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Well, AD2P standard is really low quality so there's that. I'm not someone who would ever notice a difference between an MP3 file and a FLAC one,but sound over bluetooth is very clearly degraded.
Stop Unit Testing Everything
Why is 100+hz so important?
The big thing is you can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. They have already made up their mind, dug in their heels, and are willing to fight to the death.

In some cases they would consider themselves a bad person if they didn't defend their ideals to the death. This is especially true if there is a religious aspect to their view. They don't call it a "reasoned position" on religion, it is belief. Belief is strongest when you keep it despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This is a core tenet of Christianity and I suspect most other religions as well. Your faith will be tested by "deceivers" constantly and you must keep it.

It's impossible to use logic or science to convince someone of something when they think logic and science are tools of the devil.

It's also the Amiga effect. When a community grows smaller the remaining members are the most ardent. Once you are down to just a handful of remaining members all that is left are the die hard fanboys. All of the reasonable people left a long time ago.
I'm not comparing the technology. I'm comparing what a gamer can do with that money.
I believe the only steer-by-wire model on the roads right now is some Infiniti. Even that has a clutch which engages the steering mechanically if the car loses power.

Electric cars potentially have additional braking redundancy. Even if the brakes failed entirely, they could drive the motor in reverse to stop the car. I don't think any of them actually do this, since total brake failure doesn't happen very often, but they could.

You pretty much have to trust the ECU. A failing ECU could just punch you in the face with the airbag and floor the accelerator. Fortunately, they seem to be pretty reliable.
Why We Fear the IRS
GoVPN 5.0: Chaffing-n-Winnowing encryptionless mode VPN
A lot of intelligent people are promoting the idea that AI will take a lot of our jobs, for the simple reason that a lot our jobs do not require that much I. Whether it's driving a truck, plowing a field, or making food at a McEatery, a frighteningly large proportion of our economy consists of tasks which can be automated by technology coming online in the next decade or two.
"a natural extension of this leads to consciousness"

Did I say that? In fact I didn't.

I don't care what you call anything, the fact remains that AGI doesn't exist today, but we can work on the best guesses at what we think will get us there. That is the exact OPPOSITE of faith if there ever was one.

We are working on computer vision with segmentation. That's a tiny subsection of supervised learning. By the way you say pattern matching as though it's some trivial thing. In fact that's what a hefty portion of our brain does to understand anything - so it's actually very important and our visual system (eyeball to cortex to representation) is arguably the most important part of that.

I couldn't care less about whether a computer has consciousness anyway. I think the whole consciousness argument is a waste of time (which is why I called it a rabbit hole previously).

I think you're hung up on this religious thing and not able to discriminate between actually building things that may be able to lead to AGI versus writing novels and daydreaming like so many "futurists."
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I think most people would install desktop apps via their package manager. Unpackaged apps are generally the exception rather than the rule. /usr/local is also outside the package manager as previously discussed.
> Why don't privacy proponents don't go all in and just ask to get rid of the Internet? Surely, privacy is easier to maintain when communication is inefficient.

Why don't airbag proponents go all in and ask to get rid of cars? Surely, vehicle accidents are easier to prevent when transport is inefficient.

> Perhaps that's because privacy is actually an archaic and backward idea that maintains all of our problems alive. I can't think of a less progressive (more conservative) idea than privacy.

Perhaps it's because it's the one thing that maintains all of our well-being?

> The next most important revolution in human history will be our transition to a completely transparent society.

How do you know that?
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Parent post didn't speak about "gambling", but about "gambling problems".

Gambling addiction affects partners and children.
I also used rescue time for several months after one of my consulting customers recommended it. It is a good product, but after understanding my time use profile I stopped using it.
You get a quick status update of all the bits everyone is working on.

Oh, Bob finished the xyz bit? Great I'll get started on abc now.
Jim's stuck with the autobuzzulator? I've used those before, I'll jump in and give him a hand after the standup.
Katie's not been able to deliver the turnip functionality? Still can't test the beets either then...

It should take no more than a few seconds per person and I find it far more effective than any agile status tool I've used, be that a physical board or an online system.

>> I only find them helpful if some people in the team generally don't communicate well what they're up to (e.g. during daily work, over lunch).

I communicate well with people I'm working with in the microcosm of what I'm doing right now, but there may be a few other people on the team doing related tasks that I'm not talking to every day.

And lunchtime is my time to get a few minutes away from screens and work, take a walk, have some food etc.
You are confusing the experience of the audience with the creative process of the artist.
All it has to do is prove a market exists at a particular price point and it won't be long until Rift is only one of many games in town.
The Russians, the terrorists, and NK - oh my. Everyone must hand over a very large chunk of your paycheck to the defense industry or they bad guys going to come get all of us in our sleep!
In Zurich at least there are many big companies (Google, ibm, banks) which recruit engineers and most of them do not do front end work.
Depends on your user base. In my current application/site, our IE < 11 userbase combined is under 5% and declining. IE8 has already been dropped, and IE9 soon. The product I work on is directly related to customer acquisition at a financial institution. So I'd say it's a pretty safe bet the numbers have been run thoroughly.

disclaimer: my opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.
I'll take your analogy and run with it, to note the extreme focus on symbolism in programming.

Its all about the copy by reference vs copy by value, type systems, etc.

Now when the medieval mystics wanted to talk enlightenment values, politics, psychology, political science, but the local powers that be were not down with the cool new stuff, they got obscurely alchemical, astrological, or divinational to avoid having the local leaders figure out what they were saying and therefore separate head from body via guillotine. Long after both the topics, and schemes they used to obscure the topics, were no longer contemporary and relevant, we laugh at the ancient alchemists.

Come to think of it, don't the cool kids programmers laugh at BASIC, assembly, C++, perl? Yet another similarity. Ha ha those ancient mystics trying to write quicksort in BASIC, LOL.
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Russel is one of my favorites and I never knew he wrote this - thanks for sharing.
Given the specs required by Oculus I'm not very confident the PS4 will be able to deliver a meaningful VR experience.
It actually seems rational to me in many cases. If your very poor, but not so poor that a dollar per week makes a huge difference, then buying a lottery ticket makes sense. While the expected value of the ticket is less than a $1 -- given you only live once -- you're betting on the fact that there is a slight chance in this one life you might hit it big.

That seems completely rational to me. Especially if the odds of improving your lot substantially via other means is also low -- and not contingent on the accumulated $1 you spend on lottery.
Cant see anything in USA, the page simply redirects.

This is more informative: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-netflix-india-idUSKBN0UK24...

https://live.theverge.com/live-reed-hastings-netflix-keynote...
Powerful Algorithms too complex to implement
Yeah, spending $90 for a TI-85 back in 1994 was pretty bad, but at least somewhat justifiable given the time. Paying the same today can only be the result of an abject market failure.

Related: http://xkcd.com/768/
Unfortunately this is the way it will be for the immediate future - the combination of high resolution requirements and high refresh rate requirements means that any VR application will have to render a lot more pixels than "typical" games on phones/PCs.

You can for example get away with rendering at 30Hz for a typical game, but that's a recipe for nausea in VR - where you'd want 90-120Hz instead. That's a lot of extra pixels immediately.

Even something as simple as a virtual desktop is going to be pretty performance intensive if only because of how many pixels your hardware has to push around.

There's not really a good way to make a mass-consumer (i.e., low-end PC, mid-end phone) version of this tech yet, and probably not in the near future either since any hardware gains we make (either in mobile or desktop) will be poured into visual fidelity.
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It's even 2016 now.
OP said he was making a SQL transaction.
"Belief is strongest when you keep it despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This is a core tenet of Christianity and I suspect most other religions as well."

Huh? This isn't true at all.
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You won't have to worry about that. UI on only one eye would be a very bad idea for everyone. I can speculate about someone using it for an intentionally weird and distracting ghost effect or to approximate "impossible colors" like red-and-blue-not-purple. But, otherwise it won't be done.

Also, people with monocular vision have reported that the 3D-ness and presence of VR headsets works just as well as real life. In fact, it's fairly common for people with stereo vision to have a hard time noticing when they are running VR software that intentionally/unintentionally displays in mono.
Why bother? why would they want to prove themselves wrong?

Why don't you keep walking in one direction then tap them on the back when you've gone the whole way to prove tou're right?

When you argue against people who have no interest in evidence, it's really very tricky
Yes thank you. I think the reality of DSM don't live up to their theoretical usefulness.

I think even in a small team where everyone keep it short it's just too much information. I can already see what everyone is doing on Jira/etc and later on git in my IDE, the rest don't stick.

I have tested people by asking them less than 30mn after a DSM questions about who is doing what and nobody could answer and yet they usually can't admit that DSM are mostly worthless.

I also hate DSM when I'm on a long task because I just say the same thing everyday and feel like a slacker. At which point do you start to game the system and only pick short easy tasks ?

I guess maybe Scrum and agile appeal more to young devs ? They seem to like the gamification aspect of it, moving post-its, feeling great by under-estimating tasks' length, the flatness of the team.

Myself I would prefer a competent project manager instead of those empowering retrospectives and those velocity charts that could be turning against you by management any day.

Over dramatization aside :) and in good spirit about the article I would prefer Kanban to Scrum but it seems way less used (at least in webdev).
If you are using public-key cryptography (instead of password) for SSH there isn't any need to ban failed attempts.
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move
At the time, Magic was one of the hottest startups in the Valley. I was willing to hustle hard to get my foot in the door.

But I agree with you, I need to be more judicial with my time in the future.
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How do you keep getting paid in a system like this though? It seems to me like it'd be a lot easier to come up with 100 FanDuel accounts than 100 bank accounts, mailing addresses, credit card numbers, etc. to get paid with.
Maybe it's time to stop running a 10+ year old operating system?
> Developing a high quality gaming experience is EXPENSIVE, and AAA regularly do not recoup their costs even when they're being offered to a huge user base

The problem is that you're associating quality with only AAA titles. There are have been plenty of quality indie titles for years now.

> Even if it's silky smooth and you can use it for hours on end without issue if you run out of quality content in two hours there's a problem.

I don't know about the oculus store, but there's already enough content with existing titles on Steam.
Too expensive for me right now. I'll pass
The explanation is a lot more simple I think.

Back in the old days, the way you showed you were better than everyone else was owning the nicest car, having air conditioning, or having a powered mower.

Now that more or less everyone has more or less everything, the only ways we can fulfill the basic instinct to be better than our neighbors is engaging in these kind of "all the sheep think this happened, but really..." ideas. Psuedo-intellectualism at it's finest.

You could show these people facts all day, it doesn't matter. Hell if you took one of them up in one of those Space Jets they'd probably swear you were faking it somehow, because the longer you hold onto a belief, the more invested in it you are, the more it's going to wound your ego to admit you're wrong. Most people would rather take a bullet than admit they were wrong (especially Americans and Brits) so that's how we end up with the Flat Earth people.
Right now, twitter can claim that the number labeled "followers" is the number of followers. If they adopt your scheme, they can't. They'd basically be lying.
Back before smartphones were the norm, if you wanted a high end phone, you had to buy it on your own. I remember purchasing my first high-end Sony Ericsson for something like $600. It wouldn't be stretch to believe that after a few years of production, the price of the Oculus will be under $200.
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Yes, basically. You don't need javascript for presentation. You don't need overloaded eye candy driven by oodles of css. An HTML document is like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ or http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ or this website Hacker News.
I wonder if it isn't because the darkest regimes, when they're just starting, show the most promise for progress and positive changes. Didn't Nazis offer the Germans their wealth and their honor back, in the times they were most desperately in need of both?

EDIT:

But then again, fascination with "the other guys" is also a thing. See: the intellectual world of the West being in love with Soviet Union well into the Cold War.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-...
I wonder how you could apply something like this to transition animations. The simulated flicker ended up looking much better than the LED flicker.

Sometimes I see animations in UI. Some look completely natural, and some are horribly jarring. I know there are all sorts of curves that tweening uses to time its path. I wonder if reversed engineered curves would look better.
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 next Tuesday
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Only if the barriers to entry into that market or product/service stickiness are high. Otherwise, customers, unhappy with the quality, will flee to the competition.
> And people were getting sick from Doom at far greater rates than they are today from Oculus Rifts.

That remains to be seen when VR headsets arrive in households. We just don't know that yet.

I got convinced by the tech after trying a Develover Kit, but the that people (inclduing me) will get sick from it is my big concern.
I don't think there is all that much difference between fantasy sports and wall street. In both cases there is an element of skill (however small that might be) and luck. In both cases there are people with more skill and resources that are profiting off less skilled or knowledgeable insiders. Really it is the same thing almost. Maybe that is what is making NY nervous? They have a new competitor to wall street /s
Try to imagine the effects a nuclear detonation or dirty bomb in Manhattan. I believe most people are undervaluing the probability and results.
I agree, but this is such a different class of threat with such different mitigations that it doesn't really belong in the same category as what we normally think of as "terrorism." Fighting small-time groups like al Qaeda and ISIS doesn't help prevent a nuclear attack by the likes of North Korea, and makes things worse by diverting attention and resources. So while this is an excellent argument for "try very hard to make sure North Korea doesn't nuke anything" it is IMO a counterargument for "maintain or ramp up the Global War on Terror."
Linus Torvalds: Heroic Intel/AMD efforts to maintain memory caches
I feel like I should probably read Seveneves now

Do you like orbital mechanics?
> I believe you're confusing Open Source with Free Software. Open Source literally means the source is openly accessible.

This is what shared source is about. Open source is nearly always used as defined by the OSI:

> https://opensource.org/osd
Don't be so hasty, I think sending them into space would be a good start.
Four Minute Non-Fiction Book Summaries to help you decide what to read next
This is my passion project to make sure I read and write every single day in 2016. I wake up at 5 am, read a book summary on Blinkist, and share 3 learnings in a neat format with a 1-sentence summary and my favorite quote of the author.

Readers can learn 3 things from a book in 4 minutes or less and this way also pre-select which book to read next.

Posting everything publicly makes sure I'm holding myself accountable and don't fall off the wagon with this habit again.

Hope this helps you!
have you done any production apps in Elixir / Go?
See http://fms.komkon.org/ATI85/ for more.

Andie Graph is also a multi-TI emulator for Android Devices and Graph 89 for Android emulates the Motorola 68000 calculators.
3) Because it's a real possibility. What makes you think the otherwise very intelligent people are wrong? Maybe we should look to the stupid and to philosophers who don't understand computers for answers?
Same (45, consulting/contracting).
I get that this is good news in that it should reduce the number of users running them, but this doesn't remove them from machines running them.
This is for sure too expensive for casual gamers. And probably too expensive for serious gamers - at least until there are some serious VR games. By the time that serious VR games arrive, the price of a quality VR headset - with built-in GPU - will probably be around $400.

This will remain a small niche market until mainstream killer apps arrive - and those won't be games. The obvious killer apps are a) immersive major league sports, b) immersive animated movies, c) immersive porn. Then the tech gets cheap enough that useful killer apps will emerge (education, history, etc.)
I would think mature women would be the ones more likely to be using an iPad/iPhone. I've worked in several positions where the demographics are skewed towards middle age, and the use of the iPad alone is far larger than IE<11.
My explanation is that it's a power fantasy of people who believe they possess superior intelligence and like to dream-up a scenario where super-intelligence becomes a super-power.
My biggest fear for VR is that it's going to introduce a much more severe form of console exclusives. I really don't want to drop $600+ on an Oculus Rift only to find out that some other killer game from Valve is going to support VR, but only on the also very expensive Vive.

It's frustrating enough having to own multiple redundant game consoles to play all AAA titles, but it'll be even worse (and basically unaffordable) having to own multiple VR headsets.
> I'll be sitting in front of my computer, with a clear idea of exactly what I need to do and how to do it... and yet I'm just sort of sitting there stupidly, because my brain feels fried

Thank you for that comment, I thought this was just me....definitely makes me feel a little better
What I used to do when bonus abusing online casinos (not poker) is get people to sign a limited power of attorney form and give me a copy of their ID, for a small fee. I would photoshop fake addresses into utility bills as address verification. I would then buy in and cash out to a method that allowed some form of transfer. Back then it was PayPal or Neteller.

I am not as familiar with DFS, but I am sure it is doable, and there is enough money on the line to make it worth doing.
Daily fantasy sports are like poker. There is an element of skill in each, and you'll see the same skilled players win consistently.

However, based on my anecdotal evidence of being a fantasy football player (but not DFS, admittedly) and having formerly spent lots of time in online poker rooms, poker involves more skill than DFS. In poker you "play the player, not the hand." But in DFS, there is no equivalent. So I would argue poker, a game classified as gambling, involves more skill than DFS.

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There is also this article about games of skill. While not completely related, I find it interesting that casinos are trying to find games that people think they are more skilled at than the average joe, and can therefore think they can win. http://www.npr.org/2015/04/29/403094845/casinos-switch-out-s...
Voice sounded pro to me.
Different strokes I guess. I thought REAMDE was rather dull but Seveneves was a nice bounceback.

FWIW my favorite Stephenson novel is still Anathem.
What would the Chine government's motive be to help the Kim government upgrade to H-Bombs? They're already a political liability and most people in the region are nervous about them having atom bombs in the first place. It just seems like a bad idea.
It could be that the piece was written some time ago. Or that they hasn't kept up to date with recent developments (like the transporter responsibility to verify IDs on trains/buses on all traffic going into Sweden).

In other words, it might not be intentional and the piece is still interesting and well written in general - disregarding the mentioned quote.

I would like to see a piece about the private sector of refugee centers in Sweden. That would be interesting as well. I have gotten the impression that "Jokarjo AB" is (which "Bert Karlsson" is a proprietor of) a somewhat medium or large player in the Swedish market.
I already had another post on this, but try simulating it. 10% chance of winning 9.99x your bet.

To make it really obvious make it 10,000 bets not just 20 bets.

PS: Now, if the odds are in your favor that's another thing. But, in that case you don't expect to lose your shirt over time.