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> As a long time MGS fan I can tell you that MGS5 was an unfinished mess.

I wouldn't say it was an unfinished mess. It was remarkably polished and bug-free for a modern 5-platform AAA game. If it had ended with Chapter 1 I think everyone would have been happy with the content and length of the game. Chapter 2 provides closure for a couple story lines and evokes the "Phantom Pain" of the title - you've achieved your revenge, but now what? Life goes on, it is not happily ever after. The repeated missions are "bonus" content that you are not required to do to unlock anything.

> I feel that the game really failed to convince me that any decision I made was particularly evil.

Maybe I'm just a Kojima apologist, but to me this is the genius of the game. You don't think you did anything evil - and it's true, the game doesn't let you do overtly, blatantly obviously evil things like killing the child soldiers or detonating your nukes against civilians (or anyone for that matter). But look at it from an outside perspective - you're building a nuclear-armed mercenary army out of kidnapped soldiers who get thrown in the brig and interrogated / brainwashed by Ocelot. An army that will hire itself out to the highest bidder. Look at the role of real-life PMCs in Africa like Executive Outcomes or Sandline International, or more recently the role of Blackwater in Iraq. Imagine if they had nukes.

Everything you do in the game makes sense and is justified when looked at while you're doing it, but you end up building this giant army that in reality would be a tool of neo-colonialist oppression used to ensure the smooth extraction of raw materials from Africa by multinational corporations.
Reproducibility means IT can be.This isn't the claim that stem cells could be produced from normal adult cells by dipping them into acid for a 30-minute shock period.(Was a Nature Journal paper that was false in January 2014)

With these you have the numbers and the research. You would have to say something was wrong in their approach and redo it. In these instances you look at the data and you make analysis of it. No need to reproduce it.
Having lived in SC, NC, GA my whole life I can't remember a being in a home that didn't use a gas furnace.
Libnode: C++ implementation of Node.js
...said a guy in his 30's
> Yes, it was full retail, but I got what I wanted, no regrets.

That's something worth noting. People say you vote with your wallet, but they don't. If you need to see something in person, then by all means, pay the shop the price it asks and do not buy it on Amazon later.

If you need to see it, then buy it where you can see it, not send mixed signals: thumbs up for amazon, thumbs down to the local shop while you actually needed the opposite. I have no shame shopping better price on Amazon or others. But once I have needed to put a foot into a physical store, a physical store will get my money.
The idea behind all skills is implementing them in your daily life. If you are a statistician who never really uses math in daily life, then it's not the math at fault, but you simply haven't found a way to make it a habbit yet. This is also why the points in the article are rather broad and not really statistics related. For instance, how do you decide when which details are important and when the big picture is important (two points that follow each other directly after one another). You'll probably say gut feeling. But if you don't use the science to consistently train your gut, then your gut feeling isn't that much better than mine (I'm no statistician).

Yes there is a point where you get so much into the principles that you don't need to calculate everything anymore. However, that point is not after graduation, but after doing more math than the people around you for about 3-5 years, maybe 10 for some. And a huge part of your intuition would probably be around not needing a calculator to put the numbers together, and about finding many different solutions to the same problem, understanding that each has their pros and cons (e.g., different fittings that all tell you something about your data cloud).

If you answer a broad question with "it depends", it's a good sign you only think you are well trained (happens to all of us all the time). If you think "it depends, if A then B but Z, if C then D but Y, if E then G but X, ..." then you are probably well trained.
What are the problems where GC can't be used? I'm going to guess very tiny embedded systems and hard real time. What are the places where C++ is being used? Unfortunately a lot more than those, resulting in expensive, unreliable, insecure software.
I disagree. The tone was more akin to "This really doesn't impact a lot of our customers, but the customers it did impact caused a significant (unexpected) response."

That's perfectly valid. They felt that it was a minority doing it (which is probably true) so this would be a non-issue. It wasn't, so they reversed it.
HIV dating app responds to data leak by threatening to infect others with HIV
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CSC 316 appears to be the main algorithms course (recommended 4th semester course).
THIS study. Not all studies. Is this a study that is valid and was the approach right. Throwing away all because of most is not a good approach.
On a smaller scale, I remember one day realizing that I, a self-taught programmer, knew more than my boss. Within six months I left to start my own company.
Wernher von Braun's bold plan for space exploration
Not hard to detect for the sensors, the questions is how (if) the software reacts.

He uses an artificial neural network to make the driving decisions.

You train them by showing millions of situations (images of the surroundings, information about the cars current state and information about the imminent past in this case) and the wanted reactions/solution/answer (how to drive in this case). Hotz probably has enough "normal" data, because you hold the line all the time when driving and apparently there were enough situations where the car in front slowed down and he slowed down.

From the latter case you could guess that the car would break more rapidly if the car in front stops more rapidly than in the training sessions with a human driver (you would have to test that, as you usually cannot just look at the trained neural network and see that, because they become insanely complex after a certain depth).

But probably the car never "saw" bricks falling of the truck before you or even a kid running from the left side. Those are edge cases, that are unlikely to happen, especially on a motor way. But I'd still like to know whether his software would just apply the nearest trained case and see it as noise, or notice that something is off here and alarm the driver.

Definitely a cool project, don't get me wrong. But I get kind of sad when the work of thousands of scientists who worked on the theory and the work of Tesla, Google and big car manufacturers gets dismissed by "but look at this guy" (in general, not directed at you).
Doesn't that still make it a lower risk since for the poorer person, there is less available time (assuming priority is giving to addressing the financial situation & providing basic needs) ?
Cryptocurrency mining, as it was in 2014. Although it's mostly- rather than fully- passive.
He didn't write the article, it's not his fault it comes off as cocky. He is tackling an impressive project on his own, and spitting in the face of corporations. He should be giving talks at DEFCON about this, teaching people how he did it.

Your comment screams a superiority complex, but I bet that you are actually a nice person in real-life. Hotz is doing good work, and everyone in the technical field is relying on work done decades before they were born.
> If physical bookstores are to have any hope of surviving then books need to be exactly that kind of product.

Physical books are exactly that kind of product, but there are precious few malls that meet that description, and the rents are very high. And the communities where they exist also tend to be communities where B&N has stores (though not always in the malls, though sometimes on the same lot and sharing foot traffic). I'd be very surprised if there's any real evidence that there is a profit opportunity for B&N being missed by tieing itself more to malls, there or anywhere else.
Congress tucked CISA inside last night's budget bill
That's not the best comparison because many people in the USA also don't have food: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/sayonara-middle-cl...

> #14 The number of Americans that are living in concentrated areas of high poverty has doubled since the year 2000.

> #19 46 million Americans use food banks each year, and lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out.

This is all part of the point I'm making, America is not uniformly great or a land of opportunity.
As an app developer who has had to deal with these kinds of state issues for, now, over a decade (pre-iOS touch was also happening, kids), I can only say this: so what?

Code for the case, and move on. WIMP is a baseline from the 70's that we need to move on, from. So, even if tis but a single-click, with de-bounce, 'tis a step up from the option. Shadows are an option; but if you know that you're going to be coding for Air.bar anyway, its just something you need to inform the GUI design team about, and move on.

Me, personally: I love this. I think its exactly what we need. I've had a Leap Motion on my desktop with much whimsy; that I can now take a touch-upgrade with me on my MBPro means I might actually be able to attain my desired goal of having a consistent, common, grounded touch interface in all of my apps. On all supported platforms.

I'm gonna get one.
I don't see why it would. Once you get enough base data you can start simulating the data from what you have, inputting different scenarios without actually encountering them IRL. Faking sensor input and randomizing should get it most of the way there.
Unfortunately, the people in charge of the social safety nets are going to be listening to only one of these. And it's probably not the science.
I've been a fan of a webcomic that is nothing but these symbols (and others like them). It looks like XKCD, but with a more machined look.

http://www.systemcomic.com/
The 'indie' comment rings very true in my experience. Each Waterstones I've been in seems to have a unique feel but still remains under a strong brand.

I think the one in Taunton is great as I think that one has a huge reading area upstairs. Cheltenham is different with its café and condensed layout. The Guildford one is three levels I think and has loads of more niche stuff up top (where it belongs really, not taking up prime first floor popular sales).

Staff are always nice to speak to, find stuff I've needed straight away and best of all they have an ebook store too. Like you said, they seem to love books too which really helps as they seem 'interested' in helping you and to talk about the genre you're interested in. I credit one guy in Cribbs Causeway store for getting me started with Peter Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds.

Yikes, I've just realised I've been in a lot of Waterstones shops!
> I think the theory here has been fairly well tested and proven false.

Only if we assume that store size and location at the ONLY metrics used to determine success. Not atmosphere, product selection, store layout, consumer demand, competition, and price.

You cannot say for sure why that specific attempt failed. Nor can I.

Our local B&N is the size of Toys R Us (same plot), and while Toys R Us makes good use of their floor space, it feels like half of the B&N is populated (e.g. fiction section) while the other half is a desert wasteland (reference, Nook showcase, etc).

And considering how much rent costs around here, I can only imagine how much B&N could save by re-designing the stores into a smaller plot. Or heck move it into a plot with more foot traffic, and the same popular selection.
The one who's article we're commenting on right now?
Load private web content by voice command
As far as I can discern, transducers are exactly the same as iterator adaptors in Rust: you compose transformations on a stream and get back a computation that pumps one element through the entire set of transformations on each iteration, i.e. it fuses the loops together. Then you can either run this computation and collect results into a data structure of your choosing or compose different stream transformations onto the end.

The C++ implementation of this notion looks like an inscrutable, complete trainwreck, like the rest of the language.
Age is shorthand for "I've spent X years making a lot of mistakes and learning from them."
I don't know about USA but most "third world" eastern europe countries have some of the best internet infrastructures in the world with peanut prices.
25 killer stats that tell you what to expect from IoT
I haven't used a desktop document or spreadsheet in years. The argument that a couple of missing features, or ones that are somewhat sluggish over a bad network connection, will prevent widespread adoption of cloud-based products is completely ignoring the huge benefits of cloud-based systems.

In short: Calling Google docs a "non-starter" seems like a difficult position to defend. It's already in use by millions of people, daily, and growth is high. There are plenty of folks, including businesses, who have opted not to install MS Office and instead use Docs for everything. Sure, there are plenty of situations where that doesn't work, but as the "web as a platform" advances, and as office products on the web advance, the reasons for sticking with installed apps will continue to decline.

There will continue to be need for installed applications for heavy users for a long time to come (nobody is suggesting serious video or audio editing online, yet, but image editing is already reasonably do-able). Text-based and number-based documents? Those are easy. The very first personal computers could do them pretty well (Visicalc and WordStar, among others), and the web as a platform is vastly more powerful than the Apple II, C64, or IBM PC, that ran those products. And, they're also very easy to work on over very slow connections; you download the whole doc and check in changes in the background. Effectively making all the work happen on the client-side. No big deal.
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Will keep an eye on this when it is an actual product. Might be fun to see what you can do with one of these when projecting the computer screen. Cheapo interactive whiteboard style.
What's worse is that we're using "modern" programming languages for which these things aren't even on the horizon.

It's so far from the mainstream norm to implement these ancient time-savers that you can't help being excited about Swift, even though such a language should be mundane by now.
Could not help thinking about the stark contrast between Hotz and the Theranos "entrepreneur":
a. self-funded vs. VC friend funded
b. demo-ing the product (try it and 'feel' it) early on vs. hiding behind a ton of marketing legalese
I need a manufacturer for my next physical product
ClojureScript on Apple TV
> It's not for lack of trying, but publishers have to play ball.

It could lead by example by doing that for the titles B&N itself publishes.
It is interesting how the designers were not themselves authoritative.
This really needs to work, and be successful, and be a thing. In the audio-apps world, touch-based interfaces are encroaching deeply on the WIMP manifesto, and we laptop users suffer from having accessory envy whenever the latest popstar brings their iPad into the booth.

If there is a fast, convenient way to out-do the Magic Leap experience (and that's what this looks to be) then I think someone in AirBar Inc., needs to have an "Audio/Music-Industry Specialist" contact person doing the necessary work to get 100% buy-in from the synth/plugin guys.

Because, this is a unique opportunity, actually.
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You think the tech industry is more egalitarian/meritocratic than employment in general? The study says:

> The amount of discrimination is uniform across occupations and industries.

If you have evidence that the tech industry is different, please post it, I would be interested to see it.
Narrow AI, yes. If it simulates a human action and adapts to the environment to a small degree (e.g can recognize a screw bolt and pick it up even if it is in a different location every time), it's a narrow AI.
How is this different than dropwizard?
> Ground Zeroes literally made me sick to my stomach.

Because of the graphics/gameplay? Or the story? If it's the story, I think that's a good thing. It's a devastating critique of US foreign policy as it relates to extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, black sites, etc. Except for the very end, there's nothing that happens in the game that the US army / CIA haven't already done.
Reminds me of the plethora of packages on CPAN; juxtapose with PyPI & trying to convince python devs that releasing a distribution that only does one thing/has one package wasn't a waste of time…
Every thing you say about Airbnb can be applied to uber too. Why should there be unregulated cab drivers all over the city? What are legal means for handling abuse by drivers? Why should other cars on the roads deal with every car being a potential taxi?

But its funny how this free market thing works though, the hypocrisy is the same people who scream innovation and disruption when it comes to Uber are crying disgust and malpractice when it comes to Airbnb.

You can't have these selectively applied to what you like and dislike. If disrupting taxi unions and license issuers was fair, so is this.
Digging into the financials of Barnes & Noble, it's mainly suffering from Nook's underperformance and its inability to command a reasonable share of the ebook market. Here's a news piece on their last quarterly report

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/barnes-nob...

"The company, which spun off its college-bookstore division earlier this year, also has seen store closings eat into revenue."

"The bookstore chain said it expects comparable-store sales to be flat this year, with the Nook weighing on results."

"Sales decreased 4.5 percent to $894.7 million. But comparable-store sales only fell 0.5 percent when excluding Nook products."

"The retailer also has worked to stem losses from the Nook unit by lessening investment and teaming up with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce the devices."

So overall the Barnes & Noble brick-and-mortar book+coffee+accessories business is doing relatively okay, what's hurting it is previous investment in e-readers and e-books that's tough to wind down.

I remember a similar thesis explored when Borders went bankrupt - comparable-store sales were relatively flat, but the company borrowed immensely to finance expansion, and it was the expansion that didn't pay off. The old school business, if left alone, would've tagged along.
Yeah, so now people have to fill on a form and tell why they are in trouble.

I see noooo problems with this.
/s

Re: real names as a deterrent against bullying, -look no further than HN and see that real names aren't really needed at all. In fact lots of real names places are way worse.
I was hoping the whole "accredited investor" requirement was going away.
> The email is in Gmail

> As far as I can tell, there is no way to guarantee a 'secure' delivery of documents via email.

Well, if neither of you forwards to an external account, gmail->gmail email should be pretty "secure" (against other adversaries than Google, those that have hacked one of your Google accounts, and those that Google cooperate with (if any)).

It's not clear by what you write if someone@example.com is emailing you@gmail.com (And so should know that Google knows all the things), or if you meant that you both use Gmail - or if you use Google Apps, so you already give all your emails to Google, but not in a way that is transparent to the sender (however, if the sender doesn't use any kind of end-to-end encryption...).

Not meant as a nitpick -- just pointing out that for some values of "secure" using a single provider for email can be "more secure".

I suppose the "enterprise" alternative would be to have accounts in cross-trusted AD with client-certificates and use S/MIME for client-client end-to-end encryption. In which case (AFAIK) by default, there'd be the possibility of keeping an escrow key.

(The open alternative would probably be to just use Gnu Privacy Guard)
"Point being, lower socioeconomic households can speak more to their children for free,"

Not if they're working two jobs.
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This assertion in the article is where it became clear to me the author just didn't do any research into the marketing channel they were hoping to gain value out of. Most 'straight to the frontpage' hunts come from a product geek submitting a product they found on their own, or via email/tweet etc from the makers. And yeah, pre-launch advisors don't take any equity.
Another part of my problem is that I have too many projects I want to do. Learning about AI is one example, but I've instead done a series of web and mobile apps which are much closer to success. It would take a lot of time to read all the AI research and become good enough to tackle a problem like self-driving cars, and I've only got my spare time at home, with which I must also make sure my wife remains happy (ignoring her seems to make her unhappy for some reason) and keep my sanity (read fiction or play a video game some times) and take care of my house (the lawn just won't stay mowed).

I do remember being about 19 and thinking I was the best programmer in the world. By about 22 I had rewritten as much of my old code as I possibly could because it was so horrible. Somewhere between there and now I've gotten a cynical bit of humility to tamper my ego. I think the cynical part is that my ambition has not lessened, just my belief that I can succeed.

One Steve Jobs philosophy is focus and say no. I'm guessing I could do better if I said no to all but a single project.
Perhaps it's because 99% of VCs I've talked to who claim (on their website, in person, or otherwise) to focus on the seed stage or early stage, change their mind when you actually go pitch to them. Like asking about users, traction, and so on. If I had those already, I would by definition not be early stage.

True early stage investors focus on technology, team, demos, prototypes, and so on. Probably team more than anything else.
One major mistake I see is when people look at statistics on a linear scale when often it should be on a logarithmic scale.
Weren’t We Supposed to Have Laser Guns by Now?
'hard real time' -> multimedia and action games
Is this somehow connected with Big Money influence on adult brains?
And fortunately for us who cannot comprehend it C++17 brings in ranges.
I dont believe that's accurate though, saying people in their 20's know nothing, or people in their 20's still have a lot to learn is just a way of restating the same fact. But that statement doesn't mean that people in their 30's are enlightened or smarter, only that they now understand how much they don't know.

> This whole: "Twenty year olds don't know shit but 30 year olds are so enlightened" sentiment
Can anyone recommend a AI/economics book regarding the implications of a population where jobs are no longer necessary?
This was my first thought when I read the article. There ought to be some test track qualification before allowing a new system to be tested on the public road.
To be fair soft-realtime systems don't interact well with GC's since random multi-millisecond pauses break everything.

There is at least work towards making controlled GC pauses a possibility.
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Why is fixing bugs so slow? (and how to make it faster)