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> It's like discussing guns with people who will never use them.

You mean that it also creates a toxic culture which disproportionally hurts poor people and minorities? Agreed!

> lotteries are great sources of revenue (better than state corporate income taxes? Holy cow!)

They're only so because the US has this inmensely powerful anti-tax culture and lobbies. Plus, lotteries take money from the poor, which means they're aggravating the very problems we use taxes to solve.

> they are low-health-risk (someone may need treatment for gambling addiction but it never hurts their lungs or livers)

Mental health issues are health issues. Gambling addiction is not a low health risk.

> Just don't come crying to me when the state comes for your income and property taxes to make up the difference...

They should! They should come for my income and for my property
taxes, and even more so for the income and property taxes of those who are richer than me. Taking money from the poor to fund the services that poor people need is obviously counter-productive.
I've tried the final hardware and thought the pixels were fine, but the engineer next to me (15 years my junior, with eyesight to match) thought the pixels were unacceptable. I think it'll be another hardware generation before everyone agrees the pixel size issue has been put to rest.
Seconded. I've been lucky enough to try the Vive Pre with the Trials of Tatooine demo, Rift Crescent Bay + Xbox controller on a seated experience, and Rift + Touch on a standing experience. Vive was far and away the most compelling for me. I don't know how to describe it other than being dropped into a fictional world. Being able to walk around R2D2, kneel and examine the landing strut of the Falcon, having to physically lunge forward a few feet to deflect a blaster bolt with my lightsaber, actually gripping said lightsaber hilt in my hand and being able to bring it up to my face and inspect it, it really felt like I was there. My only major complaint is that I couldn't stop grinning/laughing, and that pushed the headset up on my face enough to leak in light. Just having a headset and a controller does not at all compare, even with the limited walking space. It's the difference between looking through a porthole and scuba diving.
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That is why libraries guarantee API/ABI compatibility within a version number (SONAME). The package manager of your distribution will be responsible for updating the required dependencies if needed.

Of course, if the user chooses to install software outside of the package manager, it is their responsibility to upgrade dependencies accordingly.
The headline is misleading. tl;dr The media that gives Trump publicity has been non-conservative media, and his friends/enablers are Northeastern liberals.

Liberals may have enabled Trump, but his support is due to the GOP spreading fear of immigrants and social justice among the poorly-educated, but then (once elected) creating policies that shoved those poorly-educated people deeper into poverty.
> Not really. I wish most GUIs would be the same if they are offered for pretty much the same functionality, like searching for hotels or flights.

Agreed. Remember when one of the complaints about Linux apps was that they used so many different toolkits (e.g. Athena, qt, gtk+ &c.)? Now we use web apps, and every single one looks different, and none of them is as usable as xterm.

'Progress'!
> Yeah, I was about to, but then I saw the owners of the project agree to some of the things I absolutely want to not touch at all.

Can you elaborate on which specific areas you're trying not to touch? In your previous comment, you mentioned "rewriting what already works" and "malicious packages and copyright infringement"; anything else?
The "career interest" I see in this thread are of the Computer Security Industrial Complex, which seem to have quite the bullet as a means of generating income these days. I have objection to this. They're dedicated professionals but sometimes they have big feet.

IMO there is but one mode for computer security - lock and key, perhaps barbed wire, perhaps armed guards. And certainly no connection to the larger internet. That's me reading Bruce Scheiner. Probably badly - computer security bores me no end ( because I know of the one way to do it, you see... )

Bluntly, those who do not serve their own career interests simply won't be in government. The Anthropic Principle - it's not just for physicists.

And that's rather beside the point. I'm by no means up on the details here, but it begins to look like there was no available solution that met requirements.

This is straight up Dilbert "Mordac, Preventer of Information Services" nonsense. Was having email available optional for her? Probably not.

And frankly, the entire narrative is that of imagined threats. I realize that's the mode de jour now but I still have the habits of looking for evidence not made up in the pursuit of political power.

After seeing the Clinton-bashing effort outed completely ( but the rotting zombie corpse of it still in use as a political device - inexplicably ) I'm just not inclined to hold any other opinion. MY conspiracy has been proven and completely outed.

I have little use for either of the Clintons, but there can be no explanation for the furor surrounding the American Spectator in that time except this one. Even when Neocon hit pieces were done on films like "The Power of Nightmares" they conveniently left out reference to the Clinton hit pieces, preferring to shore up the Neocon's evidence and other more tractable things.

I simply find use of The Big Lie patently and irrevocably offensive.
The rift has cameras that track your movement. That is the main difference that you are looking for. I've used the rift dk1 with extension cables and can actually move around quite freely, though obviously not as much as a wireless setup. With gearvr you can move around but the headset/game doesn't actually know you are moving around as there is no external tracker or reference point like with the rift.
We should abolish income tax and introduce mandatory lottery
That's entirely understandable--and thank you so much for raising it with us. I'd be curious to know what the issue ID is; my JIRA-fu is failing for what you specified. That said, again, thanks for giving us a shot. :)
I did a simple port of Python program to go a while back.

The python program is web backend for JQuery+html Single page web app for front end. It built its own database in the backend on top of SQlite.

It is not that hard to part a few features over, ~1-2 weeks including learning time. There are lot of examples on how to do most of typical web programs with REST/AJAX for golang.

The REST/JSON in golang is a lot of verbose than python. Go need to define all JSON fields via marshalling which is none-trivial amount of boiler place template code code. It does very strict type check on all incoming JSON structures. I have full functional regression test coverage from my frontend code to the all the python REST APIs /JSON structures. The more stricter type check in REST/JSON in the Golang requires a lot of work while provide little value for me.

The error handling the go compare to pyhon is an "acquire taste". (I have to acquire that taste yet.)

I was used to the code style of raise/catch exceptions. Python provides extremely good stack trace feedbacks on those error cases. Recover from exceptions in python are trivial.

My python code needs to build/handle 10-25 GBytes database. I spent non-trivial amount of time in the low level API of python/C code to optimized/debug memory related issue at that scale. All the issues in python backend were worked out already. The backend python all used very little memory in building and using 20+GB of DB.

For Golang, I can not get pass that barrier. Building a DB of about 2-4GB cause the golang app to completely slow down. (Most likely GC kick in, memory hogs on system level.) I spent a few more weeks on golang and can't get enough info to fixed that issue and put that porting from python->Golang project on the shelf. In python I can force a GC operations in certain point of my app to see the memory usage clearly drop down. I can't find a way to do that in golang. There were documented API in golang that supposes to do that. But it just doesn't works for me.

That's > 1 years ago.
The difference is that this capsule won't pop like a balloon.
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I used to think it'd be weird for criminals to use gambling to launder money - it'd be too expensive. But then I heard about FOB machines.

The UK has something called "fixed odds betting machines". These are sometimes used to launder money.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-mach...

> Earlier this month the Gambling Commission, the industry regulator, fined Coral bookmakers £90,000 in profits it made from one drug dealer who had laundered almost £1m in its shops. Last month the industry regulator also publicly admitted what has long been privately acknowledged: FOBTs present a "high inherent money-laundering risk".

The machines take £200 at a time. This would have been mostly in £10 and £20 notes. It's not clear from the article if the launderer put the whole £1m through the machines, or "just" £90k.

> Dealers feed their drug money through the machines, losing a little and then cashing out with the vast majority of their stake, James says. They can then collect a printed ticket showing they have gambled that day – meaning that if stopped by police, they can answer questions about why an apparently unemployed young man carries hundreds of pounds in rolled-up cash.

Either way, it's a lot of cash.
I was under the impression you needed a $1500 PC. So I'll give you that.

I'm assuming you're not buying the phone but that you already have one. People still get them with subsidies too.

The point is that for someone who wants to dip their toes and had a recent Samsung phone the Gear is DRASTICALLY cheaper. If you have a PS4 (or even if you don't) then the PS VR is cheaper too.

For people who aren't already committed to VR, I think Fowler is right that the Rift is way too much at this point.

Give it time.
I guess it's hard for some people to relate to a large portion of any future savings being 'invested' in lottery tickets ("the money just goes towards your college education either way!") and spent on cigarettes -- not that hard at all when it's been your reality.
How does this differ from the explanation given in the Zeitgeist movie?
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Are both 2 web apps, but in completely unrelated fields...
Lotteries are really a great wait for the state to collect taxes. Unfortunately the way the are currently handled results in too much profiteering/skimming/corruption.
A 10% reserve requirement would mean that if you deposit $100, then your bank can then lend out $90 of it, not $1000.

The money supply has expanded because there is now $190 of things that work like cash out there -- the $100 on my bank account balance plus the $90 that was lent to someone else -- but this is very different from saying the bank can turn around and lend out a multiple of what I have deposited.
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(disclaimer: I work for DoorDash but have minimal exposure to our scheduling platform)

> it would have been more efficient to schedule other deliveries in the mean time and just come pick up the food when it was ready?

There are a lot of factors at play so it's hard to say what exactly happened in this instance, but some considerations:

* The wait time at a restaurant is probably not enough time to fit comfortably another delivery. Deliveries take a bit of time. I don't have the exact #'s, but you can imagine 5-20 minutes driving to restaurant (+ parking), 0-5 minutes waiting at a restaurant, 5-20 minutes driving from restaurant to customer, which ends up being around 10-45 minutes with high variance.

* We want food to be as fresh as possible for the customer, so on average we may prefer a dasher to wait a little rather than arrive the food is ready. Like the other replies mention, we try to measure how long food prep takes for a restaurant and we may err on the side of caution with restaurants with high variance by sending them to a restaurant assuming the shortest estimated food prep time.

* Restaurants don't always provide accurate estimates of how long the food is going to take to make.

* In your specific anecdote, we likely predicted the food to be ready much earlier (atleast earlier enough that you wouldn't have you felt they could have done another delivery) but some things may have changed from the original delivery. Eg:
The kitchen was especially backed up during this time and we didn't have examples of this in our dataset. Or perhaps we did have examples of this and it didn't happen enough to increase its weight in the food prep calculation.
Customer may have made an adjustment to the order, which caused additional wait time after we made the original dasher/delivery assignment.
Kitchen may have made a mistake with the order and had to remake it.
Our estimate for drive + parking time may have been too high. In other words, some of the time that you saw the dasher in the restaurant could have been time that we estimated for driving/parking instead.

There are a ton of other factors at play, but I hope this gives you some sense of complexity of the problem :)
As itself, bundling dependencies is not necessary a bad thing, but it often leads to really bad practices.

Once you bundle dependencies, you make the choice of having to track those dependencies for security fixes and bug fixes. Otherwise you end up exposing bugs and security issues to your users.

Too often, I've seen applications (specially in the "Enterprise" Java World) with hard pinned versions from 2, 3, 4 and even more years old, with tons of bugs and tons of security issues.

Bundling make sense in many cases, for example if you distribute a product, it permits to control most of the stack and to factor maintenance across several platforms.

Not bundling also make sense, for example if you are a distribution, you have tight control over what put in, and it reduces the effort to maintain stuff because you don't have to track x, y, z each in versions n, m, o.

Bundling or not is a trade-off, either way, it must be done properly.

Dependency handling is a complex task, and yeah, it sucks. And it's not technically that the problem will be solved, it's with proper organization, conventions and normalization.
Not sure why he got down voted. It is very similar. Perhaps people think he is linking to a XKCD comic but he is actually linking to a web app hosted on the XKCD website. I found this comment interesting.
It's good to hear that from someone else.

The degree to which the casino industry in Biloxi is celebrated as a heroic engine of economic development and generosity depresses me. The Coast was no utopia before the casinos. And sure, yeah, the casinos employ a bunch of people and some tax money goes to local schools.

But seeing people - often poor people - gamble away their lives, seeing how much prostitution came into play, seeing how many hard drugs come in through them...I don't think the price was worth it.

But all you'll see in the local paper, and hear from most locals, is laudatory: casinos are the savior. We need more of them!
Even the name GitBucket is very confusing. At first, I thought it was referring to BitBucket. But it's not GitHub or BitBucket.
Well then the government should create laws allowing it to dictate what you can spend your money on if you make less than $X per year. You know, to prevent social consequences.
Bing and Bing-powered search has like 30% share in the US.

Siri is powered by Bing.
The earliest cell phones were horribly expensive while also being huge, heavy (think briefcase with a cord; succeeded by holding a large, thick book against your ear) and laughably unreliable. But, those early purchases paid for the R&D to put tiny, cheap, reliable cell phones in the pockets of half the population of earth today. That's the way tech works, but people still feel the need to complain every time someone new comes around.
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I run JetBrains IDEs in a persistent Xpra session on a Exynos board. It is pretty usable on subpar connections, much more so than VNC. It has options to use NX behind the scenes as well.
In your line of reasoning, should we perhaps also introduce mandatory drug testing for people with low income, and prohibit them from buying alcohol and cigarettes? Surely, these purchases have more social consequences than lottery tickets.
Regardless of how you feel about the function of government, the government itself shouldn't be party to running a lottery. Tax private lotteries, outlaw them, don't tax them, whatever, but the government stepping in and running lotteries is a massive overstep.
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I've studied the history of the internet and have also talked extensively with ppl on both sides of the discussion. At best we'd still be using ISDN which isn't much better than 56kbs
i was thinking the same thing...how weird
> It seems the most polite thing.

Nope, it's not polite, it's the most convenient thing for you.

> It’s certainly the most professional thing.

That phrase sucks. Whenever I hear it, I always interpret it as "Someone did something I didn't agree with, but I can't actually express a legitimate reason why they shouldn't do that."

e.g.

Programmer who never has any customer contact doesn't wear a suit to work - oh how unprofessional.

Someone has their job outsourced, can't be arsed to fly out to Bumfuck Nowhere to train the new people how to do his job - oh how unprofessional.

Customers of a conference object to giving their money to pay to listen to someone who thinks that a Monarchy would be better than Democracy, and that "Traditional sex roles are basically a good idea" - oh, how unprofessional of the customers!

If you have a legitimate reason to disapprove of someones actions you should be able to express it a lot more clearly than just calling them 'unprofessional'.

For the record - Moldbug/Yarvin wrote my favourite article on the internet: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/wolfr... But his lack of ability to see/predict the real world results of his actions, is totally consistent with his lack of ability to see the result of the policies he thinks we should be following.

And yes, people may be using their emotions to make a decision, rather than segmenting things perfectly and thinking about each of them separately with a coldly logical basis. Humans, eh?
Maybe it'll only be available in a $40 CHIP starter pack, which will include the CHIP, a $3 power supply and $10 of cables and various knick knacks you can play with.
Isn't the "Expected monetary payoff" of starting a company negative?
It is worth mentioning that the PC requirements would be almost the same if all you wanted to do is play a modern game at steady frames per second (90) on a 2160x1200 monitor.
Apple Pay uses (used?) the American Express payments network. It's accepted at card terminals where they 1) have the hardware to talk to an iPhone and 2) accept Amex. The issue with Apple disintermediating the credit card networks is that they're currently in the loop. This means that they'll be far more capable of obstructing a disintermediation play, if for no other reason than that it'll be hard to do it as a surprise move. Otherwise, I totally agree that they're not a bank nor an investment bank. Really, they're highly unlikely to go in that direction at all, given that they don't have any incentive to lend or credit anyone. They're far more likely to directly interact with banks, heading in a direction somewhat like Paypal, if they can pull that off. At that point, they avoid most (all?) of the banking regulations, though it starts to look like a disintermediation play very quickly from there.
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The lenses project the image plane such that your eyes focus as if they were looking at an object about a meter away. It doesn't cause the kind of eye strain you would get from trying to focus on something an inch in front of your face; most people's eyes can't focus that closely to begin with.
What does Echo offer that Siri, etc. don't? You already have all of that functionality through your phone.
It's not worth it. Most ppl screenblank so savers are mostly for nostalgia these days.
Leap Motion has a very limited FOV and has no buttons. Tracked controllers like the Vive's right now can be tracked anywhere around you, even if you're not looking at them.
"you could be sitting alone in a dark room with nothing but a lottery ticket in your hand and be perfectly satisfied with fantasies of winning"

This is one of the biggest reasons I dislike the lottery, from a societal perspective: it satisfies people who would otherwise have an incentive to go out and create their own success. You can see this anytime the jackpots get big enough that non-players buy tickets. There is a noticeable drop in productivity as people sit back and fantasize about winning $1 billion or more. Instead of actually doing something that would improve their lives, they're happy sitting in the dark and fantasizing. If that's a one-day a year occurrence, fine. But its clearly not a one-day occurrence to the regular players, and I think it negatively impacts their lives far beyond the actual cost of the tickets.
> Even if it is entertainment, which it is not

Just because you don't find it entertaining does not mean it's not entertainment.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your other points, but gambling of all types is most certainly an entertainment product, regardless of its tendency to create addiction, etc.
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The deeper problem is capitalism. Too bad nobody ever comes up with good ways to fix it.
Wow... talk about microaggressions...

Imagine that a white guy had said:

1.) My perfect advisor would be a white male. He would understand where I come from.

2.) Only a white male can speak my language.

3.) The closest thing I could find to a white male was a Mexican. He's cool and all, but he knows he's not white enough to really identify with me.

4. I hate having to talk like the other people here... it's like we're supposed to actually communicate or something! Why can't we just speak American?

In other words.... here it comes.... THIS DUDE IS RACIST AND DOESN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE IT!!!!
Possibly related: "Move fast and fix things" by GitHub engineering. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739129
Make sure you restrict to major cities. That affects comp. Also I suspect those forms show base pay not total comp which is typically far higher.
In the US, the giant of the newspaper industry was William Randolph Hearst, who used those papers mostly for personal gain. He foemented actual invasions ( mainly of Mexico, where he owned a ranch ).

He'd damaged the reporting of American history in a manner to set back the literature for a century. He's set the stage for most of the nonsense American believe.

Of course small papers can maintain some degree of integrity but there's very few voices in mass media that can.

I am very happy if good journalism still exists in Norway. That's great. In America? I'm much less hopeful.
I agree that their marketing promo images aren't great, especially that awful Time magazine cover photo, but to jump to the conclusion that its' going to bomb is extreme.

People are behind this. This type of immersion is going to have the same affect as the Wii first did, only this time the whole entertainment industry is investing in it.