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Yes, but a quality education system requires thousands of people who can each only affect ~20-100 people a year. It's not an efficient use of the 'best and brightest'.

Meanwhile 55 engineers at WhatsApp can write software used daily by 700m people. Or a handful of financiers can find a new way to securitize debt, lowering interest rates for 100m borrowers.
Both CAFE and Smog Check-style programs are gamed terribly, across multiple manufacturers... but VW gets the blame, which it rightly deserves.

Testing of emissions needs to happen at the tailpipe while driving with mobile equipment in the real-world with certain types of traffic / road conditions.

Mileage needs to be calculated by metered fuel measurement on a test track with both highway- and (stop-and-go traffic) city-driving.

In addition to either two, Tesla vehicles and other full electric vehicles cannot come quickly enough to supplant gasoline/diesel/CNG/LNG/flex fuel/etc.

PS: I just California Smog Check'ed my '85 Vanagon, which has direct-port fuel injection, mass-airflow sensor and rudimentary "computer" (Digijet) after replacing the catalytic converter, O2 sensor and having a VW specialist shop tune it up. NOx (nitrous oxides) went from barely failing 15 and 25 mph limits to near zero. HC (hydrocarbons) and CO were also barely detectible. Emissions on it (a 90 hp motor) are currently at the levels of a PZEV or a new vehicle, and it gets 24 (real-world) MPG (9.8 L/100km).

Already, CA Smog Check station owners are foreseeing additional mandated equipment investments to perform tests on modern vehicles not just via the OBDII port under the steering wheel. This is a good thing but it's hard to sell small-business owners on capital and labor expenses up against the status quo/sunk costs fallacy.
The one I showed is probably even more evil than Kaizo, but of course there's a TAS of Kaizo too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px5E66M1QiI
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Likewise, overachievement in schools is actively hindered just as much as underachievement is given extra assistance. Smarter students' learning is slowed so that they learn no more than about the normal level. This is usually overlooked by the we-love-Finnish-education crowd.

You're going to need a citation of some kind for this.
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If you want to convince teenagers not to try (certain) drugs - have them watch Trainspotting and Requiem For A Dream. Emotionally punishing, both of them.
How exactly are you doing this? I just did CMD+L and it focuses the URL bar as expected, but after typing out a URL and hitting CMD + Enter it opens the URL in the current tab. Option + Enter opens the URL in a new tab, but it also switches focus to that new tab.
> The acceptable particulate level in Colorado emissions testing is 35% opacity. That means the smoke and particulates that are coming out of the exhaust pipe can block up to 35% of light and pass the test. This is a lot of smoke.

This is the most shocking part of this... can you really pass with that much smoke coming out the tailpipe? That's absurd and I find it hard to believe. What's even the point of testing based on those regulations?
That logo of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is chilling.
The methodology here is highly suspect. First of all they are using an AWD dyno which can be unlinked to test a FWD or RWD car. It is expected that the car will dyno lower when driving the rear wheels as well as the front. Not only does it have to turn the drums of the dyno but also the rear wheels, tires, and brakes of the vehicle. Second, a key component of the cheat as reported by the media is keying off of the presence of the OBDII instrumentation. As far as I can tell they did not have any way of simulating this condition.
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That only happens in Roppongi, one suburb in all of Japan. There are hundred of places that would happen in the US.
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It will be interesting to see the trend over time. Right now, people haven't seen levels like this before in mario games (auto playing or ultra hard). But eventually people might get burnt out on the novelty and look for deeper levels.
For all the GPL-hate in this thread: GPL protects this specific implementation and not the algorithm. Even if the authors released this under GPL, this would only be a minor nuisance to getting this unicorn into all kind of products via re-implementations of the same protocol.
Think about this: how should you fake it till you make it?
"any more" is ambiguous, "more" is not.
Very cleaver idea..UI automated tests can be a lot simpler.
Note that the Apache License isn't compatible with GPLv2. If you don't make use of any patents use BSD/MIT/ISC instead.

Sadly there isn't a real alternative permissive license with a patent clause. There is a license called COIL[1], but it hasn't seen much adoption yet.

[1] http://coil.apotheon.org/
How are companies like this allowed to operate in the US? In the UK there are multiple regulators you could complain to about something like this, who would quickly come down on them like a ton of bricks.
Fascinating. Using Missed Connections as a platform to set a context. It could be fictitious, but it's more than achieved its goal for everyone but the intended recipient.
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Nobody has ever done any great writing while stoned. Even Hunter S. Thompson, one of the most pro-drug writers ever, said that pot is the only drug that prevents him from doing any good work.

And no, people should not try LSD. LSD leads to a high danger of psychosis or schizophrenia, and that is no fun at all. It is better not to risk it. Just because you may have gotten lucky so far, there is no reason to invite others to take spin on the russian roulette. If you have any mental illness in your family, it is strongly advisable you steer clear, but even if you don't, it is not worth the risk.
But isn't this having one part of the system responsible for retries (the tree/hierarchy of supervisor processes)?
Me and a lot of people my age hate taking pointless pictures, so Twitter has a secure market there (so long as we are using social media).
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Move? Sister-in-law and husband homeschooled their kids on a crop produce ranch they rented in north/central California.

And there's always the Appalachia's. ;)
That might be true in official Mario games, but they didn't exactly invent Mario Maker. There have been fan hacks of it since forever, like Tazio or Mario Must Die that are downright evil. I've already posted links to a TAS of them elsewhere in this story if you want to see.
So,
Bit background about me. I am a compiler developer who has over the years picked up HTML/JS & CSS by reading/doing various tutorials. Now, I am good with HTML & JS but I am not able to make good looking websites. I know the very basics of CSS, have done various online tutorials, bought a bunch of books etc. Because of all this, I consider myself to be "intermediate" level CSS person (not advanced, not beginner). Now, 90% of courses on udemy, coursera start with teaching how to use HTML &(gasp) editor. Then they teach CSS tags, selectors etc. I am past the basics but cannot make Airbnb or Hipmunk quality. The projects they make you is basic portfolio. There are no courses (or they are very hard to google for)...

I am ready to pay 200-300$ for someone who will teach to make me quality, complex UIs(like Hipmunk).

So courses I am looking for
1) CSS for backend engineers
2) Advanced bootstrap (or other frontend foundations)
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At this point, I am able to think of any course I would be interested in.
Feel free to email me. Address in my profile.
C0nc0rdance is a scientist who makes well researched videos about various subjects, and did a few videos on the health effects of marijuana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnNPm5cG85c

It may not be the most harmful drug, but it's certainly not harmless or non-addictive.

LSD can cause mental illness to emerge in some people. I also remember a study that gave LSD to 10 people during a religious sermon. 9 of them went on the be preachers or priests later in life. That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. But anything with that powerful an effect on the mind is concerning.

Amphetamines certainly seem pretty cool. Especially if you have ADHD. But it definitely has side effects and potential for addiction. It's long term effects are not well studied, and a few studies I did see were concerning. E.g. brain damage in monkeys, and a group of kids taking it did worse than the control group after 3 years.

I think people should be educated on the risks and facts before they decide to take a drug. If they still want to do it, fine. But at least they know the risks. And it's not enough just to put a warning sticker on the back of it that no one reads. Even widespread education that a drug is dangerous isn't enough. Everyone knows cigarettes cause cancer, but why do new people take up smoking?
"made up word" is overly generous. It's the word "ad" followed by the word "block". "ad block" is a valid description of what it does, equivalent to "advertisement blocking". You only put the word "engine" in there to fake there being a difference. Microsoft wouldn't be able to get a trademark on "Operatingsystem".
Seems like this business has a lot of room for liability. In the most minor example, who pays if someone from Task Rabbit tosses the equipment in the garbage?
Rough context: When the GPU (or the CPU back in the days) had to draw a texture, it had to sample pixels, maybe one, maybe four and do some say bi-linear filtering in between them, and then use that pixel as a result.

Now several problems:

1. If your texture is sampled roughly one pixel from it to one pixel on the screen, and if all pixels are read linearly ("horizontally"), then you are good with the cache, cause for the first pixel you've read the cache maybe cold at that address, but it'll load the next pixels just in case you need them, and here is the catch - you need to get always benefit from that - it's like always using your coupons, and deals, and your employer perks. So the CPU/GPU might read 4, 8, 16 who really knows (but you) bytes in advance, or around that pixel.

2. But then you turn the texture 90 degrees, and suddenly it's much slower. You draw a pixel from the texture, but then the next pixel is 256, 512, or more away ("vertically), and then next too, your cache line of 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64 read bytes that you did not used, and by the time you might need them again, the cache discarded them. Hence the slowness now - much much slower!

4. To fix it, you come up with "swizzling" - e.g. instead of the texture being purely scan-line by scan-line, you kind of split your image in blocks - maybe 8x8 tiles, or 32x32, and then make sure those tiles are linearly written one to each other. You can go even further, but the idea is that under any angle, if you decide to read, you most likely would hit pixels from the same cache line you've read before. It's not that simple, and my explantation is poor, but here is someone who can do that better than me: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/texture-tiling-and-...

8. But even with swizzling, tiling, whatever you call that magic to keep pixels together in any direction really together stops working as soon as you have to draw that big texture/image on a much smaller scale.

16. Say 256x256 would have to be drawn as 16x16 - And you say I don't need mipmapping, I don't need smaller versions of my image, I can just use my own image - well then nomatter how you swizzle/tile, you'll be skipping a lot of pixels - hop from here to there, and lost cache lines.

32. For that reasons mipmaps are here to help, but stay with me for one more minute - and see how they almost fix the shimmering problem of textures with "fences", "grills on a car", a pet's cage, or something like it.

64. And when you hear the artist ready to put real spider-man logo on the character made out of real polygons, and real grill in front of the car, made out of real polygons, and real barbed-wired made out of polygons very nice looking fence - then stay away, as these polys woulds shimmer, no good level of detail can be done for them (it'll pop) and such things are just much easily done with textures and mipmaps - it kind of solves a lot of problems.

128. Read about impostor textures.
Here are two ways to proof it: http://postimg.org/image/c4ghgyw8r/
It actually 'hurts' watching someone 'hurt' watching people not use the shortcuts that person knows.
I think it's a bit misleading to simply say "LSD is great and you should try it". It can be interesting, but also can be scary as fuck, and you should be in a good place mentally before trying it.
I am not zero-trained in BioMedicine. The writer is actually not too wrong about it. That field has been always evidence based, for example, you can always enjoy the evidence in Morgan or Mendel's 100 years ago paper. And the data collected in that field is usually much bigger scale than so called big-data, do you know how much DNA needed to be purified, crystallized, imaged and be discovered as double helix? And don't forget to check how drug candidates are "screened by library" -- that's one fancy name of "randomly try with chemicals".

BTW I don't think it's correct to say "curing some type of cancers", it's actually some treatments that extending the dying path.
The Mario sequencer music game was exactly that, and it was among the most popular videos uploaded to nico video in Japan.
While not conclusive, I give these guys credit for replicating a behavior fitting the "cheater" profile. But I am surprised that not spinning up the rear tires triggered that behavior.

The loss in power measured here will be very noticeable to diesel owners. Diesels have narrow power bands. You don't spend much driving time anywhere near the top hp zone. The torque curves are what matters. A 10% loss means you will probably have to rev up another 10%, say 3300 rather than 3000, to get at the same power. While a professional reviewer stepping into a car for the first time might not notice, the guy taking his personal vehicle in sure will. VW owners will not be happy if the coming fix reduces torque by this much.

I suspect this "cheat" is done by enriching the mixture a little to lower the temp and reduce NOx. Conversely, VW might have been running things too lean under normal operation. A lean (oxygen-rich) mixture burns hotter, resulting in more power and efficiency but much of that unburnt O2 ends up combining with N2 to form the nasty N0x junk. So if the fix means effectively pinning the cheat on all the time, fixed cars will probably end up burning more fuel with less top-end power.
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Crows went into my mechanics shop, got up on a toolbox and stole a recently opened bag of in-shell sunflower seeds, without being seen, and had a sunflower seed-opening party in the back parking lot. (I arrived to pick up a vehicle to find the bag of nuts on the ground next to it and hundreds of empty shells all over the area, and the service writer laughing at finding someone's snack being snacked on elsewhere.)

Whether that implies some crows are smart or I should find another mechanic, is debatable.
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I've not tried it, but according to PostgreSQL documentation, this should be possible (and recommended) to set on a per role basis?

> The ALTER ROLE command allows both global and per-database settings to be overridden with user-specific values. (...)

> The SET command allows modification of the current value of those parameters that can be set locally to a session; it has no effect on other sessions. The corresponding function is set_config(setting_name, new_value, is_local). (...)

> Setting statement_timeout in postgresql.conf is not recommended because it would affect all sessions.
That's something that is little understood about gaming culture - from inviting friends over to take turns playing single-player games on the NES to Let's Play/Twitch/speed runs, games have always had this component of watching.
Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?
Popular hosted CI servers:

1. Gitlab CI

2. Drone.io CI

3. Travis CI

Special Requirements:

1. Cross-Platform, so that our python module can be tested and reported under Windows too.

2. Easy integration with Github

Current Setup

Travis CI - It is quite easy to setup, but lacks Windows support.
Basically, something like Travis with windows support.

Is this possible?

It would be great if the CI server could report back which part of the test failed rather than just a FAIL message for any error. For eg. sometimes its good to know that only the PEP8 tests failed or it failed only on Python3 cases, without looking into the whole log.
They put deprecation warnings in the headers starting with 10.7, and I'm pretty sure there was a WWDC talk (hopefully still available) mentioning it.

These two links roughly explain the issues/reasoning:

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-...
http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2011/08/mac-os-x-lion-an...
Regarding browser shortcuts:

As long as they're fast with it, who cares? I've seen people use their mouse for everything and do things a lot quicker than others who knew the hotkeys.

In my case, I would say I'm fast with computers and I sort of know the hotkeys, but I use 3 different OSs and two different browsers on each. Each browser has different hotkeys. Now add to that 3 different keyboards with different layouts. All of these things overlap in your head.

Instead, I installed a mouse gestures addon on each of my browsers and it works much better. Mouse gestures don't depend on keyboard layouts or browser/OS quirks.

I think the worst part is actually getting people to use your site correctly. People usually have no idea how URLs work especially for sites that have different URLs for when you are logged in and when you aren't. They also don't know how to use link share and how to figure out which things are clickable and which aren't.
Sorry, I guess I'm not able to explain it all that well.

I'll try one last time with an analogy.

Lets play a game: I will think of two numbers (range: 1..10) and you're going to guess which numbers they are.

I'm going to do you a big favor and guarantee you: I'm going to always pick 7. I will also guarantee you, the other number will never be 7.

To reiterate the givens: My numbers will be in the domains: [7] AND [1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9]

You get to pick two numbers. Would you pick 7 AND 7?

I hope not. 7 AND 7 by definition will always lose (probability of winning: 0%). Introducing variety for the second number will clearly increase your probability of winning to 1/8 = 12.5%.

Granted, the probability of winning is still low, and 12.5% assumes a random distribution, but its higher than 0%.

Now, similarly, lets a play a game: I am going to think of all of the nutrition that you need and you're allowed to guess two meals that will encompass all of that nutrition.

I will do you a favor and guarantee you: Soylent will get all of the food that we know we need (if you pick Soylent as one of the meals you will only need a tiny set of additional nutrition to win). I will also then guarantee you, we need things that we don't know, therefore since Soylent only has the things we know, we need at least one nutritional "thing" not in Soylent.

To reiterate the givens: Meals will be in the domains: [Soylent] AND [...everything except Soylent]

You get to chose two meals. Would you pick Soylent AND Soylent?

I hope not. Soylent AND Soylent by definition (in this game) will always lose (probability of winning: 0%). Introducing variety for the second meal will clearly increase your probability of winning. The increase in probability is not calculable, however it is non-zero.

Granted, the probability of winning is still very low, however, variety provides a non-zero probability while only-Soylent provides 0%. Clearly then, variety is the better option over only-Soylent.

Does that at all help? Am I just being trolled?

Either way, this was fun. glhf, and thanks for reading.
Well, most of the gimmicky levels are easy to explain
People have a chance to easily play around with stuff that was just not normal now. Flying around with the clowncopter and shooting things for a whole level is not what you really get in normal mario
Same goes for the autoplay levels - just watching something that's crafted to complete itself in (sometimes) astonishing and carefully crafted ways is nice to watch.

I suspect this is gonna die down quite a lot as people get used to it though - it's fun now cause it's new and unusual. It is going to get boring at some point though

Not to mention good level design as you'd see in mario games is hard for people who've never done it
With all of those grammar and punctuation errors, an 8th grade English teacher marked that essay 100%? Seriously? You need to find a better school.
Or a handful of financiers can find a new way to securitize debt, lowering interest rates for 100m borrowers.

Or they could find a new way to ignore investment risk in the interest of naked greed, causing suffering for millions all over the globe.
I agree, and I think GUIs make people more productive.

In windows land, people tend to use tools that have GUIs. So everyone uses their mouse.
Part of the problem is that there is no longer a woman in the token booth.
I've never had a problem cancelling Comcast. I just tell them that I'm moving out of the country. There's no point in bothering to try to retain me.