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My understanding is that the rationale behind the housing-first movement is that all the other interventions are much more likely to succeed for someone who has stable housing.

There are a few reasons for this.

One is simply that it's easier for social workers to follow up on someone when they know where to find them.

Another is that in order to become eligible for most types of assistance, one needs to list a home address on the applications. This includes job interventions, adult education, food stamps, and the medical benefits that support addiction and mental health interventions.

Perhaps the most important is that stable housing removes one of the greatest stressors from a formerly homeless person's life.

If you're constantly worrying about where you're going to lay your head at night and whether you'll be safe there, that's a) a constant source of anxiety that's capable of exacerbating mental health conditions or driving someone to drugs; and b) doesn't leave the mind free to worry about longer term fixes for the situation.

Moreover, the prevalence of drugs on the street and the lack of anything else to do with one's time, other than worry, also drives people to use them and makes breaking existing addictions harder. Even a television would be at least a distraction.

Organizations that not only perform interventions but also study their efficacy have found that compliance rates for things like taking daily or weekly medications are much higher if people are first put into stable housing.

I applaud your desire to address the problems of homelessness in ways that existing players are failing to. You may first want to research what has already been learned in this space.
The main feature is that it is a modern filesystem that doesn’t carry around 25 years of baggage.
There are also some things you cannot know without telling others.

For instance finding out the address of MOMA in the first place may require asking someone or googling it.

The stronger version is that some interesting ideas can only come about by dialogue between specialists.

Sometimes a dilemma for scientists is whether to share and benefit from input but then perhaps give away the key insight to others. Q.v. Wilkes showing Crick Rosalind Franklin's DNA crystallograph.

Proper courtesy, accreditation and citation can in some cases avoid this - yet Wilkes told no-one he was working on Fermat's last theorem for many years until he thought he had a solution.
Subject access requests have existed for twenty years in the UK. The Information Commissioner's Office provides free guides on how to request data. Most people aren't aware of their right to do this. Organisations can charge under the current legislation but often don't.

A lot of organisations forget to discuss the scope of a subject access request. If you imagine an employee at an average company, an undefined subject access request can include months or years of pension contributions, internet and email logs, training records, meal choices for their end of year party... if their issue is a recent performance review, the scope will often be email chains or HR documentation relating to that. The incentive for them is that they can often have the data they're interested in a short space of time rather than wait longer for pages of data they've got no need in. If you do this, make sure it's a genuine conversation with them and it's documented as to the scope they agreed.

Remember that right to be forgotten isn't an absolute right especially where you're relying on basis other than consent. If you ask your employer to erase all data about you, they'd have an argument under 17.1.a. to argue that it's necessary to keep that information in order to pay you. Nor can you ask the police or tax office to erase your data.
atop creates world readable log files. Does anyone else think this is a security vulnerability?
Yeah, but with cruise control, at least having your hands on the wheel forces you to pay attention.

Really, I think Uber should have used tech to make sure the driver is alert. And test whether the driver can stay alert in a simulator. It's too easy to blame the driver.
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> presumably there's no good way to talk to the built-in system; having a second system running that can't coordinate with the self-driving system would likely make the combined system less safe.

Honestly, this is a cop-out. A substantial amount of information is available from the vehicle's CAN networks - including speed and braking action!

If the autonomous driving system detects sudden and unplanned changes in speed and/or braking (perhaps caused either by the driver, an external safety system or some kind of impact with something on the road) then the obvious choice there is for the autonomous driving system to release control of the vehicle and let whatever existing systems in the car, or even the driver, handle what is happening.

The car's built-in safety systems are a) simpler, b) less likely to malfunction and c) substantially better road-tested. There was no reason whatsoever to disable them.
>Just imagine one day, some algorithms completely take control of/help us decide what we eat, who we date, where to travel, who we talk to or make friends with, what job offer to take, what subjects to study in school, what startup ideas to invent.

Yes, I want this in my smartphone. It's like a life coach. I don't like to make decisions or plans. Should be outsourced to an algorithm. I need to google for this.
This is intentional:

How do I make a link in a question?

You can't. This is to prevent people from submitting a link with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit it, then add a regular comment.
The claims appear to define nothing more than, what sounds to me like, a basic plasma confinement.

Also it says it's a pending application.

It's there something interesting or especially novel here?
Until I can download an iso and reinstall any phone with it like Ubuntu on a laptop, we might as well call it not open. The current situation is just a hacky Windows XP-like mess which still has some open-source bits in it for legacy reasons.
It probably happens because there are still more links to the Python 2 docs out there and because they've been online longer, which in the absence of extreme recency gives them greater authority.

My solution is usually to use "python3" as a search term instead of just "python".
It would make sense that some Volvo's systems were disabled, only to be replaced by Uber's central Computer (or whatever is called).

This way there won't be 2 breaking systems competing with one-another. Different systems controlling the same end-points is never a good idea.
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>"real" tasks aren't easily accomplished on a tablet, phone, or Chromebook.

I have been thinking would this means the return of Desktop. The combination of Desktop + Tablet, instead of Laptop.
Sorry to be pessimistic, but although I agree that technological progress has the potential of dramatically improve our lives, I fear that instead we will get more capital concentration.

Put another way: social forces will balance out any positive effects of technological progress, so that in whole, humanity's well-being remain more or less constant.
Does Andy Clark's hypothesis assert that self driving cars' neural networks must necessarily contain the minds of pedestrians ?
The pedestrian airbag was introduced before the Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) safety function was available. Volvo no longer offers the pedestrian airbag as they found most pedestrian accidents were avoided by the AEB.

The V40 is also a rather old car and is based on an old platform. The XC90 on the other hand was their newest car at the time the Uber deal was made and is based on their latest platform. So it is not unusual that both Uber and Volvo would prefer the XC90 over the V40. Besides, given the newer technology in the XC90 it is quite possible it is better in pedestrian accidents than the V40 (with the safety systems enabled on both).
It's the well known "whataboutitsm" (what-about-ism).

Distract, divert, confuse and conquer!!!

Works-every-time. In every (media controlled) topic!
> ... much of Google except search & email.

This reads like self-satire.
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I am not an expert but according to Wikipedia BSCCO is not suitable for high magnetic field strengths. In the video - which I only skimmed - the main point seems to be that they can now build vastly smaller fusion reactors because now super conductors supporting higher fields strengths are available and the energy density of a fusion reactor scales with the fifth power of the magnetic field strength. They also specifically mention rare earths which does not match BSCCO which were, last but not least, also discovered in the late 1980s.
Statistics works exactly like this. What doesn't work is saying "Okay, we have one death in 3 million miles, that extrapolates to 33 deaths in 100 million miles", because it implies a silent addition of "with nearly 100% certainty", which is the part that's wrong here.

But the poster did something different. He took it one level further and attempted to calculate this confidence number for different spans in which the actual "deaths per 100 million miles" number of Uber's current cars would fall into, given an ideal world (from a data perspective) in which they would have driven an infinite amount of miles. But he actually did it the other way round - he modified the confidence variable and calculated the spans, and then he adjusted the confidence until he arrived at a span that would put Uber's cars just on par with human driving in the best case.

The fact that a fatal incident happens that early (at 3 million, and not closer or past the 86 million that a statistical human drives on average until a fatal incident occurs) does not allow us to extrapolate a sound number per 100 million miles, but it tells us something about the probability by which the actual number of fatalities by 100 million miles that we'd get if Uber continued testing just like it did and racked up enough miles (and killed people) for a statistically sound calculation will fall into different margins. Sure, Uber could have been just very, very unlucky - but that's pretty unlikely, and the unlikeliness of Uber's bad luck (and conversely the likeliness of the fact that Uber's tech is just systematically deadly) is precisely what can be calculated with this single incident.
theredpill is built around helping men trick women into having sex with them when they otherwise would not. That's sexual violence by definition.
This idea smells of 'one weird trick lawyers HATE'.

I'd be very surprised if a court saw nothing wrong with spamming otherwise-legal requests nonstop every month, in exchange for monetary payment by a third party to boot. I imagine it could easily fall under harassment, or abuse of the court, or some other misdemeaner with sufficient leeway to interpretation (which it would be totally appropriate to apply).

Also, consider that the fact that they are GDPR requests isn't really germane to your idea. Surely there already exist some kind of requests that a customer can legally submit to a company and which can be individually burdensome to answer - perhaps specific to a particular sector, say banking, medical, or insurance. Yet I am not aware of anybody trying this particular route to cripple their competitors.

Another thing, say that the company being spammed stops responding to those malicious requests. Nothing is gonna happen unless you actually file a complaint against them for not responding, and you probably aren't going to do that for a few dollars, especially when you know you are acting in very far from good faith.
Firefox is at about 6% market share: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

It's higher in some countries, e.g. Germany traditionally has a much stronger Firefox presence. It used to be 40%+, now around 20%.
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I have a good friend who just finished his Master's in CS and considered taking an internship at Palantir. I was very apalled at first how he could even consider to work for a company that are obviously the 'bad guys'.
He comes from one of those countries your president considers a sh*thole and scoring that internship polishes his CV enough so that he can get a stable and high paying job which will allow him to stay and not have to go back there.
Can't really bame him....
Fair enough. It felt like a wholly unnecessary descriptor to me, intended to lessen the value of that person's life.
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I wonder if this type of events are modeled by Poisson processes and measured by MTB(A?)
"As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona, according to 100 pages of company documents obtained by The New York Times"

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/uber-self-d...
I'd love for that to be true but physics reality doesn't care how much money you have, not everything is possible.
Indirectly, because ad networks are one of the most powerful malware distribution vectors. (Instead of hacking a website and putting your malware there, you can hack an ad network and put your malware on thousands of websites. Also, I'd expect most ad networks to have only very small budgets for infosec, or none at all.)
> By laying the semiconductor monolayer on an insulator and placing electrodes on the monolayer and underneath the insulator, the researchers could apply an AC signal across the insulator. During the moment when the AC signal switches its polarity from positive to negative (and vice versa), both positive and negative charges are present at the same time in the semiconductor, creating light.

This is highly simplified, but essentially the LED is now capacitively coupled to its supply on one side, through the insulator*. As a result it has to be driven with AC. Neat trick.
No idea, I still cannot subscribe to it in Germany.
.... in a galaxy far far away ... an egocentric narcisistic CEO with a god complex and hell-of-a-neck for usability would never agree with the full extent of what "external forces" were requesting from his company. Getting rid of him led to mistakes he'd never allowed to happen. But that's the price you have to pay when you are (due to product demographics aot) sitting on the most valuable private data in the world..not even a neverending chain of government-funded privacy PR stunts could make a difference.

/end

As a new-ish iOS mobile user, I was very dissapointed
I'd be interested in seeing the config if it's public?
To be honest, everything about Android seems like a bit of a mess to me - the APIs, the tools, plus all the things from the user's perspective.
This is a critical part to consider in "current" fusion research. Most of it rely on the deuterium / tritium fusion which will probably require a classic nuclear plant to generate the fuel. This makes the whole "infinite clean energy" claim pretty bogus for now.
We use Sumologic and it’s really nice. Much better than ELK. I’ve only used splunk in a evaluation context a long time ago, so I’m not sure how they’d compare. Splunk is just so expensive.
Wtf, this is a thing?
I think one of the reasons that Germany (and to a related extent, the EU) has such strong and progressive laws regarding online privacy is due to having screwed it up so bad in recent history.

The stasi situation is a very clear example of how ubiquitous surveillance can really fuck up social relations, and similar poignant examples are lacking from most western countries. Godwin's law and other comparisons are just figures of online speech, whilst here in Germany it's a very direct and concrete thing when there is clear and very recent (less than 40 years ago) history of these actions.
Well what’s the point of the display if you can’t see it? ;)
Asserting that the person who was run over broke the law is victim-blaming of the highest order.

The claim that the ""driver"" was texting suggests that they are at fault, but the whole "safety driver" concept is flawed; the less the driver has to intervene and take control, the less likely they are to remain alert and willing to jump in and take control. You almost need a "fault injection" system that gives back control once every 5-10 minutes just to keep them awake.
This is how Hungary became a key player in the new Cold War
Any additional malicious APK next to Gapps wouldn't have to be signed with Google keys to do harm.
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Looking at the deeds, not the words, I think Windows 10 shows quite well Microsoft is not that much into a strong privacy stance.
I just noticed that One Drive includes 1 TB of cloud storage -- compare that to the 30 GB we get with Google's business suite. No wonder all our employees also have a separate Dropbox subscription. That's a cost savings to get something like lots of cloud storage in addition to office applications -- it's more of a Dropbox + Google replacement. I wonder if in practice it is as nice as Dropbox + Google.
I've never seen this. Do you use only packages from your distro ?
That's why i refuse introvert or extrovert titles. I can be different in varied situations.
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> I know an organization that switched to Office365 some time ago— from Google Entreprise / G suite

Smart move. Microsoft has a proven track record of long term commitment to products. Google has a proven track record of not being committed to products.
I agree, but it's not a detail in practice. My feeling is that Rust is very attentive to theoretical details, and Go to practical details. Of course it's an over-simplification, and both approaches are pertinent and complementary ;-)
Instagram and Facebook share data; they are two interfaces to the same big pot of profiling data

https://help.instagram.com/833836199971426
You can decide not to allow EU citizens to use your service. However, the EU has a population of 508 million citizens. It's the largest population in the world after China and India. GDPR is a genuine attempt to balance the rights of data subjects against ever advancing technology. You'd be excluding yourself from one of the world's largest markets on the basis that you don't want to protect your customer's rights.
This mentality does a disservice to people who are actually living in slavery.
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I guess that’s the reason why APFS is still only supported for internal volumes?
This strikes me as a risk factor that no one is really discussing. We talk about the dangers of Level 3/4 autonomy, where the driver is still responsible for the car, but autopilot is doing most of the work, leading to a bored/disengaged driver who's not ready to react when it's actually necessary. We don't hear as much pedestrians taking it for granted that a car will stop for them, right of way or no, because of their experience with self-driving cars. Leading to the inevitable accident when they step in front of a human-piloted car who isn't paying attention / can't see them.
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>It's 9-9 that you want to try to avoid.

All of us (mostly) have 8 hours work day in contract. Why should anyone of us work more? There is no such reason. So the problem is in you.
Csrss.exe is the userspace part of the win32 personality. It controls all win32 processes, which on a Windows system is just about every process.

It is not very useful to limit its privileges.
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How could fission save the world today? It's not that cheap.
I think it's incorrect to say that the woman was looking at her phone. She was looking down and to the right of the steering wheel, which is where Uber places a monitoring tablet (an iPad) in their self-driving vehicles (where the radio is).

Here's an article that shows the sort of thing she would be looking at, an animation of road conditions: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-driverless-car-interior-...

If you actually examine her behavior, in the space of ten seconds, she manages to:

* Look down at the tablet and watch the animation

* Look up at the road

* Scan the lane to the left (she was in the right lane)

* Look forward again

* Look down at the tablet again

* Look up again just as the accident occurs

She is systematically scanning her environment and appears to be alert and engaged.

The problem is that there is only one test driver, who has to divide her attention between the tablet and the road. Often two drivers are used, and then one watches the tablet and the other watches the road.

I think it is unfair to accuse her of inattention when she appears to be doing the job exactly as it is designed.

The reason everyone says "she was looking at her phone!" is because they don't understand the setup of how Uber's self-driving car works. They are only familiar with being bored and looking at their phone while driving. They think the test driver's job is to just stare out of the window all day, which is not correct.
We administer a take-home project that's not much more difficult than FizzBuzz. We've almost never had a candidate fail to complete it at all (it should take a mid-level developer no more than an hour to code and verify the simplest possible working solution). But a surprising number return code that is awfully sloppy or reveals a fundamental failure to understand the tools they're working with.

One can also usually distinguish juniors and seniors by the level of sophistication of their code. It gives us a good idea of which candidates will be able to work to our standards, or learn to quickly.

However, that's only one component of success. We find that personality is far more important (though also much harder to interview for).

We need people who are capable of self-management, independent work, and structured thinking in an unstructured environment; who relate their work to the priorities of the rest of the company; who communicate clearly and proactively; and who are collaborative and supportive of one another.

People with all those attributes are remarkably difficult to find.
So far there hasn't been any ads in WhatsApp. Dutch people are not known for their loyalty or willingness to spend money so I have no idea how Facebook hopes to monetize it.

WhatsApp took the market from SMS (a billion dollar cashcow for telcos) in months. Someone else can take on WhatsApp.
The batch file was running on a Windows client -- i.e., on someone else's desktop machine, and the user of that machine was apparently unaware.
That's a goal which is easy to formulate, but hard to put into code.
panic/recover is a bit different from exceptions because it can be used as a control structure (like if/for/switch) inside a function. Rust has something similar with panic!.
The fact that you can patent something before you know if it works is an abuse of the original intent of the patent system and shows how much it has been corrupted.
It’s nice if drivers are not running in the kernel but even if your graphics drivers are running in userspace, if they crash you can’t use your pc anymore.

The main advantage is that you don’t have to deal with all the limitations of kernel mode programming.
Quoting the article:

> […] the import uniqueness rule: different packages must have different import paths. […] Cargo allows partial code upgrades by giving up import uniqueness.

> The constraints of Cargo and Dep make version selection equivalent to solving Boolean satisfiability, meaning it can be very expensive to determine whether a valid version configuration even exists.

> eliminates the need for separate lock and manifest files.

Note that Cargo is seen as a "gold standard" approach here, upon which rsc is trying to improve.