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Comment Re: Nobody sees any bias on Wikipedia? (Score 1) 193

There are different types of nonprofits, with different levels of non-taxability. 501(c)(3) nonprofits, which are the kinds that allow tax deductible donations, legally "may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates".

Comment Unicode strikes again (Score 1) 28

Summary:

All Euro markets, except Montenegro, will see the base $0.99 app pricing move to $1.19 next month, a 20 percent jump.

Article:

All Euro markets, except Montenegro, will see the base â0.99 app pricing move to â1.19 next month, a 20 percent jump

Instead of messing up the unicode this time, the author decided to mess up the currency. Nicely done.

Comment Re:Tesla extra buy features? (Score 1) 374

Some, if not all, models with both a long-range and "standard"-range offering use the same batteries. Paying extra for LR is a software unlock for charging the battery further. BMW here does the same with heated seats, and additionally gives you the option to pay monthly if you so choose.

I won't give my opinion here, but whether or not their practice is as morally questionable is at the very least arguable.

Comment Re: Diminishing returns? (Score 1) 39

That is true for Euclidean TSP (or more generally TSP on a p-norm in R^d), but real-life travel distances typically do *not* have such a clean metric because trucks need to drive on roads and so on. Oftentimes it's not a metric at all, because the existence of one-way streets breaks symmetry. For arbitrary semimetrics ("metrics" that satisfy the triangle inequality but violate symmetry), the theoretically best results known only guarantee you a solution within 2-3 orders of magnitude of optimal (i.e. a ~300x approximation ratio), and the best results you can ever actually run in practice gives you a solution that can be off by some O(log log n) orders of magnitude. And that's before we account for all the extra stuff going into their "mega TSP" instance. Difficult stuff, and it's not at all clear that a quantum computer can even help here.

Comment Re: How They Pick Them? (Score 5, Informative) 288

The original white paper does have the numbers: 125 in each the experimental and control groups, with 35 initially unemployed in the UBI-receiving group and 40 unemployed in the control group. After the experiment, 50 were employed in the UBI group and 46 in the control. What the white paper doesn't have is a claim of statistical significance. Because the result is not significant at a p=0.05 level regardless of how you want to phrase the null hypothesis. Depending on the precise statement you want to make (or, technically, falsify), p values range from 0.06 to 0.24.

Comment new layout (Score 0) 2254

Everybody who wants to complain about the new layout can post it as a reply here, so to help identify people whose philosophy is "whine first, test later" and ignore their QQing.

Music

Submission + - Open Source Music Fingerprinter C&D'd (google.com)

Nushio writes: The code wasn't even released, and yet Roy van Rijn, a Music & Free Software enthusiast received a C&D from Landmark Digital Services, owners of Shazam, an Android application that allows you to find a song, by listening to a part of it. And if that wasn't enough, they want him to take down his blog post (Google Cache) explaining how he did it because it "may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world".

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