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I've given you time to cool off, and for the conversation to die down so I can reply candidly.

>Well, I don't agree with that at all.

That's fine, But that's how I saw it and how others probably saw it so I was providing insight. It's my subjective opinion and you don't really get to decide that I was wrong. I would advise choosing your words better if you think you were misunderstood.

>I'm surprised by the lack of skepticism towards the policies themselves.

I'm not going to ask for evidence of this because I find it to be condescending. However the reply to your first comment was stating explicitly: "I agree". And, frankly so do I. So that's at least 2 people in this thread alone.

> Can you count the number of other people in this entire discussion asking the same question?

None when you originally posted, again, that you brought up the topic is not a problem. The response was just a warning that there are people who wish to throw out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to this.

The response should be not: "I seriously question the validity of all metrics." it should be "How do we define what metrics work" and "this metric is broken because it doesn't account for <x>". Unless you disagree, in which case I'm curious to know why.

>It's quite obvious to me that you and others do not want to even enterain[sic] these questions

Very happy to entertain these questions, but they're not presented that way in your reply. Somehow it seems you got offended of being branded something you weren't (which, I too get frustrated with) and replied in a tone which was not entertaining the question, merely deriding those who would not tell you exactly what you wanted to hear.

>to the point where you're offended and candidly talking about disagree-by-doenvote for considering a fairly obvious question.

I commented explaining _exactly_ why I downvoted you. I didn't disagree. Your tone was not conducive to a discussion, merely sowing derision on those who would not tell you that all metrics are bad. This is not how you discuss. How you discuss is by saying "These specific metrics are bad due to <x>." or "What are the metrics by which we measure?" NOT "Well, if it's the case that the more 'equal' we are the more unequal we become is; then all the metrics are bad" because the latter reeks of ignorance and while that's fine as an opening question it does not hold up if that's all your follow up comments are concerning.

I can't tell you how _not_ offended I am. Just take my word for the fact that I couldn't really give a shit, I'm here to have my world view opened up not force my opinions down anyones throats.. unless it comes to systemd. I get offended by systemd.

>This is a discussion forum

Exactly, so let's have a discussion and not beat each other over the head with accusations and a lack of research. This goes for all of us and it includes you.
Blockchain history: 1998 – Wei Dai and b-money
Blockchain is something we're currently exploring as a way to augment our business in order to deal with complex problems like identity management, royalty payouts, and escrowed payments. Additionally, today we can only work with developers in devshops; in the future we want to expand into the freelancer market. Dealing with freelancers at scale is a complicated proposition, as it's been super hit and miss with a well structured workflow to manage them. We're hoping we can solve that problem with a mix of automation and blockchain.

- Disclaimer, I am the aforementioned VP Blockchain at Engineer.ai
If we were talking about something that had a non-zero marginal cost such as tangible goods or services, I would tend to agree. The problem with (or benefit of, depending on your perspective I guess) IP is that apart from a fixed upfront investment (which granted can be substantial), it costs nothing to "produce" or transfer. Allowing a company to in effect pay licenses to itself, is therefore IMHO nothing but an invitation to the company to choose where it wants to get taxed.
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I've used Adobe Photoshop that could not open RAW camera files.

Comparing this one to Paint is disingenuous.
What about this then? https://stackoverflow.com/a/47843552

Claims unicode support is decent in Windows 8 and up.
Water vapour is water.
Well - if you have time for that.
Show HN: Build a Translator Bot Without Coding from Google Sheet
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As an African, I can't help but think that all this charity to Africa might be contributing to us lagging behind in the world. With charities helping out so much, will the local government ever get their act together and provide these functions of public sanitation like they are supposed to? Or will they keep stealing public health funds in the knowledge that charity will always swoop down to save the day?

Charities work with the premise of preventing suffering, but most developed countries can point to a "great suffering" that made them quickly turn their shit around, akin to an addict hitting rock bottom. I would liken charity in Africa to the enabler who always features in morbidly obese people's lives, constantly bringing the person food out of a misplaced sense of love, where perhaps the truly loving thing to do would be to let the person hit rock bottom and change themselves.
Currently it's only Go (because I know it very well), but I'll try to add other features and languages later.
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OP asked about filming/watching other peoples houses and the area sourrounding your own home though, hence my answer. You can film on your own property as you like, but if your surveillance system captures the movement of your neighbor it is possible to link the data to them as well (with high enough probability) so it becomes personal data. If you somehow manage to only capture potential trespassers and do that in a way that does not allow any linking to a specific individual (e.g. by only recording metadata) you can argue that it’s anonymous data, if you routinely capture all people moving through a given area you can’t though as it’s possible to attribute the data back to individuals using context information and statistics.
Sorry, by "Western" I more refer to the countries (United States, Canada, UK) where bidets of any sort do not seem to be common at all. There are also other Western countries (such as France, Germany, and Spain) where I remember bidets being common, but they were stand-alone plumbing fixtures and not a simple hose shower like you see in many Asian countries. This type is probably a lot more expensive to add onto a US bathroom or similar.

I wasn't aware of toilet hoses being standard in Finland, thanks for the information. I'm currently in Malaysia for a couple weeks and personally I am seeing a little bit of mis-spray when using some public restrooms; the misspray issue popped up when looking at forums as well as well. Maybe the issue can be more easily mitigated than I thought (personally, I don't have a problem making sure the spray stays inside the bowl) but plumbing codes might like the drain just in case (it's not easy looking up technical codes in an unfamiliar language so I'm not sure about this though :) ).

It is probably a lot harder to mitigate this type of issue with the "squat" type toilet (you see a random mixture of both types it seems over here).
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Yeah.

Can't the Girl Scouts just change their name to Scouts GSA.
Is digitization in the classrooms of our students good idea?
I'm Swedish and grew up as a scout, and in Sweden scouting was made co-educational in the 1960s. I remember having my mind blown at finding out that this wasn't the case everywhere in the modern world. It just seemed like the most ridiculous thing to me, to separate scouting by gender. Saying that girls and boys couldn't be scouts together was equally absurd to me as saying that girls and boys couldn't go to school together. Equality in this was just the most natural thing in the world.

It's ridiculous that scouting isn't co-educational everywhere. The fact that Sweden didn't realize this until the 1960s is absurd, and the fact that there are people still resisting it today half a century later is downright shameful.
IMHO you got it backwards. It's less of a question on efficiency than priorities. I doubt that if the request was too complicated to implement or the feature was for a very specific task (look at opening raw images in this very thread) there will be such quick response.

Larger teams suffer from the fact that everyone has number of requests and prioritising one over other gets even more complicated. Even a simple request like this might have to go through a pipeline.
"Will we see a total ban on single gender clubs in the future? And is that what we want?"

Aren't they opening up their membership in this case to dominate the "scout" brand and capture a broader market?

"Are we all becoming so politically correct that we effectively stop teaching our children the values of masculinity and femininity?"

What are those values? Do they need to be taught? My son and daughter each demonstrate pretty typical gender traits, but not because of anything we've taught them. Each naturally gravitates to what they like most. We teach them general values and general skills. If there's something commonly considered gender-specific, usually they'll initiate/ask because they're interested.
The hole was pretty much the size of Antarctica at its peak, how could something the size of a small aircraft flying through the atmosphere 135 times cause such a huge hole!?

Also if you lie down on the ground do you suffocate to death because of all of that heavy ozone hanging around there? No, because it's dispersed throughout the atmosphere.

Ultimately it sounds like the kind of situation where no amount of logic is going to change his mind and that you're probably better off avoiding the subject entirely for the sake of your own sanity.
"...we effectively stop teaching our children the values of masculinity and femininity"

What "Values" are these? That Boys are tough and shouldn't cry and girls are good at sitting quietly doing crafts?
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I am coming from this from the angle of having done University level teaching. As an undergrad it seems like there is so much time and so much depth of material. When you are teaching a course you realise that there is actually very limited time and so much to cover. If you choose to dwell a long time on one topic you might well find you don't have time to expose your students to the full range of concepts that they need to be exposed to. In the UK for example you have 3-4 years to take students from finishing school to being ready to do research!
In my country scouts were just scouts, no separation, and in my view it was really a super-positive thing. I've made some good female friends there, had some of the first crushes and romances and all in all that gender mixed environment was much less toxic experience for me than for instance later when I was in a high-school which was technically oriented and had almost no girls at all. All male environment brings the aggression levels up a lot, just as all female environments tend to have much more power games, clans and "politics". When you mix genders people usually behave better (or at least they pretend to be less of a-holes) in my experience.
VLC has a lot of features, but it doesn't offer a 10 foot interface at all. Expecting to use the desktop interface in a home theater setup is ridiculous.
The thing is that it really only have to work on a domestic level. I don't see any good reasons for international scout organizations, unless you want to make it political.
Personally, I don't believe anyone will be able to achieve full code synthesis for a very long time. I'm a firm believer that we'll always need engineers in order to code, product managers to help refine customer requirements, and so on. Having been a developer on the front lines for almost a decade, I've always believed that good software development is more akin to art than an exact science ("good code is like poetry"). That being said, I do think a lot of the stuff we end up doing as part of the SDLC is incredibly repetitive from product to product; boilerplate code, setting up basic architecture, etc.
Those are the areas that we're trying to automate as much as possible so that humans can focus only on the custom bits.

- Disclaimer, I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai
Oh, I'm curious not because I necessarily want such a product.

I'm curious because designing, building, and delivering such a thing has been a "back of my head, maybe when i retire, for fun" project. Also, in my career I've done software consulting for physicists, mathematicians, biologists, and I always find it superbly rewarding,

I'm a systems software engineer, with HPC experience, some devops as well, and a penchant for numerical science oriented code.

Somewhere in my past I wanted to be a computational physicist, or cosmologist, or really anything that deals with the fundamentals of the universe but also requires lots of high performance code and big iron :)

Then I realized I was a far better software engineer than an academic. I asked for a followup because if there actually is a use for stuff like this, it's not too far from what I consider my dream project.
No? It requires you to just listen to the network.
One would imagine they will not be used in these cases
How Bellingcat spies on the spies
I guess the goal is to save you some keystrokes not save you from having to think.
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We're opening up opportunities for MeTooScouts
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because introversion isn't a defect anymore than extraversion is.

It certainly isn't a disorder like autism, though they may come in pairs.
It will work even better in "silence dissident" situation. Collateral damage is just a bonus, you want other people to fear being associated with your target.
There’s also very little crude oil in Switzerland. And very few coffee and cocoa beans. I wonder how they make their famous Swiss chocolate?
Rot. My boys both clearly gain from having girls in the Scouts and Explorers.

In fact, the issues that my youngest's Scout pack are currently suffering from are pretty much all linked to the sort of crappy behaviour you get when boys are brought up the way you appear to be suggesting is a positive thing.
Deoplete is not dictionary based. Deoplete sources are python classes that yield lists of 'matches' (some are language specific and some are not). You can make it give you back quite about anything.

(Disclaimer: I wrote deoplete's original version of the "file" source, which completes file paths).
It's only confusing because many people want to conflate the differences between genders and downplay the similarities, for political and religious reasons. If one accepts that, yes, men and women are different but those differences don't validate all biases which delineate by gender, then the issue becomes more clear, that we can and do have both, because society, culture and gender are complex.
Is it time to rewrite the Operating System in Rust?
I am not sure if such is allowed in another martial arts league. But from my experience in fighting, kicking someone anywhere on the body while they are on the ground will quickly and inevitably result in serious injuries. Standing up, you can "elastically catch" the kick and reduce the damage it does. On the floor, you will absorb the full force.
The number 3. oh my. It's ridiculous what people do with the bugs their found since Heartbleed. I don't remember anything like that before, but ever since every security issue needs a logo and a catchphrase for some reason.
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I looked at protonmail about 6 months ago but decided its free service was too limited (no imap/pop3 access) and the paid service was too expensive. I ended up going for https://mailbox.org/en/ which is not free but much cheaper, and seems to offer a reasonable level of security, privacy and functionality.
>it's way more versatile than the usually pretty terrible SmartTV onboard software in terms of what content you can access - like Amazon Video that only streams to their own crap stick.

The sad thing is: This has reversed. I gave up trying to Netflix and Amazon Video from my HTPC. The former at least has an app and now even supports all formats (Dolby Vision 4k, Atmos), but the controls are terrible for a remote.
The latter doesn't even have an app, and all you get is HD+Stereo.
And don't get me started on Blu-Ray.
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I've worked with MemSQL and it's both really easy to use and setup and very fast. FWIW, I'm not a manager.
>I'm not suggesting they aren't capable of technological breakthroughs, but stuxnet definitely isn't an example of one.

Never suggested it was. My point still stands that the world was shocked it existed, if only for precisely the reasons you described. It was an indicator of the degree to which intelligence agencies had their shit together at the time. Things that advanced had never really been publicly seen nor pulled off before.

As an aside, one can likewise argue that imaging people via RF isn't really a breakthrough unto itself, but merely putting existing technology and knowledge together in a complicated but exacting fashion.
Interesting read. The mention of the book “The Fifth Generation” by Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck (that I read in 1983, and was totally into at the time) made me think of Kai-Fu Lee's new book "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order" that markets the idea that China will win the AI war because they have more data and entrepreneurs and established companies who go deep with developing online to offline businesses (invest heavily in supporting physical infrastructure).

History is not kind the the Japanese 5th generation project. My hunch is that Kai-fu's predictions will be more accurate than Edward's and Pamela's predictions.

I used to use Prolog a lot, now I just occasionally play with it. Contrasting to Lisp: until I started my current job 15 months ago (Python ML), Lisp was one of the cornerstones of my work and consulting business for 35 years.
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Same here in the Netherlands. It's always weird to read about the US BSA and the Girl Scouts being actual separate organisations. Here it was (and perhaps is) perfectly acceptable to have separate girl and boy patrols within the same age bracket in a single group, but most activities are shared (including the all-important summer camp).
I tested it quickly with a draft text and found it useful, but only for changing a few single words. Hemingway[0] is a tool along the same line that checks readability levels, maybe combine the approaches to address things at sentence levels too?

[0] http://hemingwayapp.com/
One of the things Gates' money pays for is Guinea Worm Eradication.

Guinea Worm is literally a parasitic worm. The eradication programme isn't about injecting people with a vaccination, building modern water treatment plants or deploying sophisticated drone technology, it's stuff like:

- Here are some free water filters. Filter the water from that murky pond before you drink it.

- When you have a worm, don't go in the water. Yes it feels cooler, that's because the worm wants you to go to the water, go to a free treatment clinic instead.

- If your neighbour has a worm, go to the clinic, tell them who the neighbour is, you both get cash money and the clinic will treat the worm. Hooray.

The biggest obstacles to Guinea Worm Eradication are not about Africa's lack of technology or its corruption.

The big obstacles are "insecurity" (ie civil wars or just violent criminals who control outlying areas) and "inaccessibility".

Inaccessibility is hard to comprehend for most of us, we're not used to truly being far from civilisation. People who live two days walk from anything resembling a road may have only heard rumours of the existence of the Guinea Worm clinics - for them a parasitic worm chewing its way out of your leg is just a routine hazard of normal rural living.

But yeah, Gates is already investing in the very lowest technology fixes, he isn't some tech nutjob who thinks we're going to solve desperate poverty with a Docker image.
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>Building this sort of infrastructure is a massive engineering task

>It requires skilled engineers and labour

Exactly, and there are no tricks around that are known to solve that, other than to engage in massive infrastructure projects. A very simple thing.
If you saw the latest MacBooks you can certainly say they are trying.
I got my start with semantic web/linked data using semweb library and SWI-Prolog. I think that RDF data stores (and more general graph databases like Neo4j) scale better, but semweb is great for experimenting.
Minimal filming of foot paths and streets adjacent to your property happens all the time, e.g. to film your front garden and/or your car.

To be perfectly legal there are a few steps to take, but in reality as long as it's minimal and legitimate nothing is going to happen to you.

Of course, that's not the same as pointing your CCTV camera straight into your neighbour's garden...
because at some point you want to have business rules that use your graph and make a pretty UI and write a graph renderer and implement GraphQL and all of those would be horrible to do in prolog so prolog would have to be the backend of a graph API that you would use in $GENERAL_PURPOSE_LANGUAGE and at that point it may not be the fastest.
I would guess, the following rule changes will help a lot.

* Increase the minimum size of the wrist padding and gloves. Which makes it much safer to throw punches. Additionally, the design of the gloves can be regulated so grabbing someone is harder than it is now.

* Perhaps, add rules about how long you can stay on top of someone on the ground without doing significant damage. A lot of matches end up with a takedown at the start of a round followed by 3 minutes of light pounding and no serious attempt/success at a submission hold. A 20-30 second limit on no serious on the ground action will go a long way.

* Finally, we can directly change the judging criteria to make it easier to win rounds via striking dominance instead of grappling.