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>Abstinence and fasting (Catholic traditional definition is one big meal, or a couple small meals) are sacrifices.

My point was that cutting meat out of a meal can in no way be seen as a sacrifice today.

>Also, Meatless Monday is not about concern for the animals. It started as a health concern, and morphed into an environmental concern. If the concern were for the animals, they should be going for full-time meatlessness.

The origins of Meatless Monday actually date back to World War I rationing and was later revived as a health initiative. That's irrelevant to the point that the vast majority of institutionalized pushing for the day comes from animal rights and welfare organizations. Of course people should be cutting meat entirely, but this is seen as some sort of intermediary measure to get people accustomed to vegetarian eating.
I'm not missing the point. If you have to modify the game itself to allow the AI to compete, then it's cheating. It would be like self driving cars that required specialised roads.
> The President must distinguish "them" or "us", otherwise he has no business leading the country in a war.

This shows just how much 20th c. nationalism still holds sway in many minds when it is as ridiculous as sports fandom.
The point is that they don't hold the inventory.

They buy stuff on net-30 terms, and ship stuff to you the day it arrives. WalMart does similar things for many products -- they make vendors carry inventory until it arrives at a DC.
That is precisely what I did with a set of Qlikview dashboards at my previous firm. They were always very dodgy, but kind if worked. My new boss walked in and started fiddling with the underlying scripts and buffered up everything.

Eventually I and another colleague was tasked with fixing the mess. What I did was to look at the sources, then work out what each graph was trying to do. I then setup a new script that extracted the data into a cleaner data model, and then I (rather painfully) copied and pasted entire sheets into this new Qlikview dashboard. From here all I needed to do was to hook up the graphs to the new model by changing the source fields, expressions and calculations.

After a bit of UAT from internal departments I had fixed the reports and no client was really any the wiser. If I hadn't done it this way, there would have been awkward questions and I just know I would have been chasing my own tail modifying the rewrite to get it back to the way the old system looked.
It's a weakened form that should still cause more hesitation than pressing a button.

Stronger forms:

- Pieces of the code in multiple people.

- Inside a loved one.

- In the arm or leg of the president.
> i think Norway out all countries was the one that brought us closest to total nuclear war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

The article says "a team of Norwegian and American scientists". I am not surprised.
> no good reason

There's a good reason: to make real the human suffering that can be caused in a quick, momentary decision.

Previous forms of warfare took longer amounts of time to cause immense destruction.

Read the story of Ronald Reagan's response to watching the movie The Day After [1] and you will realize that such representations of the suffering can have a great impact.

> The story only makes sense in signalling that you think that nuclear weapons are pointless.

Absolutely not. You can think that nuclear weapons are important, and still take seriously their immense destructive capacity.

Throughout human history human leaders have caused great suffering at little cost to themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...
I believe if you publish a DMARC policy for your domain, to reject unauthenticated email from your domain, then the forged emails wouldn't ever land in the inbox.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466580
Why is death bad?
How would that show any connection to dynamic typing? I imagine that the GP is coming from the perspective of C based on the fact that they're criticizing the use of garbage collection.
The UK is completely free to set its taxes inside the EU as it sees fit. Just look at Ireland with its 12.5% corporation tax and its position at the center of numerous tax evasion schemes.

You say other countries are constantly pushing, but Ireland was only recently bailed out by exactly those other Eurozone countries, and even in that precarious situation, Ireland was not forced to change its tax rates.
I love both your story and the patent's :-) great work!
The digital hardware to handle the output of a 4 GSPS ADC is beefy as hell. This part has integrated DDC's if you're happy with downsampling, but if you want full nyquist data coming out of this, you need to handle 6 Gbyte/Sec.
I would be very hesitant to accuse Robert Harper of misusing the term 'functional'. I'm not an expert in their field, but I interpret 'functional algorithm' to mean an algorithm whose inputs are transformed by successive applications of functions (in the mathematical sense.)
Is most of your gui simple forms and data? I've done critical care monitors and photobooths, and both seem too complex for html to me. I'd be afraid the HTML would be too slow to process and display, too eager to show scrollbars, too likely not to be optimized for the embedded gpu, etc. Have any experience there? The last time I tried going higher level I tried embedded flash, and that was too limiting.
There are many authoritative resources. Pick a dictionary or thesaurus or a grammar guide from the version of English you want to learn and use that as your reference.

When I say a version of English I mean British English or American English or Canadian English or Australian English or some other version of English. They all have differences in spelling (colour vs color etc) and differences in phrases and idioms.

English is so varied because it has travelled all over the world and changed in so many ways as a result - hence the forementioned varieties of English. For better or worse, it has become the international language of science, technology, business, and entertainment. In our internet age, that means it changes even more rapidly than other languages that don't have such global reach.
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Lose/lose
That would make a good boss battle.
Ciao. I'm a student of Italian philology, and I do find your comment interesting for obvious reasons. I also speak English very fluently.

I find English to be a dumbed down language, and reading long and complex sentences in it gives me unbearable pain, with about every grammatical function contained in different words spread all over the sentence, and little to no clue for what's linked with what. I never read literature in English because it is incomprehensible (even tho I easily read technical stuff in it). And I can't stand English pronunciation.

Italian on the other hand offers nice possibilities for prefixes and suffixed that modify a word's meaning, allowing for deriving new words rather easily. The noun-gender system and verb conjugation allows for more complex sentences to be built more fluently and pleasingly, without compromising legibility. Vowels are actual vowels. Italian has a small set of simple and nice sounds, whereas English has upwards of 40 different sounds you need to learn in order to speak near-native. And Italian sounds just cool and lovely.

I don't know how you can think that English is more flexible and more expressive. All that makes English feasible is the fact that it's spoken in the US.
But actually _hack someone up_? I'm sure if you dehumanized the "key carrier" like the Nazis did, you could probably get someone to do it. But if you've dehumanized someone enough you're willing to hack them up to follow an order, you wouldn't be working with them.

The American military fighting in Vietnam dehumanized the Vietnam soldiers in order to justify killing them, but imagine if one of those American soldiers were told by his commanding officer that in order to kill more "Charlies", he'd have to kill his friend he's been fighting with since the beginning. Sure, you'll probably find someone crazy enough to do so, but a lot of people wouldn't do it.

TLDR: It's different when it's someone you work with
Does anyone know what computer science problems hes referring to for interviews? Does anyone have a resource i can look at?
I was implying "make it a default for everyone, now"
Once development is done, we plan to put the code on github.

We will setup keyword searching on Twitter and follow and favorite any accounts that mention LifeStreetMedia or Adsense.

We will setup our Twitter account to link to the code on Github.

I'm open to any other suggestions, but I'm thinking it's better to finish the ad network integration first.
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s/compromise/comprise/
In other news, the sky is blue.
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In practice, that "reasonable force" judgement call and the often demonstrated lack prosecutoral good will results in atrocities like this one, which was merely the first I found with a quick Google search: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1461346/Five-years-in...

It can most certainly come up in home invasions, another article by the BBC mentioned about 11 cases in the recent past.
So is USA of course, as shown on The Daily Show. 15 second clip: https://youtu.be/pm_a58S1NjU?t=27
How does this compare to libfirm[1]?

1. http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/
What about situations like the last plane out of a war zone with a limited number of seats? I think people tend to become less charitable then? Or if scarcity really hits?
There would be a legal memorandum about how it's not murder, written by a relatively, in bureaucratic terms, sharp legal mind, subsequently rewarded by a sinecure at a public university.
All lives are important, but my neighbors and family are more important than strangers.
Our nuclear opponents need to think we'd be perfectly willing to push the button in order for the balance to work correctly. This destabilizes the situation, which is NOT a good thing.
On a connected planet, who is not your neighbor?
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Seems to me that the President is not going to push the button unless someone else has already pressed theirs, and the missiles are on their way.
They don't change it any more than smart bombs and missiles already had. They just widen that change somewhat.
Fuel goes bad when you don't use it, and that setup sounds expensive!
No hardwood this far north, it's all pine.

Also, trees are small and take years and years to grow. I have no idea how much land you'd need to make that sustainable, but it would be absolutely huge! I'm thinking hundreds of acres.
There are no popular languages that both have no GC and are comfortable to work in. Rust is going to be one, though I feel it's not entirely comfortable yet.

Garbage collection is just one of the things that make languages like Java comfortable to work in, but certainly not the only thing. Disabling automatic garbage collection in Java or C# I feel is a very effective way of gaining most of their advantages while limiting the effects of the runtime on the variability of your execution time.

Java is not an interpreted language by the way. FactoryFactories are a choice, not necessarily forced by the language.
Let's be honest - the President is not going to be pushing the button unless enemy missiles are already in the air. In that situation, we're all screwed, and a retaliatory launch is the appropriate action. Under that circumstance, the President should not be required to hack someone open in order to do the right thing.
It is naive to think we are all one happy human race. I wish it were so but it isn't. The "others" will have no problem killing you and dance on your grave. I guess that is why the saying goes "If you want peace, prepare for war"
Lots of meat and salmon in the winter, and any vegetables you canned. Also stuff like potatoes, onions, carrots keep great if you just keep them dry.

Of course, there are supermarkets too :)
What if the pace of gameplay were slowed down 5x? Would execution still be an issue?
That last point is why the rich should quit whining about paying proportionately more tax. They have more to lose given a leviathan state.
Michael Feathers considers legacy code to be any code without tests. [1] I tend to agree - only I think even code with tests can be candidates for the "legacy" moniker.

Bottom line is: you may do a rewrite, but that codebase may be considered to be a hairball by the next guy.

1. http://www.netobjectives.com/system/files/WorkingEffectively...
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I still play the original starcraft (broodwar) every week, and I'll have to agree with you.

once the AI is given micro mechanics and perfect execution, you just can't beat it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOIgFkyfStg

However, pros can still perform "cheese" tactics where they attack extremely early on, and the AI won't be able to properly defend because it needs cash to get an army. So if we do start to see deepmind eventually play starcraft, it will need lots of hand-holding and special programming to deter early cheese tactics.
Or Fowler's "Strangler Pattern," a similar approach.
Only two countries have formally declared a no-first-strike policy: the USSR and the PRC. The USA has always reserved the right to initiate a nuclear exchange with another country.
What if the pace of play were slowed down 5x, so it became about strategy and not execution?
The whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.
Gasoline is inherently unstable and turns into a gummy, plastic-like substance after only a few months. Although there are off-the-shelf fuel stabilizer additives available, the max lifetime is only around 2 years.

Diesel fuel is subject to the same problems without special additives and precautions.
> "I thought the latest meta studies showed that there was not a significant positive correlation between diversity and organizational/team performance?"

Yes, however diversity can create better performance when it comes to 'out of the ordinary' creative tasks, e.g. product development. There are benefits for innovation and getting fresh ideas. But there are different types of diversity that can generate various sorts of conflict, which affect how a team performs. The benefits of diversity don't occur overnight, but can improve performance if managed successfully. [1]

The studies you mentioned (Horwitz and Horwitz, 2007; Joshi and Roh, 2009) had mixed findings because they observed different aspects of diversity (e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, and demographic diversity) and analyzed the relationship between these and team outcomes.

[1] Jayne & Dipboye, 2004. Leveraging diversity to improve business performance.
What I find sad is that Java garbage collection isn't better than manual memory management, given the vast investment in the jvm. There are plenty of ways in which garbage collection can be faster, but production software is still in the stone ages when compared to research from 10 years ago.

For example, any scenario where Rust doesn't even need a lifetime annotation is a scenario where a garbage collecting language compiler still could manually manage collection at almost zero cost. It could, very simply I might add, make inferences of the most efficient way to collect block scoped objects...the vast majority of which end up getting collected in the short lifetime pool. Long lifetime objects might be more efficiently reference counted, so why can't the compiler decide that singletons should be reference counted, or even statically allocated instead of pinged during every large collection? And why can't we have an actual disposable interface that actually performs a manual collection?

For a language that is as memory heavy as Java is, with as much boxing that it does, and the high performance demands of its user base, it blows my mind that their best idea for improvement in garbage collection in the last decade was to naively go after more concurrency. I realize that is what everybody thought the future was for everything, but something something Amadahl's law. There are so many better opportunities that involve allocating less, destroying without a mark stage, etc.
Nitpicking but in SC2, or any video games, actions aren't analog.

A unit's position is a function of 3 _probably_ 32bits numbers, giving 2^96 discrete positions.

You can get that number much higher probably, by adding other factors like current speed, orientation, etc.

You're right though that you have to tackle the problem differently, because while you'll be able to try to define a strategy in go by iterating over a bunch of discrete possibilities in the 19x19 grid, there is no way you can do that for a 2^hundreds size grid with current tech.

I guess AlphaGo is in for a few semesters on strange attractors!
No one can make a US president in his last year in office say anything.
I listen to every DHH interview I can but his view on a rewrite is different than others that do rewrites. There is no "second system" per say in his world. He leaves the old system up for people that still think it works just fine. Instead of messing up the old versions with upgrades, they leave them up and if a customer wants to go to new version that is "rewritten" they can.
Yeah, but no President has ever launched a pre-emptive nuclear attack (saving WWII). And the likelihood of any President doing so has decreased over time. The only time the button would be pressed is if enemy missiles are in the air.
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Actually RTS AI is really bad and they almost all cheat to keep up with the player.
Yeah, the free version is HTTPS only between client and CF.

I made my blog hosted on Github HTTPS with this, mainly so that I can experiment some features like Service Workers.
Case here of a brit shooting a burglar with an air rifle. Burglar cycled off, called the police to complain about having been shot, was given 18 months, shooter was ok with self defence http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357901/Burglar-dial...
I'm really excited about array comprehensions, anyone know if that's actually going to be part of ES2015? Google kinda gives me mixed messages on this one.
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I can't find this on archive.org. I want the epub download (if available), does anyone have it?
I believe it's empowering more people to build applications without in-house infrastructure support.

Once the applications grow big, the need for infrastructure people comes back. The difference is now these people are not touching hardware but software.
Having played Starcraft at a somewhat high level, I don't agree. The very best players will beat an inferior player without surprises, either just by knowing when to be aggressive and when to be defensive, with smart tactical plays, forcing an opponent into a position where they will be at a disadvantage later on, or sheer multi-tasking. What machines lack is sheer intuition.

For example, it is possible to chip away at your opponent's economy by loading units into a dropship and flying it into the back of your enemy's base. To increase your chances of doing damage, you should probably set up multiple of these at the same time, or attack the front while dropping, but you also need to know that a dropship works best when it's fully loaded (8 small units, 4 medium units or 2 large units) - if it's not fully loaded, part of your investment is wasted and your attack will be sub-optimal.

Learning this as an AI isn't going to be easy because there are lots of scenarios when you can do a drop like described above perfectly and it'll still lose you the game - maybe your opponent had some optimally placed anti-air defenses, or they were just getting ready for a huge all-out frontal attack just as you arrived, so their army is vastly superior.
You wouldn't just be running away from the president. You'd be running away from a whole country full of hysterical people afraid of an imminent communist invasion and blaming it on you.
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For us it was a lot of simple things. Change management was the biggest pain but in the end it was just an extra step in our build process.

Our canary process was a bit hands on (find a host, deploy to that host, tcpdump/check logs to validate the changes were correct and in effect). We stopped doing that. I can't decide if we are building better software without that as a crutch or if we are just not seeing production issues.

Anyway, it's stuff like that. Little shortcuts here and there. Nothing major, but it required behavioral change within the org.
Hi everyone!

I developed "Webslite" a simple Chrome Extension that proposes read every website, that contains large amounts of media (like Facebook, 9gag, Pinterest and the usual ones), as a slider.

Technically is not a big deal, but I would be grateful to have some feedbacks or issues posted here or on Github. Would be a nice challenge to adapt or think about some different and fresh ideas.

Thank and sorry if it wasn't the best approach by commenting here.
Keep up the good things on HN!
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I mean the implied accusation that Chaney was at fault but due to some coercion got the guy to say that it was his bad, which is usually what the subtext is when this gets trotted out.
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Quick googling proves little. Counter point http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1415373/Burglar-lawfully-kil...
Armchair psychology: I suppose media can be blamed partly for this view. Bad news sell, and the further away places are correspondingly, stereotypically, only the worst of the news are of reporting value. Thus, people in far away places are associated with fear and chaos.

Also: Baseline human psychology is tribalistic and violent. We need education and culture to behave as modern - and sustenance amd safety.
Will these actually work as screensavers. If you loop the same video(s) over and over again... seems like burn in could still occur.
Making the AI work well for Starcraft will be very difficult. In Chess and Go the actions are discrete; in Starcraft the actions are all analog.

With Starcraft, you can throw sheer processing power at strategic decisions. If you're able to fast-simulate gameplay, even just on the order 10's of thousands of possibilities a second would give you a decent feel for overall strategic decisions. Sure, some nonlinearity might throw a result off by a huge factor, and you wouldn't have searched that. The opponent, human or AI, is faced with the same challenge, though. In the end, no one can predict the future because of chaotic nonlinearities. The best we can do is best account for the odds.
Yes, I made a bad decision. I don't pretend to be a wonderful person. However, I can see people are trying very hard to make sure people think Gate is. And he is not.
Wow this sounds like a good reason to never go upland bird hunting: the four rules don't apply! No thanks; I'll hunt in safer circumstances.
There's a bit of a litmus test you can apply to belief systems to find out if they're definitely objective.

An intelligent alien species that's never met humans would almost certainly invent math. The syntax and organization would probably be different, but the rules would be the same.

On the other hand, aliens would almost certainly not write The Hobbit.
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