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>The collective noun for people who will kill rather than obey the law is "terrorists".

No. It isn't.

Terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

You understanding seems to have the subject inverted. It is unlawful for the US government to infringe on the rights of its citizens outlined in the constitution. Such an act by the government would immediately invalidate its authority and any attempt to assert that illegitimate authority would be immediately considered an act of war against the American people. So, from that point on any action taken against the illegitimate government by the American people would in fact be in pursuit of restoring the law.

>One of the conditions for peace in Northern Ireland was that political groups had to disarm in order to enter politics, because you can't do politics with people who are threatening to murder you. That's not a democracy.

Right, that was surrender.

In America, the authority of the law is derived from the people, not the other way around.

It is not just a democracy, it is a well defended one.
CVS is indeed very accurate (97.5-99.6%[1]), but still has a false positive rate of ~1%[2]. But as you noted, CVS has a small risk of miscarriage, and for that reason many couples wouldn't even consider it.

Of course I can't speak for everyone, but I would guess that for most couples the biggest concern is T21 (it is the most common of the three), and the NIPT test is 99% accurate for that. Balancing the risks, and false positive and negative chances of NIPT vs CVS, NIPT seems more valuable to me.

[1] https://patient.info/doctor/chorionic-villus-sampling-pro
[2] Mayo Clinic Complete Book of Pregnancy & Baby’s First Year. Johnson, Robert V., M.D., et al, Ch. 11.
> Assisting in the destruction of Syria and Libya is a fine thing to ignore

Will the US agression ever end? It is sickening.
Does that factor in the cost of healthcare?
guys please read my experience with GCP here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16658339

GCP is not an option for me. Please anyone who has used aws elastic beanstalk share your experience.
If you care about offsetting environmental costs of travelling, etc. consider donating to coolearth.org! About 70$ can offset an average carbon footprint for a whole year I think... It‘s one of the most effective charities against climate change and comes recommended by people such as Will MacAskill and Peter Singer who have founded a movement concerned with effective charity or „doing good better“. https://www.effectivealtruism.org/doing-good-better/
What is a non-military weapon? If you want to have a meaningful discussion, please identify the types of guns you have a problem with, and why, and how you differentiate them from guns you don't have [as much of] a problem with, and how you intend to avoid running afowl (sorry I couldn't resist) of the 2nd amendment.

You think the splash damage of free speech isn't significant? It's less immediate, but more significant. How do you think we got into modern wars like Iraq and Syria if not for media-supported propaganda, i.e. speech?
Yeah definitely (I'm Eric, a co-founder at Kapwing). Julia and I have so many advantages it's crazy. We are really lucky to start out with. I appreciate your feedback and hope you know that we often think about how we can be more cognisant and responsible with who we are.
>A human driver would not be charged with anything for a typical accident like this one (hitting a pedestrian in low light conditions outside of a crosswalk on a high speed road).

It wasn't low light conditions and it isn't a high speed road. It most definitely could be pushed to court in the case of a human driver.
Defending Against Voice Impersonation Attacks on Smartphones (2017) [pdf]
I was thinking more they intentionally installed cheap dashcams so that they can release poor quality videos that would favor their narrative of events and get ahead of the story/blame.
We tried to sell them while I was at Shopify Plus. They laughed at us for "only" charging $2k/month for ecommerce, said they expected to spend way more on an "enterprise" platform. Never ended up replatforming, never found someone expensive or "enterprise" enough (lol).
I think it is because Taleb uses hard statistics to make counter arguments. A pop rationalist will tell us how things have become awesomely awesome over last few hundred years.
I wish that someone would just do this. Signal could have been great but the usability is crap in comparison to Telegram
There were always people that left the USSR and came over to the West and told the truth about what conditions were really like there. People mostly chose to believe those stories or not, based on their own ideological bias.

Hollywood put out several productions that proclaimed the USSR was a paradise. [1][2]

US and European industrialists had gone over to the USSR pre-WW2 and helped them build out their industrial base. The Soviets had entirely failed at industrializing on their own. From those experiences, and people writing about them, it was fairly well known what general condition the USSR was actually in economically. Firm, reliable metrics however were largely unavailable throughout the Soviet era.

The fooling of the West, regarding the Soviet's mighty materialism output, mostly fell apart by the 1960s (the facade lasted for ~30 years or so, and mostly only for people that were sympathetic to that ideology).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Russia
Hallelujah.
"Just Read"
If a lyrebird is mimicking a chainsaw or truck, wouldn't that indicate the presence of those chainsaws and trucks?
socialist /= communist.
It's not just about "liberal opinions", though, is it? Guns are undeniably a public health issue, with 30,000 "death by firearms" in the USA each year, it's on the same level as traffic fatalities and slightly below the opioid deaths. When you have a category of devices responsible for 30,000 deaths, we move beyond mere opinions, mere he said/she said, into a moral territory where it is incumbent on those in power to do something.

Would you fault Google for removing videos promoting unsafe driving practices that endanger lives, or promotional materials
or sponsored videos or ads for cigarette brands, or videos demonstrating the means by which fentanyl can be mixed in with heroin? I'm not saying these are perfect analogies, but rather where do we expect massive companies to draw the line when it comes to distributing potentially harmful content?

Does SV/Google have the right answer to reduce gun deaths? I don't know, but do I fault them for trying something when deaths are occurring minute by minute? Certainly not, something must be done to curb the tragic number of deaths we are shrugging off.
Yeah, that's why I say it's hard to get a read on it. There's also plenty of people claiming that they were crucial to the effort.

This article seems pretty clear headed and makes the Nix quote sound like a sales pitch:

https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-rea...
They're putting away money for retirement.

Because they are currently living on not a whole lot, they are not going to need a whole lot in retirement either, because they will be accustomed to having less money.

Before you get all uppity about healthcare costs, just remember there is only one developed country on the entire planet where anyone would even think about that. They don't live in it.

As a reference point, I was reading a very detailed write-up of what a single person would spend in retirement per year, and it was more than double what I was living on working full-time as a Software Engineer.
Great, but every content platform has rules and censorship. The term doesn't mean much in that context.

A private platform saying "You cannot say whatever you want on my microphone" is not censorship in any meaningful sense when you are free to pick up your own microphone.

No one says you have a right to the users on a specific platform. I can't go on CNN and start ranting, so why should I be able to say anything I want with Youtube not able to moderate the content?

It doesn't make sense. You cannot force private platforms to accept views against their economic interests and call that freedom.

If someone says you will go to jail for saying something, that is censorship.
Ruling a country and an army could be pretty attractive to some.
I think this is the right popular opinion.
They, and you, and all of us, are allowed to discriminate, and we do so all the time.

However, we have made laws that prohibit certain kinds of discrimination against "protected classes", e.g. based on sex and race.

Being an advocate of gun rights is not a protected class.
You can find the policies and procedures around data collection at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

FYI, I work at Mozilla but don't speak for Mozilla.
> Not that it was necessarily solely CF's fault

In the year 2000 ColdFusion was a good choice, so I would not fault them for that.

PHP because the better choice around 2004.

Interestingly Amazon is/was written in C++, which was a very unusual choice.
>2. Start blathering about Hillary's emails, as if that were somehow important.

I am really tired of this twisted version of the relative privation fallacy.

Trump is worse != Hillary was good

Her email situation was, in fact, an issue. Worse than Trump? Absolutely not. But even in context it doesn't belong in "as if that were somehow important" territory. Under normal circumstances (had she been elected) we'd probably still be talking about it.
Is that common? My impression is that most people are basically worried that lack of net neutrality regulation means they might eventually get charged more for Netflix.
California's self-driving car rules are essentially what Google asked for. Google/Waymo is fine with that; they have had lots of self driving cars running around Mountain View for years. The main California requirements are that the manufacturer takes total financial responsibility, has to file accident and disconnect reports, and can't use the technology commercially under a test license. Uber violated that last condition in San Francisco, and CA DMV revoked their vehicle licenses.

So Uber moved to Arizona, where they could kill more freely.
I thought it was kind of scandalous that Guantanamo never closed, contrary to campaign promises...
"over-consumption of sugar", if you were a top athlete there would be no problem consuming sugar.
I implemented a library that does exactly this -- https://github.com/IGITUGraz/SimRecorder (In case anyone finds it useful). It supports storing data in both hdf5 and redis (although I wouldn't recommend redis for storing large numpy arrays)
If this is true, then why are they closing the stores?
I've deleted and restarted account. Does not have old data.
Textbooks that cannot be read on a different device due to DRM? That's some really ugly distopian stuff. Feels so wrong on multiple levels.

Back when I was in school, I was getting some of the textbooks second hand from the year older students and selling mine to the younger ones, on a fair organized by the school.
Cambridge Analytica breach results in lawsuits filed by angry Facebook users
It has absolutely nothing to do with a "liberal agenda", this is capitalism plain and simple. There is nothing more to it and anyone who says it's a conspiracy by <insert group/> is off their rocker.

YouTube exists to make money. It makes money through advertisers. If advertisers don't want to use YouTube then YouTube loses money.
How will they be felt in the election, given the subject? The political group it was on behalf of has repaid the police by slashing police budgets and reducing their numbers, so we are currently in the position where the left wing are the party claiming to represent the police and are promising a rapid increase in police numbers, so they are unlikely to want to rock the boat too much against them politically at the moment, as that would muddy the messaging they are trying to get out.
Depends on your definition of "smart". Germany undercut and closed down most factories from around Europe. Ask anyone you know in the EU, they'll tell you how things were going well in the 70s and how their country actually had a lot of manufacturing plants for electrical and mechanical equipment (fridges, car parts, machinery etc). Then, near the 70s, globalization hit hard.

It was still cheaper to produce locally, but German lobbies knew well that if they sold below cost, bribed government officials and pushed strong advertising campaigns , they'd manage to shut down the industry of Europe and make everyone reliant on their production.

Was it "smart"? I guess so, they fucked over everyone in Europe, and still do (the Euro was obviously the deathblow for South Europe and much of the East).
But this has nothing to do with "working smart". If you visit germany you'll realize that the image of the hard-working, incorruptable, efficient German is just a lie.
The concept of a safety driver in SDC testing needs refining.

The guy here was clearly distracted. He only looks up at the road a fraction of a second before the crash.

My bet is that he'll be prosecuted as if he were a distracted driver: he's responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle (otherwise, why's he there in the first place?). He'll go to prison, probably, and rules will change very quickly as a result.

Driving a car is an active process, it's fatiguing but not inherently boring (excepting really long, straight, empty roads through unchanging scenery). Sitting in a SDC while it drives itself however is boring: there's a well-researched and well-understood attention deficit problem which nobody seems to be discussing here.

It's the same thing that makes TSA security screening such a tough thing to get right, or sentry duty: you can't expect humans to sit for hours passively monitoring for unpredictable and rare events that they then have to react decisively to. Brains don't work like that. These safety drivers need short shifts with frequent breaks, they need a partner, and they need an active background task that keeps their eyes up and forward and their brain engaged (giving a commentary, for example).
Using Elasticsearch in a Rails application
Absolutely. "Tesla's" cells that have been showcased are 99% made possible by Panasonic. You don't need battery expertise to build a decent battery pack using off-the-shelf cells.

It's extremely frustrating how people here - who usually are at least moderately skeptical about other technologies - eat up piles of inaccurate battery news with gusto.
>While we should not absolve Uber, including the driver who was too busy looking at his phone to intervene, I do wonder if a standard driver would have also been deemed not at fault by the police. The answer is likely, "yes".

Add in the characterization of the victim that has been going on. If the car had hit an ASU student it would have been assumed they were drunk/on the phone. If it had been a Mormon missionary (not uncommon in AZ) there would be a lot more focus on the car/driver. Instead, they hit a homeless/low value person. The discourse reflects that.
I've never heard of a CTO having more equity than the CEO. Do you think you're being slightly unreasonable in your expectations? 50/50 feels quite generous after they raised the round of funding.
> This is a way to shut down any unmoderated online community using a troll army.

Which is nearly every online community. The economics of accurate moderation to legal standards are completely unrealistic.

People see hundred billion dollar companies and assume they're swimming in cash, but most of them have something like ten billion in annual revenue against a billion users. The total is large but the amount per user is not.

There is zero possibility of paying someone with the legal knowledge to make accurate balancing decisions to read and evaluate the legality of every user's posts. And short of that you're going to have huge numbers of false positives or false negatives.

Pass a law that prohibits false negatives and the result is false positives through the roof. Past the point that it will shutter legitimate forums.
Until the 1200's, there was pretty much just the Geld in Europe (a land tax).

Because the geld was assessed on landowners, it only applied to free men who owned land, and thus serfs and slaves were exempt.

Later on the income tax got invented, and was generally 1/10 to the king. I wish I only paid 1/10 to the feds.
All politics using it, some use targeting sevices and some of them use trolls
Weekly summaries...

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/

Please be aware of the summary being /slightly/ editorialized :)
In the same spirit, Hollywood should be prevented from making any favorable reference to gun violence. Like cigarettes, guns should be digitally edited out of existing motion pictures, and replaced with bananas or sausages. We will achieve a very ethical cinema, compliant with the most rigorous liberal canons, although perhaps slightly boring (and Quentin Tarantino may need go back to VHS rentals to survive).
It's considered a shadow profile because they create a profile that nobody can see that aggregates data about the user. It's more than just the mutual contacts.

When people upload their contacts to Facebook to "find friends by phone or email" Facebook takes the phone numbers and email addresses of people who do not have Facebook accounts and associates them with a shadow profile. If multiple people upload contacts and have this same phone number and email address of a person, they can associate any other data uploaded (obviously name, birthday, address, other social media profile URLs?) with the same shadow profile. When the person creates an account using an email address or phone number tied to the shadow account, they already have a reasonable amount of data on the peson, including every user who has them in their contacts and others on those social graphs so that they probably know what school the user went to and current/past employers.
Arizona officials carrying water for corporations is not a new thing by any rate.
I suggest reading the book E-Myth. It's superbly relevant to your case.

Technicians who start a company think that they are everything. Yes, you have the technical prowess but that means squat if you want to participate in market economy. If you want to be appreciated purely as a technician, academia is a better fit.

Entrepreneurs who start a company know that the product is not a company.

And a manager knows how to deliver results for the company not create the product.

Really good book...
Maybe it's signalling in preparation for their ICO.
I'm not sure he was attacking anyone here. You need to compare (I mean really read) the majority opinion in Heller with the dissenting opinions. "Hypocrisy" is one word that leaps to mind from time to time, particularly in light of the magnitude of the changes and the way the author of the majority decision is supposedly an originalist and strict constructionist.
Generally VCs won't let you do that and will occasionally make you re-vest shares you'd previously vested as part of a new round of investment.
Oh, the joy of the marginalist supply and demand theorem!

Here's an excerpt of Alan Greenspan’s Feb. 26, 1997, testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee:

"The performance of the U.S. economy over the past year has been quite favorable. … Continued low levels of inflation and inflation expectations have been a key support for healthy economic performance. … Atypical restraint on compensation increases has been evident for a few years now, and appears to be mainly the consequence of greater worker insecurity. The willingness of workers in recent years to trade off smaller increases in wages for greater job security seems to be reasonably well documented. The unanswered question is why this insecurity persisted even as the labor market, by all objective measures, tightened considerably."
people are basically complaining about market share through the lens of oppression and it is sickening.
Fill gap with "consulting" and list impactful projects to demonstrate your expertise.
this presumes 'coercive' is a boolean variable..
Certainly Waymo have said Waymo will be responsible for theirs.
It's in progress. You can see what has been released already at https://github.com/Pocket

FYI, I work at Mozilla but don't speak for Mozilla.
So it's basically the opposite of going public?

You use that $5B to pay all the original owners (shareholders), and now have debt instead.
Why Bitcoin Is Not Working [video]
Dock.io: decentralized data exchange protocol powered by Ethereum
Some countries are a lot closer to 1984 than others. The EU and US are considerably further away from an authoritarian dictatorship than countries like Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.
I think at this point it might be too late as the boat has been rocked and by the sound of it, and OP response to another comment on this thread, I say it's tilting. If I was the CEO, and the person I hired and gave a very generous 50% comes to me with that kind of demand, I'd be realising I've made a mistake. It doesn't matter how good someone is. Everyone is replaceable, and sometimes one's perceived "incompetence" is only that - perceived. We have one side of a story and if I learned one thing from the internet is that every story is like a coin - with 3 sides.
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I'd like to know what the condition of these people is:

"At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps” redolent of the Mao era that are springing up across the country’s western borderlands, a report has claimed."

With Xi assuming total power, there has to be a legitimate concern regarding what might be about to happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...
Because they're used to crappy lead-acid batteries that need to be replaced regularly in ICE vehicles and which cause people to be stranded when they fail. Note that the Model Y will get rid of the 12V lead acid battery, which is a good thing (IMHO) if engineered correctly. One less maintenance item.

Also, consumer phone batteries (which are more aggressively charged/discharged and which usually use a different chemistry) don't last more than two or three years before showing significant capacity reduction.

Also, there were some problems with the early-year Leafs (2011-2012) losing range fast in hot climates. (Nissan solved the problem eventually via chemistry. Note this is not a problem for Teslas or Volts/Bolts due to a battery temperature management system able to cool the battery.)
> I would enjoy it

Why are you working with someone you seem to despise so much? Leave and do something else. The term "brilliant jerk" comes to mind.
They did... 2 months ago...

https://github.com/Pocket
Interesting didn't know that.

Interesting how it was first used in a disparaging way but today is a relatively neutral term.
Thanks for the book suggestion.
This does not support the argument that money does not matter in politics. It clearly does. It is not everything, but it is something and something huge.

Money is a proxy to power. Power can be expressed in different ways, such as influence as seen by both Clinton and Trump.

How does this refute that money from any source can influence elections? We need campaign finance reform now.
A new era for Linux's low-level graphics – Part 2
Destruction of nature as dangerous as climate change, scientists warn
There are two hard parts: security and discoverability. As a programmer I know 95% of what is needed already exists, what is left is security and some ease of use.

plex (https://www.plex.tv/) already has most of what you need. However if I put a video of my kid's first words on plex how does grandma find it?
lyrebirds are native to Australia
People I have met who had lived in the USSR and East Germany knew exactly that things were far different from the official reality.