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I used to be PC + Console but the PC was always my preferred platform. I am now PC only though.

There was very little about the last generation of consoles that appealed to me and basically nothing about the current one.

There are a few console exclusive games I would quite like to play, but honestly my Steam backlog alone is like 2+ years at this point and always growing.

I have more than enough stuff to play as it is.
You will always need progressive taxation because it's "baling out the boat" since money when left alone flows towards the rich. It needs to be constantly clawed back to minimize inequality (which may be more important than absolute income amount). That's assuming you aren't gonna make big changes like phasing out money.
Agreed, I was impressed with it! It killed me on the big picture stuff (I'm not very good) but let me win a lot of life-and-death spots where I had no right to survive. But still, it did much better than I was expecting.

The "show analysis" button seemed to suggest a lot of poor moves for me, which surprised me given how the AI didn't actually seem to do anything like that (such as playing into an eye with no chance to win).
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But I don't see why you need to live in London? You might like it and want to live there, but then you need the money to be able to.

Like I could move to Helsinki if I wanted to on my current salary, but I see no reason to do so. I live in smaller city (or maybe it's even considered a town) and I have plenty of extra money left over after my rent.
Go is specified to calculate constant expressions with higher precision (256 bits of mantissa). https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants
It's the closest binary representation. See e.g. this: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2scikz/eli5_why...
While other commenters only came here to say "I am a bad player, but I won" I want to say I have lost.

The bot was better than me in the sense that he knew exactly the best thing to do in "standard" situations and I don't. In a sense he looks more experienced and studied than me. But he did some stupid moves in some other situations in which he had to think more as a human, I imagine.
That depends on the number you want to represent. Some values can be represented exactly, others with varying degrees of precision because of the difference between what is actually stored and what you wanted to store. This will collapse a number of values into the same precision 'bucket'.
I would bet the airliner could could be reduced by a factor of ten, if they decided to improve quality.
In most Western European countries rent is tightly controlled so it's not possible for landlords to make big increases overnight.
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> How much do social welfare and unemployment programs pay out in Finland?

Minimum of 485,50€ and 705€ per month respectively. So 800€ isn't much more than any unemployed would get anyway. If you have any previous employment then your unemployment benefits will be (much) higher.
the distinction does make a difference for the legislative branch, which does not have a line-item veto.

Let's assume that X is 'punish pedophiles' and Y is 'allow corporations to dispose of 10% more toxic waste in upstream waters without liability if they own the surrounding land for up to two miles.'

Then if a legislator votes against the bill they have voted against punishing pedophiles, that's not going to look too good around election time. This puts more power in the Executive branch, and means essentially you're depending on the Executive's good will not to allow corporations to dispose of 10% more toxic waste.
Is that on all of the examples?
Here is the Decimal type which does not have this float problem.

Are you sure?

>>> Decimal(0.1)
Decimal('0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625')
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One should never compare for equality on floats or doubles, with the possible exception of '0' depending on the context.
I'm sure you can see that the post linking to the (simplifying) anti-YC blog being accidentally killed by spam filter can raise questions about whether it was really an accident. I'm not saying it was not - I'm just saying the bayesian probability of this being an accident doesn't look that great to me.
Why don't all these languages fold down to the same FPU add and hence produce the same output (on the same hardware)?

Are you telling me they implement their own version of the IEEE float standard? Surely that way madness lies.
In other words, there are about 5648798746465 possible interpretations of the "(\+|-|)[0-9]+.[0-9]+" format, and the problem is with mismatched assumptions ("of course I'm using the One Correct Interpretation, like everyone else!").
Clicking on their profile and downgrading from 'friend' to 'acquaintance' I find helps a lot. You then hardly see their stuff. I've had to do that for four annoying people (far right politics, topless pics, fascist propaganda etc...) and I don't think I've seen any of them in my feed since.
Those 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 numbers do not have any floating point representation at all. Computers just can not use them.
Why isn't is enabled by default?
The price factor has always struck me as a case of not having enough information on PC hardware and game requirements (which is understandable if you only know console gaming).

You don't need to go all-out on top-end graphics cards, processors, cases and watercooling to play PC games at a similar or higher standard (in terms of graphical quality and framerate) to consoles.

A mid-range PC may or may cost a little more than a console but the fantastic savings that come from things like Steam sales mean you can for example, pick up 5-10 games over Christmas for a fraction of the price of doing the same with the XBox/Playstation versions of those games can mean it ends up being a lot cheaper in the long run.

Of course, knowing about the prices of PC hardware and how to put together the best bang-for buck system is something you would have to consider. That knowledge is unnecessary with consoles.
Even if we give $30,000 to EVERYONE, the poor will be more better off than the rich because $15,000 to $30,000 is a much bigger jump than $400,000 to $415,000. But the price of basics is not going to change that much because everyone buys them already.

The "universal" part is that this is a universal floor on living standards that applies to everyone.
There are some propositions for calling 'basic income' a 'technological dividend'.

Changing the name changes the debate about it in a manner that is, maybe, more appropriate for the modern times.

At the end of the day, a basic income it's only possible in affluent societies, and it's technology what makes a society affluent.
A few points that I thought would be worth making here. I read through all the comments a little while ago and was surprised no one was pointing these out. Maybe they're too obvious, but I think worth the space since many comments seem to contradict these:

1) I think you can't just consider the implications of how people will behave as employees once they're earning a Basic Income. How employers will simply take advantage of the system and force people to work for less. If anything I think it will put more pressure on businesses to make sure they're paying enough, otherwise they won't have the manpower to grow their business. Then there's the argument about automation. There will be only a few companies who can do automation to compete in this new economy. If anything I think it's worth mentioning that not only will it make it easier for large corporations to attempt to take advantage of people, but I think it will make it far easier for regular citizens to become employers. For example, I think people will be far more willing to accept terms that pay only equity in a company than they would be today.

2) With regard to "what will people do with all of their spare time". I think perhaps the dystopian future many people imagine will happen for a few weeks where people celebrate, get drunk and party all day because they don't have to work. Eventually I imagine that life will catch up to most people. They'll have hobbies, they'll start businesses, they'll contribute to non-profit efforts. And one of the most important I think, they'll have the time to engage with their government to ensure it remains loyal to its citizens and not to special interests.

NOTE: And to clarify I think these points are made with regard to a "Basic Income" and not a "Minimum Guaranteed Income". Basic Income IMO is the far superior choice. Minimum Guaranteed Income seems to give all the benefit to the large corporations and little to no benefit to the average citizen besides guarantee that they'll remain out of poverty for their entire life.
Most newer NAS Devices (i.e. from Synology) have a wide range of applications to use through webbrowsers or mobile apps.

Sadly, there's no good replacement for Office365 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).
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Sure. I mean, I expect to read similar obituaries one day for the computer science giants of today, like Jeff Dean (hopefully not for a very long time!).

Amdahl's bio makes it sound like he was an effective engineer and good at business too, but that his career was somewhat empty of success after he left Amdahl. That should not detract from his earlier achievements. Very few people have an unbroken track record of sustained success across their whole career.
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But it doesn't seem possible on the web link for the player to pass and then see the score?
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>It's not a critique of this work, but the overall climate in academia.

I think it's both. Contentious though this may be, I think that the reproductibility problems in academia invite us to consider the idea that we may be hiring political activists to do research.
Honestly, the last thing I would want is Google that heavily involved in PC gaming.
No, you cannot compare Finland to other western or even Scandinavian countries. It's very different.
Happy Android and Firefox user calling in.

My Nexus is still safe :)
Sometimes people post absurd political-extremist stuff on HackerNews; it's part of the leftfield/futurism/tech/niche here. I'm free to point out the absurdity of such postings.
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Hm, I think your data is rather skewed. Sure, most people on HN would probably self-describe as geeks, but that doesn't mean that all geeks are here! As for the Twitter and blog posts you mention, I'd put that down to a sampling bias.

I think the geeks who do care are elsewhere - the natural sciences, for example. HN is a place mainly to talk about technology, and so obviously that is what gets most attention. Go to science fora, and you might find more about climate change.
Does Google Chrome have a sandbox on Android?
I wonder how easy it would be to combine this with Oculus-like VR to make a fully explorable space? I guess you'd probably have to generate a 3D image of the space and texture it with street view photos. Is that doable?
use Decimal('0.1'), otherwise you will first generate a floating point number (with accuracy loss) and the convert it to a decimal.
Ok: what keeps me from raising prices, period?

Also, rent was just one example. In the long run it seems inflation will just go up unless there's heavy regulation of the market, at least on basic goods and services (housing, food, clothing, etc).
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My team is composed of individuals who are passionate about X. The first of it's kind within our company. We all have a common interest; using X to better our customers experience. Unfortunately, our manager doesn't hold the same.

Consistently the teams interests are out ranked by the interest of our manager. Those interest usually do not deal with X and leave us feeling lackluster and frustrated. We each have directly confronted the issue multiple times. While this usually has an effect in the short term, as time passes things return back to the previous operating state.

HN, how would you deal with the situation? I am at a crossroads.
It's interesting (depressing) to me, that the FCC thinks that hardware vendors should be responsible for what their hardware does once it leaves their hands. If we applied the same logic to other industries, there wouldn't be a firearm manufacturer left in the USA.

Is this an actual problem? Are there people running DD-WRT in a way that is wreaking havoc on other communications? I can count on one hand the number of people I know who have played with DD-WRT, and I've worked with hundreds of geeks in my career. It feels like the FCC is trying to regulate a problem that doesn't exist yet, and it makes me wonder what the motivation behind it is.
>"The looser that I am I spent 15 Euro a year to host my email in Switzerland. And if shit hits the van I CALL THEM. Have you ever tried calling google?"

If you have to call your email provider, there is something seriously wrong, and you should probably move to another provider.
Parent asked whether anyone actually uses Facebook as their sole communication medium. I'm saying yes, because there's little reason to bother with anything else when everyone has Facebook (and can already find each other on it). And for the most part that's true, in my experience. I've met exactly two people who don't have Facebook; neither of them want to be contacted electronically at all. Never met someone in a peer group who wanted to IM but was morally opposed to Facebook in particular.

> Either you care about contacting someone or you don't.

Cuts both ways. If Facebook is someone's primary communication system and you refuse to use it, then you don't particularly care about contacting them either.

>"Overhead" to contact someone?

Most groups of friends I'm aware of have running group chats. In an effort to be inclusive of people with Androids, many switched from iMessage to Facebook. But if you refused to use Facebook and an event was planned that way, yes, someone would have to make the effort to reach out to you individually. Overhead. Even if they really like you despite your self-righteous inconveniencing of everyone else, it's not obvious whose responsibility it should be to bridge between Facebook and your smoke signals, and they're likely to forget sometimes.
I find that really annoying when people downvote a comment because they don't agree with it. IMO, the downvoting privilege should be used only to indicate a flawed argumentation or negative content.
This is fun. My game is quite rusty. Love playing fast. Training that neural net in my skull. This was how I originally learned the basics some 20 years ago: by playing & undoing against an AI. It's a low-stress way to get into the groove.
As the Tor developers themselves say, Tor should be only one tool in your overall privacy/security toolbox.

Relying on Tor alone to keep you anonymous, especially against nation state actors is probably not a great idea.
It does not if you pass the string representation of the float you're working on. Like BigDecimal in Java.
Not that I'm against progressive taxation, but I never understood how taxation not being theft tells us exactly how much Bill should pay. Theoretically if you have defined objectives you ought to wonder how much is the right amount getting you closest to these objectives. "We're all their heirs" could very well mean that Bill should give everyone in the world $10-20, so an equal share to everyone. This kind of thing does not work very well, however.
Bummer. I've always considered magnetic tape to be indestructable, for all practical purposes. But more and more I'm starting to consider M-Discs as my archival storage media of choice.

Does anyone here use them for archiving their photos/music/video data? I am less afraid of death itself than of being forgotten afterwards. I need something I can trust my legacy with.
They're close enough for government work.
To bolster your comment, let me add that Economics as a field is particularly corrupt with regards to how much the reputation of your institution counts for jobs/publications. For example, the leading journal of economics that is "Quarterly Journal of Economics" has 50% of it's articles only from Harvard and MIT. That means 2 schools out of the hundreds who do economics dominate the leading journal. Although Harvard+MIT are good, by no means are they THAT much better over Stanford, Berkeley, Princeton etc. It is obvious that the reviewers are accepting their own people (QJE is a Harvard journal) over other people.

The comparable figure for Physics is something like the top 100-odd schools produce the half of the research. That seems like a much fairer distribution.

Take the inherent fuzziness of social science research, compound it with prestige gaming, compound with the impossibility of reporting a negative result, and what you get is shoddy research.
Fred Brooks might've been thinking of him when he wrote "Thinkers are rare; doers are rarer; and thinker-doers are rarest." [1]

[1] Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
It will raise the price of staples because people don't need to be frugal about those things anymore.
3 bad devices from HTC and LG, I guess.

But the work-supplied iPhone 4 and my now personal iPhone 6S haven't been issues. Never have to worry about batteries, don't hang, etc. etc.
In PHP's case, it converts the value to a printable (string) representation, and in so doing rounds off to a precision of 14 digits.

http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_4/Zend/zend_operators.c#2142

The "mathematically" correct answer is 0.30000000000000004 according to the IEEE-754 spec.
You're not "pointing out" anything. You're randomly yelling with zero argumentation. Your comments are just as insightful as a rand(0, 1) && print("Nonsense!").
He's actually talking about the SELinux/"RBAC in general" approach. His only criticism of Grsecurity is that it's not in the mainline and therefore not as effective as it could be.
I want to think basic income is a good idea.

But how the "bonus salary" will be calculated in the case of political jobs (to legislate) and above all army? Is there any texts on this subject?
But these numbers are perfectly computable! Sure they cannot be represented in the commonly used binary implementation of floating point numbers, but that doesn't mean computers cannot operate with these numbers at all.
Calendar and Contact syncing should be pretty much standardised (for open source things) around CalDav[1] and CardDav[2]

I'm not quite sure what you'd gain by doing this process manually (export on one device, import on the other) rather than just using a {cal/card}dav server?

1: http://caldav.calconnect.org

2: http://carddav.calconnect.org
If your income goes up 800€ and your taxes go up 800€ then your disposable income does not increase.

For those near the poverty line who will pay less than 800€ in new taxes still need to eat, so they cannot pay 800€ more in rent.
It sounds very much like a quality of implementation issue. There's no good reason why you can't deal with ten of thousands of bookmarks in JS with good performance.
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I had a really bad day. Cheers man you have no idea how much that means to me.
I think this sort of captcha could actually work, hah.
The same with FF on Windows8. Makes one wonder whether selecting/copying only what's visible should be the expected behaviour. I'd go for yes
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This doesn't seem true for me (Python 3.5.0 (default, Sep 20 2015, 11:28:25) [GCC 5.2.0] on linux).

>>> print(.1 + .2)
0.30000000000000004
Well, they can't be specified as IEEE 754 floats. A computer can still use those numbers in the form of decimal fixed-point or numerator-denominator formats.
Solid proof that C# is better than JAVA. :D
Pinned tabs fallback to using the favicon as I understand it? I certainly see an icon when it's Pinned - or do you mean a dedicated Pinned tab icon?

If you mean the latter, that seems pretty unlikely given that the site literally just gained some semblance of responsiveness on mobile devices in the last month.
Cool factor aside there are very legitimate reasons not to use Facebook. I've never had a Facebook account, refuse to let my GF post pictures of me there and block it's trackers.

Not necessarily against the idea of social networking. I just don't like Facebook. I think others should adopt this same attitude. If people think this is boasting so be it. I find it to be just good sense.
Given that Singapore is a medium-sized city providing financial services for an entire continent, it's probably not a model of fiscal sustainability the rest of the world can readily follow

And yes, virtually all the states on that list are significantly poorer and have drastically worse social services than Western Europe.

I didn't contract with the government to accept their jurisdiction over territory (though every tax I've ever paid has been due to a free and fair decision to do business and make purchases on their terms), but then I didn't contract with wealthy people to agree to their ownership of assets they claim rights to stop me using or charge me for using either...

Contrary to propertarian mythology, both the institutions of property and government are imposed by a mixture of force and the likelihood of society being substantially worse off if they didn't exist.
As illumen pointed out, Python has also got fractions.
For things like Pi however, there is no exact numerical representation and you'd probably want sympy or something similar.
Nothing keeps you from raising prices. However, just because people have more money does not mean competition will stop. In fact competition might increase and prices go down, as there is more money to be made and risks/costs go down.
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No libertarian beliefs that rich people do everything by themselfs without society. Bill Gates used a waste laber market, world trade system and much else.

I hope you agree with me that society does not equal government.

I do not beliefe taxation is theft, but your argument for taxes simple is not good either.
:) Yep. When I turned in my CS master's thesis, my professor said I should seriously consider writing for a living (somehow). At the time, I took that to mean that my thesis wasn't very impressive, and it wasn't, but I really enjoyed writing the paper, researching the historical aspects and stuff.