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by mhuffman 10y ago
> I have had numerous encounter with police and never, ever had a problem, nor witnesses bad behavior on the part of police. Well that is just amazing to be honest. I have LEO in the family and they all did personality 180s after joining
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Pro-tip: If you are curious and they don't mention version support, search the repo for "print" statements to help you distinguish.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Spoken like a person who has had limited interaction with police officers.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Well I disagree. It was written as a limited browser scripting language in 1992. I was never meant to be a full-blown development language. So, I guess that needed to be said ...
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by mhuffman 10y ago
There is this radical idea in software development that sometimes you use the language that is best for the job -- not just the one you are already using!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
No, they are (well developed) bandaids to help deal with the cancer of javascript!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> Both PHP and Javascript are much more complex from a language design standpoint Complex in the sense that they were originally thrown together and the results of the program might best be described as "stochastic output", yea
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Oh boy did you miss something in the 90s! It was call active pages (or some bullshit, I have tried to block it from my memory) and it made Internet Explorer the king of browsers and still locks in a lot of government agencies and business f
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> You do realize that Python was not only built to appeal to "non-devs" ... as an alternative to C++ and Perl. And in that respect, it is a snap to pick up. It is pretty easy, not as easy as, say, Javascript, but still easy to
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Bad code? Yes! But C++, Java, Perl, even Python has a bit of a learning curve that demands some small amount of commitment (and more importantly, understanding) to get moving with. Javascript, VB, PHP can get a person creating things in an
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> i'm sure i'm going to burn karma for comparing node with vb but... I'll take the hit for you and flat-out say that node.js is the new VB. In fact, for those of you that have been around a while, I think we can all agree
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Correct. > Levitt, et al, used only FARS data, which only records fatal accidents. A hypothetical accident where only the child would have died but that was prevented by the restraints would therefore not show up in the data, leading to
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I agree. I am not convinced not to use a child seat for children I care about (also it is the law). However, the parent commenter used that single study (that seems to have an ax to grind with Levitt) as proof against Levitt's claim. A
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I am afraid that you are mistaken. You will note that they say: "Within FARS, we identified 7813 children aged 2 through 6 years who were vehicle occupants restrained in a child restraint system or a seat belt in a nondrivable passenge
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Source and direction would be killer features. Imagine holter monitors that can sit beside your bed as you sleep (tossing and turning), instead of wearing them, or instant continuous ECG data during triage. Many heart attacks are misdiagnos
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by mhuffman 10y ago
That is their conclusion (which I addressed in my comment). Read the table: Table 1 says that seat belts had a non-fatal rate of 99.89% and restraint systems had a non-fatal rate of 99.88%. They flat-out say that they had to adjust it to ge
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I addressed that in my comment. Their numbers are practically identical, but their conclusion is different, because they make a determination on whether a car seat was "seriously misused". Further, Table 1 says that seat belts had
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> and 2) four crash tests that were run by an anonymous test center. He addresses that criticism directly in the video by saying that there are another 45,000+ incidences of real-world crash data that have been analyzed. > "Effec
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by mhuffman 10y ago
This is not surprising. Sebastian Thrun[1], one of the founders of Udacity, specializes in robotic automobiles. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun
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by mhuffman 10y ago
> How in the world can 5000+ people be "rogue employees"? Well they have 265,200 employees, so I can see 1%-2% of people maybe trying to make a quick buck. You probably know at least 100 people. Can't you think of at least
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Well, this is going to be an unpopular opinion I'm sure, but a lot of Sub-Saharan African countries seem to be shuffling Health and Human Services off to Western countries to handle, while they use economic aid for more "corrupt&q
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Well, if you are a "Internet celebrity hound", Andrew Ng (of Stanford, machine learning online course, and general HN fame ) is Chief Scientist at Baidu now. Otherwise, I agree that it has an uphill battle with some other entrench
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Tk and WxWidgets are not in the same league as QT. Tk is limited, specifically, to being a gui toolkit, and even though the most recent versions look like native widgets, they are limited and the online support (from groups, etc) is limited
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I agree across the board with your assessment. It is a shame that OP does not want to go HTML/CSS engine, because over the years, I have found that to be the easiest to update, the most reliable across platforms, and (most importantly)
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I can tell by your antagonistic language that you are hiding something! To the thought-extractor citizen -- we'll get to the bottom of this!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
I expect this to be streamlined and used by law enforcement as an alternative for polygraphs.
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by mhuffman 10y ago
A full-blown gout attack is not on the list either, and that has to be near the top!
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by mhuffman 10y ago
You sure can! Except you will likely have to roll your own, rather than the plug-and-play modules that seem to be released for R first (used to be MATLAB, but R seems to be the pretty new girl in class, getting all the attention).
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Also, if you are using models and algorithms on the backend, R is painful compared to python. If you are just doing interactive work RStudio and jupyter with well-stocked support libraries are about equivilant to me. If you want to do somet
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by mhuffman 10y ago
Also a lot of voters seem to think that mental health issues are "your problem" but crime (getting caught with weed mostly, is a social problem that needs severe punishment, not treatment. People (especially tea-baggers, like Rick

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