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Samsung makes phones that compete with Apple, yet is also one of their biggest suppliers. This happens in business all the time.

AWS knows that if they did anything to harm Netflix's business, it would reflect very poorly on them (and be morally and ethically wrong).

Also, while both offer streaming services, they don't really compete. Many people subscribe to both services.
> Maybe it'll force Hollywood to pay actors far far less. Harrison Ford was paid somewhere between 10 and 25 million

Probably a bad example, because the studio's investment in Harrison Ford in SW:TFA will surely be repaid many times over, and isn't really threatened by netflix.
Wow, this is weird, I'm being modded way up. I was expecting the reverse: on another, much older "tech news" site, any time the Uber/Lyft vs. cabs debate comes up, there's a very strong contingent of people there who absolutely hate Uber/Lyft and go on and on about how wonderful cabs are.
I communicate way more face to face rather than through devices. Are you sure you don't do that as well?

And communication through phones for hours a day was normal for most people in the 90s too. Even in the 50s.
Under a time crunch I've not found a way to use language-package managers and not wind up with gcc in the container.

The problem is apt does a poor job of letting you setup something like build-essential and then remove it and leave just the runtime shared libraries you need for the other things you build to actually work.
Well the article does say: "Our own experience has been that efforts to saturate PCIe flash devices often require optimizations to existing storage subsystems, and then consume large amounts of CPU cycles. "
I'm of the belief that the better actors are paid far too much

The market decides these things.

It's difficult to argue that there isn't enough profit on a movie that has grossed over 1.5 billion dollars in three weeks to pay A-list actors A-list salaries.

A-list actors don't make that kind of money because movie studios are generous. They make it because their presence puts butts in seats.

Sure, the "Star Wars" name would be enough to put butts in seats but without Ford, Fisher and Hamil, this movie would have made less money.

If I'm not being forced to pay it, I don't care what someone else makes.
Upvoted for the following word choice: "milquetoast videocard"
Don't you think that the humongous scale of Netflix customers combined with the ease of access will compensate for that?

For ex:
(10 million movie-goers * $10 tkt price =$100 m rev)

(100 million Netflix users * $1(considering that Force Awakens title in Netflix library is being accessed by 1/10th of total library and N'flix is paying Star Wars accordingly) =$100 m)
So I've seen a number of articles about Segmented Sleep and the idea that we used to sleep in two phases based on historical evidence, etc. However, this set of circumstances applies rather uniquely to Western Europe. None of the articles I've looked at have explained, then, why the continuous sleep pattern we see now seems to hold true for the Middle East and Asia as well.
I'm not saying it's Uber's case, but yes, in many cases, some businesses only exist because they evade taxes. That's the reason lobbies exist.
The public discussion about this stuff doesn't necessarily justify 'most' but it absolutely demonstrates 'many'. And 'many' seems to me to be quite sufficient to justify CoC adoption as being positive overall.
The 1982 £99 zx spectrum would cost £340 (almost $500) in today's money, when accounting for inflation[1] - well within the price range of "conventional" budget PCs.

[1] http://inflation.stephenmorley.org/
Very unlikely. Unless they start offering movies in Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil & Telugu to start with), the amount of traffic will not be high enough to justify ISPs to upgrade.
Why Marketers Must Embrace Design Thinking to Build Effective Marketing Systems
CoCs are worthless. If a community is not able to detect poisonous behaviour by itself, a .txt file won't help.
Lack of driver health insurance, lack of benefits, lack of liability from crashes, reduced compliance costs via skirting local regulations [e.g. Background checks for Uber/Lyft are cheaper than the more thorough checks in some municipalities]

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/10/07/background-checks-cen...

http://www.cnet.com/news/ubers-background-checks-dont-catch-...
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I really like that one too :-) Apparently there was a scam to sell a data set of all the US social security numbers, and the "decompressor" was just computing progressive digits of pi and printing them in xxx-yy-zzzz formatting.
There's a lot of snarky answers, but some things off the top of my head why Uber can be cheaper:

* More efficient (less down-time driving around)
* People use their own cars (no need to buy/maintain taxis)
* Less overhead (no need for managers, dispatchers, etc)
* No taxi medallions
* More popular, so more rides
* Subsidized by VC money (Okay, kinda snarky, but legitimate)

The last point about subsidization sounds bad, but their goal is (likely) to just get enough market share that they've already won by the time self-driving cars come out (and can cut costs significantly then).
Totally correct. As someone who has been using the Oculus DK2 since it's release, I can personally state that nausea can have many underlying sources, but the most frequent is the conflicting information your vestibular system is receiving: equilibrium vs. vision.

The Rift itself, in conjunction with good software, is excellent at tracking both rotation and translation motion and keeping the display in sync. More often than not, the nausea one experiences has to do with locomotion within the game. Spinning your character around with your mouse, for example, produces a spinning sensation with no corresponding input from your equilibrium, resulting in a sick feeling in some people.

The good news is: Many people are able to "get their VR legs" by starting with simple experiences and slowing introducing more complex ones.
I didn't intend to engage in a semantics debate and I did read your comment carefully. You might carefully re-read your comment to see how I got that impression.

> we don't prosecute people for errors. We prosecute them for doing things intentionally, or, as I said, for causing grave harm recklessly.

We usually don't prosecute for intentional errors. That is precisely the problem: we are far to lax with incompetent/reckless drivers. Do you think that if the costs associated with causing injury/death due to your own 'errors' were higher, we wouldn't see more careful drivers?
I would not be surprised if they did that to move money into the "costs" column for the movie, while still funneling value into advertising companies owned by the parent.
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The price and hefty GPU requirements make this a no go for me.

I think PSVR, which is already rumoured to be cheaper will be far more successful, and the install base for the PS4 is already there.

Sony are in a unique position to use the PSVR as a loss leader to sell VR software, which Oculus can't (currently) compete with - hence the high price.
Quick disclaimer: I'm the author of Tini (thanks for the hat tip, by the way!).

Note that for interactive usage, Tini actually hands over the tty (if there is one) to the child, so in that case signals that come "from the TTY" (though in a Docker environment this is an over-simplication) actually bypass Tini and are sent to the child directly. This should include SIGSTP, though I'm not sure I tested this specifically.

That being said, both tools are probably indeed very similar — after all there is little flexibility in that kind of tool! Process group behavior is probably indeed where they differ the most. : )
I suspect that there were "good intentions" behind the FBI's behavior but things spiraled out of control and politically it was impossible to address it in any way other than making it disappear.

Understanding how it could happen doesn't make it any better.
The Ars Technica readership seem to loathe Uber.
I see this has been submitted twice today (the submission I am replying to was submitted with the canonical URL) but didn't get much upvoting at the beginning. That's too bad, as this is an excellent article about the methodology of nutrition studies and the limitations inherent in current methodology.
So this has to do with something called Dark Energy; I may dedicate a whole lesson to it. On small scales (small meaning the size of galaxies and smaller) Dark Energy isn't strong enough to overcome gravity (or any of the other forces that hold stuff together). However in the void of space where gravity isn't too strong, Dark Energy runs rampant pushing things apart at high speeds.

If I were to do the math on how much Dark Energy there was in my tiny universe, it might actually be the case that the asteroids should've been torn to shreds by the immense amount of Dark Energy. In fact, there used to be an interesting doomsday theory called the Big Rip, which went something like this: If Dark Energy got more and more powerful with time, eventually it would overcome gravity and start pulling apart galaxies, then stars, then molecules, atoms and subatomic particles. This scenario is no longer considered likely, but it's still crazy to think about.

Dark Energy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

The Big Rip - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
Another thing I'll add is many people forget that the only known super-intelligence, savant humans, still takes years of training data and introspection to get the intelligence to function in society. Takes even more to function better esp accounting for human nature.

So, I call bullshit on the idea there's a startup anywhere that's just going to turn on an AI we can't handle. We'll likely see it coming a mile away or the isolation it operated in will do it in when it faces human strategists.
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That's called "The Unrated Director's Cut".
Instead of smelling it, it may make more sense to actually read the arguments. ;)
Netflix managed to snag Lee Collins (one of the original creators of Unicode) from Apple recently, which helps explain how they could accomplish the i18n aspects of this with such a broad range of countries.
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Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

I feel sure he doesn't think of it as a land grab

Does anyone recall what Zuckerberg said about the people who "trust him"?
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Everyone's different. Check out this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Carter

He died at 103, still working (composing). Not many composers get stuff they wrote in their 60s and 70's described as their "middle period".

Pierre Boulez just died at 90, still working (until very recently).

If you're from a privileged background (and let's be honest; most developers are) there's no reason why you can't pause at 40 or 50 and decide what to do next with no fear of burnout or senility. Some people just get bored of programming, or decide that it's just more fun playing with their kids or whatever. You can always pick up a laptop and start a new project in a new language. You'll never be able to play with your favourite daughter as a five year old again.
He gives off mixed signals here:

https://www.freelists.org/post/nanomsg/Adopting-a-CoC,11

Now, me personally, I couldn’t give a crap whether a project has a CoC or not.

Frankly, if someone acts irredeemably toxically in this project, I won’t feel like I need to have a CoC to justify taking corrective action — I’ll just take the action

So, I’m definitely not going to “require” a CoC; if someone acts like an ass then they can expect me to take some kind of action.

But then comes out with:

I’m pretty disheartened by the intensely negative response this suggestion has drawn;

I'm at a loss as to why he didn't just let the discussion roll for a bit without expressing his "disheartened" feelings and if the outcome from active members is "we don't think this is a good idea" then let it go. He's already stated that thus far the project has no known issues regarding conduct and that anyone being an asshat dickhead would be dealt with anyway.

Odd.
Why do people classify this as terrorism? "Terrorism" is usually understood as violence where intended targets are not those killed, but mainly those who watch the news and shiver in fear. And to drive point home, terrorists usually explicitly explain, why do they want people to be afraid of them, and what do they want. Nothing like this happened in this case; so — why "terrorism" label in the first place?
People buy Apple products because they have a history of making great products, and so they don't mind that they are expensive.

You have to be really rich, and have the right attitude to think that just cause something is expensive it is good.

I spend a lot of money with Apple, but I'm always paying attention to cost-- I count every penny, and if I could get comparable quality elsewhere I would certainly consider it.

The thing is, nobody is making decent laptops, or mobile phones or watches to compete with Apple, certainly not at Apple's price points. Those who think Apple is expensive have a much lower threshold for what is "Good" -- which is fine, they are not using the items in the same way I am.
I was considering doing something similar a while ago, since here in New Zealand, we get free facebook on mobile (0.facebook.com).

I'm fairly sure that FB has things in place to stop you from using bots to send messages though, in an attempt to stop spam.
Taking a best-fit line like Moore's law as a fundamental law of the universe is a classic mistake.

Of course, there's no such thing as an inevitable progression of progress in AI research. Until we have AI software capable of contributing to AI research, of course.
Doesn't show comments to my post. For example I didn't See your comment until I went to my profile then clicked submissions. #hugefail
Yep. We have two classes-- The rich and powerful and everyone else. The rich and powerful control the Federal Government in the US. All the commoners get to do is elect their nominated representatives as it takes a lot of money to run a successful campaign at the federal level.

The majority of elected representatives will not dare alienate their biggest sources of campaign funding as it will mean they won't get re-elected during the next election cycle. I suppose that there are some congressmen and senators which have the financial resources to avoid this, but they tend also to side with the rich and powerful.

Short of a second constitutional convention, or an article V convention, I don't see this changing any time soon, and both of these types of conventions have pretty good reasons to be avoided as they could end up consolidating the power of the rich and powerful even more.
Totally. There's no way they'll dump 10,000 character posts into your feed without providing a summary and read more link. That would destroy the experience on any social network, which is why Facebook already summarizes lengthy posts automatically. A tweet-sized summary would make everyone's complaints about this a total non-issue.

For reference, here's what 10,000 characters looks like:

http://pastebin.com/vNQ0CSMu

In figuring itself out now, Twitter's real problem that its existing users haven't had to experience any real degree of change for a long time. Facebook was kind of smart to "move fast and break things" and ignore the complaints from people who don't want to have to learn new ways of doing things :P
What humors me most is that no one is up in arms against Reliance. On top of it, no one is suggesting Reliance whose owner is a billionaire long before Zukerberg was, to give free interwebs to his fellow Indians.

India has 80% adults with no access to Interwebs, how are you going to solve this problem in next 5 years?

*Do not tell me INR 20 dataplan, I know its there and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
I completely agree, results matter. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as the old saying goes.
My argument is that we shouldn't allow businesses to exist that flout the law, taxes or otherwise.
> the argument for "human intelligence at a higher speed" fails on several grounds

I'd be interested if you said more about that.
It almost paints a picture of the old AOL and MSN services where you entered some corporation's version of the internet.
The one thing that cabs do have going for them is no surge pricing. During peak weekend hours where surge pricing is 2x+ on both Uber and Lyft, cab fares stay the same. That's the only time I find myself taking a cab.
Doesn't any attempt to better understand the AI problem just bring the (potential) AI problem closer?
I could see it being more like the DVD/BluRay Extras model - $5 for a pack of commentary tracks, $2 for deleted scenes, another $2-4 for the behind-the-scenes featurette, etc. It would be similar to the more successful DLC implementations, where a handful of enthusiastic users would make up a significant amount of the revenue.

It would be interesting to see how this would/could be applied to both rentals and purchases - rent the bonus features for $0.50-2 each, purchase them for $2-5 each or something like that.
You definitely can turn off half the ad screens, and the other half you can at least turn down the volume
Um, I thought the reason cabs are so terrible is not because of unionization, but because it's a cartel, and it's given that power by the government because of the issuance of licenses (called "medallions") which ensure a limited supply of cabs, artificially restricting competition.
I really don't think it's just a legend. The linked article and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep) give enough evidence that it seems unlikely to be a complete myth.

And saying "I hate waking up in the middle of the night" doesn't really have much to do with this. If you consistently slept for 12 hours a night, you might find it a lot easier and more pleasant to get up in the middle, and that's exactly what one of the studies in the Wikipedia article showed.

And as anecdotal evidence, even a few people in this 2-hours-old comment section say they've tried it with good results.
If $105 million (and counting) in dev costs and hollywood actors is not AAA what is?
That may be an interesting plotline for a movie, but reality is fortunately much different.
Another walled garden chat? Why can't they develop a shared IETF supported standard (if XMPP isn't good enough for them)? It's a shame what a huge mess IM landscape has become because big players don't care about standardization and federation.
I have no idea what difference is implied between (1) and (2) there.

What's the difference between speed and performance here?
While I agree with what you're saying, I think the point of the article is lost on you. I don't think the author was implying technology has us "drunk on our screens.", but rather, the ability of technology to act as a buffer between us, to create a world where we can have images, messages, opinions, from all walks of life constantly pouring into our minds through our hand-held devices.

I can only speak for myself here, but I noticed how after I started a professional career as a programmer and a tech-geek, I became more and more isolated; preferring alone time, and being in my head. It's just easier, to take in all the information and opinions you prefer, and ignore what you don't want. To engage in activities you want to do yourself, rather than compromising with others.

Perhaps this new society that emerges will not be WORSE than any previous one, but it will be different. I think it is important to understand those differences. I can already feel the growing pains caused by old institutions struggling to keep up with the pace of technology. We should keep an eye on those millennia old social institutions as well (like politics, community building, and voting).
Why not use ES6 imports? (Rather than require...

What are the benefits of "import" over "require"?
>despite the evidence to the contrary in the form of such low historic participation by women and people of color in tech.

Are asians suddenly white and only black people are people of color ? I see asians significantly represented in the tech community (especially India with English history and emigration to west). And they are at all levels of tech from CEO to us regular code monkeys.
> Who cares about knowledge of city streets?

Funny story: for a while in SF, the taxi union (?) was running ads that were thinly veiled attacks on Uber/Lyft. One of them showed a smiling taxi driver with the caption "would you rather have a driver who knows the city by heart or by GPS?" I found it particularly hilarious because the answer, for me at least, is GPS with live traffic information. Just another example of how out of touch the taxi companies are.
Not that is some interesting thinking. You got a blog post elaborating on this?
I don't understand. The people who are -1, what do they care if it is adopted? Is CoC that controversial? Are personal attacks, doxing, trolling and slurs part of their daily routine they will be seriously inconvenienced by inability to use them?

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* The use of sexualized language or imagery

* Personal attacks

* Trolling or insulting/derogatory comments

* Public or private harassment

* Publishing other's private information, such as physical or electronic addresses, without explicit permission

* Other unethical or unprofessional conduct

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As a maintainer they should have just said "There is a CoC now. Check it out: <link>. Happy new year everyone".
This makes a big difference to me. I was actually for Facebook basics, when I thought Facebook picked up the bill so that poor people could access at least some internet. But if the operators are paying for this ... then what value is Facebook actually providing?
I've tried both the Oculus and the HTC Vive in their latest dev kits, and the Vive is incredibly more awesome. My advice is to wait for the Vive. In addition to the way better technical experience I had, I think the HTC/Valve mashup is incredible (and it showed in the demo).
The studies all support what I wrote. I guess you have to read them in full or find their abstract and read that.

Regarding the pension funds, yes AP7 is one example. It is the fund with the lowest management fee (incidentally has also been one of the highest yielding pension funds). The usual excuse given is that it is a "lazy fund" and "just following the index". But no private actor has been able to offer a similar "lazy fund" with lower fees.
>Maestro and Visa Electron aren't usable on the internet

...Spotify disagrees.
What, of course there is. There's a red button in the lower-right hand corner you can hit to turn it off in most cabs; granted, there are some where you cannot turn the screen 'off' but you can turn off the display of advertising on it (and it just then says "Touch here to resume").
It is possible that he could see it as a land grab but not see a "land grab" as inherently evil.
Were publishing companies hiring authors for millions of dollars?

I know authors usually use publishers for review / editing / publication, but I'm not aware of a time where the relationship was not "publisher gets X% cut of revenue". When was it "author gets X million dollars"?

The same applies to music. Pretty much every creative industry outside film is paying the performers or creators a percentage of sales. Its just harder for that to scale to endeavors that take thousands of people like modern blockbusters.
> Having a shell as PID 1 actually makes signaling your process almost impossible. Signals sent to the shell won’t be forwarded to the subprocess, and the shell won’t exit until your process does. The only way to kill your container is by sending it SIGKILL (or if your process happens to die).

Noob question. Why is it impossible? You have the PID, no?