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Multithreading the GUI adds a lot of responsiveness. Sure, even your phones CPU has 2+ cores at 1+ Ghz, but if it still shudders then your OS programing model is wrong.

PS: I have yet to see a single threaded GUI I can't make shudder while playing video.
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Oh that sounds fantastic. Yes, surveillance and privacy is also a Big Theme these days.

(I only mentioned the new timeline because a Star Trek centered around the troubles of the migrating remainders of Vulcan civilization is just about the only thing that sounds like an appealing hook in that setting. Like others have mentioned, it's an Space Action Movie timeline, not a cerebral Star Trek timeline)
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Workplace accidents are caused by working in close proximity to heavy equipment and industrial machines.

Do you not think that working in dangerous and/or unhealthy jobs (or being stationed in Afghanistan) affects your happiness? (There are numerous studies about post-traumatic syndrome for veterans)

While circumcision does not affect happiness, the contrast between men (OK to mutilate men without consent) and women, shows media/cultural bias (supports the wider point of deck being stacked against men)
I noticed pg linked to this.[1] I don't know his opinions on the matter, but I doubt smart guns will take off. I own several firearms, and I find smart guns completely unappealing. The technology adds cost, increases complexity, reduces reliability, and makes it impossible for me to maintain the weapon myself. If the electronics go haywire, I'd have to ship it back to the manufacturer. That's no fun.

It's unclear what problem smart guns are trying to solve. Is the point to replace gun safes? Is it to prevent the weapon from being used against you if taken from you in a fight? Is it to deter gun theft? Is it to stop children from firing the weapon if they discover it? The latter scenario seems particularly silly to me. If you're dumb enough to leave a loaded weapon out in a house with children, you're probably not going to have the sense to get a smart gun.

Even if the cost and reliability issues are addressed, smart guns still won't help much. First, the majority of guns used in crimes are obtained through corrupt dealers and straw purchases. Only 10-15% of firearms used in crimes are stolen.[2] Second, this will do nothing to help secure the 350 million guns already in the US.

It seems to me that a much more effective way to reduce theft and accidental gun deaths is to make better safes. Right now, the best safes on the market are mechanical lock boxes.[3] They use no batteries or electronics, and they can make a gun available in seconds. Still, they're less than ideal. Many are hard to program, causing users to leave them on the default combination. Almost all of them have small buttons which are hard to press if your adrenaline is going. I'd love to get something better.

1. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/660920179904266240

2. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/gu...

3. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000T24OFG
I suspect much of the excitement around Kotlin is coming from Android developers that see the language as their deliverance from Java 6.5.
The identical twins in these studies would have been reared in similar environments and cultures by different adoptive parents. The case I quoted were hunter-gatherer vs. farmers. Notice the difference. I was arguing, not that there's a genetic component, and an environmental component, but that the two are interlinked: different alleles can make different individuals well adapted in different enviroments.

In an modern developed economy, where you'll be more likely to do well if your IQ is high, some people will have inherited alleles which tend to raise their IQs and make them well-adapted to their environment, others different alleles which make them poorly adapted.

And, on top of that, there's an environmental, or rather cultural component.
> making it poor for community building

eh... slack has consistently said that large communities shouldn't use its services. - http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-...

Go talk to the hundreds of FOSS communities that use IRC. they have all fixed the persistence / search problem, and there is quite a few high quality mobile and desktop clients for IRC.
It's inspired by daemontools, AIX SRC, Solaris SMF, launchd and systemd.
Yeah, it's kind of depressing that people aren't engaging with the real issue. I guess there's a strong desire to forget/deny big problems in favor of focusing on smaller irrelevant ones.
>Lessig never wanted to be president; he wanted a podium. But you can't say that. If he indicated he wasn't serious about being president in any way, they never would have let him on stage.

I guess that's the difference between the Democratic party debates and the Republican party debates. I know that sounds like a troll, but it's not. The GOP primary debates had 17 people running, the Democratic primary had 5 (not counting Lessig). No one seriously thinks that Lindsey Graham is going to be the nominee, nor did anyone think that he could be the nominee when he ran. He's a single issue candidate (national security) and his agenda is make sure this issue is discussed during the primaries. The same thing with Santorum and Huckabee ("traditional values"). It's not a new phenomenon. Back in 1988, Pat Robertson ran with a "Christian conservative" agenda, but no one seriously thought that he was going to be president. His role was to highlight the power of the conservative evangelical Christians in the Republican party, thus causing the eventual nominee to (and the party as a whole) to pay attention to their issues. There's nothing with this tactic, and it may even be effective. But it seems like it's more prominent on the national stage in the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.
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See my response in the other subthread below
There's a huge difference between small rates of incidental illicit use, and massive, flagrant violation.

Craigslist does have terms of service, and relies on a user-based flagging method to remove nonconforming content. They claim significant deletions base on this, though my own experience is of massive levels of bad-actor behavior, less of illegal activity and more of rampant spam posting in several sale-by-dealer categories, many lasting for years. Large consequence is that those sections of Craigslist are of exceptionally little value to me. Actually, much of CL doesn't really do much for me these days....

But despite that: the overwhelming majority of activity on CL is at least reasonably above-board.

In the case of AirBnB, the article here notes that 40% of rental volume is from multi-listing members. That is, people not leasing single rooms or properties, but managing multiple properties. Which further discounts professionals who only manage a single property.

That is: a large and visible chunk of AirBnB is not the "come stay at our house" vision the company's propaganda promotes, but is a commercial rentals service not meeting standards of either housing or hotel accomodations.
I know that Play 2 is happily used in production all over the place. I'm guessing it's a lot better than when you used it.
Reliability is a huge, huge concern with guns. That's why a weapon like an AK-47 is so popular. It shoots if it's muddy, sandy, you name it.

A failed fingerprint recognition (even due to the conditions listed above) when you intend to use a gun means you're probably dead.

Edit: I listed wet as a condition an AK would fire under, but I don't believe that's accurate. The original point is still true though, the AK is touted for it's reliability.
I believe HDMI can only supply ~50mA @ 5V so it's unlikely to be the primary power source.
Haven't tried this. Just want to know -- what advantage does this give over using gnu plot with sixel output?

I can see the advantage over tek 4010 (this could be dynamic). If this is static (again, haven't tried yet), with multiple pages, why not just use tek 4010?

I also don't understand the admonish to use something other than xterm. What is the issue that was observed?

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The ones that support XMPP can probably have an OTR plugin built for them. Might be able to develop an Axolotl plugin too.
> Even if he somehow won the election, he still would not have the power to change congress (or the Citizen's United ruling) one bit.

I've heard similar variations of this theme a lot recently, and I'm not sure I buy it. Wouldn't any victory necessarily include a major sea change in congress?

It doesn't seem likely to me that Lessig or Sanders, or <Other Non-Mainstream Candidate> would be voted in without some down ballot support finding the way in too.
>XML is a standard format for markup (e.g. HTML).

XHTML is maybe the most hated incarnation of HTML, and is no longer encouraged.
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It's hard to imagine 100 years from now that guns won't be smart. The only question is when and how they are implemented. IMHO: 'smart' guns will be first about improving their effectiveness not safety. Similar to things like tracking point.
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A core belief on both sides of the discussion is the assumption that this will be the first bug free software ever written, which is somewhat comical.

You're somewhat likely to have guns randomly firing in peoples pockets or when a high power trucker CB transmits or not work at all when the battery is dead or in the rain or when a police officers own radio is nearby transmitting. Hold on while I reboot my service pistol, its "patch tuesday" time to rob the bank with our non-smart guns, etc.

Also there is the assumption that this won't be DRMed to hell and back to screw owners over, when of course it will be. Sure you can add your wife to the list of authorized users, just submit .gov paperwork and licenses and it'll only be $500 to unlock 2 users.
It goes deeper than that. Some of those links are called QPI. Accessing memory on a multi-socket system can be much slower (40%) if the memory isn't connected to the socket you're on. In that case the request has to go to the other socket, then to RAM. In a quad-socket system, this might mean making two hops, first.

Even accessing cache in a multi-socket system sucks. Taking ownership of a cache line that's in another socket can cost 300 cycles. Ouch.

So in a way, programming current Intel NUMA systems is a lot more like writing distributed systems in the first place, if you care about performance. Yes, it's more reliable (your cross-socket read isn't gonna sporadically fail), but if you treat it as a single unit, things get slow.
Honestly, if I started seeing these things cluttering up my sidewalks, I'd consider kicking them into the road out of spite.

The sidewalk is for pedestrian use. It is not for businesses to use as a means of conveying goods from point A to B, and it certainly isn't a space for vehicles of any sort to operate. I am all for more efficient and novel means of delivering goods, but not if interference with the normal use of public spaces is what's at stake.
A German PhD would have better English than 99% of native speakers. And his work history is conspicuously lacking anyone who would normally hire a Finance PhD, and his list of skills doesn't include any maths packages. Not that this proves anything but it does warrant closer examination.
He used information given by me for that article. :)

Just as info, here is the brochure of the B5000 from 1961.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/b5000/bro...
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It's less a matter of convenience than reliability. Inserting electronics into the cycle of operations adds additional points of failure, and purely mechanical devices are not vulnerable to firmware bugs or electromagnetic interference.
i thought this was an article about OO and I lol'd.
smartness of a gun is still a very small o(dumb owner).
Ultimately, when it comes to firearms, you really don't want a lot of failure modes. This piece of technology adds way to many. Something I didn't see in the article, but how is this device getting power? What happens if my battery dies?
Revisiting this in landscape mode: the main body text is too small and too wide.

Again: for virtually all content, max width of ~35-45em, with a slight margin (I really don't like text flush with screen edge except on the very narrowest of displays, 1-4em margin responsive across a set of displays from >30em to ~70 would be about right).

Zoomable font size holding page to fit within viewport would be a big gain.

Screenshot: https://m.imgur.com/5rCdRdI

Mind that's a 10" display. Fonts are small for my eyes. Context-zooming on main content helps somewhat, but only marginally.
What specific case are you afraid of? You are outside in the wintertime with a gun concealed on your person, and a would-be assailant comes along? Then get the kind that uses a ring, not a fingerprint.

And when you lose the ring, get a new one immediately instead of waiting for the would-be assailant to come along.
Great article regardless of your familiarity with computer graphics or draw pipeline.

The supporting media and presentation are as exceptional as the bespoke game engine (RAGE)[0] used in in the GTA series.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Advanced_Game_Engine
Yes, I address my Linux using clients' issues for them. But it's the same with my clients who use Windows too. They can't fix it for themselves either.

In fact, I see about 5 times as many Windows issues as Linux issues. And it's easier to fix a Linux machine.

This story that you are telling about how Windows is easy and Linux is hard, and about how there will be this big transition cost, is just bs.
So this is going to have some kind of electronic interlock to prevent firing. Nope. Give me something that works reliably despite blood, sweat, mud, dirt, and wild temperature variations, not to mention the repeated shock of thousands of firings necessary for proper training. In an emergency situation, you don't want to pull the trigger and realize the batteries are dead...

Anything that needs a wireless connection is an absolute non-starter. A gun can jam mechanically, but having a simple weapon be disabled by active ECM is just stupid.
Considering that the margin of error is usually around 3-4% for public opinion polls, a candidate whose best argument for inclusion is "I've been hovering at around one percent lately!" is going to have a tough row to hoe.
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Higher education is mostly an echo chamber of Leftist thought. This lack of self-awareness and self-critique actually hurts Leftist thought as a whole - rather than the best ideas being sorted to the top, more extreme and largely unscrutinized Leftist theory begets more of the same.
This is from the Nick Hanauer article I posted above:

"We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It’s simply not true. There can never be enough super-rich Americans to power a great economy. I earn about 1,000 times the median American annually, but I don’t buy thousands of times more stuff. My family purchased three cars over the past few years, not 3,000. I buy a few pairs of pants and a few shirts a year, just like most American men. I bought two pairs of the fancy wool pants I am wearing as I write, what my partner Mike calls my “manager pants.” I guess I could have bought 1,000 pairs. But why would I? Instead, I sock my extra money away in savings, where it doesn’t do the country much good."
What do you mean link them?
> eh... slack has consistently said that large communities shouldn't use its services.

That has nothing to do with Slack-like apps, and everything to do with Slack.

> Go talk to the hundreds of FOSS communities that use IRC. they have all fixed the persistence / search problem

I am part of many FOSS communities on IRC. None of them have "fixed" that problem. There might be one or two that archive the channel somewhere. That is no substitute for real in-app persistence and search.
Guns have seen the benefit of hundreds of years of improvement, they are now incredibly reliable tools despite the fact that they basically operate via partially contained explosions which put a tremendous amount of stress on parts. Modern guns have been streamlined and refined to an enormous degree. When you pick up a gun you want it to work, because the assumption is that it working is going to save your life. The last thing you want is to add delay or unreliability to using a gun. And while having your own gun used against you is a concern it's much less of a concern than having a gun work reliably.
> IRC simply lacks important desirable features, making it poor for community building (given the existence of better alternatives). The two biggest missing features are persistence and search.

A channel stays a channel until nobody's in it.
It's trivial to make a bot that sits in a channel and logs it. And it's trivial to hook up a search engine to that bot.

> Other important missing features are ease of use in terms of creation of topic-focused channels, private channels, and high quality mobile and desktop clients.

Like on freenode #reprap , #3dscanning , and thousands of other topic based channels?

And setting private bit is easy as a channel operator to limit who shows up.

And with completely public and open protocols, anyone can make an awesome IRC client. I have one already on my phone.

And there's also bots that can store and send files via http or ftp. I could also make one that saves/retrieves via Box, Dropbox, or any other storage medium trivially. Node-red makes that easy.
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This article gave me a fantastic idea for a new invention--Smart Parachutes!!

A battery operated sensor on the ripcord will analyze the operators fingerprint and pulling position to computer whether the chute will or will not actually be deployed!! No more stolen parachutes or accidental premature deployments!

We'll make millions, guys!
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For HN purposes, an egotistical spat is not on any topic.

If you want to keep commenting here, you need to err on the side of following the HN guidelines rather than breaking them. Your account has a long pattern of breaking them, and of straddling them when not breaking them outright. That's not the discourse we want here.
Not only a great article but also superbly presented. I really liked all the screenshots showing before and after difference.
Ditto. Legacy documents and formats.
I completely disagree that it's a waste. The new site is great.
They were thinking that abstract expressionism best represented the cultural values that made the West superior to the communist world - the pure freedom of thought and imagination required to produce abstract expressionism, and a culture that could reward (or choose to not reward) its creators, without some government censor getting involved to decide what is and is not valuable and good. So it was an aesthetic love, but also a cultural love.

I totally grok where they're coming from. If you don't love something, you're not going to hold it up as a model of what makes your culture superior. I love abstract expressionism and find megachurches creepy and weird, so I would hold up abstract expressionism as a fine example of what makes America great. Someone who loves megachurches and hates abstract expressionism would do the opposite. (By way of measure, my favorite painting ever is Jackson Pollack's "Mural", which I got to admire up close a lot when I was at the University of Iowa)

So yes, those CIA directors who made that decision really, truly loved abstract expressionism. They also found it the perfect antidote to the soul-deadening rigidity of Socialist Realism. They felt socialist realism was the result of a dying culture.
Power over HDMI is possible if the device supports MHL, but many (most?) TVs don't.