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Morals and ethics can only ever be relative / subjective / personal. Moral absolutism is the root of all evil.
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Pretty much every modern car has a way to deactivate the passenger airbag specifically so you can place a baby seat in the front.
Hi, I found this website that seems to use the base of Highscoremoney, adding a charity propose.
Graphics is not the best possible but, compared to other sites I use for small donations i've the benefit to be added to the ranking :)

I saw that and user, _Marak_, had thought about this possibilities. Is this website yours?
There could be other reasons to block internet. We should wait for his view point, before we make such judgments.
> SourceForge I'm hoping it's that they've been bought out by a more reputable company,

Uhmm... that happened?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

still curious what's the cause for this long downtime again...
Those related to drugs were killed during a buy-bust operation. And yes, there is judicial process but people will read more if the media highlights and writes about "extrajudicial killing" instead.
You can do nothing and have only your eyes to cry down the road.
so frustrating when the answer is obvious but where to click is not.

e.g. in "if a.length != a.length" the "correct" token is the first "a". Should really be anything in the whole expression.
More like 'let's bring in some new blood, nevermind it will be indy crapware'.

http://www.iplaypsvita.com/upcoming-ps-vita-games-2016/
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I believe they had the appstore and sdk planned all along, but couldn't get it ready in time.

Rather than saying, "we will have an sdk too, sometime", they played it off as intentional, and continued working on it silently. There is just no way they built it all in the single year from the release of the iphone.
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Why am I not surprised that the person who sees the solution to a countries problems growing out of the barrel of a gun would not have a problem with journalists being killed.

> “If you are an upright journalist, nothing will happen to you,” said Duterte

Good. So we can rest assured that only those journalists that were not 'upright' will not remain upright.
Most cases are meth related. Philippines now is like a meth capital.
> The BMW, Volkswgen and the likes of dirty-gas-guzzlers-producers would be chuckling now.

Funnily, all of those are investing heavily in automated electric cars already, or even have products for semi-automated electric cars on the market.

Just less hype around those.

If Tesla just continues, they'll be dead in a year, and Volkswagen, which also got further encouraged by the EPA to develop electric cars, will just take over their market share.
> They are absolutely excited about the time when self-driving cars will be actually here.

But wouldn't everyone use self-driving cars and that level the playing field again? If you can't make a profit now, would that really change later?
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Can we assume the same rules will be applied to the whole population? Or will it just be applied to "them"?
He was clear with his methods BEFORE electios https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/09/philippines-el...

Not the usual bait and switch.

Like was pointed out, drug dealers are free to surrender. And some have done so.

http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/thousands-of-drug-push...

My own gripe is pontification of the west when it comes to the business of other countries.
> Those related to drugs were killed during a buy-bust operation.

In a country where the police is as corrupt as yours the last thing you want is to by-pass due process.

That pretty much guarantees that lots of opponents of the newly elected regime will suddenly find themselves on the receiving end in 'buy-bust' operations.

> And yes, there is judicial process

I find that hard to square with

> Those related to drugs were killed during a buy-bust operation.
Earning may be unbounded but so is spending. Unless you have a baseline lifestyle that you maintain then any increased earnings will just be eaten by increased spending since you'll already have convinced yourself that saving is pointless.
* Walk a bit more so I save money on my drive to work
* Work from home most of the week
* I've stopped eating/ordering outside food dramatically
* Stopped smoking cigarettes almost 15 months now
* Reduce alcohol consumption
* Turn off fans, AC, TV at home/office

And of course, investing. I usually force myself to invest whatever money I get in stocks or forex trading.
Financially? Not really. I made about $30k from the game in total. It's a very simple game, though. Nothing you'd expect big sales numbers from.
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Democracy is far from perfect. So it is perfectly ok to use democracy but to always be suspicious of that which gets decided democratically.

That's not hypocrisy, it is simply the best adaptation to reality that I can come up with.

And it has nothing to do with 'getting what I want', if NL will vote massively for Wilders in the next election (our local light-weight populist get-rid-of-all-Islamists-and-our-problems-will-magically-disappear politician) then I will consider that a failure of democracy.

Not because I don't get 'what I want' but because it will likely cause great harm to my country.
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The thing you're mentioning is also a huge discussion topic and widely disapproved when it happens.

So your point is kind of irrelevant.
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5. I wish there was a definite way to determine quality beforehand easily, but in most cases it's a huge hassle.
Also, customer feedback a few years down the line instead of right after the purchase would be nice because that's when the product's weak points really become known.
Who will verify that the person they killed is truly an addict and not the CEO of a company competing with the killer's company or the killer's wife secret lover?

There's a reason each country has an official justice system.
Right, the guy that was found shot to death with a sign on him saying "I am a Chinese drug lord" was definitely killed as part of a completely-above-board judicial process.
Well, what I fail to understand (but do not find unbelievable) is how people dare leave their car's control to software just released. I'm sorry for all the incidents, think Tesla is to blame here, and would like electric to replace gas, so no cynicism intended, but that's just madness to me, the openness of people to alpha-test sth. that may easily cost them their lives. It's called autopilot, so what, while I admit it's bad naming, one should be responsible for their safety, before anybody else.

On the other hand self driving vehicles should be a different class of vehicles that's aptly moderated by the govts. A road is a complex thing to be in as an AI backed vehicle, especially considering the lack of the communication and organisation systems used in naval and aerial vehicles.
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That's not the most fair comparison. Living in NYC/SF is part of the lure of working for one of the top established tech companies. The career trajectory for someone with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft on their resume usually allows switching among similar top-tier companies (if one is competent and so desires). Once you have one gold-plated company name on your resume, you're set for life. For example, my friends who worked at Apple say that getting hired by Apple is easy relative to keeping up once you are thrown into the firehose there.
Not so much for debugging but the cat is often an Oracle. I remember Sometimes when I started reading through a section in the documentation (probably the dfdd), the cat would come take a nap on the document (yes I printed it, yes I know if it has changed since because organizational inertia). I took it as a sign to stop.

It helps to take a break sometimes.
Seriously- FedEx, UPS, Walmart have incredibly efficient logistics and operate with very thin margins. If Uber Lyft are relying on going up against them instead of the inefficient taxis- they are seriously smoking something illegal.
There are a bunch of apps that help you spend money more efficiently - but I always feel they're in the lower % of effective saving, and the real answer is 'choose not to buy that thing'.

So my question is - are you looking to help people buy thing x more efficiently (and I'm not sure there's a lot of unment need there), or to help people not spend at all (in which case monetisation becomes contrary to the goal of the app).
> I think it was because they treated those interests as things with inherent value, even if that value was just pure enjoyment, rather than as hoops to jump through en route to a lucrative career.

That's awesome!

Slightly off-topic tangent (how music is becoming a career track in China): http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/international/10000000...
Actually seems pretty reasonable.
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I sold a WordPress plugin for writers via Gumroad, sold a handful. This is compared to selling hundred of other types of basic products like pdfs, ebooks etc via the same platform. I promoted the plugin on ProductHunt, Twitter and via friends - not really directly with the intended audience which was a mistake. It was a fun experiment but I think most people are unfamiliar with buying software in that way. For the customer it doesn't seem like it will be a product that is supported.
Has anyone done performance tests with different versions of VirtualBox? I often see entries in the changelog relating to "significantly improved performance".
Or better, convert it to the opportunity cost of spending it, which is the base price plus all the gains over X years had it been invested instead of spent.
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Would you tell Creatures, Inc. and GameFreaks ownership structure?
From TFA:

> He (the new president) placed trust and confidence in friends and acquaintances who are outsiders of the traditional power and social blocs.

That's one of the structural reasons right there.
There's a distinction between "saving money", as in putting it in a savings account, having a nest egg. That is clearly a good thing. The other, which is what the OP is about, is "saving money", as in paying less for things. This is rarely a good investment in terms of the time/happiness/convenience/actual money saved trade-off. A somewhat extreme example is clipping coupons - the cognitive load of planning around saving a few cents on butter is simply not worth it for most people (and also, there's the subtle bias in altering your behaviour to take advantage of an offer). Another saying in the same vein is "penny-wise, pound-foolish".

I know someone who carefully plans and then spreads the weekly shopping trip between up to five different grocery stores -- and also complains that they have too little time. I and several others have tried connecting the dots for them, but it's clearly become an obsession (and needless to say, it's not like they track their spending and saving on this -- just assumes that they are saving loads).

Obviously, there are things that make sense. Of course you should shop around and negotiate for big-ticket items. It might well make sense to alternate weekly shopping trips between two different stores with different strengths (one might be good for fresh produce, but expensive for staples and household goods etc).

> For most people on HN I'm not so sure, most roles have a ceiling that is very difficult to get above without [...] starting your own business

Hacking on a side project is one of the things you could do once you stop spending hours saving dollars.

But, the point is, time is a strictly limited resource. Money has steeply diminishing returns around those ceilings. Stop wasting time saving small amounts of money and spend it getting the most out of your time (whether that's working on your revenue streams, or doing any of a number of activities that makes you happy).
> He (the president) placed trust and confidence in friends and acquaintances who are outsiders of the traditional power and social blocs.

It looks like that is not about to change.
Do similar games exist for other languages? I like the concept but my C++ is rusty at best.
There is judicial process to all.
Anyone tested to see if the network and disk IO is actually any faster than before? We found it _very_ slow in the past compared to VMWare Fusion on OSX.
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snap, asked the same question at the same time, I've heard this many times, and many times I've found it to be slow as heck.
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I dont get it. I donate to the site but write down that i donated to whoever i want? And the site takes the money? Or do they forward it? If so, why would i pay transfering fees for a donation twice?
He wasn't shot by the cops so that means he could be shot by THE BOSS, vigilante or his partner. Who knows...
Who called it useless? But ascribing rampant NIH to suckless is hardly a strain on credulity; otherwise they'd just use FreeBSD, instead of reinventing it piecemeal on the Linux kernel.
Ask HN: Encouragement as a Service?
Does "Encouragement as a Service" exist?

It would be a number that you can call as an entrepreneur, when you feel a little down or discouraged.

It would not offer advice per se, but "quality listening" (relevant questions) and comforting/encouraging words.

You would subscribe to it with a monthly payment.

It would work via phone and email, with maybe different price tiers.

Does this exist already? Does anyone want to try and build it?
Small differences such as placement of pictures on walls can be enough to tell rooms apart. As for what good? It can help linking up to other evidence such as hotel security cameras. It's (I assume) not useful to ID the room, but is useful to ID the hotel so that future surveillance can be planned.
I am sad to be reminded that I once read a notice in my hotel room in Manila which asked me to verify the age of my guests and note that the age of sexual consent there is 18.
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Don't throw your IP to mobile market is not 'do nothing'.
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Maybe they should switch to a cloud host that can scale on demand. Err, wait...
Averages are a bad way to look at the overall risk.

An example:

Every time the auto pilot encounters a truck turning in front results in a fatality.
1 in 10 times a drunk driver fails to avoid the truck turning in time.

The average overall for drunk driver could be 1 in 50 million miles and the auto pilot 1 in 90 million, but you are certain to die in a few instances with the auto pilot, but the human could possibly save himself in the same situation. I imagine the Tesla has lots of these bugs that haven't been found yet.

I would trust a drunk driver over Tesla's autopilot at this point. Don't die for Elon Musk's dream--being one of the first auto pilot fatalities isn't that big of an accomplishment.

Also, I'd give "Technopoly" a read.
Am I the only one that thinks people should be held responsible for their own choices?

This argument is completely bogus. No driver in the nearby lanes is aware the other driver is drunk, a bad driver or emotionally unstable.

The entire idea of beta testing is to have your system on an "uncontrolled environment". The system has bugs, as any beta system does, and whoever uses it should be fully responsible for it. Yes, fully responsible.

Tell me what's the difference between using a beta system and not caring (leaving hands off the wheel, etc) and drunk driving? On both situations the driver is choosing to put everyone at risk, nobody knows about the fact until after an incident and if there is an incident, who's fault is that? The beer company? The car company?

If the driver assistance made cars crash because it ignored a command from the driver or something like that, then sure... it's 100% Tesla's fault. But clearly on all of these accidents the drivers were careless to the extreme by leaving hands off the wheel for several minutes.

We can discuss if they should try to improve how they handle people that remove their hands from the wheel, but that doesn't change the fact that ultimately the choice to be careless was made by the driver, not the car manufacturer.
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I pay extra to get my groceries delivered because it saves me time. I also tested same-day delivery services from Amazon and Apple in the last several months. Amazon is a little different, but my local Apple Store and supermarket are pretty close. However, I used to suffer a grueling commute and it made me hate driving. I'm now happy to pay someone to reduce the time that I have to spend behind the wheel.
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> "http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hedonism/
"Psychological or motivational hedonism claims that only pleasure or pain motivates us. Ethical or evaluative hedonism claims that only pleasure has worth or value and only pain or displeasure has disvalue or the opposite of worth."
I'm mainly concerned with the second category, since the first is more of a question for psychology and neuroscience. Anyway, you're constructing a false ideal. Even if we use Google's poorly defined and colloquial version of hedonism, the more representative real world examples are cases of pain avoidance, overeating, risky behavior, gambling/shopping addiction, and so on."

In my experience, hedonists don't tend to be philosophers, they aren't concerned with providing academic claims about what motivates us, they're much more focused on pleasure in the here and now, rather than making claims that they're living life in the right way. If you want to study hedonism as a philosopher, be my guest, but it doesn't match what I've seen from the behaviour of hedonists.

Furthermore, they aren't 'pain avoidant' they are 'pleasure seeking', there's a big difference. Pleasure seeking people will chase pleasure even if there's a risk of pain along the way, pain avoidant people will avoid trying anything that may cause them pain.

> "What?"

I don't think what I said was unclear. The implication you made was that hedonists would avoid old relatives. In my experience, hedonists are 'omnivores' when it comes to pleasure, it doesn't matter whether it's playing cards with old people or going out clubbing smashed off their face, they go for everything with gusto. That's my experience of hedonists, they want to have fun and they want to bring you along for the ride.
It's good advice, but it can be misinterpreted. You either spend 3 hours cutting coupons every few days or you can spend three hours learning new tech or gaining a qualification or going to meetups. Spending some money on books/taxi's etc to do so.

The best payoff is spending the money. However there is a "poverty" mentality where people would be scared of spending that money. You need to avoid that.

On the other hand you could buy a gimmicky fancy tv or keep your decent old one. Obviously just keep your old one.

Just optimise for the best expected payoff. For that you require a mix of saving, and spending.
Thanks. Perhaps my cynicism about drug authenticity is dated.
The PC market contains a more comprehensive picture. There are plenty of "bad" yet profitable F2P PC MMOs. There are also plenty of respected premium games on Steam. F2P dominates the mass markets, but premium still captures the attention of the core audiences and enthusiast press. You don't develop for both - you target one or the other. They want different things. Relative to the size, average wealth and tastes of the market, premium now acts as the "luxury good", free is the "normal good", and generic knockoffs that litter app stores are the "substitute good". That's the result of having a race to the bottom through digital distribution - mediocre premium games fade from view in an instant, well-marketed ones continue to do gangbusters business.

Console hardware preserves some role here in that it still offers the "best" premium experience, on average. PC games let you tinker with the settings more and add mods, but the lead platform for new, big budget games is usually console, and that includes portables. Plug and play still matters. Big budget experiences still matter. But it's not as big a business as the market for "small" mobile games - that's just how the numbers work out.

This isn't the first time gaming has gone through a business model shift, of course. Arcade gameplay and its quarter-munching habits used to be the standard by which a game was judged. It wasn't until the 1990's that those tendencies stopped being a dominant influence.
> elk

I'm pretty sure that hitting a full-grown elk is a poor choice, and often a fatal one. A large, full-grown elk can weigh 600 pounds and stand 5 feet tall at the shoulder, which means it will probably go over the crumple zone and directly strike the windshield.

This happens commonly with moose in New England, which run up to 800 pounds and 6.5 feet tall at the shoulder. A car will knock their legs out from under them but the body mass strikes much higher and does an alarming amount of damage to the passenger compartment. You can Google "moose car accident" and find some rather bloody photos.

The standard local advice is to try really hard to avoid hitting moose, even at the cost of swerving. I would prefer that an autopilot apply a similar rule to large elk. Even if you wind up striking another obstacle, you at least have a better chance of being able to use your crumple zone to reduce the impact.
Does wearing monitor headphones possess not obvious risks to your brain functions?
Because a lot of radical changeovers in other services are not user needs driven and look more like bait and switch.