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Simulating the world doesn't necessarily make a good game. People usually want simple rules in a simple environment and the ability to explore and stretch those rule as much as possible.

A random gigantic game that simulates absolutely everything doesn't let you do that.

Take KSP as an example, sure it would be pretty to use that engine, but that's it, it would just be prettier. It would'nt bring anything new. The game is already fun, not because it's realistic, but because it has much simpler orbit mechanics than reality. A model a regular human being can actually wrap his head around.

The most boring and disappointing part of KSP are the contracts. Why? Because they are random. They have no direction and no sensible progression. They don't encourage you to push the limits. They are just an endless generated generic grind.
FWIW those of us in the JavaScript community who don't care to create buzzwords for everything call it JavaScript. No Isomorphic, no Universal. There's nothing different. It's just JavaScript.
Nobody ever said the danger that he was talking about are not real. However his is still a very edge position.
> there's also a fair amount of reprogramming of the FMS

That was something I was missing. Probably complicated when you are scared to death. But still a CAT I glideslope descent/touchdown would be preferably to landing with the PAPI I think. (Funny detail, papi means daddy in Spanish!)
Sorry, I felt the need to respond to this. Why are shorts juvenile? They are a perfectly rational and sane climatic adaptation of clothing, allowing decent airflow over a human body.

To decry shorts as juvenile is sympotmatic of simple minded attitudes that lead to people in warm climates spending the hottest part of the day wearing full suits in fully glazed boxes which need to be energy intensively air conditioned so that they don't die.

This is not a sensible path for society to take
There is massive difference between aggressively renovating an outdated industry and committing fraud.

If the customers of Zenefits knew they aren't brokers, and if it was publicly clear and accepted, then maybe there is a slight chance of justification. "Public do not want regulation" they could say. Airbnb never said they were a hotel. Uber went out of their way to prove they aren't a taxi company. They did not disguise as one.
Court orders for what, exactly?

If there are legitimate court orders for cracking the security on the phones of criminal suspects, I don't have a problem with that.

The problem would be if:

1. A court orders Apple to crack the security on a phone they cannot actually crack (presumably any A7+ phone), and imposes some punishment for failing to do the impossible.

2. A court orders Apple to modify the design of their phones to make sure they are always crackable.

Those would be huge problems. But I don't see how you get from here to there.
So science is biased? Of course it is, any observer who pays attention for more than a few years knows it is.

When you're looking for a specific phenomenon, you're more likely to find supporting evidence. For example, if my hypothesis is that a crow can use a television remote, I'm going to stick a crow in a room with a television remote, and the crow will likely mash enough buttons that I can convince you it's true. And then of course there's statistics, and the famous saying which goes with it.

Maybe the real problem is that humans are biased, we're not really looking for the truth, we're looking for confirmation of beliefs we develop for whatever reason.

We've always been far better at beating the natural world into submission than observing it anyway...
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I think you can do this on OS X using the Mach vm_XXX family of functions (I've only used them for querying state, though, rather than rearranging the mappings.)

The documentation is pretty terrible, though, so some experimentation may be necessary. It's also even less like the POSIX parts than the NS bits are...

(Apple doesn't seem to tell you much; OK references are https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/Virtual-Memory... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mac-OS-Internals-Systems-Approach/dp..., and, of course, http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/. The source has some reference-style documentation in it.
Thanks for saying so, and I'm glad you found it helpful. Maybe I should expand this into a real article of my own.
This could be the case, every year or so I see headlines where the TSA failed to find a gun during a test by their own people.

Last time I flew it was almost mandatory to go through the body scanner. The time before that it was only every 10 people or so.
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So say the question is alcohol consumption. Science knows the ld50 for alcohol . Science could say 1 drink a week is too much for you . However much of that logic deals with the "average man" not "you" . Your level of moderation could be calculated by direct observation of you, but I doubt anyone would stand for that sort of nonsense in today's science . So how much salt , sugar , or fat is to much ? It depends on many factors , much like how much alcohol you can consume before you "feel intoxicated" . There is a legal standard, in many countries,for how much alcohol you can have in your system before you are a burden on the state . Ie are you so dunk you will crash your car and cause harm to your self and to others or property... Back to my point you may not fit the legal parameters for being "too drunk to drive" because you can drink 10 beers before "you" feel drunk or the inverse one beer and you need a nap . Again this is based on averages as well as a social standard of acceptability on what we as a community governing the law feels is acceptable . So how does this relate to salt,fat, or sugar . It's quite simple it's too much salt in your diet does not make you potential harm your self or others in the short term like alcohol would . The same could be said about sugar , and fat . To be honest I should say something like I eat 2 lbs of sugar coated bacon each day with a fifth of bourbon and I am well over 85 . But in any case you will vote be down either way .
I've lost how many multitool pocket knives in my bags when travelling because I forgot I had it, even when I check my bags one ends up being discovered in some nook or cranny in a bag.

I have a hard time thinking I wouldn't be constantly mindful of the fact I had a gun on me, and would never pack one in a bag, but I'm not everybody and I have never carried everyday. There are parts of rural America and some cities where it is done as part of their every day carry and no one blinks an eye. So I could see it happening.
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They do the alphabet-rename thing to better split things into different brands, yet this is attached to the Google brand. How does that make any sense?
And people wonder why I call my job "Data Janitor".
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I agree that it's not a response that is constructive to the science at hand, but it's a fine response for an individual. Unless you want to obsess over having the perfect diet, you can have a diet that is 80% healthy with 20% of the focus if you just diversify your diet across many different sources. The only thing we really know about scientific knowledge is that it will continue to evolve.
I would much rather he wrote something more formal and stopped with the weak sounding 'could'.
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As a slight anecdotal counterpoint to your comment about Amazon, while I often buy the product eventually from Amazon, I initially search "amazon $productname" on Google because I don't like Amazon's search.
You contradict with your previous statement that Signal does not provide OOB key verification when they show you the fingerprints. Because that is essential for not being MITM.
See, I wouldn't leave a gun in a bag, I'd always have it on my person. Someone can snatch or go through my bag, or my bag might not be nearby. I see that as kind of irresponsible handling.
In practice: inheriting from "object" every time is not a big deal, but losing the possibility to use Pypy or Kivy is huge.
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That stubborn minority chapter is really quite interesting, shame the book isn't available yet. Think I'll look into some of the authors prior books when I next run out.
The overwhelming majority of prisoners are in state prisons, where something like 17% of inmates are incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of inmates are in fact incarcerated for violent crimes.
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Merely requiring an Apple private key is insufficient. The OS as a whole requires that too, but as we see here that just puts Apple in the position of potentially being forced to sign an update which removes security.

I'm guessing that the secure enclave not only requires a private key from Apple, but that it wipes the crypto keys it contains (effectively wiping the device) if it's updated without first being unlocked with the user's passcode. That would prevent even Apple from cracking it, barring an exploit of the secure enclave's software, or some sort of highly advanced attack on the physical hardware.
I know and I found it odd that they only mentioned contacting Aker by telephone. It sounds strange, and probably isn't the whole story, but that's what my local (Houston area) station's news coverage indicated.
Python3 is still broken in some important ways (virtual environments) on Debian/Ubuntu, which make it a but of a pain to use both in development and production.

Example: Ubuntu 14.04 (and later versions) come with Python 3.4, but pyvenv is unavailable (just try searching ubuntu 14.04 pyvenv to get an idea).

This bug from 2014 is still relevant, although at least the "python3.4-venv" package is available to patch it enough to get going. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.4/+bug/129...
Correction - most American suburbs don't have this problem. Grocery stores in most major American metropolises (NYC, SF, Boston, DC) can't afford the real estate for parking lots.
I have good experience with Asus as well. Until recently I was still using my early 2011 Asus U36JC. It was probably one of the first ultrabook-like laptops, even though it wasn't branded as one, since it had a second discrete GPU. Reasonably thin at 19 mm and 1.4 kg, with stellar battery life (10h+ under Debian) and great performance.
Even though it had 1st generation Core i5, it was still snappier then most of my classmate's laptops with latest i5s.
It even had a USB 3.0 port, which was something for a ~700€ 13" laptop at that time.
Over the time I upgraded to 8GB RAM and swapped the disk for SSD.
Only downside was a pretty crappy glossy screen, but I mostly had it hooked up to an external monitor so I didn't mind so much.

I finally decided to go for a new laptop last December because the battery life was degrading after the years. I was consideing just buying a replacement battery, but I wasn't able to find one under $200 including shipping and I got a really good deal on a top of the line refurbished X220 together with a docking station for 380€.

My sister, a teacher, is now using the Asus laptop and not considering the battery life it still runs smoothly.
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How do you know?

As your link says, they intend to prohibit selling hardware which can be modified to violate FCC regs. Since 3rd party firmware allows such violations, devices get locked down.

How else are you going to explain the existence of separate US firmware which refuses to upgrade to international firmwares?

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=990535
Disappointed that the first solution isn't: Let somebody else do it.

I know this doesn't apply to banking, etc but 99% of the websites that "require" me to create an account and log in don't need to store primary credentials for me. Please pick a secure implementation of oAuth2 and let people store their credentials wherever the hell they want to.

I'm bored of getting hits from "Have I been pwned?"
We non-motorists also don't carry guns around, for the most part.
It's this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gorenje-MO-4250-CLI/dp/B00FMYZME8

I have trouble finding US shops that have it, maybe it's Europe-only brand, but hope you have better luck!
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But if we don't rant, they won't know we don't think it's appropriate and stop.
Would "people ate less and suffered less heart diseases time ago?" qualify as C?

Of course this point has the same problem of lacking details. But recognizing "modern food" as a culprit is actually less overeaching than putting the blame on a single substance that has been used for centuries.
>Guido also happens to be working at Dropbox, but I don't know if he's directly involved with pyston or not.

With the proviso that a lot can change in two years, here's a relevant comment from the Dropbox Pyston announcement [1]:

"Guido's advice has been extremely helpful, but so far we haven't been able to get any code from him"

[1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an...
Possible, but unlikely. According to a recent study, the majority of offenders are sentenced for violent offenses, and the majority of those sentenced for violent offenses have never been convicted of a drug crime.
The more tourists there, the better that second class status will be.

Yes, it would be great if the country just got a good democratic government, with strong institutions. But while that doesn't happen (and the US can not force a change), it helps not to make things worse.
I know very little about gun safety (don't own them) so I claim ignorance in the topic.

I was addressing the GP who said "you don't understand people don't transport loaded guns in their bag" when the article specifically said "83% of guns found in carry on bags were loaded." Which means people are clearly doing it.

I don't know the specifics of the safety of such a practice but I took GPs word on the topic that said practice was unsafe (or inadvisable).
I think this speaks more about a broken research system than it does about the challenges in determining how bad excess salt is on our health.
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Yeah , I realized I missed a zero there! Edited. This Forbes[1] article has even worse numbers.
Filling up the tank here is something people don't think about. People even tip the gas pump attendant two or three times the cost of the full tank (that's obviously over now).

The reason we are angry is not because we now have to pay a very low price for gas. The reason is that this country had a huge bonanza and it was all stolen and now the govt says its because of the "economic war" the US and allies are waging against Venezuela. Apparently, the fact that the US is extracting shale oil is all just a plan to topple Putin and Maduro. And now that OPEC wants to break the shale oil companies is another evil plan.

It's everyone elses fault that after 18 years of the highest income we've ever had, we now have no money for the rainy days.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/26/that-vene...
> And this is why, in a nutshell, linux should switch to GPL3.

Unfortunately, given the number of developers that would have to agree, the fact that early contributions weren't attributed and the can of worms that defining what a derivative work is opens, makes relicensing very unlikely.
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My assumption: it's cheaper/easier for TP-LINK to disable all flashing of 3rd party firmware than it is to implement restrictions based on the FCC's narrowly-focused instructions.
Salt is a problem for people with hypertension or related blood pressure conditions. And there's a strong correlation between cutting down salt and reducing your BP in those cases. Especially since it's safer than just increasing some BP medication doses.

Also, your exercise and diet suggestions effectively reduce salt in your body. Less food, less salt. More exercise and more water means salt gets removed from your body faster.

I'm not trying to say salt is universally bad, but I'm pretty sure no one should literally swallow spoonfuls of the stuff either.
Because clickbait leads to higher click through rate and view and thus income. The consumer decides, simple as.
Yep.

You're just playing around with stuff, create a lot of drafts and play with them if you feel that they're fun. And then, suddenly, one of the drafts doesn't get dull; surprisingly, it gets more and more interesting the more things you add to it.

And then you realize that this one is actually done.
The newer a pip, the more likely it is that it caches things for example. There a more things, I had long discussions with dstufft about it in the past.
To be honest, the article doesn't have much to say anyway. It's about how each paper cites other like-minded papers, so each side basically turns into a Reddit circle-jerk, and no one appears to be doing any real science.

And of course, as I posted in my other response, it's far easier to prove a hypothesis than to disprove one, especially if your test subjects are humans that likely aren't going to put up with your shit for more than a few days anyway.

Test A - feed subjects a salt-heavy diet for a few days. Observe that they're still alive. Salt is good.

Test B - feed subjects a salt-poor diet for a few days. Observe that they're still alive. Salt is bad.

Observation A - observe that healthy subjects eat a lot of salt. Salt is good.

Observation B - observe that unhealthy subjects eat a lot of salt. Salt is bad.

And so on...
> With Go, you've only got one runtime to choose from.

Since Go compiles to a binary, the concept of a runtime doesn't apply the same way it does for Java. You can compile a Go program with the Go project's compiler or with the GCC. The GCC Go compiler uses different optimizations and may produce faster binaries in some circumstances. Since the Go language is also a spec, other compilers may arise if there's a demand.
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> I seriously doubt 4 will include breaking changes,

If it doesn't, it shouldn't be 4.
All this because you didn't profile your code to see that 95% of the time was spent in GMP routines.
Its tricky to say, seems to me that prior conviction is not a very good metric. However I don't know any better way to figure this out either.
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This requires your users to trust whichever OAuth providers you decide to integrate with. Sometimes, the set of "trusted OAuth providers" for your users is {}. What then?

> 99% of the websites that "require" me to create an account and log in don't need to store primary credentials for me

Why are you giving them valuable credentials? Give them a throw-away password (password managers are great for this).
The reason for license is that it can be taken away. In cases of malpractice of selling crap for brokerage, you can't simply uncertify a person. But you can take away their license.

It's also the signal to customer that the guy they are dealing with did not simply pass a test, but is actively practising the profession in a manner he is supposed to.
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> I never thought I'd say it, but I'm loving programming the new ES2105 version of JavaScript.

Well, yeah, I'm sure ES2105 is cool, but most of us don't have the choice of using languages from the next century.
This was a really bad time to post this framework, the disillusionment for javascript is at an all time high right now.

That being said why Mongodb? NoSql are advantageous for write speeds, which as far as I know isn't particularly important for new applications. I understand that you want "javascript everywhere" but is that really worth the cost of losing the speedy and convenient join statements? I think postgres might have been a better choice.
I hear this all the time, but I must never go into those areas of reddit as I never see this. The comments and feedback on the subs I subscribe to are very similar to what you might see here on HN.

I guess if one stays on the main roads and doesn't stumble into the dark alleys, he'll be ok.
What stops them from using those mechanisms to create it in the first place?
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How much of this is because Android phones are crap and have to be replaced more often? I'm burning through phones at roughly twice the rate of my Apple colleagues.
They believed they were sufficiently diversified. They were prepared for a national housing crash, but not an international housing crash, all their CDS counterparties going bankrupt at the same time (including e.g. AIG who weren't even really related to the housing business at all), and a general recession on top.
I have the x220 with a used 9-cell battery (last full charge was 75%) and I'm easily able to get just under 6 hours of standard use (browsing, WiFi, watching movies, coding) and screen brightness at around 60%.
Python is still king for really boring and maintainable scripts. I mean boring in the best way. Every Python script o read is clean and elegant. It's easy to follow and well organized. Python 3 doesn't seem to make it any better at this. In fact all Python3 does is annoy me. I never know when I need it or not, it never seems to be clear either. The fact that it's packaged as a separate entity (i.e. /user/local/bin/python3) is even weirder.

Mastering Python-foo is still on my todo list, though. As a Ruby user, I've noticed that Python scripts are much more straight forward and maintable. I still write my scripts in Ruby though because nobody seems to mind. This is perhaps because I try my best write good comments. In general, Ruby is better as Perl replacement than a Python substitute. In fact, one of my coworkers who is an oldschool perl scripters was sold on Ruby over Perl just by reviewing one of my scripts. I think the issue is people don't think of Ruby outside of Rails, where it's basically a readable purely object oriented Perl.

As an aside, I think there is a bigger overall problem of using scripting languages for application development. I wouldn't use Python, Ruby, or Perl for anything that was more than, say, 500 lines. I almost cried when I tried to read the code for homebrew. Not that it's bad code (it's quite good actually), it's just way too much duck typing for me. I could never keep all that type information in my head. I prefer to pass that cognitive load to the compiler.
My wife and I have this very problem. Prior to my diabetes assessment, things like NoodleTown and pasta places would fill her right up. Me? I'd be gnawing my hand off if I went there, because I'd be hungrier 20 mins later than had I not gone there at all.

But now with diagnosed T2 diabetes, that makes sense. I process carbs very badly, and spirals into a "process carbs into fat quickly, and get hungrier, all the while jack blood sugar". Of course, high fat and high protein diet has went very well for me. I'm not hungry like I used to be, I've lost 40 lbs since the start, and I just feel better.