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AJ used to have some of the best reporting around. Now, the desires of their owners outweigh accurate reporting.
I spent 5.7 years homeless. I have also had a college class on homelessness.

This is not a problem readily solved by throwing money at it. This is a people problem and it is quite complex.

Most people on the street have very serious, intractable personal problems, such as medical issues, mental health issues, addiction and/or various barriers to employment.

I have read articles where they put a homeless person in housing and the individual set it on fire. You don't solve such problems by just sticking them in housing.

We don't have a slam dunk guaranteed solution for addiction. Even when someone very much wants off the drugs, they don't always succeed because we don't really know how to fix it. A lot of medical and mental health issues are similarly intractable.

One thing that would help: more market based low cost housing. Another thing that would help: more flexible earning opportunities for people with barriers to regular employment.

Pursuing a flexible earned income via the internet was one piece of the puzzle for getting myself back into housing. I am trying to design a program to help other people who need flexible earning opportunities access the same, whether they are currently homeless or simply at risk (however, I am in the US, not Europe). I also am doing research to try to come up with some solutions for providing market based low cost housing in the US.

Those things won't solve homelessness, but I think they can make a meaningful dent. I don't like the trends we are seeing and I don't think we should simply accept them. But it is, in fact, a challenging problem space, not mere lack of willingness to throw money at the problem.
Since I'm looking at what I assume are ASCII characters, I just typed this into the console:

"We're not the same​ text, even though we look the same.".split("").forEach(function(c, i){ if(c.charCodeAt(0) > 127) {console.log("Danger: weird character detected: code " + c.charCodeAt(0) + " at index " + i);} });
Good luck! We can all do this. Create and create and you will eventually catch up with your taste.

I have a personal theory that unhappiness is due to too much consumption, not enough personal creation. Even if it just a sketchnote or a doodle... that is enough.

> Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this.

> We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

-Ira Glass

Video version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE

https://youtu.be/E1oZhEIrer4
OK, my "have you tried not being addicted to heroin" sounded stupid. Let me rephrase: "Have you tried not living a life that's so sad that heroin actually seems like a good idea?"

It works for nonhumans, too: https://imgur.com/gallery/PR9DJ
Thank you. Now can I be voted back up please? I don't make a point of posting bollocks.
In the same spirit, I find http://inspirobot.me to be quite funny. Click "generate ".

A collection: https://www.instagram.com/inspirobotquotes/
Pot will make you turn into a zombie and kill people. One of the biggest flaws of the drug war was the inclusion of pot as an equally dangerous drug as heroin. Once people smoked pot and realized it was a big fucking lie, the warnings against much more dangerous drugs went unheeded.
Mind blown, so simple now that you explained it but boy did it never occur to me. Thanks!
You spend too much time on the computer.
I don't know. If someone wanted to upload a 100-year-old Steam Boat Willie video to YouTube, they shouldn't be sued for describing the video accurately. That is, describing the contents of the video as "Mickey Mouse" is accurate, not unfairly leveraging trademarks to confuse consumers. We shouldn't have to relabel the video Whistle Mouse Drives A Boat.
This seems like more of an appeal to not eat beef, than about the relative merits of cycling and driving. In my case, I eat mostly foods from the bottom of that carbon footprint table, which is a factor of 10 reduction.
Because:
1) people post positive news, but not negative ones;
2) you follow many people.

Imagine you have 365 friends. Let’s say each friend has about 5 amazing days per year, but the rest 360 days are pretty dismal. If we assume that each friend will only post about amazing days, that means that your social media feed, on average, every single day of the year, will look like a non-stop barrage of 5 posts describing 1 amazing thing that happened to a friend.
Because everyone is. I quit Facebook for a year or two, trying to get people to email or WhatsApp or whatever. didn't work. So I lived with people closer to me reaching out to my SO through Facebook, or sending messages in another way. I eventually made an account again because there were instances where an alternative solution was too much of a pita. So I now check every other week, respond to messages when I have time, and ignore the rest. I think I've posted one thing in the past year.

Still trying to get people to contact me through WhatsApp or signal, which works really well for the NL (>95% have wa), but not so much for international friends. I mostly don't get the drive, the need to post mundane things on there. I just can't get myself to believe anyone will care that I took a picture of me eating lunch, or whatever.
The PD-100 made by Prox Dynamics is a modern reconnaissance drone which is close to the insectothopter in size. It's pretty cool to watch in real flight, as it is very difficult to notice when hovering just a few meters above you.

http://www.proxdynamics.com/home
Sort of like the way the recording industry handles covers. But that works in part because it’s relatively easy to work out a generic rate for a single recording. It would be harder for more general cases.
How do you do a for loop in Erlang or something that sums up a value ?
Matt does a great job of explaining some of the concepts around precision medicine. He also talks about the need for computer scientists to study biology, and the effect it has on field progress.
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https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251758/why-is-stack...
Most journalists don't have a technical background and don't know how Unicode works. Plus round-tripping through 7bit ASCII is lossy to characters you may want to keep (accented loanwords / names, non-english text) and doesnt prevent all the attacks in the article (providing text with slightly different spellings / word orders / etc). 7bit ASCII also has invisible control characters of its own in the 0x0 - 0xF1 range...
The (disruptive) power of Silicon Valley stems mainly from investors. Make a pile of money high enough, and you can disrupt anything; that's the premise, basically.

It is not really the power of tech that we should be worried about, but instead the power of investment without regard for anything other than shareholder returns. Google and Facebook could be better companies if they didn't have to sell their users to their real customers.
Not all of them, but:

Someone must try to live forever.
What are you waiting for?

is a doozy!
The title is misleading, because this experiment start in late 2016. Sure, they plan to run for 12 years, but right now it's more like a 14-month experiment. Even when the experiment is over, it will have been done on a very small sample. In the dozens, and some will surely drop out.

Slightly misleading headline aside, I'm glad the experiment is being done, since international aid had a lot of problems. The promise of UBI is that you don't need huge bureaucratic infrastructure to help lots of people. Maybe all you need is a payment system. Direct cash can put more resources in the hands of the beneficiaries, and less in the hands of aid organizations that exist primarily to persist.[0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...
I often point out that exactly because of this, it's a red flag for me when I see a CS paper that relies on maths - it often indicates handwaving and missing details that would be a lot more obvious in code to the extent that I've learned to expect that if the paper is full of maths, chances are it will be a long, arduous process to try to reconstruct what the paper is actually doing. Often it extends to missing out essential details, such as values of important constants and the like.
There needs to be a push for a nominal fee (even if it's one dollar every ten years). This would allow the big companies to have their copyrights as long as they want (which isn't okay but good luck with that), while putting 99% of copyrights in the public domain.
Ali Rahimi's NIPS 2017 Test of Time award talk.

"Artificial intelligence is not like electricity (quoting Andrew Ng), but alchemy"

https://youtu.be/Qi1Yry33TQE
It's easy at low scale. It breaks down hard with dozens of services +.
Additional factors are distance and climate, for instance compared to the cities in northern Europe that are famous for bike use. Most of the US gets hotter and colder than those cities, and we have social customs that discourage being sweaty when you arrive at work. Also, our typical commuting distances are longer. When people in Amsterdam have commutes longer than a few miles, they park their bikes at the nearest train station, and ride the train into town.

Thus the "infrastructure" could include public transportation. In my spouse's case, public transit encouraged her to ride her bike because it provides an alternative on days when it's too crappy to ride.
A pretty pithy response would be that any time you're deploying new software to your production environment, you're testing against real customers. While you should have comprehensive pre-production testing, there's no good substitute for making sure the thing going into Prod is working by running tests when it is in Prod.

Looking at her list of production tests, her list generally falls into 3 categories:

* instrumentation of code for observability
* staged rollout of new software to observe issues on a subset of traffic/hosts against the rest of Prod
* simulating failures in Prod to test against possible random failure scenarios

Of those, the first should have zero impact on your customers, the second should be making your customer experience better by reducing the blast radius of a bad deployment, and the third should be making your service more resilient to failures over time for your customers. Would you rather find out that you can't survive an availability zone outage when you can easily return that AZ back to healthy in a minute, or when you have to wait for recovery for an hour? Honestly I think its disrespectful to your customers to gamble on what might happen in the future rather than asserting that your service can handle the wide array of known failures that can happen in this world.
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Wait. Did anyone run a long term empirical study of how giving tax cuts to the 0.1% of income earners would benefit the bottom 99% before enacting regressive taxation policies? No? Then why the F must we devote so much energy to justifying giving every day humans basic services. I think that we just need to get over and be done with the propaganda of the oligarchs.
To repeat myself from above, it isn't certain that the copyright in a typographical arrangement is infringed by purely copying the textual content without reproducing the typographical arrangement, so your original assertion may not be true.

(I didn't downvote you, FWIW.)
Except "fighting" means attacking your enemy. It doesn't mean targeting civilians. It's usually quite easy to tell terrorists from freedom fighters: Look at their targets. Military/government targets--freedom fighters. Civilian targets--terrorists. Dual-use targets are considered military for this purpose. Mistakes and malfunctions don't count--what counts is what the person who picked the target believed to be in the area of effect.

There are very few cases where this doesn't provide a clear answer. (Although occasionally politicians get it wrong--the USS Cole bombing was not terrorism.)
Hey dotmanish, in short, there's some research I want to do and people I want to consult before making that public. If you're interested, you can email at yahn007 at gmail dot com and we can chat.
In the past, I've used it in order to ensure the variable has a legitimate value. So, something like this (pseudo code):

fn foo(a):
a = a |> trim |> (default "chocolate")
mix a "milk"

Well, in this contrived example, I wouldn't reassign a, just tack on `|> (mix "milk")` but in a complex example where you're reusing `a` in several places, it can make sense and is nicer than having to declare a bunch of variables just to hold the sanitized values of arguments.
This seems important.
He's a psychology professor, formerly at Harvard now at UoT. He knows about IQ, and he's not far right.

You should convert some of that politically biased
'skepticism' into dispassionate inquiry.
Absolutely. We have several front end layers, then nested service layers and then nested repo layers, all get mocked depending on the level of object we are testing. We then have separate integration tests that test the repo against an actual database. We design the integration tests so they are largely data independent (we load the data we test rather than just mock data).
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When exactly is this new GC behavior useful? When forking processes? Is it something we'd see used in the multiprocessing or concurrent modules?
Microsoft Word still has the correct word count.

Using the Option-Right Arrow to move through the text a word at a time has a problem though. The cursor appears to gets stuck at that point, and MS Word shows the font changing.
> What you say is true for Proof-of-work: The more capital-intensive mining is, the harder the network is to attack.

Well I did say "It takes a certain amount of money $X to control 51% of a POW network." Not sure why there is an argument around PoS.

Did you mean PoS in your last sentence?

It isn't clear to me that PoS is much different, in the sense that you can imagine attacking the network by gaining a larger stake, enough to be "calling the shots on the truth" (ie silencing other stakeholders). There are other comments along these lines so I won't repeat the arguments here.
"All that is needed to start a movement is sexuality and a fiddle."

Sounds legit to me. :)
I'm sorry, but this comment is just beautiful
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A predictable emergent behavior of basic income would be to fix housing by itself. $1000/month is not enough to live in many cities, but it's more than enough to live very comfortably in less developed areas. That opens up some really cool entrepreneurial ideas on a lot of levels. For instance if you can get together a team interested in working on a startup, then that team could sustain itself indefinitely if they will willing to locate to a more rural area. This, in turn, would also help develop the economies of these areas with the startups that succeed.

There are even some big scale ideas here. Get just 10,000 people together and that income is $10million/month. If these people were willing to contribute and work together, they could actually begin to build their own new areas from the ground up given nothing more than basic land. Ideally I think the perfect value for a basic income would be enough to provide the bare essentials of housing and sustenance in the areas of the US with lower living expenses.

The one condition of basic income would need to be citizenship by birth to two parents who were also citizens of birth. If somebody immigrates to the nation, their grandchildren can participate in the program. This removes any incentive for social program targeted migration, or to try to give birth just within the borders. Furthermore, basic income would enable us to remove many current social programs, which provide such incentives to a lesser degree, as they would become redundant.
7b ASCII is so passé that “roundtripping” through it would be very naïve.
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> 1488 types

whats that?
I’ll assume you’re right as I have no knowledge in this area. My suggestion was just how I would handle the question in an interview.
I don't see any reference to removing reviews as implied by your subject line. Am I missing something?

As far as I can tell, the change will make it less convenient for people who post reviews to look at their own reviews.
You don’t want them in America anyway because their religion is largely incompatible with western ideals and culture. Their treatment of women, lgbt groups, free speech, for example are conflict with a harmonious western society.

People don’t hate them for believing in their religion, the problem is that they believe in a religion that openly calls for the death of cartoonists, gays and jews or anyone that insults it. If you are one religion that interferes with other people’s ability to practice their faith then that one religion is the problem.
That's quite interesting, but I wonder if cars in garages could skew the data. Garages and garage size affect what cars can be kept in a garage (e.g., extended cab pickups might not fit), and also might be correlated to geography and affluence.
Libraries and archives are sometimes copyright maximalists in some areas, particularly those that would confer rights upon them: like finding copyright in a scan of a public domain object.

It's far from settled that that's the case, though.

As for typesetting, I'm not sure if it's treatment in the US, but it's not out of the question that it could be protected. For works this recent though, someone finding an original edition (whose copyright would have also lapsed) would not be difficult in most cases even if necessary.
I don't know what your point is, other than that you can generalize or cannot?

And the two points are not the same. Asia is predominantly one ethnic group (Han) and 1.2 million speak Chinese. Also, due to climate and culture from being a society for over 5000 years, the food is roughly the same.

Also, there are genuine morphological differences that set most Asian people apart. People generally gravitate towards people who look like them.

There are genuine differences between the biology of men and women.

Europeans are a huge mixed bag. Danish people look nothing like Greece people, and Polish people look nothing like Italians, and many of their languages come from different roots, with completely different cultures. Unjustified generalizations such as lumping all Europeans together ignores the huge difference between them. Also, the statement itself is odd - are they nice to racist European but mean to racist South Americans?
Hey pronoiac,

Appreciate the feedback.

To give some context: GigaDiff started as an improvement on "diff" -- almost a diff++ -- in that it would show users which lines changing are associated with bugs in JIRA and occur in stack traces, have been marked as technical debt, or violate linting issues.

But the reason I got all that data together was to use it as signals for ML to detect bugs.

A rebrand in the future is possible. I'm not even sure where I'm going with this project just yet.

Thanks!
For a little more context, this post explains what can OpenTracing do for you.

https://medium.com/opentracing/distributed-tracing-in-10-min...
I'd love to use this if it works with Piwik.
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No, she's a he. Emily is a curiously common name among autogynephiles.

And to those who are about to scold me for having the bad taste to call someone by their biological sex, as you have been conditioned to do, let me say this: if you wish to indulge his paraphilia, that's your ill-advised prerogative, but don't demand the same foolishness from everyone else.
you'll be short of electrolytes which is known as hyponatremia

The endurance scene is full of people banging on about hyponatremia but I'll wager 1000 people have gotten dehydrated trying to avoid it for every 1 that was affected.
JavaScript Function.prototype.apply
I wonder how much code out there uses apply without realizing arguments size/length can cause a stack overflow.
ASCII-friendly alternatives for invisible fingerprinting:

- replace quotation marks with two apostrophes

- replace “I” with “l”

- replace parentheses with slashes or square brackets

- replace commas with semicolons

Each of these substitutions can communicate a single bit while being ASCII-safe and likely won’t change word wrapping opposed to synonyms.
In a similar vein, this is one of the most amusing use of Markov chains IMO: It is trained on the King James Bible and several Computer science textbooks:

http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/

So you get some gold like:

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory."
Personally, Kona Airport in Hawaii is by far the nicest airport I've been to.

In general I agree with you though.
In-place editing gets safer in perl 5.28
The money doesn't do it alone. You can't have technological disruption without technology.
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Telegraphs didn't have dopamine feedback loops via feedback such as "likes".
Blacklisting their IP address would be my guess.