the protocol to be a dissemination from the 'leader' node down to the followers as opposed to a bottom-up approach fares better when your leader is long-lived, circumventing the cost of determining 'consensus' every single time. It's readily apparent that this would lend to a performance penalty in the pathological case, as is demonstrated here, when the leader node is taken down repeatedly - but I'm skeptical if this is true for workloads that systems like coreos/etcd, cockroachdb/cockroach were intended to handle.
Part of Gnucash uses Guile, principally parts that related to reports. I'm Gnucash user myself, but don't know how large is Gnucash userbase though. Another example is GNU dmd, originally the init system for GNU/Hurd, is also written in Guile.
But if you're using someone else's code to do it, the license still matters.
No dedicated testing team is ever going to beat the developers dogfooding the tool daily. I wish I had access to metrics from stackoverflow et al, to see if Microsoft inhouse developers use Edge
Wow! The creator really knows what he is talking about.
The problem with the Wii U was Nintendo did a very poor job marketing it. There were almost no ads for it and they failed to make the consumer understand what exactly it was.

It was out for about a year before I finally figured out that it was an all new console. I thought it was a wireless tablet add-on for the Wii.
It would be neat if they gave each user a set number super thumbs (obviously with a better name). You can use them so many times per month or year. I think month would be ideal, but if they went with the year route, make it possible to remove your super thumb like to use it on another movie.
It wasn't a true guardian. It was one of those things with a shield, sword and spear. It only shoots a beam when it's low on hp.
Perhaps he realises that other people are doing it too and, as you said, realised the more people who do arbitrage the more it goes away. He could be out to stabilise the bitcoin exchanges as well as provide liquidity to the market.

Perhaps as more people use it, the demand for bitcoins go up also, and since limited supply the price goes up. And he might have substantial holdings of bitcoin he wants to sell. More people trying to find arbitrage opportunities makes it easier to sell his bitcoin which are now higher value.
Lots of assumptions, presumptions, guesses and maybes here, but:

- Netflix's licences to stream shows are presumably for a limited period of time.

- There's only so much money in the pot, and they want to spend it on the renewals and new acquisitions they think mostly likely to retain existing subscribers and attract new ones.

- Sometimes the rights owner may not want to renew Netflix's licence: they may strike an exclusive deal with another platform, or may feel that having the show on Netflix is cannibalising their DVD sales.
Interesting, what would you say are the legal / TOS ramifications of a service like this?