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> Only the people who get attacked don't have any guns, and > they get fucked up.

If you fail to take regular firearm training, combat training or to acquire the necessary mindset for a gunfight under live threat, then you are even more fucked if you try to use that gun you are carrying to make you feel safer...
Why: because of the financialization of housing.

Why accept it? Westerners don't understand how their economies work to pass surplus value to the non-productive.
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Project: Monitoring cheap weekend and midweek flights from the UK to Europe and sending e-mail alerts to subscribers. You can check it out at https://citybreakflights.com
Well, the law they're referring to states that rather than just conserving energy and mass you also can't have a process that lowers entropy. Although it's unclear how this is relevant because, if anything, converting kinetic energy to light increases entropy, or at the very least doesn't decrease it.
My brother live in frankfurt and even in the worst part in the city, with people injecting heroin in the street, you never get even bothered by anybody.

In France you hear about guns, but I lived in 8 different cities there, and I never been near any gun attack. None of my friends or relatives either.

If you have gun here, people look at you in a strange way.

Everytime me or my bro got in trouble, it was fist fighting. I got a knife once. Some of my friends got messed up. Fist again. In france, the UK, germany, Italy and spain.

I don't say there are no guns. I'm saying that it's not even of the same scale of occurrences than in the US.
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Paris is also good if you're into smog. +1 for Berlin.
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I'm building a quick feedback/correction web app for stuff you write. I'm also building a nap/meditation app that tracks your heart rate.

Both projects are built with React, with a side goal of staying up to date on the latest developments there.
There is a slight nuance with this when it comes to support - support often doesn't have the ability to satisfy all customer wants, and sometimes what the customer wants is outside of the supported use cases or the scope of support.

For the topic at hand (Garadget), the rep was absolutely out of line; I don't know if this was a policy they were enforcing or just a bad day, but I've been called worse than that by my customers even on good days, and it should just roll off you at this point.

But, always trying to please the customer has a nasty effect of backfiring a lot of the time, since sometimes pleasing them means getting into support situations that are untenable.

Respect? Absolutely - usually customers are smart, and as long as you are reasonable and respectful, so are they. But aiming to please gets people into a bad mindset of not being able to deliver bad news or establish policy.

Edit: corrected spelling mistake.
A Lissajous figure is what you get when both the X and Y positions of the beam (or virtual beam) are controlled by sinusoidal oscillators. This is using the same XY mode on the oscilloscope as used for drawing Lissajous figures but it's not a Lissajous figure itself.
Thanks for your support. The data is stored in a sqlite3 database. The next two big features will be network awareness (that is, you can have multiple databases sync with eachothers) and custom data fields where I was planning doing something like http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql to get a fully customable configurations.
Mexican gun control laws are far stricter than anything in Europe. You can get years in prison for even a single unauthorized bullet.

Mexico is a case study of how gun control can lead to an increase in danger for the population. Gun control can be nice in "civilized" places, but in Mexico, even the police are on the take. Justice in Mexico consists of avoiding the "Justice System" at all costs.

I lived a year in Chapala and even there we had cartel shootouts where police were among the bad guys. If you are a potential victim of violence, the police are the last people you'd usually call. It's often every man for himself -- so that results in nearly every house having high walls, razor wire fences, bars on every window, "alarm dogs" on rooftops.

My wife if from Guadalajara and we spend a lot of time there but it isn't Texas. In Texas, a home invasion is often met by a bullet from the homeowner, in Mexico you just better hope your wall is harder to climb than your neighbor's.

That being said, Mexico IS a great place -- but it's great because of the culture and people -- the government on the other hand, is a disgrace. The odds of it every changing are slim to none because part of Hispanic culture is a sense of fatalism and "it's God's will" kind of thinking. Mexican Catholism bears a huge blame -- there's a conditioned helplessness. Not to mention the cartels are among the Church's biggest benefactors! This isn't the thinking necessarily among the more cosmopolitan Mexicans, but that represents a minuscule minority. However, even among the educated, there a overriding sense of pessimism -- starting a business in Mexico is quixotic -- as soon as you get some income, everyone starts chipping away at it trying to get their share.
That's the premise, but it stands up poorly under examination.

Simple, explicit, appealing and emotional arguments and messages beat out complex, tacit, unattractive, and logical ones.

Messages with massive organisation and resources behind them can dominate disorganised or uncentralised attempts to counter them.

Attempting to reput or fact-check specific claims operates relatively poorly.

The consequence has been that many regimes, and philosophers, including those who generally promote free speech, such as John Stuart Mill himself in "On Liberty", put conditions and limitations on the concept:

It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
A cross-platform dual-pane file manager [1]. It made the front page and top 10 on Product Hunt last month. I'm busy implementing feature requests and figuring out a way to grow it sustainably.

[1]: https://fman.io
as they can't get their own.

As I said, it's important that not everybody who might be able to afford monthly rates gets a mortgage, for otherwise you'd get too many defaults, leading to financial instability. And very few tenants rent for the whole duration (typically 25-30 years) of a mortgage.

Finally nobody needs to own their dwelling -- renting is fine. I rented most of my life, and so did German chancellor Merkel.

someone else's mortgage

As I've pointed in previous posts, that's fine, for they provide a valuable service, that can be summarised as a "risk transfer". That needs compensation.

Finally you seem to think that there is a difference between a first and second mortgage: the first being given by magic first-mortgage-fairies out of the goodness of the lender's heart and the second out of sheer greed to oppress people like you. Well, I recommend a quick calculation how much you overpay on the property if you get a first mortgage, vis-a-vis a cash purchase.

forced into renting the ability

For some bizarre reason you (like many others I have discussed this subject with) are unwilling to admit that the price of dwellings whether paid by rent or mortgage repayment, is primarily (indeed almost exclusively) determined by supply/demand; the solution to high prices is to build more. It's almost like there is some deep-seated investment in the status-quo that is needed to stabilise your world-view. I recommend to let go of your deep seated resentment and instead learn about the social function of credit.
At the moment I am working on the next iteration of the secapps market with the intention to make information security testing simpler and more accessible for developers of all kinds.

The last iteration, an appstore-style application, failed to achieve the grand vision, hence why the remodel.

You can find the new work here:

https://market.secapps.com

All tools are free to use with the caveat that in the future there will be some sort of licensing model while still allowing to take advantage of all tools for free as long as not for commercial use.

I hope that helps.
I am building a search engine for a mind map I am working on.

(https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge-map)

I want to make a collaborative mind map where one can see all the knowledge of the world at a glance and be provided with the resources on learning any of the topics there.

I really dislike the black box nature of Google/DuckDuckGo where you first have to know the question before getting an answer. It would be amazing to actually visualise everything and let users explore rather than search and wander around.
Probably correct. And given that you're spending a comparatively small amount of time in that learning phase, would you want it any other way?
For every person like you someone buys in a neighborhood that never gets better. Some get worse. It's not a money train.

I think you are bragging and that you don't understand the wider system, nor where your gains come from.
but won't you have then some criminal record affecting your employment options?

never heard about this in Europe that people would be admitting guilt for something they haven't done
the error rate on cutting is low enough that "it is no longer the issue". CRISPR is not the whole story for any given genetic manipulation project. Here's generally how it works:

1) cut DNA (this is the part that CRISPR does)

2) add replacement DNA

3) kill everything that doesn't have the replacement DNA in there

4) optional: repeat the process to 'clean up' your modification [0]

Basically in the pre-CRISPR era, if you, say, wanted to make a transgenic mouse, you had to take some embryonic mouse stem cells and just add DNA and hope that it found its way into the "right place". If you were adding a totally new gene - usually not a big deal because you kind of don't care where it winds up, shoot first, do your experiment, ask questions later.

If you were knocking out or replacing a gene, (aka specific location addressing) it is a big deal. Suddenly step 3), while necessary, is not sufficient to guarantee successful DNA modification. Furthermore "checking" is really hard, You need to implant the modified stem cell into a mouse embryo, create a chimeric mouse (a mouse that has cells from two genomes), hope to hell that the cell you implanted into the embryo randomly got chosen to turn into an ovary, and then take the children of the mice which should have the gene modification. And then you check the genome of the mice and it turns out that it's all wrong and you have to start from scratch (literally had a friend who unluckily spent the first 5 years of grad school repeating this process about 10 times IIRC). This gets really complicated when step 1) is inefficient, or cuts in the wrong place, or has a spontaneous integration preferentially in the wrong place - you off the bat take a huge hit (a hit on the order of 90%, if you were lucky).

With CRISPR, you basically derisk step 1), pushing the 'hard part' of molecular biology elsewhere. Suddenly your step 3) selections instead of being a low-yield, probabilistic crapshoot, are near-quantitatively correct. Since it's also the first step, suddenly the one or two 'actually hard' parts of molecular biology, like in the case of the mice the complicated process of generating chimerics, etc, can really be tackled head on by sheer numbers much more easily.

[0] in order to do 3) you usually need some extra stuff (resistance genes) that you might not want in your 'final work', so you might have to come up with a second stage to 'clean this up'.

Keep in mind that Church and Mukherjee have not really ever 'been in the trenches' actually doing these things (church was a structural biochemist and later a yeast geneticist - yeast are easy peasy). Their grad students and postdocs have.
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Problem: The process of getting thoughts from your head into an organized, written draft form isn't as fast or accessible as it could be.

Project: I'm building a conversational UI / bot (https://writing.ai) that helps people write faster. The basic idea is that it asks you a series of questions about a topic, asks follow-up questions for more detail as needed, and when it's done outputs a completed draft. You're still providing the content, but the system understands the structure of completed documents and knows what questions to ask to get the actual writing done more easily.

I just quit my job and started working on this full time last week, so no public version yet, but signups are very welcome.
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Interesting. I am using MailChimp for my https://citybreakflights.com project but will keep an eye on this.
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I would prefer software that I use often to be hard to learn but easy to use. Seldom used software should instead be easy to learn, hard to use. I find that most software today is in the latter category.
I've worked retail. Pretty much every place that's worth working at has banned a few customers. Perhaps 1 in 1000 customers will be actively abusive towards other customers or towards employees.

I recall my first boss, who once had a customer push to the front of the line in a crowded shop. The customer rudely demand to be served. My boss was a very proper older southern lady, and she said, "Ma'am, you can also find [this product] at the grocery store across the street, and I encourage you go there." After the woman had stomped out, my boss turned the other customers and said, "Well, she wants us to have a bad day, and we're not going to," and she served the next person in line. I'm told the other customers practically cheered.

Of course, if you had told her that her product was a "piece of shit," she would have disapproved of your language but she would have refunded your money and replaced the product in an instant. She took quality seriously. If you were really rude about it, I suppose she might have "fired" you afterwards, though.

As a boss, you need to set limits about how badly your customers can act before they get (politely) booted. Anything less is inhumane to your employees. But this doesn't mean you should fire a customer over a bad Amazon review.
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I got an offer for a refund + keep the device on a $7 electronic part that I posted a 3 star review on from a fulfillment-by-amazon seller.

I guess handling the return would cost more than the value of the item, and presumably they really don't want a 3 star review.

(I did not accept the offer, that would feel a bit dishonest)
Because it's Thinkpad and it should look like that.
Interesting that AWS didn't chose to place their DC's at the "Node Pole" (http://thenodepole.com) in the northern parts of Sweden where FB have theirs.
Working on Tagly: http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/

Something similar to HN but more advanced. Just finished the roles part.

Now finishing the automatic import of RSS feed ( and adding the appropriate tag immediatly). Then adding "remote Actions" when posting through tags

And then i'll setup something usable. Now it's used as personal bookmarking service.
If you bank $5m today, just wait for the crash in the coming years and buy in once the market has declined 30-40%. Not unrealistic you'll be able to double your money instead of achieving the 7% return.

Your lifestyle will probably not have adjusted to that "new money" anyway, so you can afford to wait.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, and there are still opportunities out there. Whether it's passive (stock market investing) or active (running a business, albeit more relaxed). You do need to enjoy investing and taking charge of your money, though.
Its a welcome change and really should have been done a long time ago. Not only does it create unfair competion into the US market it also allow companies to underpay their employers.
That probably means that it's not rose gold aluminium unibody.
If you have a gun you are not safer. It leads to escalation and more people die. We are not at war, guns are not the solution.
Except they already go >300 miles and take <75 mins to charge to 90%...
Personally I consider charging an "application fee" to be slightly scamy anyway. I remember, many many many years ago, when charging such a fee was unusual and normally done by places I would not want to rent from anyway

If you feel the need to run a background check on your tenants, that should be the cost of doing business

Of course those times changed and one of many reasons I stopped renting...
On the other hand, I think there are really good reasons for co-living beyond saving a bit of money. There's a great community aspect to it as well. On the occasions where I've lived by myself, I've mostly ended up bored and sedentary, whereas in co-living arrangements, there's always people to chat or cook with, hang out, etc.

Of course, I'm still in my late 20s, so take this with a massive grain of salt. But if my salary doubled tomorrow, I still wouldn't give up my flatshare. I don't see myself wanting to leave it for another several years.
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I, along with my co-founder, are working on a shopping platform for furniture and decor seen on the set of movies and TV shows: https://www.seenonset.com

Startups definitely like to deck out their offices with some of the nicer high-end designs. Even Y Combinator's home page image carousel has the likes of the Bertoia Diamond Chair and the Nelson Saucer Pendant Lamp on show! Though a lot of startups go for the replica route - I know Airbnb went with replicas in their Dublin office.

The show Silicon Valley (https://www.seenonset.com/tvshows/174/silicon-valley) is a great example of what we do.
Sorry about being banned, bro.

But I am pleased to hear that Amazon is no longer (always, anyway) blocking access after account termination.
Tons of great information on this thread. The idea that in the year 2017 we are transmitting sensitive data at modem speed technology is somewhat mind boggling. The fax server market is very mature and has evolved, however the transport has not. etherFAX has created the largest ecosystem when it comes to fax and healthcare (https://etherfax.net/solutions/etherfax-sen). etherFAX supports and serves every major fax server application and EMR. Having over 6 million connected endpoints in healthcare allows for end-to-end encrypted transmissions and guaranteed delivery, without traversing the PSTN. The Fax Federation (faxfederation.com) allows for other fax server providers (like Twilio) to join said ecosystem.
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The US housing market is crazy, they creep on their tenants, and make them pay for the creepiness. And then the "background checks" are bullshit anyways because the court records is a mess and nobody has any incentive to keep perfect records (there is no downside to hurting the wrong person).
Slightly OT, but also interesting that the "Node Pole" host their website on AWS...
I'm trying to make a search engine that gives you the opposite of what you search for: this is what I've got so far http://sample-env.wk77znpmqm.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/
there will be always inconsiderate people, even if it's only one out of 20 it's more than enough in big open space and you can't really do anything about it, it's just human nature and it's foolish to expect there won't be person like that in big team

it was same in every open space i worked in those many years, luckily in my last job we had internal messenger and personal communication (at least with our team) was discouraged so i had no problem with headphones to live in my own environment
Since Garadget deliberately and maliciously disabled the device, can the consumer sue for compensation for the time wasted on it?
Slightly concerning to see so much skepticism. I do wonder if it's a personal choice. By being in denial you do not have to make any changes to the way you live.

Locally they wanted to increase recycling. The answer is to provide offical small bins (140l) that are collected only every two weeks, but collect recycling waste weekly. We've gone beyond the carrot and are now using the stick because many people simply do not want to change.
Exactly, those are set mobs designed to fulfil that purpose, not how EQ did it.
You could probably do something like this: https://www.dataminr.com/about/. Actionable alerts for people/businesses interested in the Finnish market.
> Well, he's also offering a refund.

No, he isn't. He suggests returning the device to point of purchase, Amazon, who have no control over this situation.
Every company selling products via the internet in the EU.
>I think it was the first jitting nes emulator.

I'm certain it did not use JIT or any kind of recompilation, I believe it's speed came from not being very accurate and also written in hand optimised assembly.
I keep hearing that I can work anywhere as a developer. I wish employers would get that message. I've had to move to expensive cities not because I want too (the exact opposite actually), but because if I don't I don't get work. Employers in Canada are hostile to remote for the most part, and working for companies outside of this country, you run into a lot of "remote....but not for you"
I am working on a wonderful themes and templates collection site for Semantic-UI: http://semantic-ui-forest.com

We are almost ready to release the first edition, and do some broadcasting to those who may be interested in it.

It may help those who chooses Semantic-UI for building websites.
> I can't believe people are still buying any "cloud powered" crap for their homes

This should be closer to the top :) Sadly many consumers don't understand exactly what they're buying into.
Is there a link to the source or a project page?
...or also because it has a removable battery, a trackpoint and multimedia keys, video and ethernet ports and a docking adapter, and venting to run with the cover closed without overheating.
Thanks for sharing! It seems that computer systems have regressed heavily from decades ago when every keystroke resulted in an instantaneous action, even with hundreds of simultaneous users. I miss those days of simple tui's.
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Interesting data!
I do wonder how this would compare to other countries.
I don't think the best use case for BK-trees is spell-checking and words. The area in which they are used most successfully is image deduplication. In that case the metric you're going to use is some form of perceptual hashing.
Yes - it absolutely can. What matters in the above scenario is the total cash left over after expenses (surplus), not the size of the expenses (expenditure).
That exactly was the first link I clicked, then closed the site not to come back. Privacy is a thing.
> I doubt the guy was going to continue

> We don't know anything else

It's almost like you treat your 'doubt' as a matter of fact, rather than pure opinion.