skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the victimization surveys tell us that for every category of crime that matters, there are large disparities in base rates that (a) predate policing decisions and (b) recommend focusing on black neighborhoods, because that's where the crime is. The idea that higher arrest rates are a self-reinforcing statistical artifact has no support from the data. The notion that "crime is where you look for it" is specifically undercut by victimization surveys as well as by murder, a crime that is largely impossible to conceal from the state indefinitely. If the baseline disparities are already so high to begin with, there's hardly any variance left over to be explained by self-reinforcing patrol strategies.

Put another way, if you took the first-order strategy you'd come up with by looking at the body count, and then layered the most moustache-twirlingly racist jaywalking policy that you could think of on top of it, the two strategies wouldn't look that much different.

That's all before questioning why it is a bad thing for neighborhoods to be policed for misdemeanors. I lived in West Baltimore for years and I can assure you that my neighborhood was, if anything, chronically underpoliced.
If you've got any diffs of the edits that you'd like to share, I (and probably others) would be happy to take a look and start an edit war to make things right :)
Why is FiveFilters taking such interest in this particular anonymous Wikipedia editor? This doesn't look like simply an honest piece of investigative journalism, given how far FiveFilters seems to be going to promote this story (https://twitter.com/fivefilters/).

Why doesn't the article disclose the relationship between FiveFilters and Media Lens? The FiveFilters blog (http://blog.fivefilters.org/) mentions Media Lens three times (they've built tools for viewing Media Lens articles) and explicitly thanks Media Lens for making their content go viral.

There's a lot that doesn't quite add up.
They open the brokerage account when you open a checking account with them, but you're not required to fund or use it. I use it for my personal investing and love that when I overdraft my checking it just immediately takes it from cash in my brokerage (rather than savings which has a limit on monthly withdrawals or charging me a fee). There have even been times when there wasn't enough cash in my brokerage acct and it just went negative.. I didn't let it stay that long enough to find out if there were any consequences but for the few days it was like that there weren't any.
I wouldn't be opposed to that; I just don't want malware/tracking running when I hit a website.
> diplomacy is impossible without affording Ambassadors, their staff, the places where they live and work and so on, broad immunity to normal civil law enforcement.

Why is that?
> Second, it assumes that the best location to intervene in this chain of causality is at its source: the root cause.

It doesn't though, that's just a built-in assumption for the lazy. The point of Root Cause Analysis and the "5 Whys" isn't necessarily to get to the root and fix the root...it's to provide a framework for traversing a problem set. The point of this methodology is so that you traverse the problem, understanding each step along the way...not that you simply jump to the root and try to fix it blindly.
This doesn’t match the fact that Chinese startups and recently IPOd tech companies have much much higher valuations and P/E ratios (for the latter) than in the west. If you are looking at primarily operating income, China is actually a horrible place to be. If you want to speculate however, well, that is what everyone else is doing there.
This is prevalent in movies as well. I just rewatched Terminator 2, and was amazed at how many Pepsi placements there were.
It’s odd how the article ends with “Baking soda also interact with acidic ingredients like buttermilk and cocoa in cakes and other baked goods to help the batter expand and, along with heat from the oven, to rise. It can also help raise the pH in pools, is found in antacids and can help clean your teeth and tub.” Was this also sponsored by the baking powder trade association or something?
The only example I cant think of immediately, Iran, is not so much better off, nor its people.
We're a huge fan of Media Lens. They do great work. But we're not Wikipedia. We don't need to live up to the standards they set themselves. We don't run an encyclopedia that pretends to be neutral.
Maybe consider making the chalking process part of the advertising.

Check out chalk printer: https://hackaday.com/2014/08/29/the-chalkjet-an-ink-jet-prin...

And chalk bot:
https://hackaday.com/2009/07/09/chalkbot-vs-graffitiwriter/

You could make one of those. Everyone love funny robots.
Are the Cyclone development tools open source?

I kind of like the idea of an FPGA-based Arduino, but I definitely wouldn't like them moving to closed source software.
Would this tech render speed bumps useless as a safety feature, by removing all the unpleasantness of driving over one?
http://www.jimmunol.org/content/200/10/3568/tab-figures-data

Here's the paper if anyone wants it.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piers_Robinson&ty...
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piers_Robinson&ty...

I'm not suggesting anyone base the block on their opinion of his politics, but of his behaviour on Wikipedia. There's clearly a conflict of interest when someone who is openly hostile toward someone else and taunts them on Twitter, then goes and makes the kind of edits he's making to their Wikipedia page.

There's of course a bigger issue of how Wikipedia deals with this problem more broadly. But the fact that they're unwilling to act on a single editor whose actions have been exposed doesn't inspire much confidence.
Hmmm, maybe that's part of their longer-term plans!
And plenty of Americans are Chinese (especially in tech research), if you see the latter as an ethnicity rather than a nationality.
> there's something really funky going with the comparison between the desktop and the laptop.

The OP has relatively old GPU in the desktop, GeForce GTX 770 is from 2013, it delivers up to 3.2 TFlops single precision.

The laptop is much newer, its’ from 2016, and the Intel GPU delivers 0.7-0.8 TFlops. The raw computational power is different, but not 10 times different, just 4 times.

The reason why OP has measured 2 times difference not 4 times is probably because data access costs. Intel GPU is integrated so it has very fast access to system RAM. nVidia GPU in the desktop needs to copy data from system RAM to VRAM over the PCIx.
PCIx is slower, both bandwidth (CPU to RAM:
34.1 GB/s, PCIx 3.0: 985 MB/s per lane i.e. 15.76 GB/s for 16x), and especially latency.
I had suffered from dueodenul ulcers, and was hospitalized, almost died.

This was right before my 21st birthday, so afterwards, during that time in my life, I attended alot of parties, but my stomach would often sour (time of night, food, etc.).

I was not much of a drinker, but I would use baking soda at house parties when my stomach started to turn.

I would not do it daily, but 1 tsp dissolved in approx 6 oz of water as needed.

Works within 15 minutes.
Offering a booking system to businesses is nowhere near sufficient, to offer this service to customers without being able to fall back to phone calls requires a near-universal adoption and that is an entirely different issue. This system can enable electronic booking even to places who don't offer electronic booking, won't offer electronic booking and don't want to do anything whatsoever to offer it, which in many domains means pretty much all places.

You can't force every service provider to use a web-based appointment system, but you can make such appointments without their explicit cooperation if they offer to do it over the phone.
1. You missed a thin red line in the diagram. The diagram is not meant to claim that SDL uses libevdev.

2. Sockets are files. No, they don't have filenames usually, but they do have file descriptors and even inode numbers.

3. The diagram does not imply that the I/O scheduler is a file. The I/O scheduler is listed as a component underlying the listed filesystems.

There are no inaccuracies. That said, the diagram is awful. It is hard to follow (your misinterpretation being a great example) and seems to be a cluttered and incomplete collection of parts.
I love seeing the same lie repeated over and over: You do not have to delete them from backups. Anyone wasting time on "rewriting backups" should be fired from their job.

You just need a process in place so you don't restore those same users if ever restoring backups.
Because we like the work of many of the people targeted by Cross and decided to write something up on it.
> displaying a Swastika is perfectly legal if you don't "objectively" use it to "promote (the) national socialism".

It seems that only applies if your work falls clearly within a few categories of exceptions. For example, Wolfenstein, a game about a Jewish commando fighting against the Nazis, was censored in Germany to comply with the law.

> "In Germany, we've removed all Nazi symbols and references. Unlike films and other works of art, video games in Germany are forbidden to use such symbols and references as they are classified in Germany as toys and not media art." The illegal display of Nazi imagery is punishable by three years in prison in Germany. (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27488254)

Even "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" struggled to be published uncensored. They eventually succeeded in convincing the culture ministry to allow publication, but it's not enough to be anti-Nazi.
Well look around at the world and find some problems to work on that, if you contribute to, will ease the suffering of others. Or before that find something to work on that will ease your suffering. With something like a cancer diagnosis of you or a family member you find yourself focusing on the present. The here and now. That helps ease the existential rumination on life. You could think deeply about something (say existentialism) and write an essay about it. Articulate it. Then you've suddenly provided some meaning. But do things for your own edification rather than for someone else. If you don't know what you want or try to figure it out, other people will define it for you.
I'm just a beginner on the GDPR but here's a few things I got out just of the Everlaw link.

1.) Protect the data with methods corresponding the risk level (Articles 32 and 35)

2.) Enable users to erase, correct, or transfer data at will (Article 15)

3.) Enable users to consent to use of their data in the first place (Article 15)

So yes, it seems it would have been quite applicable.
You can find a 90 sqm apartment in Beijing for $800k, 1 million if it’s in a brand new building. And Shanghai is much worse than BJ. It is definitely comparable to Seattle, if not San Francisco.

Given such an anemic stock market, everyone invests in real estate instead, leading to a massive bubble not seen since Japan in the 80s.
If it's a philosophical topic, try starting with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

If it's a scholarly topic that lends itself to testable predictions, use Google Scholar to search for highly cited and/or recent review articles, and read on sci-hub if the article isn't already open access.

If it's highly controversial and not particularly testable, then I recommend A) prepare yourself to consume a lot of primary sources and make difficult judgments on your own and B) prepare yourself to live with the problem not feeling satisfactorily resolved even if you do A for a long time.
Totally makes sense; thanks for the explanation!
This is not yet for end users, and the core server piece never will be.

Depending on which frontend you pick, you might, emphasis on might get the following features:

* It launches.

* It renders an interface.

* Pressing a letter inserts a character.

* There is a cursor.

* Pressing a key moves the cursor.

* You can open files.

* You can save files.

I don't say this to be rude to either you or the project authors or maintainers. I just want to be clear that it's very, very, very early on still, and the core functionality is still being worked on.
>Occam's razor says that these are all run by the various agencies of the United States

Is there a more high value city for a foreign government to spy in? Seems foolish to assume occams razor here, at least for all of the devices
Yes, the new thing is basically that the platforms are taking part in the enforcement. This provides a pragmatic and efficient solution:

* The illegal content can be removed quickly, without tying up resources in the prosecution of minor offenders. Prosecution can focus on the worst of them.

* The platforms get to play the role of a neutral party and are not themselves being responsible for distributing the illegal content.

Given the increased centralization on the Internet to a few of these platforms, this allows for efficient implementation of the law.

This is quite similar to the development of copyright law (in the US). The DMCA grants platforms immunity by actively taking part in the removal of illegal content when requested. I haven't checked the numbers, but I expect that here also the number of DMCA takedowns greatly outnumbers the copyright violation law suits (which would be kept for the worst offenders)
I didn't like the ASOUE books, but I watched the first episode of the show because my wife loved them. The series is much better than the books, at least partly because the casting is spot-on. In particular, Patrick Warburton as Lemony was an inspired choice.
Crazy as it sounds, Western nations colonized the island of Taiwan, which had a native population, China didn't - it wasn't interested. But should China's lack of appetite for colonization back then be penalized?

Rather than rewriting history now, I think China would do far better to blatantly object to any rules defining sea territories based on what small islands the nations who were eager to colonize managed to seize, back when; and instead argue that taking the population densities in the area is reasonable when divying up the sea. That's their real point, and it's a pretty good one.

The trouble with inventing claims and shoving military forces into places you'd like to have now, is that there's no end to it. It's a promise of eternal war. Eternal irredentism and revanchism. Bound to make 'em unpopular. China could make a legitimate argument, in my view, but even now they aren't bothering to do that. Pity.

I'd rather China invited other nations to discuss creating a law of the sea that's more reasonable than "small island theory" that comes down to us from colonial times.
Somewhat surprisingly, according to their technology page (http://www.clearmotion.com/technology), they are doing some kind of cloud upload and learning thing:

> Connected by a central gateway, it collects road data and stores it in the cloud to be analyzed and instantaneously retrieved.

...

> Using a precise, millimeter level HD map of the road surface ahead, advanced control theory algorithms continually adjust suspension parameters to enable the best ride possible. An additional layer of reinforcement learning algorithms continually learns the road’s profile, and your ride improves over time.

So, it's just a guess, but perhaps they've overcome the need to specifically tune it by having it learn and share data.
Because not every place is a shining example of liberal democracy like the United States.

Diplomacy requires representing your country, which sometimes requires advocating against the preferred policies of your negotiating partners. In some places, if you were subject to their laws, that would get you killed.
As a card-carrying millennial, I've found my friends to be woefully ignorant of how to bank, despite (or because of?) their often well-off upbringings. People often tend to follow the lead of their parents when it comes to banking decisions. They don't really explore the market for themselves or have strong opinions on what's efficient or ethical.
For poor Venezuelans, a box of food may sway vote for Maduro
And the way I see it the only way around it is cultural indoctrination.

It doesn't have to be a negative concept. It can be as simple as picking up a can as you walk by it on the street, and otherwise having a completely normal life. People with you can then see "huh, I can contribute just a little bit, feel good about it, without going full hippie high-viz jacket and tongs with a trash bag every weekend."
I think as of 15.7, mentioned in TFA and released earlier this month, they do templates properly.
I still read it and scan through maybe five comment threads a week for insightful perspectives, but I no longer participate because the community is toxic and mind-killing these days. To me, at any rate.

Edit: IB4, "Metafilter: Toxic and mind-killing, these days."
With some exceptions such as siblings of current students, the schools are not strategic actors in the Amsterdam problem. If you meet the entrance requirements, you're eligible, and that's all the schools are allowed to say. In the stable marriage and the residency problems, both sides express preferences.
> That's their real point, and it's a pretty good one.

I don’t think that is china’s point at all. China also defines national waters with a much larger buffer than most other countries, including the USA.
I know I don't have to, but I do anyways; personal choice. First time anyone's really even pointed it out.
Oh man - loved that sound! This will be a great read this weekend.
Okay what about editors with a left-wing agenda/bias and who abuse their powers. I'm sure there are some within the top 300.
That makes sense. Do you know why they aren't more common, to the extent that many doctors apparently spend much of their day on EHR data entry?

Maybe I'm just relying too much on this article plus a few similar complaints I've read in the past. Maybe most doctors don't spend much time on data entry but I only see the grievances of the few that are forced to.
Yes and no.

First, I think the author is (as someone else said and as you seem to agree) raising a strawman.

Second, I don't think there are people on the other side of the argument, but there are people on the other side in situ: I mean that even if rationally they would never admit it, they hijack the immediate "fire extinguishing" or "pulling of the plug" or "pumping of water" to discuss where the problem is coming from.

I've seen those people lacking discernment, not only do they get in the way of the short-term action, they also are pretty bad at cause analysis and confound it with blaming people or "I told you so".

This is a generalization of course, but the TLDR is that even if those people wouldn't argue against it, they act against it.
Credit unions advertise in their local markets, mostly through traditional media. They also contribute to national campaigns to raise awareness of credit unions and drive audiences to credit union finder websites. Also, some with federal charters who excel at specific products (like PenFed) advertise on websites that aggregate information about that product, like BankRate.

They are less visible than large banks because their budgets are smaller and the pooled campaigns suffer from committee problems. They aren’t any less visible than local/regional banks, though.

(I worked at a credit union.)

Edit: A credit union wouldn’t consider advertising a waste, either. Their thinking: 1) A certain number of members is needed to keep yields and rates competitive by reducing fixed costs per account or loan. 2) Growth makes new services possible; banking is competitive. 3) Marketing makes it more difficult for new entrants to expand into an area; local credit unions in particular believe there is a level of competition above and below which a community is not served as well as they could be.
There's been talk of switching to 48v batteries in cars (for the starter and accessory circuits, not for the EV circuits which already run at much higher voltages). AFAIK, only some Class B RV makers are using them for their house batteries.
If you go check out /r/enoughmuskspam, you can discover that SpaceX is a failure because they don't have full reusability of Falcon 9 yet, or because they canceled Red Dragon and Grey Dragon, or that BFR is a distraction from the 'fact' that SpaceX is selling commercial launches at a big loss, etc.

And then you compare the user list to /r/ula and /r/nasa and various Tesla shorts groups, and you'll find a similar list of usernames. Hmm.
The encryption is a legal issue, not a technical one. Of course it can be circumvented like all forms if drm.

The point is that by going around the drm, even if it’s by doing something trivial, you are committing a crime.
Turkey owns 4 islands in the Aegean. Greece has over 6,000 in total. I don't see where you get the "screwing over" part. Is it because you think Turkey should have more territories than it does today?

Turkey should have signed UNCLOS a long time ago. 168 countries have. The only reason they postpone it is to maintain claims over Greece. Signing UNCLOS would also mean that their warships can no longer venture near Athens while claiming to be on international waters. And of course they'd finally have to stop pretending that the Greek-Cypriot EEZ connection doesn't exist.

I can see why Turkey and China are abusing historical data, archives, archeology, myths etc, just like you said, but I can't help but notice that they don't have any valid claims, and the moral thing to do (if there is one) would most likely be to drop those claims.
If indeed it is one individual. With the intensity of edits it would not be at all surprising if this editor was in fact more than one individual masquerading behind a single account.
The less something like "hate speech" is nailed down, the more the law can be used to criminalize anything.

There absolutely is a problem with these sorts of laws.

For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity.
And any companies posting things to you.
If so, changing your passwords wouldn't help. You would need to use new encryption algorithms which aren't implemented in KeePass yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

However, the biggest problems are about public-key encryption algorithms like RSA, which are broken much more readily by quantum computing than symmetric-key algorithms like AES. The security of KeePass password databases is mainly protected by symmetric encryption rather than public-key encryption, and the speedup achieved by quantum computers isn't as significant. Perhaps it's already fairly safe?

Another thing to think about is whether Dropbox would expose your encrypted files to an adversary who could then perform a quantum cryptanalysis (either via attacks on the cryptography used to protect the data in transit between you and Dropbox—which does include public-key encryption, unlike KeePass itself!), or by trying to compromise or coerce Dropbox itself into turning over your data. The existence of a cryptanalytic attack against some algorithm doesn't necessarily always mean that there will be adversaries in a position to use that attack against each user and each message, session, or file.
Because then you have to negotiate your schedule yourself.
1 BTC is hidden in this puzzle. Good luck
Once again that's a problem of work culture. the five-whys is super simple, it's up to people to be smart using it. If I had an ideological problem after a 5 whys, my team would kindly ask me what the fuck I am doing
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