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> colored "fade" skins will all-blue patterns were very popular about a a year ago

Yeah, that appears to be the case. I unboxed a +$300 M9 Bayonet the other week. I think it looks pretty shitty, but hey, who can complain when you can resell it? I kinda get the impression that folks just kinda jump on the bandwagon on certain skins at this point, that they desire to have something valuable rather than something they think looks good.
The Doom install image was 35x the size of the Apollo guidance computer.

Thirty-five times! Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.

My point of course is that these comparisons are not actually that illuminating.

Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes. This presentation very capably talks about that problem:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Does comparing web pages to Doom help understand or improve the situation? No, not any more than comparing Doom to Apollo memory size helps us understand the difference between a video game and a history-altering exploration.
Getting upset about the definition of words when they don't fit your privileged view of the world is a common tactic of those in places of privilege when equality seems to attack their base of privilege.

You don't understand racism at all. That's not even the dictionary definition of it. Any of the dictionary definitions of it.

Racism is believing that one race is superior and basing the oppression of other races upon that belief.

Thus, the oppressed cannot be racist. They can be intolerant or bigoted or any of many other things; but they cannot be racist because they are not coming from a position of privilege to even be able to oppress.
I still wish we had a Constitutional amendment that restricted federal employees and appointed / elected officials for a period of 5 years from working from any firm they had contact(1) with in their duties. It should also govern donations to charities run by said people. That and getting rid of every corporate deduction in the tax code would clear quite a bit of corruption out of the system.

I doubt we'll ever get either. A simple tax system means one of the chief ways politicians reward donors goes away, and the speech / job thing is just plain too lucrative.

1) the exact wording is more for lawyers than me
We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with browsers. This is a horrible idea. Browser vendors would then have too much influence on development libraries.
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“That’s why we want a name that lasts longer than a social-media news cycle and reflects the serious nature of the science it will be doing.”

Huuh.. Reminds me a bit of the naming scheme of Culture ships following http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/11/iainbanks-scien... (search for MattB242's comment)
I guess I could highlight the top 25 publications in my industry and then post the top writers on those publications an email to see how I get on..

Any tips from your emails to Lifehacker that I could use?

Is it best to talk more about them and then drop in my website at the end to ask them to take a look and consider writing about it?
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I actually wasn't aware that the site could also perform the test, but the Page Speed Insights Chrome extension is one of my go-to performance tools. The output looks the same, though formatted a little better in some places. The extension is nice though, because it lets you check private sites.
That is fair, I probably sold the design short when I said they didn't illustrate anything. I guess my negative reaction comes the work I have to do as a user--it took some amount of time for me to look at the icons and discern their meaning. I didn't get that immediate "4 semi-circles = WLAN" recognition that most icons provide.
>So what's your presumably non-childish objection to other things being given "whimsical" names?

I don't object to that either?
Don't know why, but the idea that there is a place where "Epic Rap Battles of History" might be a real thing fills me with so much joy.
In fact, the building blocks for the project are quite active:

- https://github.com/edgenet/drops

- https://github.com/zeromq/zyre (with ports for many languages, such as Go: https://github.com/zeromq/gyre)
Good info! This seems to confirm what some other sources are saying about the license agreement being null as of last year, and opens the floodgates to this sort of deal, as well as real buyouts of AMD. I'm very surprised this hasn't been more widely reported, though I can see why both parties wouldn't want this to necessarily be in the public eye until it benefited them most. It is also possible I missed the reporting on it when it came out. In any case, thanks!
>> The second reason why it doesn't make sense is that AMD owns the 64-bit ISA rights. I'm guessing Intel would still need that to operate in all markets except IoT...

It would be interesting to see a chip that dropped support for the legacy instruction sets. If a server is running software fully built as 64bit, how much IP could be dropped from the underlying design? There may also be a bit of performance on the table for doing that as well, but probably not much. Certainly no significant die area savings these days.
Something else to fix!

The human body has many enviable traits over a machine: self repair, remarkable efficiency, etc etc.

But there's one really awesome aspect of machines we should get to work on: a machine, if broken, will sit indefinitely until repaired.

Imagine! You are rent limb from limb in a horrific accident, your body ... stops. A good Samaritan happens upon it later, stitches it back together, puts in some fresh blood, gives it a bit of a kick-start, and away you go!

Screw cryonics: I want to keep indefinitely at room temperature, with no special (post-mortem) treatment.
Isn't the article's title misleading? It made me think that the new snap format is introducing an additional security risk, when what's really the case is that snap on Ubuntu desktop fails to provide any additional security over other packaging formats when the packaged binary uses X11 because the latter is insecure by default in certain ways (the example given is key logging, not sure if there's other ways).
I understand that some important Ubuntu person made a claim that Ubuntu's Snap is improving security, and that it's reasonable to counter that and state when and how it does not justify that claim, but choosing a non-misleading and somewhat click-bait-y title would still be appreciated. (At least when posting it to HN.)
Thanks for the link, not seen that article... Will give it a read
It seems against protocol to argue with a dying man, but refraining also seems disrespectful to Pieter. I always open the comment section hoping that someone will disagree with the article in a thoughtful way; perhaps it's my turn, since I disagree so intensely. Presumably others would like to at least hear the counterpoints.

Euthanasia is bad from a practical standpoint, and an evil, because:

1. Objectively speaking, euthanasia is suicide, and the killing of an innocent person. If Schwartz killing himself (out of despair for his future, fear of suffering in prison, or otherwise) was a tragedy, why is Pieter's upcoming suicide not a tragedy? Is it because his certain death is closer? (This view promotes the idea that a "disabled" life, where one is "unhappy", or must be cared for at great expense, or is suffering, or (extrapolating) is cryogenically frozen, is not valuable in and of itself; but it is.)

2. Suicide increases the risk that friends and family will commit suicide. A search will yield numerous studies: "2.1-fold increased risk of committing suicide"[1], etc. If you kill yourself, you are indirectly killing the people closest to you.

3. If you are against the death penalty because we might execute an innocent person, you should be against Euthanasia because we might kill a non-consenting person. This is already the case:

> "these laws and safeguards are regularly ignored and transgressed in all the jurisdictions ... about 900 people annually are administered lethal substances without having given explicit consent, and in one jurisdiction, almost 50% of cases of euthanasia are not reported ... some jurisdictions now extend the practice to newborns, children, and people with dementia. A terminal illness is no longer a prerequisite." [2]

Please, when you hear someone speak in flowery language about the dignity of choosing death, take a moment to evaluate what they are actually suggesting, and to research why people are opposed. Many seem to think that the only people against euthanasia are the religious whose reasoning is roughly "well, my religion randomly chose to mark this as evil, therefore it is", which is just not the case.

[1] http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/relationship-suicid...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/

(...finally, this is likely a very poor protocol for dealing with death - people deal in different ways, and not all people will look back fondly on having to smile all the time, or on expressing "false" hope and being told that, actually, objectively speaking, they should not have hope. Also, a totally minor point, but we are not like Lego houses - we do not need to be utterly destroyed for others to live.)
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Shippy McShipface? Sounds like something from urban dictionary.
They often lead to more suicides _at the beginning of treatment_, but less suicides in the long run.

That's why hospitalization is often necessary when beginning treatment for depression when that depression includes suicidal ideation, but is not necessary for the duration of treatment.
Part of it is that it was named after him while he was still alive, and part of it is that DC is very, very blue.
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What happens when you take LSD and suddenly all of your brainscan passwords fail?

I mean, hell, how can it differentiate between sober and drunk? Or high? Or even sleep deprived?
Write a good whitepaper, get it published somewhere, get a backlink to your website.
Yeah, I like to avoid going down the ads route, just as I tend to prefer to get the traffic organically or through working for it..

I could look at where I might be able to interact more with bloggers.
Hey, developer here. Unfortunately there's no free lunch and I need to do some demographic research with my free projects in order to make them viable.
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Where are good sites for publishing white papers?
A thorough look at the screen from DisplayMate: http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_Pro9_ShootOut_1.htm

It's _very_ good.

> The iPad Pro 9.7 has a very innovative low Reflectance screen that reflects just 1.7 percent of the ambient light by using a new Anti-Reflection AR coating. It has by far the lowest screen Reflectance of any mobile display, so its image colors and contrast in high ambient light will appear considerably better than on any other mobile display. It’s a major enhancement that reduces the reflected light glare from the screen by a very impressive factor of 3 to 1 compared to most Tablets and Smartphones.

> Our Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light quantitatively measures screen visibility under bright Ambient Light – the higher the better. As a result of its high Brightness and very low Reflectance, the iPad Pro 9.7 has a Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light of 301, by far the highest that we have ever measured. See the Screen Reflections and Brightness and Contrast sections for measurements and details.

(emphasis mine)
Couldn't the HTTP cache of your ISP be a good in-betweener, in that case? Would he send the referer to the canonical URL?
what is the average size of a native mobile app?
I don't think that was your trade off to make.
the salaries of a good CFO and a few lawyers.
emeritus bestselling british humorist terry pratchett ascribes consciousness to the shopping cart and wrote about them like an invasive species.
I've definitely seen the benefits of agile for my teams, but where it starts to fall apart is when the focus is velocity. This means management doesn't really have a clear goal, only that they are getting somewhere quickly. This leads to burn-out and typically those dev teams have no connection to their customer either.
alternative: make your password-generation algorithm avoid letters and numbers that are easily confused.
Um? Sorry for being frank, but: are you saying you would commit suicide if the world were more confusing? In any case, I doubt that our future civilization would be at a total loss to help "anachronisms" transition into a surprising world.

>Bring a formerly healthy rat back, then we'll talk.

As the saying goes: That is like a terminal ill patient refusing to get into the ambulance because "I don't want to be in an ambulance here, I want to be in the hospital; call me when the ambulance is at the hospital, then maybe I'll get in."
I agree that it's totally stupid to use online voting, that is just asking to be hijacked, and I almost believe that they should have to eat the result as a punishment. Almost.

Hopefully it's a lesson for them not to ask The Internet its opinion again.
An aircraft carrier displaces 100k tons. A fully loaded inflatable displaces maybe 2 tons, and can hydroplane. As long as the outboard motor is not damaged, an inflatable is definitely faster and more maneuverable than a carrier. The carrier beats the inflatable in range and seaworthiness, though, which is a significant advantage. So again, the major problem is how to get the inflatables close enough to the carrier in the first place. Inside a harbor or straits, you accomplish that via stealth or trap. On open seas, well... probably better to guess where the carrier group is going and wait for it there.

The threat of an attack like this can cause a carrier group to maintain an impassable cordon at a certain distance from hostile coastlines, just like anti-ship ballistic missiles. 500 guys can spend all night prepping and launching boats from transport trucks and a floating pier, and two can pilot the "flock leader" close enough to your ships that the attack behaviors can trigger.

As far as I know, you can craft a bomb using engineered shapes and controlled detonation timing to drive a lance of molten copper through a hardened steel armor plate. It does require a certain level of technical expertise and precision machining. That's why so many boats have decoys on them; too expensive to put bombs on all of them. But even so, the USS Cole attack used only 0.3 tons of dumb explosive and still opened a big hole. But it neither sank the ship nor damaged its keel, which is why bigger, smarter bombs are needed to take down a warship. You have to pierce through more than just the outer hull, otherwise the built-in passive defenses of a modern warship mean you only inconvenience the enemy for a few months, rather than putting their asset on the seafloor.

Couldn't you place all electronics inside a Faraday cage and ground it to a metal part in your hull? The steering and throttle can be done with purely mechanical linkages.
Article seems like a stretch. People call into my office where 3 people work, 2 designers and me -- I do software development and webwork. People ask me if I can do print work and layouts, nope.

Another time a lady giving a talk I was Liaising, and she booked the conference room, assumed I could setup all her perhiperals for her to the lecturn just because I'm a geek I guess. I said Nope every campus rooms technology is different -- you figure it out or call local support staff here; ohhhhh.

(Bad) Assumptions are made by all genders, but we need not blow them up into seemingly massive issues.
Good list.

In fact I'd wager USB-C wouldn't exist if Apple hadn't created lightning

There are rumors that Apple led the design effort for USB-C. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/03/14/apple-usbc
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Yup, you just nailed it. Here is the best writing on just that I've found (and have shared before on HN):

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...

Biometric data makes for great usernames, but not so much for a password. How do you "reset" your brainwaves? The wishy-washy part of TFA on that made me question the entire premise.
The average data plan here is 10GB :

1,000,000 * 10 / 2250 = 4444 web pages a month

4444 / 31 = 143 web pages a day at most on mobile.

While it is somehow acceptable, I don't see data plans getting cheaper yet the size of the average webpage is raising fast.

It doesn't seem like most websites have heavily invested in
using HTML5 offline capabilities or actual mobile first design either, something easy to check with chrome dev tools.

Also let's talk about ads : Polygon.com a site I visit often , first article on the homepage with an Iphone 5 :

- with ads/trackers 1.5mb
- without ads 623kb

More than half of the load is ad/tracking related. This isn't normal.
> I'm concerned about people like me who use noscript selectively. How easy is it to create a malicious file that matches the checksum of a known file?

SHA-256? Very, very, very, very hard. I don't believe there are any known attacks for collisions for SHA-256.
> I just want us to be consistent one way or the other

That does not really make sense, a priori prescribing how we want things to be. Assume a model of the world where the CEO always did something special to make their companies succeed, and where the failure of companies is always not due to the CEO, but due to the mediocrity of the other employees. That model makes about as much sense as each of the two other models you are proposing.
Replace the sprites, and instead of slaughtering enemies with the chainsaw, the AI heals wounded civilians with a medikit.

Doom is similar to the Lenna picture in image processing: Somewhat prurient, but well-known. See for example psDooM, where you kill Linux processes: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

P.S: Who will teach the AI cheat codes such as idchoppers?
This study doesn't even make sense. How does crying generate heat? It takes an awful lot of physical movement to generate any measurable about of heat. There's no way they generated enough sonic energy to make a measurable change in temperature.

This is not evidence that the crying act was just to generate heat. Not that it's evidence that they missed their mom, but it's neither evidence for the heat theory.

You can comfort a crying child with a blanket; maybe all human distress is just a need for a blankie?
I must say that the cable joke https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/722315427200765952 was great.
This (https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-osx-virtualbox-vm) works if you build it on a Mac... But yeah, not technically allowed to run on Windows, and you're also not allowed to host a prebuilt box for others according to the license with OS X.
It's all about showing off. Who has the most expensive skins, coolest looking skins, etc. I have a buddy I play with, he'll drop $100 on a skin on the secondary market and loves it when someone gets all bent out of shape because he has such nice/valuable items.

Others in the thread have touched on this, but this is definitely ensnaring naive, young kids into gambling and taking risks with expensive items. Seems at least once a week I'll be in a match wherein a prepubescent kid will tell his team how he gambled away $100 worth of skins, or got scammed by a "friend" in some kind of gambling pool. Folks also are constantly trying to trade-up, to convince someone to take a skin with less value for one of greater value. I personally unboxed a +$300 knife skin, and at least once a day I get some telling me some sob story, trying to get me to trade it for whatever shit they have to offer.
I'd say it's the executive who doesn't take the vote seriously.
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The parties are more varied by state than you'd expect - for example, the GOP in New York State tends to be pro-transit, while the DNC in Wisconsin still loves to build huge highways through minority neighborhoods.
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I think what's happening to the company is what should have happened from my understanding of the situation. At the time time I can sympathise with the CEO because she has been working on that since she was 19 years old and it would appear that she is behind this with a passion. That by no means implies that she is not responsible for this.

In my mind it's just a sad development from that perspective. Something I would not have wished on anyone.
Chef, Ansible, and I think even Puppet have varying levels of support for Windows provisioning.
Tangentially related:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/42752/how-does-d...
Thank you, for the excellent rephrasing.

>But Go (and tetris etc) are games of perfect information where perception of the game state is not a challenge.

In general, "perception of the game state" is not a challenge, at least according to good game design principles (e.g. in danmaku shmups, perception can be a challenge because of visual effects that are not really part of the game, but this is seen as poor game design, similarly to how being unable to differentiate backgrounds from platforms in a run&jump is bad design). Although there are games where the perception of the game state is a game mechanic, but Doom isn't really one.

But even in Doom, you can separate quite neatly the two tasks.
The vision task essentially aims to reconstruct a model of the world. But in a video-game, this model comes for free. You can trivially limit the information an agent get to what he would get as a player (in games like MGS it's already the case, albeit in a very simplistic way). It's fairly easy to make a function that computes what is visible, what sounds a player would hear, etc. You can then rephrase the problem as make an AI that can only access this function, and this wouldn't change anything.

So for the AI community, I think a more interesting question would have been to design an AI over such a function.
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> How do we know that human infants don't respond that same way, for the same reason?

Infants are known to lack forward-planning, object permanence, and many many other indications of reasoning. I don't think it'd be wrong to say that they behave quite like little finite state machines.
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The publishers really have no incentive to address this until a critical mass of users install adblock software.
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It might simply be that being from a hunting culture implies less squeamishness about killing and having the means readily to hand. It's obvious to suspect gun ownership as a factor.

Doctors have a very high suicide rate, and some of that is due to their knowledge and ability to kill themselves properly.
Does Bremermann's limit account for quantum computers?
Also, we should not be surprised if the rest of the documents will be declassified when, for various reasons, there will be an acute need of war with Saudi Arabia.