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It's not the same. Bipolar folks get a mood lift from sleep deprivation. We actually feel less tired. The only way I know I should be more tired is that my legs feel it, even as my brain is racing.

But then, the elevated mood begets more sleep deprivation and soon you're euphoric, reckless and finally manic as hell.

In a way, bipolar mania is like being addicted to yourself.
The problem isn't any different in 2018 than it was in 1955. The MAGNITUDE is different, but the magnitude is always different.

In 1955 there was a higher murder rate and a higher rate of disease. Just because both are lower in 2018 doesn't mean we don't continue to invest significant effort into working on both murder and disease.

In 1955, Jim Crow laws were appalling and inhuman. Lynchings were accepted by large segments of society. In 2018, we still have strong systemic bias in police forces that handle black criminals with a significantly higher rate of violence than white criminals leading to many preventable deaths. And we still have a justice system that punishes black criminals more severely than white criminals, affecting community cohesion and health.

These are still serious problems that need significant effort into solving. That is 99% of what the noisy people on twitter and in your workspaces are talking about. But Sean Hannity and Co pick up on the 1%, or misintepret the 99% and present it as some rhetorical excess about feelings and safe spaces and outrage.

No. It's still about human lives.
"at the end of the day if amazon doesn't do this someone else will"

"If Amazon doesn't fuck over people someone else will, so who cares" is a shit argument.
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Is there an open source, transparent tool like Google AutoML that allows us to use NAS to build interesting and well performing neural networks?

Would this be something that people would find useful?
No. The USPS is in the constitution because the Framer’s thought it was important to put there. But it is completley self-funded at this stage.
> The other, Often overlooked layer is the fact that running a dystopian state is uneconomical.

How so?

Only example I can think of is China’s Social Credit system denying loans and traveling permissions to people with a low score - where said score is dependent on your compliance with the whims of the CCP; instead of being dependent on the credit worthiness of the person.

Said person won’t be able to grow his/her business as effectively, reducing his/her company’s competitiveness.
And the event culminating in their unparalleled power to date was avoidable, not based on any of the power they've been granted and continue to demand at our every expense, but by already established agencies with the information to correctly act to do so. I try not to court conspiracy, but the elements are all there (i.e. could 9/11 have been avoided?) The power of pretense seems too strong here.
What happens if every single person pays for pre-check? Wouldn't the lines be just as long?
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I'm British and fly in and around Europe multiple times per year and I've never not had to show my passport - even when flying to Northern Ireland.
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The article may for example be intentionally be silent on inefficiency/misbehavior of tax authorities.
Hm. Are NNs reliable enough to be sure you're getting a correct result?

I'd imagine this kind of task would lend itself to some old-school image recognition techniques - photograph against uniform background, threshold, mask the middle part and count contiguous regions.
I can tell you that the "extinction risks" that EA people are likely to be concerned with are things like nuclear war, runaway AI, runaway bioweapons, catastrophic feedback loops related to global warming, etc. The "extinction" they're referring to is that of the entire human race.

If you thought they were referring to something else, I wonder where you got that idea.
Yes, the US also collects fingerprints from people arriving and have for at least a decade.

(Just informational without a huge rant about people having friends and family)
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To be fair, you haven't explained at all clearly why you don't think k-means adheres to Knuth's notion of an algorithm.

Your objection seems to be

> You can find pathological cases for k-means such that it will never converge on anything useful

As has been pointed out more than once, a good implementation of k-means is guaranteed to terminate in a finite time. And whatever you mean by "useful" doesn't seem to appear in Knuth's definition of an algorithm.
Based on my of observations of cows while working around them another (or IMO rather, the) primary goal seemed to be to swipe or scare away flies and horse-flies that have already landed.
The other aspects of situation are a.) people who are in fact in control of their emotions, but any way to express issues they have is seen as impolite or they are expected to use euphemisms instead of factually correct labels b.) unequal expectations placed on politeness.

Both are big issues and especially their combination can give huge advantage to one side. Their combination can effectively amount to expectation that one side is submissive to the other.
"MI5 would just hold them back, almost certainly if researchers strayed into illegality, says the source. Bellingcat’s willingness to buy information on the black market or scoop it up from pirate sites makes them better than governments at gleaning information from open sources in ‘almost all’ cases, he says."

Intelligence services trying to make you underestimate them. Classic disinformation campaign.
Things that are fully legal today might not be tomorrow. Things that aren't taboo today might be tomorrow.

Without privacy you can be persecuted at any moment for anything you might have done in the past.
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Surely they all need to come through the security screening, though? So suddenly the (already far too long) lines are 2-4x longer. Just say your goodbyes before security, it's really not as issue.
No... I, for one, would really like to know what the actual (measurable, practical) effect of effective altruism is. I definitely hope that it's not just like, we do nothing but more effectively.

I likewise question the efficacy of efforts like eradicating malaria. I can't help but feel all that money would be better spent on technology (not startups, but like fusion and other energy research, nanotech, space industry etc), even if for-profit. Like, no mater how many Africans you can save from malaria, they will keep dying or living shitty lives because of poverty, famine, wars... Only technology can actually change the world (and politics, but we can't really seem to be able to do much about that...).
Not directly. I briefly thought that a certain computational number theory problem might involve subset sums, but alas, it turned out to be the wrong approach.
I'm with you. Someone could cause a huge amount of death, damage and destruction by blowing up a bus or subway train, and yet these have zero security and work just fine. How come everyone gets hysterical when it comes to flying?
I hear you but if it costs $3 to drop ship something from China to CONUS but $4 for me to send it within CONUS I’m not sure how we can say it’s “not one-sided concessions and subsidies”

I get the argument of globalization but I just don’t see it playing out how people say it’s supposed to.
Amazingly, despite the fact that good diet and exercise are by far the best things you can do to treat type 2 diabetes, it's actually in the guidelines in Australia to commence metformin from the beginning. The reason being that studies have shown that the number of patients who actually do make long-term changes to their diet and exercise routines is excruciatingly small. So small, that it's best just to assume they won't actually do it, so just commence metformin (while still giving the advice, of course). At least this way the 95% (I dunno what the actual number is) of patients who won't change will be getting some BSL reduction in the meantime.
Hi all, i'm the developer of the Bitcoin Spellbook. It's a platform that lets you easily create the back-end for bitcoin applications. The basic idea is that you configure triggers and actions. A trigger can be based on the balance of a bitcoin address, the blockheight, the number of confirmations of a transaction or one of many more triggers available. There is also the option of creating HTTP GET, POST or DELETe endpoints to interact with a front-end.

Once a trigger activates, it can run a python script or execute one or more actions like sending a bitcoin transaction, sending an email or running a command etc...

So by combining certain triggers and actions you can create whatever bitcoin application you want to make. The source code also includes example apps like a bitcoin splitter service, a lottery, a notary service, an app to send dividends to investors and even a payment processor.

Besides that there are also a few command line tools like a transaction listener that can run a command when a given address sends or receives a transaction.
The worst thing is that our politicians seems to be mostly inclined to say they are disappointed whenever a new scandal erupts, and then nothing happens. If only they would have been as forceful in response as the new Social Agency scandal (even if 15+ years too late), when it came to the Tax Agency.

Then again, since it seems like most voters don't really give a damn, I guess it's politically expedient to just not care.
Is it necessary to have a hardware device for this to function? I'd love to pay $99/year for a 120 GB encrypted email service, but don't want the hassle of owning more stuff. I'd go with ProtonMail but it's seriously expensive for the data price (24€/mo = 288€/yr for just 20GB).

I also can't imagine that having a hardware device in-home actually reduces the unit costs of that storage, so if this were an on-line service priced even cheaper, I'd love to pay for it.

My concerns echo those of commenter 'andr'.
Our gas is too cheap due to subsidies and/or due to inadequately accounting for the costs of externalities like pollution or wear/tear on roads. Or, more precisely, the lack of political will to acknowledge that discrepancy.
I know your comment is in jest, but no, developed countries don't owe developing countries shit.
I'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D
Thanks for the pointers! I'll definitely look into what you wrote!
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> Airlines have traditionally been targets for terrorism.

Orders of magnitude more terrorist attacks are targeted at crowds of people "out in the open" in cities than at airlines.
I'd say that really depends on what your work environment is like. I've worked places where I'd much rather eat at my desk, quietly reading a book or newspaper, than go into a loud, crowded breakroom/cafeteria where I was either ignored or expected to talk to people I couldn't be myself around.
actually I’ve seen sort used for kinds of kinds in some PL papers that I’ve read. Not sure how official it is, some PL researchers I’ve talked to say that they don’t go higher than sorts.
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1) You're trivializing just how bad things were, a little bit.

2) I'm not arguing that racism doesn't exist. I'm arguing that the outrage-addicts are ineffective, and that they suffer from a bias towards slacktivism and purity-gating.

Contrast with King and especially LBJ. Making change requires building bridges.
Knowing bankers’ humour, it’s probably anything but.
Those areas made far more than they invested, and China needed that huge investment because those three areas had already spent a century exploiting it for profit.
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And when that proxy is worth it's salt, it shall detect attempts to tunnel plain ssh over said ports.

This is 2018, anyone who can bypass their corporate proxy with that example, should find employment elsewhere or atleast prepare to do so since your company's internals will surface on twitter any time now.
How many people have access to drives in us-east-2a? Do you know? Can you verify?

Assuming the software works flawlessly (if it doesn't, it doesn't matter where it runs) you'll need RAM and storage access to recover the keys and the data. If you're in the cloud, you won't notice when insiders or state agencies take a peek. If the device is in your home, you can set it up so you notice.

It all depends on the threat model.
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> King even wrote a whole essay about how white moderates 'tone policing' the civil rights movement needed to get on board or get out of the way.

It's that very letter, isn't it?

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate ... the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is ... the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice"
I personally try to make sure that nobody in my circles, techie or otherwise, surfs without an ad blocker. This irresponsible 3rd party advertising bullshit has got to stop.

We have people in this very thread openly talking about deploying third party ad scripts that send their users on chains of redirects that they admit to losing track of, and the only thing they see wrong with this is that they can't accurately track their users, not that they very probably sent their users down whatever rabbit/shithole serving malware, miners or drive-by downloaders.

Online advertising is a disgusting wasteland and many people coming out of the woodworks in this thread, working in the industry, are knowingly, unknowingly or usually willingly blindly working to create this situation as it is. Dollar bills make for very good blinders, especially if it's your living.
>> developers should be liable for the damage caused by their negligent code

To be fair, at this point I would rather see developers not writing code; rather than writing buggy one.

I had a friend on FB who's just completed a security course and wrote a password generator in Go. The random was seeded from a current date in nanoseconds. The issue is that while no one will probably ever reverse his passwords, but the guy open-sourced his script. How many people will be influenced by that piece of code?

Lawyers have that: if you can't be liable - you're not a lawyer. GTFO.
Has been uneconomical? Again, it takes a large, sophisticated computer network to track a person's Social Credit.
All well and good until you get visited by men with guns for breaking the law.
AFAIK, there are two ways in which the tones can be sent.

1. In the regular audio stream (AKA in-band) so anyone who can listen to the phone call, can also listen to these tones. These tones can be mapped to the digits pressed.

2. In a separate RTP payload (AKA out-of-band) so not everyone can read / listen to this stream of signals / tones. RFC 4733 (earlier it was RFC 2833) specifies the format of this RTP payload. This is what the payment via phone systems might be using.

There is a secure RTP with encryption support, but I am not sure if it can be implemented end-to-end to avoid anyone in middle (not a man-in-middle attacker, but a genuine carrier / network) to see these DTMFs. Just unable to imagine how this works :)
They collect massive amounts of user data. I’m not a fan of that, even if they haven’t yet decided what to do with it.
That thread was unbelievable, man hackernews discussions were very enlightening back then, drew houston even introduced his startup in that thread.
I think projectmanagement.com is an excellent resource with a big community of project managers, books, blogs, webinars and so on. You can also look for appropriate communities on Reddit for more useful resources, constant communication and sharing your questions. Some of them are r/projectmanagement, r/agile, r/softdevteam, r/scrum. I also enjoy cio.com website, though it is not just for project managers.
It was also a policy decision driven by necessity. Nixon didn’t go to China for the lulz, China was going down a bad path dangerous to the west and western business was hitting a wall in many ways as well.
And how do you deduplicate the ones that are visible on multiple angles?
So seems it's not a social construction after all.
I'm decidedly against government surveillance, but it feels like our government are deliberately inviting crime to further the needs and arguments for complete surveillance.

Now that violent attacks against the police and emergency services, stabbings, rape, murder and generally a complete refusal to accept the law become more common, I'm at the point where unsolved crime bothers me more than protecting people's privacy, so it evidently works.

It's ironic how the people who want open borders are creating their own dystopian future, but are too short-sighted to realize how they're being used.

In the end, the borders will be closed and we'll end up with not only a lot more problems and surveillance that none of us wanted, but the net result of people being better/worse off will also be negative.
Orkney and the Shetland Isles are actually some of the wealthiest regions of the UK, so it makes sense that they might be able to get something like this off the ground.
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Ultimately this can all be boiled down to the idea if working smarter not harder. Unfortunately mankinds definition of smart varies as as wildly as their actual intelligence
Hopefully my opinion is not controversial but the tech behind this is really cool. It is equally easy to imagine a future where this tech is helpful and beneficial for all society. It is also equally easy to imagine a dystopian future where this tech is used by evil authoritarian governments. I am personally very conflicted on this issue because the tech is really cool (actual big data machine learning/CV) but can be used extremely unethically at the same time. It's like a razor sharp double-sided blade.
I was going to say the web browser. It is pretty easy to start learning with HTML, than CSS and JS. There is immediate feedback and you can copy and modify sources from other places.

The benefit is that it is really quick to build something decent and useful.
Because the world is not black and white. Money sent back Will assuredly get spent it’s just a question of where and whether that’s better
Well I read a bit, then thought "things like being verbose, generic, and over-guarded in offering advice and so wasting lots of readers time without making an impact on their behaviour"?

If they'd given one direct piece of easily actionable advice the actual impact might have been far larger ...

"So what?" - a Church sermon I heard well over decade ago, the speaker said basically if there's nothing that listeners will remember and act on then your sermon is moot. You can give a tonne of great advice, but sometimes less is more impactful.

Perhaps they do that to. The title gave me high hopes.
Screaming is useful for warning something about something that's obviously going to negatively affect them. Like walking in in front of a train, or how cheating will make them fail a course because the screaming person will be the one failing them.

When it comes to more abstract concepts, the average person will ignore the screaming lunatics and side with the person that appears sane at first glance, even if they're really the crazy ones.
The major difference is that one is basic clothing and the other is something you just have with you.
I shouldn't have to buy special clothes to fly. (I happen to own a pair of athletic shoes as well as boots, however, my spouse only owns boots. We don't invest much in clothing).

On the other hand, I don't really find it to be much of a bother. My boots stay on decently without tying the laces and I can usually do a proper lacing when I'm out of the way.
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I guess Bezos sees this as a strategic play to leapfrog Facebook on knowing who everyone is.
It sounds like the hardware device is an SMTP server that sends the email itself directly over encrypted SMTP.

So, what's the subscription for?
Violates the do 1 thing and do it well principle (ie broken abstraction)
Such tools and technologies WILL be used - regardless if it's legal or illegal. They will be used at least in HIDDEN ways by security agencies in - at least - some places on the earth...
Whether or not ISPs can figure it out is completely orthogonal to whether or not it's allowed.
Marijuana can be ingested in many ways, smoking being probably the most harmful due to combustion.

> smoking marijuana is harmless

The opposite. Consuming (know your dosage, know your substance) can have a variety of health benefits.

It is worth noting there a known side-effects too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis#Impact_on_psy...
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No, he's right. Nothing you said made his point wrong.
> Now that violent attacks against the police and emergency services, stabbings, rape, murder and generally a complete refusal to accept the law become more common [...]

Citation needed.
I doubt it. Chinese companies aren’t sending wholesale stock vis epacket. Losing consumer ability to by tiny quantities of fake LEGO or whatever in quantity 1 volume isn’t putting anyone out of business.

I would rather subsidize domestic shipping to lower barriers to e-commerce entrants if we feel a burning desire to subsidize something in this area.
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I believe the page you are looking for is this: https://www.teilzeitstudium.tu-darmstadt.de/teilzeitstudium_...

Especially:
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I understood the advise to only apply to emails you forward not to emails you reply to.

With replying I would be careful about changing the subject line too. With a forward I send it to new people, as if it were a new mail. In this context it makes sense to me you might also give it a more appropriate subject line.

For example you get a newsletter. One news item is relevant for a friend of yours. You forward the newsletter and with the subject line you direct his attention to the item that is most relevant for him.
Another possibility is: "accessing WU through the API provides no ad revenue opportunity, so we are killing the API off".
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Look at what the cat's tail does when it leaps through the air, or the dogs tail when turning a corner at high speed, and it will become clear. It's for balance and agility.

Greyhounds and Cheetahs naturally have fairly long tails.
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This is an old problem :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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When I was about nine I used something called misoft basic! on ios. Not exactly what you're asking for but it did the job.
Just to make clear something that may be puzzling folk: the famous Westray / Papa Westray link is NOT the only route this plane serves! This plane serves many islands in Orkney: check out the schedule on https://www.loganair.co.uk/travel-information/orkney-inter-i...

This is really cool to see. Orkney has really pushed renewable energy and in fact, on some days they make more than they can use and export!
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