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Car parking is unique because you can always (well ok with certain exceptions in some countries) connect it to a licence plate and thus to the car owner. Where I live the car owner is (again with some exceptions) held responsible, even if he did not drive - or he gives up the driver.
That was a rather nice touch. I will bet your new director appreciated it.
I don't follow your arguments. Is there an actual move of trying to ban SUV's in cities or is this something you've concluded yourself?

Why shouldn't the industry be able to produce a huge oversized SUV if it can maintain emissions under the limits dictated by the law?

This discussion should not even touch the type of car. The emission hack was originally discovered in the smaller end of VW models like the Jetta and Golf with a small (<=2.0) TDi engine and now seems to span the entire range of models the concern produces. My guess is that the fuel consumption and CO2 emission manipulation also affects the entire range of models.

The problem here is that it seems to be _really_ hard to come up with a marketable engine that can meet the requirements. I guess that's why VW will be moving towards electric in the future. I hope the requirements for emission control will get stricter in the future.
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Yes, I know.

But I hear people always complaining about how Y is like X was back in the days and nothing new.

Is there any pattern behind this?

People even say "Goethe hasn't invented Faust"
> Its total budget is looking on-par with GTA5 which had a much, much more expensive marketing campaign and added costs.

Including marketing, GTA V was $265 million. Star Citizen isn't close to that yet.
Same type of thing happens in my Eastern European country, member of the EU and NATO.

The pro-russian propaganda is rampant and honestly, is winning. The alternatives are only fascist organizations and people have nowhere to flock. US policy in recent years doesn't help at all. It is depressing.
You are saying that oppression is part of the natural order, and that the winners always have the moral high ground.

I find your Nietzschen worldview abhorrent.
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Is this good salary for UK?
now the question is: why did they choose 854?
Shit, that video is not available in my country (Netherlands) While a dutch publicly funded broadcasting agency created it.
There are other means of viewing this documentary, but why bar the international version for dutch viewers :S
There are still servers running for Allegiance (search freeallegiance) and some development, since MS open sourced it and allowed the community to maintain it, but you have to check on weekends to get a game going. It was a pretty good teamwork exercise, it actually required players to think tactically and stay coordinated to overpower the other team.
Blizzard's initial offerings were surprisingly dark and mature - both diablo, warcraft I&II and starcraft. Only starcraft's tone has not been degraded much so far (although the writing is weaker).

I guess legacy of the void concludes a chapter of the company history. They are a e-sports company now. Their three latest games are gameplay driven with barely any story at all. Overwatch, HoTS and HS.

Diablo III got a pass on its writing only because of the RMAH that was taking all the ire. I am not sure why the writing declined so much beginning with warcraft III - probably the gameplay requirements prevented the (extremely talented) team of giving their best.

There is still great writing in Blizzard's games - but their last character I cared about was Thorim in Storm Peaks (pre model change - while he was a huge varkul). The writing in the ICC and Cataclysm main storyline was quite meh. It just felt like the writers have written some amazing storyline then got their leashes pulled and told to simplify and make absolutely understandable for a lot younger audience.
Old thread, but I thought I made it clear that I wasn't talking about data compression, but rather dynamic range compression.
Yes, but no one stays at a yard sale for more than 2 or 3 minutes. By the time the tow truck would arrive they would be long gone. This is at its heart the reason why this is an overzealous non-problem.
I don't know whether he did correlate your thoughts. Going by your analogy, it's not the same is it?

You have a very large incentive to ensuring it's safe, your family. An airbnb host might not treat a temporary guest's safety, the same way.

What I got from the skinny of that general article and from all of my experiences at Airbnb is that: You will get the feeling that you would get at living at a family member's house, but you are not in one, ever. Therefore, maybe then, the host's liability should be treated that way, a service provider.

P.S: I intend to keep on using airbnb for the very long foreseeable future.
Foxtel really has a very poor HD offering, I would say compared to Foxtel (Netflix/Stan/Presto) offers much more content and at better qualities. The major limiting factor is bandwidth, hopeful the NBN makes it more viable. I have the new apple TV and the app selection is much better, Netflix/Stan/(Presto not yet) all on once device with others sure to follow. Presto is garbage though the quality can barely be called SD.
I actually buy that psychedelics make people more creative. People fall into more predictable mental ruts than random exploration would, so anything that kicks the brain out of the patterns it wants to match to is going to help.
One of my biggest eureka-moments I had when I moved to the states from Denmark — wasn't what I learned about the US — but what I learned about Denmark.

I suddenly saw things about my own culture clearly when I wasn't surrounded by confirmation bias of specific ways of looking at things.

One of the most eye-opening experiences for me; If you wan't to understand something you need to understand it through things that are related to it not the things themselves. I have applied this to many other things in live (want to understand design, read about the things that are related to design instead of design itself.
It's in London, so no.
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Presumably you do it for Queen and country.
Hi Tom, do you you know anyone from those days that might help us track down the Prolog and Ada implementations for Symbolics? http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/spg
We heard from David Schmidt that some of the software was lost during one of the office moves, but we're hopeful someone kept a copy.
Generally speaking they do this so you have to watch the video through the publishers own video streaming service in your own country.
Are you aware of reddit? Ever looked at the comment section of a news site? Trolling probably works very well.
In 2005 I started to dabble with reverse engineering, and the first target I ever attempted was 3D Pinball... and amazingly enough I found a never-before-found cheat code (and some other bits from Cinematronics).

I wrote up an article that went a bit viral at the time: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2006/01/07/hacking-pinball/. 3d-pinball-related keywords are still among the highest search terms in my logs ;)
You will enjoy this documentary (Everything a Remix).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coGpmA4saEk

Hardly 'scientific'... but how do you quantify copying.
Erk... some of the comments here are brutally rational and ruthlessly logical. I would fully expect this narrative from decisioning AI units, not so quickly out of humanoids, at least not yet.
Um... No thank you?

pd: the last thing I want as a developer is a developer on Windows overriding my OSX keyboard shortcuts (or viceversa).
That's cool, but that's one plugin for one editor - editorconfig is a simple plugin with a very wide range of support to solve the problem it solves.

Linters and formatters are great for enforcing code styles but they tend to be per language and require more configuration, shy of ripping off an existing spec.

If you don't want to go the whole hog and only need some basic constraints then editorconfig is easy to throw into a repo root.
Just received this email this morning: "Russian plane flown to Yemen to capture CIA agents who helped shot down Russian civilian plane in Egypt"

http://www.czechfreepress.cz/rusko/rusko-se-odvaznym-letem-d...

The worst thing is that my own father is forwarding me these propaganda nonsense.
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I think I accidentally downvoted you, sorry.
Yes, Prometheus is fundamentally a store for numeric time series (with a set of dimensions attached), not a store for individual events or log entries.
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> I think that it shows that their bosses don't really understand real Internet discussion and don't know that people can identify trolls, regardless if they are state-sponsored or not.

You greatly underestimate people's gullibility.
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That's what I was asking :)
At least in Firefox, clearing cookies (not an unreasonable thing for users to do once in a while) will also clear localStorage.
There are more properties listed in the complete list (link is above the short list), mostly about parenthesis and braces. I guess they aren't listed in the main page because they are language-specific.
I like the idea. I wonder how much the Google Cloud Platform is costing him?
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unless there's some kind of residual affiliate program I'm not sure how the cost to acquire a customer gets covered with these systems?
Starcraft is really heavy on twitch skills and multi-tasking, while Dota rewards knowledge.

Obviously you still need strong twitch/multitask skills to be really great at Dota, but you can go a surprising distance without them. I found that when picking up Dota I started to have fun and feel vaguely competent quicker - despite the fact that I didn't play for very long or get very good. I was aware that to progress far I'd need to pick up an enormous amount of information, but I could still feel good playing against other newbies.

With Starcraft (where I generally hovered between high gold and low platinum on EU), I always felt like I was doing really badly. I think this was probably due to the stress of the multitasking, at which I'm no natural :-).
Or for the love of spying on others. Whatever works for you. Just be careful who you're spying on. Regular citizens - A-okay. Elites? Big no-no: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/claims-welsh-mi...
Nah, this isn't a good salary, unless you're a junior. You can earn double this if you're a half decent developer with 4/5 years experience and working for a well-known company in London.
"In September 2014 I started a crowdsourced series of stories about pro-Russia trolls"

I'm not inclined to google translate a lot of pages in Finnish, but can't it be that "crowdsourced" here means "a series of articles written by the unverified authors?" Which would be quite funny given their topic.

I don't know and I'd like to hear from somebody who does, somebody who understands Finnish? The same person could try to estimate if Jessikka Aro's articles were strongly biased?

Note: I definitely don't doubt that a lot of nasty internet communication was directed to her. The state of the internet is, you can be the saintest of the saints, once you're public enough, there will be (at least some) hate. I'm just trying to figure out how disproportional the reactions were, it's hard for me to get the idea reading only on this blog post.
Not for anyone with those skills. As a contractor in London they'd be looking at something between £70k and £150k+.

Makes me wonder wether our security services really are recruiting the best they can find, or just the best they can afford.
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Faulty and weak. The vast majority of Afroasiatic languages are spoken in Africa. In fact, one of the largest members of this group is spoken in West Africa (Hausa).

Although, I suspect saying "North Africa" and indeed, "Afro-Asiatic" is to imply or ascribe non-blackness.

The influence of the "Ajami" scripts are also not being mentioned:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script

This was used to write several major African languages in the precolonial era: Swahili, Hausa, Somali, Yoruba, Mandinka, Wolof, and others.
Actually, the pay band ranges from a Band B to Band C in the civil service. Band B is entry (not junior though) and Band C is just below senior. ~40K for a Band C civil service software developer in London is about average.
What the hell are you on about?
It doesn't mean anything whenever people can identify trolls or not - a discussion can be harmed even if troll activities are obvious. On open platforms, where participation is not limited, they can hinder the discussion by intentional, completely retarded name-calling, swearing, utter off-topic and alike - and moderation isn't really effective as individual accounts are essentially a cannon fodder.
Geographically it sounds a correct statement.

But those agreements all have a common agenda -- don't think about geography, but about the common agenda behind it. We are living in the era of globalization and one of the reasons for such treaties is, that the geographical differences should vanish.

Of course it is not about the same agreement -- but this video sheds a light about all those agreements.
I voted for a stable economy, which Labour could not provide.

I did not vote for a furthering of authoritarian controls.

In any case, I suspect these would continue to creep in regardless of which party holds power.
As the article you linked to mentions, GhostRank is opt-in, and I am always careful to never opt in to it.
It is probably the translated version of the Dutch original, which, of course, is available in the Netherlands:
http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/afleveringen/2015-2016/ttip.html
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No but then again there's barely anyone to talk Lojban with.
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5 buzzwords in a row, that's a bingo! :)
That was so beautiful it almost made me cry.

Thank for putting into words what has been in my heart for so long.
That English is trivial is nothing new. That the average US-ian doesn't even know their own language should be more surprising (but isn't). Mark Twain still has the best rant about it, and he knew English.
I'm not sure whether you meant this question rhetorically or in sarcasm, so I'll just answer it literally in this reply.

If you wrote a program that allowed you to click and type without moving, that would probably make you lazier. Another option could be a script that goes through all your plans (such as calendar events) and deletes or corrupts those ones mentioning physical activity. On another note, perhaps a script could be made that, whenever you start up something productive like an IDE, the script closes it and opens up a time-wasting webpage or game in its place. Additionally, if you had a script that replaced Online tech ads with ones selling junk food and sofas, that could lead indirectly to more laziness, depending on the recipient.
I don't know how you can dismiss an entire country because of one person's move. Toronto and Montreal both have big tech scenes and plenty of investors (albeit a bit on the bearish side). As much as we lose talent to the states, we also pull a lot up as well.
There is a balancing act that every successful game has to perform between gameplay and motivation. Without gameplay, games are dull passive experiences (see David Cage) with no pull to keep the player engaged. Without motivation gameplay feels empty and pointless like playing chess with yourself. Starcraft's campaign wouldn't have been half as engaging if it was a map pack with basic instructions before each mission. While games aren't movies they have learned a valuable lesson in using dramatic tension to make certain moments memorable.
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> I think that it shows that their bosses don't really understand real Internet discussion and don't know that people can identify trolls, regardless if they are state-sponsored or not.

Yeah but the idea isn't to sponsor enough trolls to trick everyone, but more like turn all internet discussions into one big version of 4chan. Sure you might be able to pick out a few trolls, but it doesn't matter anymore because nobody is going to waste their time trying to have a serious conversation there anymore.
Uh that doesn't follow at all. Just means that the rules are a bit more complicated than "this letter is always pronounced that way". Neither does it mean that "all sequences of letters can be pronounced in any way".

Look up Chomsky & HalLe's the sound pattern of English for an attempt at completely describing English phonology with rules.
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I'm not sure the correct TV remote interface exists yet. I have a tiny wireless keyboard-and-trackpad to control my WMC, and it's a real pain moving a mouse cursor around. Navigating a games console interface with a joystick is much more comfortable.

I agree that coupling the content-spigot-device tightly to the screen like "smart TVs" is a really bad idea until the technology matures enough that it can sensibly last 10 years. Otherwise people are going to end up with stranded icons. And then there's the usual privacy issues of closed devices (Samsung TV passim).
Reminds me of lombard street [1]. It can be pretty tiring for the residents to see a constant barrage of tourists, stopping their vehicles on the street to take pictures. Imagine leaving or returning home at "peak tourist hours", how difficult it would be to drive your car near your home. I guess the burden is on a home owner to figure out what they are walking into when they buy a house near a popular tourist attraction.

Oh, and there's also the Martins Beach case [2].

[1] : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lombard+Street/@37.802189,...

[2] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Billionaire-must-allow...
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That website has a very odd design, and is quite distracting.
>Rather than electrify the whole country, Ethiopia has concentrated on providing power and transport links to its industrial parks.

That tends to be the tough part.
Hard choices.
Why is that? This was actually mathematicians doing "linguistics".
The IDE has now become an abstraction. Love it.
Add:

- confirmation bias

- strawman

- bubble or not

- why disable mobile zoom?
I prefer "fourteen kiloillustrations".
Two books by a French author called Jacques Benoist-Méchin. They work as a pair and they tell the stories of Kemal Atatürk (the founder of modern Turkey) and Ibn Saud (the founder of modern Saudi Arabia). I've found the perspective it brought to the modern geopolitics of the region invaluable.

PS: Benoist-Méchin was a French far-right journalist, writer and was openly sympathetic with Nazi Germany. Not that I condone that (I don't) but the books are excellent nonetheless.
The reason why it was negotiated in secret is because there never would have been a consensus. It's literally a learned best practice of trade diplomacy.
When you think about our brains, this makes a lot of sense and one of those things that seem obvious in hindsight. Our brains are efficient and have high computing power, but why don't they heat up? Because liquid (blood) is constantly flowing through it to keep it cool. But unlike traditional liquid cooled computers, blood also powers our brain.

What I'd like to know, which I don't think they mentioned in the article, is if the fluid actually runs through the chips silicon wafers like the other technique discussed later in the article.
You discovered that? Neat! I came here to post this link, which includes info about the debug mode and other hidden features. https://tcrf.net/3D_Pinball:_Space_Cadet
every newspaper on earth is a propaganda newspaper. every journalist working for an editorial line that is dicted to him is a propaganda agent. I can't wait for this piece of our society to die thanks to the Web.

She picked a one sided view of russian troll influencing people. why didnt she chose US trolls, or Arab trolls, or French trolls, ect. every nation on earth wants to control an manipulate information through any means. Russians do not need to pay anyone to do this, people are patriotic enough to do it by themselves. To attack a one sided kind of people in their own realm with their own tools (the internet and social networks) is a foolish thing to do and this woman journalist learned this the hard way.people need to understand that the internet is a battlefield and wars cant be won by journalists but by warriors.
That's some bullshit. Wow.
Limb dropping is not well understood and can happen at any time. There is no inspection that can predict limb drop. No tree rope swing can be assured as safe.
Cloudera came to town little over a year ago to work on an undisclosed project. Pretty sure given the Bosh Global Services want ads for a Hadoop developer it was to process drone images for the Iowa Air Guard.
Just curious: are you saying this because the article states that they have thin profit margins, or because you know how they perform in the market?
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I am afraid of the learning curve and being married with kids I usually only play when I am not with any of them (AKA "Can't sleep" after wife goes to sleep) I love being with my family but playing > sleep is an easy decision.
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Page 19 is interesting. It explains that this is possible, without everything that does logging needing access to sockets, because on OpenBSD syslog(3) doesn't use sockets and doesn't need a file descriptor.
Derek Smart has had a long standing and documented vendetta against Chris Roberts. He's most certainly not a neutral party and his actions have been malicious at the least.
I think international travel should be mandatory, especially for US citizens. The longest I've stayed anywhere overseas is a month, but even a few days in another country can be eye-opening.
I wonder why not - they've always been pretty aggressive about Mac support, as you observed.

Maybe the overhead required for developing a new FPS engine (which, AFAIK, Blizzard's never done in-house before, even SC:Ghost was another developer) was too much for them to have OS X support in the initial timetable.
Ahem... Facebook. Somehow Facebook is "worth" more than GE and analysts LOVE it. They are beating earnings but their numbers just don't look all that great to me. A P/E of 107 which wouldn't be insane if the growth was there to back it up. The "growth" that they do have is in selling ads that people don't click on. Yes they are a treasure trove of marketing data, but are they really more valuable than General friken Electric? What am I missing here?

Downvotes? Is Zuck already checking out hacker news this morning ;)
I don't speak finnish, but your interpretation doesn't make sense. "Crowdsourced" means "paid by multiple (ordinary) people". One could argue about the facts in the resulting articles (I have no clue about that), but a smear campaign shows that she probably touched something big...

As far as bias goes, it would be difficult to judge without knowing the real facts.
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