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As a starting point, see the Wikipedia article on Blackstone's formulation [1]: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". It refers to an interesting article, "n Guilty Men" [2].
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Work on grammars for graphics go back to Leland Wilkinson [1]; Tableau's VizQL and Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 library for R are other notable examples [2]. [1]: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGrap
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They're tied together because they're Apple's suite of "pro" media apps. If you want a student discount on OneNote, you should buy it from the microsoft education store [1], rather than the Apple one. OneNote is als
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> someone did post a site that was made to be notes-for-long-into-the-future recently, perhaps someone with better remembering can find it. You might be referring to Standard Notes [0], which advertises itself as having a focus on longev
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Or to Watson (Sherlock/spotlight), Instapaper (Safari Reading List), Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets (Dashboard), SecondBar (menu bars appear on all monitors since Mavericks), or TotalFinder (the Finder has had tabs since Mavericks).
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You could do pretty much the same thing by running something like wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage from cron. Like blit, this will "even take screenshots behind login forms" if you login with Firefox, export cookies, and provide th
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There is also trumptracker.io (Github repository [1]), which was posed here two months ago but flagged [2]. It includes sources for each entry. [1]: https://github.com/TrumpTracker/trumptracker.github.io [2]: https:&#
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The advice I've heard is that if you're concerned about being compelled to release passwords or encyption keys you should cross borders with no personal/work data on your devices. This avoids any 'half-truths' that
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Note that this a very incomplete list. For more complete overviews, see the Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes [1], the NCBI's list of genome sequences [2], or the wikipedia lists of sequenced bacterial [3] and eukaryotic [4] genomes (an
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That was everywhere in England and Wales apart from London? It depends on the scale you look at. Looking at the regional count results , only three of the 12 regions (Greater London, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) voted to remain, and t
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This is explained in the README of the project's Github repository: https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-r...
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We want to control our body weight (system output) by altering how much we eat (system input), based on measurements of our weight, so that it follows a particular trajectory. We could simply try to calculate how much we should eat ahead o
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It has a belt drive [1], rather than a chain. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle
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Emissions from Volkswagen cats above those permitted by the Clean Air Act (enabled by cheating on emissions tests) are estimated to have caused a significant number of premature deaths in the US: > According to the study, conducted by re
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The examples showing TikZ used to draw a sequence diagram [1, 2] or class diagram [3] are far more verbose than the examples in the mermaid readme [4], so mermaid looks easier to write. [1]: http://www.texample.net/tikz&#x
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They have a broadly similar syntax for directed graphs, but Mermaid also provides a simple syntax for drawing UML sequence or class diagrams. You can draw class diagrams with GraphViz, but it's comparatively kludgy [1]. [1]: http:&#x2
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>British police do not push through congestion with parping, wailing sirens. Instead they somehow unzip it, opening and closing a rolling, convoy-sized gap in the traffic. The clever work is performed by a swarm of police motorcycles, wh
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It's an Keynote/invited talk, so there isn't a single corresponding paper as such. There are reference to papers on some of the slides: * slide 75 gives a reference for CARL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02
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Probably the Xeon E5-2630 v4 [1], discussed previously [2]. [1]: http://www.techspot.com/review/1218-affordable-40-thread-xeo... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249317
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A (translated) Dirac delta function might be a better example [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function
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Perhaps you meant to comment on this thread instead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13128518
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One of the css files [0] includes a copyright notice for Skeleton ("A dead simple, responsive boilerplate"). [1]. [0]: http://mbmlbook.com/HtmlReader.styles.base.css [1]: http://getskeleton.com/
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There have also been a few cases where bells have fallen out of their frames, including at Kilmersdon in 2013 [1,2]. In Canada, this resulted in a fatal accident in 1999 [3]. [1]: http://treblesgoing.org.uk/kilmersdonacciden
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The most serious bells related accident I can find is a blast in a French foundry injuring 46 in 2009 [0]. Another hazard is that, with the exception of some ground-floor rings, most bells are rung from a ringing chamber in the tower access
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There's a difference between 'instant hot chocolate' powder (which is sweetened), and 'cocoa powder' (typically unsweetened, and quite bitter unless sugar is added).
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I think you might be overstating the strength of the association. Around me now I have 3 power buttons with white light [0], and 2 with blue light [1]. The color isn't very important because the power symbol makes the purpose of the bu
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This sounds like Rent the Runway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_the_Runway https://www.renttherunway.com/
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But a user who was searching for a property with a particular name would presumably use Ctr-f/Cmd-f to search, rather than scrolling through the whole list to find it.
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> Fastmail killed their Family plan? They announced this on 18 August: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/08/18/easier-user-management-...
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The limit for contactless payments was raised from £20 to £30 last September (and when first introduced the limit was £10) [0] [0]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31164806

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