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> We claim we are better.

That's exactly the point made. The US IS better. Better than the Nazis, better than North Vietnam/Vietnam, better than China (and frankly better than all European states during and immediately after WWI/II at least). Better than North Korea. Better than South Africa.

With better I mean "how people are treated", in the human rights, in general, and only as part of government policy.

And yes, I agree. The US has it's downsides. The US has made mistakes. The difference between a mistake and a government policy is the number of times and the scale at which it happens, and the intent. The US has made mistakes, some of which lead to the death of hundreds, even thousands of people. Some of those mistakes involved the military. It was NOT the intent of any significant fraction of the US to make these events happen.

China, Vietnam, and Germany had a widely supported-by-the-people government policy of massacre. Every organisation in those countries is focused and involved in oppressing and massacring people for some reason. Vietnam's CURRENT government made children watch their own parents getting raped, slowly, and killed, then used them as insane soldier-killers sending them into defenseless villages where they brutally murdered everyone they could. This is NOT a one-off. They did this to children for decades.

The difference is indescribable and it is absurd to even compare the two. They are not on the same moral level, they just aren't. We are better than that, it's just that simple.

That's objectively so, and for some reason a lot of people feel the need to destroy historical views like this.

It may not lessen atrocities on the other side, but we should acknowledge the difference between mistakes and popular government-supported genocide.

Equating them does nothing, other than provide cover for these massacres. Hell, the amount of people talking up Chinese policy seems to be mounting every day. And, of course, the situation of people in China gets worse everytime some high up in the Chinese government thinks censorship is good enough that they can get away with something more.

It pains me to point out the obvious: "anti-racism" has become the leading excuse for racism, inequality and state-based massacres.
The backpack is 55x35x20cm (the maximum airlines allow for carry-on) and pretty big compared to regular backpacks https://youtu.be/BOpATs_bX8A?t=1m31s It's expensive, then again "designed for digital nomads" and has accessories.
How much data do you have? You can get 24TB RAM on a server these days.
> It's pretty clear. You are selling in the UK so the revenue would be taxed there.

It's not clear at all. Your warehouse is in the states (or where ever) and the goods are never in the UK.

For all cross-border shipments you have to pay customs tax. Just because somebody saw your product on a co.uk website you have to pay the UK for what exactly?

And as you brought up, there are customs taxes as well as income taxes. Why are these artificial delineations good for business?
And the walls surrounding Constantinople kept the eastern Roman empire going for an extra millennium after the western part fell.
Yes, I know Mint does it and most credit unions offer FinanceWorks. Intuit gets the data from both.
I think the tax should be on profit based on where the users are located not on gross revenue.

This looks more like a capitulation in the fight against various tax evading schemes employed by these companies. Isn't possible to just give a broader EU law that criminalises this kind of schemes?(i.e. draining the profit by various means). I'm sure that as soon as a bunch of executives along with their lawyers are put in jail this madness would stop.
What3words (https://what3words.com/) offers a better solution IMO.
It offers a system to represent coordinate as 3 words and is localized in many languages.
Plywood stuff can last. particleboard on the other hand..
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I'm not sure he's taking that strong a position? It's more like he's saying that if we lowered fees, there might be unwanted side effects, so something might need to be done about that.
Graph on Redis is cool and I get that hexastore is the way to go. Its very different from the Neo4J like graphs where the nodes and edges have properties. Hexastore is more based on the W3C RDF model. What confuses me is then why not have SPARQL as the query language?
sometimes, just being branded "sociopath" or "psychopath" is just another form of abuse or victim-blaming.

The learned abusive-behavior, can also be how they relieve their frustration, and abusers themselves often started out as abuse victims. This is inheritable behavior; unrelated to genetics even.
I don't give a fig about startup survival rates. I care about the fact that they're currently making money by externalizing costs.

Yes, it makes it harder to get into some areas. If that means a net positive for society, I'm surprisingly OK with that. There's no intrinsic reasons why we should care how many companies survive.
I would like to think that more companies would adopt to this model and be more transparent about the departures of their employees, but I also understand why it is a difficult decision for businesses to make these types of announcements. Think about it from the business's perspective. Divulging why someone is leaving could be a potential black eye to the business and there could be unintentional consequences. For example, in the article the author commented about a gap between the person and the role. Being terminated for this reason could spark the question in each and every employee's mind about whether they are performing at their job. The unintentional side effect of the transparency is placing doubt in everyone's mind of if they are good enough for their job. I do, however, think it is an interesting take on the matter. Thank you for sharing.
I know JavaScript is cool and I'm not saying it's not a good idea to try things out and experiment -- it is! But I personally feel an individuals resume/personal site isn't what should stand out. Make it a true static site, lose the bloated JavaScript, add some basic styling and it will do what this site is doing -- maybe do a little more as people will not have to click on things, wait, read, close, click, read, etc. Let your projects speak for your skill set, not a fancy resume.

All the best.
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It's a pretty minor difference, really. Over functions (which is the same as over vectors/matrices, except the latter are taken at discrete points), the autocorrelation and the convolution differ by a sign. The definition of convolution is

conv(x(t), y(t))(q) = integral (x(t)·y(q-t) dt)

where x(t), y(t) are functions. Or, with sums and x, y are vectors

conv(x, y)(q) = sum(over i + j = q+1) of (x(i)·y(j))

whereas the definition of the autocorrelation is "simpler"

ac(x(t), y(t))(q) = int(x(t)·y(t-q))

In other words, it replaces y(t) with y(-t) (i.e., the autocorrelation of x(t) and y(t) is the same as the convolution of x(t) and y(-t)). A similar transformation happens for the discrete case.

Turns out, in the context of learning, these are equivalent since it just corresponds to a relabelling of the indices (which is an invertible linear transformation). In fact, even more strongly, independent of the order of the method (so long as it is >0th order!), this will cause no change in the descent direction or objective value, unlike arbitrary invertible linear transformations (for which this is only true of ≥2nd order methods).
English is likely not the first language of the volunteer who wrote these docs. If you want better documentation, I encourage you to write it yourself.

The project needs all the help it can get.
Not sure if you're aware of http://cityboundsim.com/ ?

They're much further along and it is probably worth combining development resources towards that project instead.
I like the idea of real-time monitoring and info that was suggested. Evacuate temporarily until cooling is back in place and then put sensors around measuring dose rate that you can look at online: "At the current dose rate, a conservative radiation/health model suggests you will die 2.3 days earlier then if you stayed gone."

It'd be a bit complex because some people evacuated to places where the natural dose rate is higher than where their contaminated home was.

FTA:
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"The first thing to realise is that relocation is probably going to be a bad idea," he says, suggesting that nuclear companies start providing real-time health information on the risks of living around their plants. “This is what your loss of life expectancy is from the current level of contamination,” he says. If people realise it would only be a few days, they can make an informed decision to stay.
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To be completely honest, from everything I've seen, I'd love to see the GPDR be copy-pasted into US law and made a part of international treaties. It seems like The Right Thing to do.
Abuse theories aside, this is also consistent with borderline personality disorder. . . (and was a feature in my BPD daughter - who actually is a sweetie when she stays on her meds).
>> More competition is better for the market at a whole,

Hold on...they will be different companies just on the paper...more like Google1, Google2 and Google3.. instead of one big Google.
I think a more realistic (and worrisome) scenario is war brekaing out in South East Asia. Fabs should be clear economic targets for opposing forces. There are a number of conflicts which would likely lead to severe disruption on global semiconductor market.
Would you please not glorify war in this way? This isn't war, it is work - pushing against cultural norms and entropy.
I'm unclear what your point is. Anybody can do a study on their own product, and anybody can lie in a study. The question is to the consumer, how much are we going to trust a particular study?

This is why there are clear rules about putting funding sources in the study, and it seems like the NIH violated this deliberately.
Powerline is a mixed bag in terms of performance and in particular stability. With appropriate adapters (about $175 a pair) you could use other existing wiring, such as a phone line (VDSL2) or coax (MoCA). The fact that these technologies are mostly applied by internet providers doesn't prevent you from creating your private DSL or cable network. Either alternative would work a lot better.
The eastern Roman empire kept going for centuries despite losing Egypt and generally getting their ass kicked by the caliphates, though.
From the interview, the architect of the system says Facebook detected the download of data (50 million users' data might crush smaller companies.) and asked what was going on and he just told them it was for academic purposes so Facebook let it pass. Also when Facebook told them to delete it later, CA said they did but didn't.
Since I host my own website this is really easy. Here's how I did it in 2006,

tailbeep -f /var/log/thttpd.log -t /dev/tty1 -F 3000 -M 100 -s GET

But it's obvious how to adapt this to my modern nginx setup. You can get tailbeep at https://soomka.com/tailbeep
I recommend getting off EBS and switching over to the i3 instance types. AWS pricing for the IOPS is crazy on EBS.
> According to the article this was a 4 lane road, and she was in the furthest lane to the left of the Uber driver.

No, she was turning left from a perpendicular street, from the leftmost lane in her original direction of travel into the rightmost lane in the new direction of travel. Pop

> The Uber driver was in furthest right lane, with a left turn signal on, preparing to change lanes.

The last part is a disputed claim, per the article.

> So, she cut across two lanes to crash into oncoming traffic

I'm not sure how you figure that; she ran into crossing (not oncoming) traffic, and I don't see any way of counting where it works out to cutting across two lanes.

> I'm not sure of the Pittsburgh driving laws, but generally you're supposed to get into your left-most lane before taking a left.

She was making a left turn from the leftmost lane; that's not in dispute.

> I don't think she has a hope in court

I don't either, but that's because making a car making a left into crossing traffic, unless the crossing traffic is violating a control (stop sign, signal, etc.) or speeding, is almost always at fault because of right-of-way
Oh come on. Look at the series. You can say what you want but it is extremely biased. It takes about 30 seconds for it to call the war a mistake, and it doesn't get better from there.
> Pity is a mammal thing.

So is violence. It is vastly more likely that it will be benign, possibly opting to leave Earth given the chance. It might destroy us unintentionally (consume our resources, our star, take your pick), but the Terminator doomsday scenario is far sillier than pity. Some of the most intelligent humans today are empathetic, either through science or through philanthropy. A causation has not been investigated, but there is a correlation.
Profit is very easy to alter. Gross revenue is not.
discrete convolution is just dot product. in 2d it's elementwise matrix multiplication.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/YDusp.png

don't worry about continuous convolutions
Tail recursion is a bad idea in multicore land. You end up with a one sided tree structure that can't be parallel processed.
This is exactly my observation as well. You know the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? It’s like that but can happen in 3 degrees or less, and almost any crazy subject.
A favorite moment of mine was telling a flat-earther about the hollow earth theory. The look on his face was priceless.
What I want is to share useful information with people who have largely been failed by conventional medicine and also somehow pay my bills. I have literally given away information for free for years. I have also been very poor for years. These two facts are not unrelated.

Doctors are not somehow above having a conflict of interest. One cancer doctor* went to prison for his heinous treatment of patients for personal profit, some of whom never actually had cancer.

This isn't some problem unique to me or unique to people who aren't medical professionals. The entire health industry has a problem here.

Also, that's a personal attack and violates HN guidelines.

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/10/cancer...
The symmetry is mostly an effect of 'natural' images not favoring a specific axis (i.e., vertical vs horizontal lines are still distinguished as the same 'type' of lines, in some sense).

Another way of seeing why the symmetry emerges is that mirroring the image over an axis shouldn't change the edges you observe (this is the case for the edge detection). So, mirroring the underlying image shouldn't change the operation we wish to apply to detect edges.
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I think a bunch of sources would add a lot to your comment. :)
Ifixit has plenty of repair information for non-computing devices! They host the most complete set of repair manuals for the Mercedes W123 for example.

Here’s washing machines: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Washing_Machine
I thought the long-term evacuation areas were determined by measured radiation exposure?

http://fukushimaontheglobe.com/the_earthquake_and_the_nuclea...

According to the Ministry of the Environment, radiation levels on the road peak at 14.7 microsieverts per hour, and average 3.5 microsieverts per hour. Officials conducted a test in which a car was driven at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour for about 42 kilometers through the no-entry zone, including the opened stretch between Futaba and Tomioka. It recorded a radiation level of 1.2 microsieverts, and very little radioactive material stuck to the car. Based on the results, the government gave the OK to reopen the 14-kilometer stretch, but only to automobiles, not bikes or pedestrians

Though even in areas that have had evacuation orders lifted, residents have been (understandably) reluctant to return:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2125805-a-nuclear-ghost...
Disclaimer: I do content marketing consulting and used to own an agency that did same.

Don't think of it as a blog. See it as your own media platform. Whose only purpose is to broadcast information that drives sales.

It is also an always-ready salesperson who never sleeps and can be trained to overcome any objection to close sales.

A properly managed blog is definitely worth your time. However, the content must be clearly integrated with your marketing and advertising.

The best type of content? Anything that helps current users better use your product. Tutorials, guides, docs, videos, etc. The second best is content that shows how your product solves a specific problem.

You don't need to limit yourself to one blog either. A multi-outlet approach works really well and typically helps corner a market.
Those are self-tapping screws.

In the old days, items of wood would suffer from the same issue when disassembled, although it was then much easier to fill the hole with putty and redrill.

With plastic, I suppose you could use epoxy to fill the hole.
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The lower margin businesses will raise prices, and higher margin businesses will be forced to lower prices long term as people will have less money it's not a problem.
Taxing profits encourages all kinds of undesirable behavior: buying expensive company cars, conferences in exotic locations, other perks because you get a huge discount (tax deduction) on them.

I would argue it's immoral because you're taxing both efficiency and honesty. There is no reason that out of two companies producing the same thing you tax the one being more prudent with their expenses more. Tax pollution, land, access to local work force or revenue. You can just raise personal income tax as well. They are all better and more just taxes than loop sided incentive wise tax on profit.
This should shock no one. Health wise, alcohol is bad for you. Period. However the potential decrease in loneliness and potential resulting friendships may negate the health negatives somewhat. However the increased likelihood of injuring yourself and/or others with too much consumption may negate that, and so forth.

This is exactly why it's difficult to properly control for the supposed moderate drinking that's "healthy". Sooo many ways to explain why "moderate" drinkers are healthier:

1. Maybe they're a self selected group of people who can properly moderate usage of something that's bad in order to get the benefits, in this case, friendships and social activity.

2. Maybe drinking is bad and moderate drinkers know it. Therefore moderate drinkers intentionally moderate their drinking and overcompensate in other miscellaneous healthy activity.

etc etc etc
Yeah, clean money has some extra value.
> If you never engage with the ads there is no information leakage.

But what if you do?
But he also said that his condition was somewhat overcome via "learned behavior". Depending on how you look at it, that's a layman's "plasticity". (the neuroscience term meaning something specific - the layman's term simply referring to the question of whether "people can change"). At the root of it is: does this person WANT to change? In TFA's case, he went from a state of either not being aware he had a problem, or not caring enough to want to change - to a state of wanting to change (and having the motivation and self discipline to overcome his impulses, and methodically role-play genuine feelings. What's at the root of this "want"? Fear of going to prison? Appreciation for his privileged position and overall success in life? How is that fundamentally different from a "Normal" person. And was his change a result of post-pubescent plasticity? Or is this neuroscientist getting dualist on us?
> The government does.

And to extend that reasoning, the public does. We need to fund these things, which means paying taxes.
The same could be said about smoking. Bad for you without a doubt, but the social aspects are undeniably attractive (and I don’t mean looking cool, but having reasons to take and socialize during breaks). It made giving it up that much tougher.
Screen protectors?
I'm not sure. I can't do a squat with proper form. And I have reason to want to do one, for barbell lifts.

I'm working on unloaded squats now. I can get down comfortably with my heels on the ground. But, my back isn't great, it rounds.

Whereas I can easily get off the ground cross legged, as I've been doing that motion sonce childhood. Squatting, I only tried a few years ago.
This is a very common way to tune a violin but only works if you have a good reference source or excellent pitch.
You missed the entire point.

How do you guarantee that the SaaS you chose is enforcing the privacy of the data you're paying them to process?
It is certainly a good strategy to over provision to achieve performance and reduce cost. We recommend it. Wrote a blog on it a while back which is here - https://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/is-it-possible-to-use-ebs-g...
>The cheaper model isn’t much of a danger if stolen—unless it’s stolen prior to setup—but at 4″x 4″x 2″, the unlimited model could be pocketed fairly easily, along with its token, if stored nearby. Once off-site, it would continue to work. Such a device could fetch a high price on the black market, giving thieves the ability to unlock and resell stolen phones, as well as access to the high-value data on those phones.

If this gets stolen and put on the black market, that would be a good thing. Because then Apple can buy one, figure out what vulnerabilities it's using, and patch them.
Do they every provide lecture videos or audio, assuming I didn’t miss it browsing the pages?
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And where do you think money for corporate tax on profits come from?
>Luckily, I've been able to develop enough coping techniques to at least take care of myself.

I haven't unfortunately. Oh I've tried, in spurts and bursts, but I can never seem to make it stick. I always go back to that immediate reward cycle. It's really frustrating but I often feel simply incapable. I think it's co-morbid with an internet/computer/gaming addiction, which sucks because this is my job and hobby as well, but it's hard to pull myself away and do "maintenance tasks" as I call them.
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This strikes a chord with me. I do the same with the hacker news posts. Every time, I open quite a few tabs with every intention of reading them. However, due to time constraints, I don't. Eventually I just "onetab"(firefox addon) them. This fear of missing out on information that might be valuable is troubling me a bit.
They let you know by saying things like "For the love of God don't leave the soldering iron on" or "Jesus Christ you ruined our table".
Isn’t harvesting data prohibited by Facebook TOS? (Not to say that people don’t still do it). Also, could you elaborate on what kind of data you get access to by doing this data harvesting versus just using Facebook targeting data that Facebook explicitly gives advertisers access to? I’m curious because fb gives a lot of targeting criteria, so I’m wondering what kinds of things this harvesting unlocks. Sentiment analysis on post language or something?
> I am very leery of medical advice where I know doctors are basically there to prescribe drugs and surgeries when I know from experience I can get better results from diet and lifestyle.

That sounds almost like a false dichotomy. I don’t think any decent doctor would exclude diet and lifestyle in regards to health. And neither should the patient. But I can’t help but wonder how often a patient gives up that kind of information. Does a person suffering from obesity and related symptoms disclose the fact they drink a 2-liter of carbonated sugar water a day? And since diet and lifestyle is not in the doctor’s control, what else can a doctor do? Best to get a referral to a dietician I guess.