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But this is what makes us Humans! The development of tools. You would not be able to write these messages if not for all the tools build along our path. Simple physical tools like a screwdriver enable us to fix and create objects in the physical space. Throughout history we build new tools for every new development to the point that we where able to build the internet. There are many things that are not quite right with the internet today, maybe this is where your sadness comes from? But as long as we build tools to empower individual humans to expand their horizon, I think that it is worth to build and use new tools. The Reality Editor opens up a new category of tools, this is what makes it powerful. It is a power for your own hands to enable you, similar a screw driver did for generations before.
I hear Facebook is higher.
> I'm also not buying that it's a slippery slope and banning, say, cross compiling profiles on customers from different, unrelated platforms would "take down the entirety of marketing and advertising as an industry".

It's also not clear that destroying the entirety of marketing and advertising industries is an obviously bad idea if you take the long view on humanity. (It's also not an obviously good idea. It's worth thinking about.)
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One possible problem is connections. You can make very large wood beams and columns, but then it becomes difficult to transfer the loads from one member to the other, because even a pretty big bolt will act on a fairly small area of wood.
Thanks for an interesting project shared. I am sharing this at my college, some share concerns about adaptability, but I feel like as this project expands it will feel seamless. I am glad it is so readily available and already showing support for newer boards like the Raspberry Pi Zero. Thank you for your work, I hope to see this and similar projects expand!
Yeah, that's kind of the thing a lot of developers skip. I've done it. When I have an idea, I assume the market exists, and just start driving.

Now, when I have an idea I do an exhaustive search for keywords. I look for any data I can find that will tell me what the market would look like if I could get to the top. Almost every time I've done that, i've realized that there's very little people actually searching for the thneed I was going to build.

I've started to learn more about SEO, and marketing, but there's just SO MUCH I don't know, that I never considered, that having the right guy would help with. They really are an equal founder in my opinion. Building a product no one wants is a worthless activity.
Musk wants to kill AI before it evolves
I think you've defined the problem better than the original post: what to do about whales?

Most people would guess that these are people with psychological problems who need help. But do we know that? Maybe they're billionaires and they're okay with it. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work for anyone who is targeting whales, though.
Well there is actually a middle ground, where society (through te government) can make changes so that people are nudged to a better direction. (Check out UK's nudge unit.)

So even though people can smoke, drink, gamble - there should be some form of policy to limit or reduce the harm that comes from these activities.

This actually goes double for such free-to-play games with IAP as in some ways they are no better than plain old slot machines - or "pokies" as we call them in Australia. But since they are just "games" on "phones" they are not treated with the same rigor as other pure gambling machines.
I agree. This is just semantic web. It doesn't solve any problems I have right now with programming.
Not if it's being kept relatively cool by a layer of carbonized wood (but you need a pretty thick piece of wood for that to happen; naked 2x4s burn like kindling).
Tune a .vimrc of my own life.
OK, and what distinguishes this VPN service from complete snake oil, or worse, something that actively tracks you? Remember that a VPN is by definition a MITM: all your traffic in both directions goes through it.
This is very interesting and great work on it but I feel in reality the problem being solved does not benefit people a great deal that they will be willing to spend a lot of money or spend a lot of effort trying to configure things around them. The interface is easy to most but from doing home automation it does require a higher skill set to configure physical buttons or input devices to do what you want on another physical device.

How does your team try to combat the cost and the effort required by making this as economical as possible and also easy to use such that a person who is a beginner at technology such as using smart phones, computers, etc. can use it.
>There's nothing to justify it, not even "success" (a better cooked meal, more revenues coming in for the company etc).

Not even winning a war, saving a child from a burning building or eliminating behavior that kills surgery patients? Is nothing as important as a bruised ego?
Is it OK for bars or clubs to offer a happy hour early in the evening to get patrons going, then turn up the heat and make it hard to find water so those patrons keep ordering more drinks and getting more and more drunk throughout the evening?

You honestly believe we need a law against this? God forbid a restaurant owner offer any promotion whatsoever.
I think what some are missing here is whom the regulation (of gambling, alcohol/tobacco advertising, lending regulation etc) is ment to protect.

Pulmonary physicians didn't need regulation to cease smoking[1], people with basic financial schooling probably won't get tricked by usury (which, interestingly, has been banned since medieval times but is now permitted in many countries), and so on.

If you're an educated, conscientious person you don't need this (and are sometimes needlessly constrained by it, which can be frustrating). But it was never for you.

It's for the struggling single-parent who would otherwise burn their paycheck on an online casino -- and get through the month with 300% payday loans.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/canjclin.36.1.2/p...
> OP presented their case without any regard for the other side, "never ever" as they put it. They didn't even consider the possibility that not all of us are so sensitive, that not all of us are helpless marshmallows squashed at the first f bomb, creamed by the first, second, or hundredth joke at our expense. That is the argument I'm making. Not that rules should not exist, but that rules need to address the fact that different things work for different people, and society cannot work if it is run under the assumption that what works for one person works for everyone.
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Fair enough, some people like a culture with directness, swearing, etc. Fwiw, though, you come across as equally sensitive and marshmallow-like as the OP, it's just that your point of sensitivity is the idea of people ever talking behind your back, while for example I accept (and expect) that as the natural behavior of nearly all humans. If you're cool applying your logic to that, too, and just choose to opt out of being around people who aren't direct, then that's fair.
Rats in SF don't eat fruit. They eat the cat food people leave out for feral cats.
It's not "pandering" when it's a good idea.
Yes. When HD advertises to you, you buy a bike and you're done. And you have an actual, existent bike. And you could sell it later should you feel like you made a mistake. With whales, they spend and spend and spend - way more than a Harley costs them. And what do they end up with? Sweet FA.
When the game is released I think there would be a better case for 'not fraud'.
Meh, having been to tropical places where fruit grows everywhere, I don't think it's a big deal. Yes it attracted more wildlife (birds, lizards, snakes, the odd monkey and sloth), but it didn't seem to attract beggars. I saw less beggars there than in the wonderful first-world urban frozen wasteland I currently live in...

I for one welcome growing things of value in the city, not just lawns and decorative plants (which the animals - rabbits and deer here - eat anyway but people don't)
Also Frederic Brown, "Etaoin Shrdlu", 1942, which I have only read synopses of.
That is a good scenario. What you see in the video and on open hybrid is really as much as we can put in to code at this point and I believe that it is a very good beginning.

There is so much more that we want to implement and some of it would give answers for your situation.

I think the Reality Editor will grow incremental and every version will be a bit better then the version before. In some years, when your car actually has this functionality, your scenario will be solved.
The united States was very violent in the early 20th century and many blamed cocaine.
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> You had the education and the know-how to be able to learn to defend yourself from ads, and out of some sense of modesty, you're going to keep it to yourself?

I'm unsure how it is that you draw this as the conclusion. What am I keeping to myself? The OP's argument is about banning specific types of games because some people can't control themselves.

I believe there is a strong difference between asking the government to ban an action versus sharing information on the risks of an action. I've generally nothing against the government issuing required warnings on vices, assuming the information is scientifically accurate (e.g. the warnings on tobacco boxes, etc.)
That point is really undermined by putting so much attention on Star Citizen, which raises all its money outside the game and raised a crapton of money before there was any game - trying to link crowdfunding to micropayments confuses the issue. Crowdfunded games don't exist yet and thus can't raise money soley through the sort of psychological manipulation he decries. The whole piece is either scattered and incoherent or fundentally dishonest. Or both.
Sounds great, got a link to the repo?
There doesn't exist anywhere near enough nuclear weapons to kill all humans. Even in the 1980s, people were predicting between 20 and 100 million immediate American deaths from a full-scale Soviet attack, and since then there are much fewer nuclear weapons. See e.g. the discussion in this comment thread: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/31/ot32-when-hell-is-full...

It has been suggested that humans recovered from a population bottleneck of less than 30,000 individuals (the Toba catastrophy). A nuclear war would leave billions alive.
Brit here, with many years driving experience in the UK and Australia, and multiple months driving in the USA and Israel.

The depressing thing about "Defensive Driving" is that it is essentially good driving sense.

Reading about defensive driving, it's clear to me that it is a concept that is expected to be taught in many countries driver education programs - and consequently tested for. And it's definitely missing from most USA state's driver education/testing regime.

I've just got back from a week in the USA, and the constant accidents that cause huge traffic congestion is really not a surprise at all given how terrible the state of driving in the bay area is.

Driving whilst assuming that other drivers on the road are not going to act consistently is good driving in normal traffic. Do I expect drivers to pull out in front of me, to stop suddenly, etc? Well, yes, if the drivers behaviour has suggested as much. Being observant and watching the behaviour of cars approaching from behind, or cars you are catching up to, gives you clues. More clues come from the conditions, time of day, car, etc.
One of the big problems with "security" software is that it wants to plug itself into the system at such a low level that the security software itself becomes a security risk. Much security software isn't very secure. After all, if it has online updating, it is a backdoor.

We have to be much more suspicious of software like that now, with the FBI Director pushing for backdoors and trying to get vendors to install them.[1]

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/09/us_encryption_backdo...
I've worked through TaPL too. I'm not even sure they are comparable :) It's possible to formalize the contents of TaPL in these systems (and, indeed, Pierce has taught it like that). But it's still a very different focus than Software Foundations.

I've not read or worked through the other books (wow they are expensive), but I'm in general not very keen on model checking as an approach. Tools like Alloy or NuSMV can be useful when designing or investigating algorithms, but they always do a bounded search and can't be applied directly to implementations. I personally don't confer that much trustworthyness to systems that appeal to model checking tools for their correctness.

I've seen The Little Prover, but am somewhat wary of it. On the other hand, I enjoyed The Little Schemer very much. I might take a look at it next month.
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I just wanted to see a demo of the app...spent about 3 minutes browsing around. Couldn't find a way to just see a demo without signing up.
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Works for me now, at least.
I appreciate your honesty.
I don't think that is his point; that's not what Harley does, at all.

H-D markets themselves as a "lifestyle brand". You don't just buy a motorcycle and you're done. You are aggressively marketed toward for a bunch of different pieces of clothing, spare parts, co-branded partnerships with automobile companies, et cetera, ad nauseum. You are effectively buying into a subculture.

Furthermore, Harley-Davidson has been known to use almost identical sales tactics. IIRC and I can't find it now, but sometime last year a sales guidelines book was leaked that actually did things like put attractive models at gas stations to tell the prospective buyer "nice bike" or the like on their test rides.
I'm on the Gluster team.
I had a great session with my 12yo getting an animated ball bouncing around a box, programming it in javascript using the canvas api [ ~120 lines ]. He got collision detection working with some help.

I have tried myself, with very limited success, to make some engaging and educational software. I see a lot of edu software as mind-candy - strong on visuals/action but weak on concepts.. but I admit I haven't found the right mix myself.

My own efforts :

* animated sine demo [http://treeblurb.com/dev_math/sin_canv03.html]

* DoctorX multiplication thing [ http://treeblurb.com/doctorx/calc.html ]

* http://gridmaths.com

backgrounder / articles - https://quantblog.wordpress.com/tag/math/

One package I really love the potential of is http://GeoGebra.org - I'm trying to get the school interested in these kinds of things to augment their 1-student-1-tablet policy.
They should also read the Evil Overlord List if they aspire to become a criminal mastermind and not just a petty thief:

http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
It depends on the design, but you can build something using the panels (+ gypsum board) as walls and floors, with almost no other structural members, at least for residential.

For insulation, the standard approach seems to be using rigid panels on the outside, either rock wool or foam. This stuff is a good bit more expensive than stick built construction, so I figure they count the expense of outside-only insulation (vs. batts or cellulose between the studs) is just a cost that goes with it. If you're building high-end, you may as well insulate high-end.
What part of making a fraudulent Facebook account and friending users to get their information isn't fraud?
You don't need to be logged in to use the website. Here is an example of something simple:
http://www.memorangapp.com/flashcards/44604/Exotic+cats/Anim...

You can also click the search bar in the top left and go through the user-generated database. I believe there are about 5 million flashcards there currently.
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I think screaming at people and all sorts of other stuff (16-hour days?) is just an unfortunate reality of the restaurant business. It's not like your experience is unique. I feel like most of the problems could be resolved with more money - because the real problem is that every day there's some unpredictable crisis and you have to pull the resources to deal with it out of your ass. Service jobs are so hard because clients want cheap, high quality, fast service are there is tons of competition.
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> We cant really ban that.

Why not?
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Understand there are contractual (and business!) limitations to what can be said, so thanks for any answers. :)

By ballpark, I meant could you give round numbers (ie number of figures) on the up-front investment to get something like this off the ground? Or whether it's a back end per-item partnership?

Also, kudos to you and best of luck. It is a nice design, and you're right -- the watch community is under-served by reasonably priced but simple designs. Some of Seiko, Citizen, Orient, and especially Skagen's stuff is nice, but it's amazing how terrible other pieces are.

Some of my favorites are still vintage from the 60s!
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We've limit "working for free", to things that should help us close business against existing quotes with a commitment from the customer to execute on the quote in question. Our work is hard enough to replicate elsewhere that there is a natural incentive to work with us if we meet their objectives. More formally, we had at least an agreement to work together if we met their objectives. We blew them out (way better than they anticipated), which worked strongly in our favor.

Unfortunately, while you are correct it is our, and specifically my (the buck stops with me) fault, I've run into variations on this from very small "free advice" requests, through what amounted to fake RFPs, where the 'customer' loved our design, and in one case specifically asked us to train our competitors and share our IP (with no compensation) to have them deliver it.

This POC was piggy backed atop another project that had ended, and it amounted to getting some run-time in for them, after they indicated a strong preference for us (given our recent domination of an industry benchmark at the time). The 'customer' swore they would buy, and I worked to get an operational quote in front of them that they agreed to push through if the POC was in fact viable.

So much for that.

One thing I've learned over the years (no, decades) of startup life is, you don't have the deal until the check clears. Curious how similar this is to raising capital.

The cost of this POC for us was power/cooling, some of my time, and the opportunity cost of not using the machine for other engineering work. But the long term cost to the customer for their poor behavior and poor choices can't be easily measured, other than them not hitting their KPOs.

I do take full blame for this failure though. It was mine. But it is still annoying. All teachable moments leave marks.
I disagree!
The internet is successful because authoring and publishing became as easy as consuming. The first web browser was an editor and a browser in the same time.

The most successful webpages are those where people are authors.
People want tools that empower them to engage with their environment.

To say people don't want to "rewire" their products is like saying that you don't want to connect your Electric Guitar with a wire to the Amplifier.
I think sometimes strict deadlines are sometimes about coordinated efforts, as in the case of a Superbowl ad. If you're the company responsible for producing the ad, then submitting it a week after the game is unacceptable. I feel like where software is concerned, it's most often like you've said.
That seems to be an interesting problem for the crypto community to have fun with.

Could a person prove that one has successfully stolen a large amount of money in an unspecified series of heists, without actually incriminating oneself with having been a participant in any given heist?
It certainly was a tumultuous period, but what reliable evidence is there of cocaine being a major causal factor? The USA was plagued by lots of labor-related violence, race rioting and organized crime (peaking during Prohibition, of course), but was cocaine ever anything more than a scapegoat?
> What it is is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster production of complex microchips

Specifically, it allows orders of magnitude cheaper and faster one-off chips. The manufacturing method they use will always lose against current methods when making a lot of chips in bulk, but right now if you want an ASIC, the first chip costs the same as the next million, and this is something they can change.
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Drupal needs to decide what it is, do that well. It needs to decide what it wants to be, and optionally also work toward that.

I hate to see its evolution as never-quite-there toward a never-quite-decided future.

Whatever they do, the years-long release cycle needs to die, allow whatever improvements you'd like on head without worrying much about BC, occasionally cut off a LTS release that never gets anything new without 100% BC. Maintain these long enough that it's economically feasible for people to base projects on (Whatever the benefit of the project is * years that benefit is durable > cost of development). Focus on data migration for when people re-build sites on newer platform instead of continuous upgrades -- nobody does these unless they're painless, they will never be painless.

There's too much coupling between presentation, client-side behavior, server-side behavior and data model for me to see this particular change going anywhere good.

You can't truly decouple client and server while still letting non-developers build web apps unless you build a UI-configurable framework for consuming an API generically and building client-side presentation and behavior. Even then, unless you also go so far as to infer things about my data from its API, it's still twice as much work to describe both my server-side domain model and its presentation instead of letting one be implied by the other.

But in typical Drupal fashion, they probably don't mean "decouple" when they say that word, so it's really just rewriting the current hodge-podgy fully-coupled client-side behaviors in a more structured but still coupled way using a client-side framework -- absorbing it the way they did Symfony for the server, not the best move but definitely with value and very achievable.
I feel like some kinds of misleading reviews could be limited by automated systems. Package tracking indicates that the product is still in transit and you haven't actually received it yet? You can't post a review.

Also, it's frustrating to see reviews where, say, the customer complains about the late delivery or the packaging of an item provided by a third party seller -- completely irrelevant to the quality of the item itself.
I see speculation that there exists code that detects the test and activates a special mapping mode. I haven't seen that anyone has actually found the code or map. The map ought to be easy to find, VW ECUs appear to have as many freely-available DIY tuning tools as other platforms.

I've also seen it speculated that the code to detecting testing is based on determining that the car is on a dyno, and that all manufacturers perform that detection in order to disable the stability control systems. If it were as straight-forward as VW switching to a different map on a dyno I'd have expected that VW tuners would have blown the lid on this thing long ago. Tuners use dynos.