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Also I like the irony of showing Volkswagen cars when mentioning efforts from the E.U. to reduce car emissions :)
I feel they could simply apply the same tax to non US citizens/permanent residents trying to purchase a home in the Seattle area.
The idea of a vacancy tax seems hard to apply while respecting people privacy.
If the owner is a non citizen who doesn't live in the US, you can use immigration records to know of his presence, and they he/she can show rent documents to prove if the house was occupied. But this looks like it would be hard to enforce.
It's interesting to see how other cities are tackling the issue, Paris bumping up the tax to 60% of the fair market value of rent for instance : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/vacant-homes-are-gl...
This lost also shows that while Vancouver is high on the list, San Francisco and NYC are higher.
I was looking at the FAQ[1] and on a small paragraph they manage to put 3 spelling mistakes. This might be unjustified but I'm less inclined to trust a product with this, even less one that manages sensitive secrets.
> Since your data is fully encrypted and/or hashed before ever leaving your local device, noone from the bitwarden team can ever see, read, or reverse engineer to get to your real data. bitwarden servers only store encypted and hashed data. This is an important step that bitwarden takes to protect you.
> You can read more about how your data is encrypted and trasmitted here.
Many FAQ questions have at least one spelling mistake, and it's not the same every time, so it's not due to a foreign speaker's mistake. "trasmitted", "sensative data", etc.
[1] https://help.bitwarden.com/security/can-bitwarden-see-my-pas...
Paper link for those interested : https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/genetic-fuzzy-based-arti...
(from a June 2016 press article : http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/alpha.h... )
there was 8/23 wrong classifications of "Bottled vs Soma" vs. 10/23 wrong classifications of "Tap vs Soma"
In Figure 6 , the author shows there's no statistically significant difference between "Bottled vs Soma"
So like he wrote :
> Soma filtered water performed the worst, having a taste statistically indistinguishable from tap water
I could write using the same data:
Soma filtered water performed the best, having a taste statistically indistinguishable from bottled water
The abstract was promising:
> This paper presents an efficient implementation of geometric algebra, based on a recursive representation of the algebra elements using binary trees. The proposed approach consists in restructuring a state of the art recursive algorithm to handle parallel optimizations.
Unfortunately I found the results and conclusion disappointing.
That method sounds interesting for the problem, unfortunately there's no figures/tables presenting the results at all, and no mention of parallel optimizations (Unless the SIMD optimization is what the authors refer as parallel optimizations. I was expecting multi cores optimizations, or at least shared memory multi-threading or GPU computing).
They focus heavily on theory, but only ~2 pages out of 21 are about results. I'm used to read papers where the experimental results describe the experimental setup (What hardware etc.)
They only give small hints about expected results such as:
> The results show here an overall 25% relative gain over Gaigen mainly due to the SIMD implementation
But it's hard to wrap your head around this. Is it SIMD on a 4 core machine? 8 core? 2 cores? Knowing the hardware setup would change my perception of the results. Especially the prior-art mentions "Gaalop" a CUDA/OpenCL implementation. Why is that not what they compare their results with?
The authors describe Galoop as "the most recent efficient implementation of the geometric algebra" but yet seem to contradict themselves in the Conclusion:
> We show that the proposed method is at least as fast as the main state of the art specialized geometric algebra implementations.
Is Gaigen or Galoop the state of the art? I found this confusing.
If he hacks the Echo Look, it could blackmail people based on some naked pictures/videos of the victims.
Who other than the CIA can also exploit this?
Is there a place where Dumb TVs still exist?
In that case "us" is Google, in that server farm specifically. The article mentions there exists better alternatives :
> The National Security Agency cools its Fort Meade, Maryland data center with treated wastewater, touted as an environmental boon and cost savings compared to tap water or aquifer pumping.
If I remember correctly the Bosch cheating software was there for testing purposes but VW asked Bosch to leave it.
> Everyone else also uses it
No. Some companies optimize their engine to have optimal emissions in the exact conditions of the emissions test, but no other company has been found to have an actual digital switch modifying the engine's behavior only during the emissions test.
And a quote from the NYT article[1]:
“This does nothing,” said Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. “Like all the other executive orders, it’s just words — he’s calling for new studies. It’s not going to fix the problem. It’s not going to create a single job.”
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/politics/executive-ord...
But now let's say minorities gets a "resiting arrest" charge on top of their original charge more often, because of many factors such as the police bias, the bias of the minorities towards police, etc. (By bias here I mean all spectrum : racism, but also fear of the police etc).
As long as minorities are treated differently upfront, then the model would treat them differently.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160828065530/http://sdf.org/?f...
There's also many country-related advantages not specific to SV but to the U.S. in general: How easy it is to create your company and work from your garage compared to other countries. This makes SV business friendly
The international crowd in SV: People from every continent share and mix their ideas, this usually leads to great results since the people who immigrate to SV for the purpose of entrepreneurship usually all share that great ambition and can bring the best of their home countries cultures and know-how.
I feel the HN submission should point to that instead.
The Outlook Exchange, RDP, Kerberos, ... exploits are scary, even though some only seem to affect older Windows versions.
[1] http://www.opencompute.org/ [2] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1687861518126048/facebook-to...
One questions I have regarding NAS is backups of the NAS itself.
If I have a very simple NAS with 2 drives in Raid 1 (let's call it Drive A and B), and I want to make a physical backup of my NAS in a different location. How easy is it ? What is the best practice. Ideally you could just have a big rsync method that takes care of it, or rclone as described in the article, but what if you want to do it without any network transfer (because your connection is too slow/ you can't afford it)
Does the following protocol make sense: Removing Drive A , replacing it with an empty drive C. Wait for the NAS to synchronize drive C. Then remove Drive B, replace with drive D, wait for the NAS to synchronize drive D.
Taking Drive A and B to a different location, plug them, and have the backup working out of the box.
Is it that easy? What about more complicated RAID setups?
is there an easy "Prepare Backup -> Please insert First drive for your backup -> First drive filled up -> please insert second drive for your backup -> ... -> Please insert last drive for your backup" and then you take all those newly filled drives and shove them in a different box and they have all the data at the time of the backup, with either the right zfs and raid configuration, or at least a simple data dump in a non-raid configuration.
I guess I'll keep buying the French Gros Sel de Guérande from world market, plus the fact that it tastes really good when sprinkled on meat :)
With a deal with an airline, the company doesn't have to do the 1-2% cashback, instead they give 0 to the customer. The airline company will give them miles though. Now the airline company can say to the credit card company: "look these thousands of customers you have them only thanks to me, so let's split your profits from the merchant 50/50 (or at least give me that 1% cashback you don't have to pay the customer), plus at some point I'll have to actually offer a plane ticket to those customers who earn enough miles"
What a customer gets usually is something like 7 miles per dollar. Consumer website estimate[1] that in the best of case, a mile is equal to ~$0.01, so they're also saving money there. (Plus the money the credit card company give them is today, whereas the plane ticket might be in one year or more, so the present discounted value of that ticket is even less)
[1] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/04/april-2017-monthly-valuatio...
> The Skype team initially adopted the Flux principles, but we found it to be cumbersome. It requires the introduction of a bunch of new classes (dispatchers, action creators, and dispatch events), and program flow becomes difficult to follow and debug. Over time, we abandoned Flux and created a simpler model for stores. It leverages a new language feature in TypeScript (annotations) to automatically create subscriptions between components and stores. This eliminates most of the code involved in subscribing and unsubscribing. This pattern, which we refer to as ReSub, is independent of ReactXP, but they work well together.
That's interesting, I wonder how this differ from redux and others
I wonder also how is navigation is handled, is it easy to add react navigation in the mix?
Clicking on Next while on https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/docs/animations navigates to a 404
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13866936/microsoft-windows...
No, a foreign candidate either needs the BS in CS or they can use work equivalency [1]. However if you worked your whole life in a different field and have no relevant degree, I would assume you are not eligible. Otherwise it'd basically make 7 billion people eligible for the H1-B.
If your other technical field is let's say petroleum engineering, you could surely get a H-1B as a petroleum engineer, but not as a programmer or a lawyer for instance, which I think makes total sense. (Unless you're good looking, then you could get a H-1B as a fashion model :) )
Check out the wikipedia definition for "specialty occupation" : requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor [2]
[1] http://www.shihabimmigrationfirm.com/h-1b-degree-equivalency...
>“This is not a change in policy on H-1B and H-1B1 eligibility in computer-related fields,” CeCe Gwathmey, a spokeswoman for the immigration agency, said in an email
It's literally making sure the Nebraska Service Center guidelines are synced with the California Service Center and Vermont Service Center since NSC hasn't processed H-1B for a while, there was no need to update that 17 year old guideline. CSC and VSC were the only centers processing H-1B
No changes, yet Bloomberg claims New H-1B Visa Guidelines Crack Down on Computer Programmer Jobs