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dude. in all of these examples, you're the interoperability stack. everything requires interventions from you. it's supposed to be the internet of things not the internet of my things that i make work somehow.
goto someone else's house and make all this work without significant amounts of effort. that is what i want. i should just be able to walk into someone's house and say "hey check this out, ok google - play the last youtube video i saw on the biggest screen in the house" and it should work damnnit. that's the future i want
"There are a lot of little things that don't match up with what I would consider to be standard development practice, but I'd like to think I'm mature enough to not assume it is wrong simply because it is different from what I know. Injecting some different approaches and learning a lot along the way is part of the enjoyment."

That's something that I keep running into...just because something is different from what you are most comfortable with doesn't mean its wrong. It's just different. It may even have something for you to learn.
I would also read Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained for a counter-point about why "Mary the super-scientist" is based on a faulty premise, and why the Hard/Easy distinction is fallacious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
Unlimited vacation isn't necessarily a scam, but I've rarely seen it work well. The one is exception is one of my current clients. In the four years I've been working with them, I've seen people come in late, leave early, and disappear for a week or two at a time, and I've never heard _anyone_ ever complain about it. It works for them.

But, in Massachusetts at least, when you leave your job, any vacation time that you've accrued is owed to you in dollars. With unlimited vacation, that means that you get nothing (since unlimited isn't something you accrue, it just exists).

In my experience with a couple of web jobs, even with non-unlimited vacation I've always been met with resistance trying to take time off. It was worse in companies where we "weren't a company, we were a family" type places. Guilt trips about saddling others with works, etc., when really it was poor scheduling and planning for 100% efficiency.

So: not a scam in a binary sense, in the way that the lottery actually will make you rich if you're lucky. I wouldn't count on it though.
28% of Earth's mass is silicon, so I'm not too worried.
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You realise you're the only person in this thread that is classifying poor people as 'stupid'? Nobody else has. You're the one making lazy generalisations and it's not adding anything to the discussion.
https://xkcd.com/741/
I would love see more attack from ARM toward Intel in different sector. I would love to see ARM SoC for desktop users.

Intel is kinda company which is used to ripping off people without serious competitor.I really like the idea of competition in CompArch area.

Lets be honest, before smartphone raise, Intel was socking people's blood and in most area, they didn't have any serious competitor.

I know ARM was selling small chips, but AFAIK (I might be wrong) those market is not even close to servers,desktops, etc market's which Intel was king for long time.
> Here's an anecdote, since this already isn't an argument based on numbers and facts. I've never been hit by a car in London. In the space of a year, I've been hit by two cyclists and lost my takeaway dinner on account of a third.

That's pretty much my experience too. However, my comment was downvoted to the death, as it doesn't make sense in statistical terms.

Anyway, one very real issue here is that the average London cyclist doesn't know when it's safe to pass a red light, and when it's not. There is a lack of road-reading skills.
There should be a button like "not now", or something like that, which doesn't removes the white box, but makes it smaller (of course it's possible to remove it with developer tools unlike other pages like quora).

Or you can use NoScript, uBlock Origin or a similar alternative which only allows the javascript that you want to allow on websites, which in this case blocks the white box completely (I don't understand how one can surf the web without such a tool today. Every time I'm on a computer without it, like my sisters iPad, I get annoyed by most websites really fast).

Nevertheless, I agree with your comment.
>the money comes out of the patient's pocket and ends up in the doctor's pocket!

It comes out _partly_ from the patient's taxes, and the rest from everyone else's taxes.

The cost is spread. That makes a big difference.
Maybe it's lowering the testosterone?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13129483
Then there was webpagesthatsuck.com where you could see the latest mystery navigation idea from someone who should know better. Or some multinational site looking like a geocities homepage.

I never could decide if the design of pagesthatsuck was deliberate satire or accidental, but it was always an ugly site itself.

It used to be fun back then browsing sites like clientsfromhell, the similar programming one who's name I now forget, and pagesthatsuck over lunch. Nowadays that's much less satisfying. Time was you could kill 20 minutes looking at some awful sites and terrible VB code. The comments were usually most fun. Now they've all reduced content so much that you get about 1/4 the content in a long column that takes 1/5 browser width. Of course now a clean modern site with 3 mile long ad interstitials between each piece. Progress?

Oddly haven't visited any of those for years now!
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It sounds like you're blaming the users for not "unlearning" enough to be able to use NixOS.

As long as you have that attitude, you'll be driving away users. How do you think you can improve your software to make it easier for users to "unlearn" stuff you think is bad?
Intel losing the HPC space to NVIDIA(GPU's) and now ARM they can't be happy.

Don't know how "profitable" the HPC market at least nation-state level supercomputing is, at least directly. But the indirect gains from it, prestige, contacts, and technology transfer during the codevelopment process are likely to be quite huge.

If AMD actually hits Intel where it hurts with Zen and we don't get a Bulldozen at the end like we got with well Bulldozer; Intel might be up for a rough ride, especially if it's 3D Memory technology which seems to be now the "next big thing" at least as far as Intel's development goes doesn't pans out that well.
Hey you, troll. Are you paid by DNC?
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Welcome to the lack lust journalism of the BBC. I would call them mediocre, but that's not the correct way to explain "the worst possible journalistic quality."
I would vote for the person that would make an official us abortion program. They would be a public hero to women in need.
How to be reasonably good and productive while having a life and not cannibalizing your time with work? (or anything else for that matter)

That's what should have been asked.
I was going to write a lengthy in depth comment, but this is good enough.
I'm glad this made the front page, but I'm not really sure how. I know why I voted for it; it's rare to see any research worth taking seriously that has to do with latent toxoplasmosis in humans. I'm curious why anyone else did.
Have you read the guidelines?

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

This paragraph has been there as far as I can remember.
My two cents: don't say you are cheap (even if you are). It makes it sound like you are not worth a lot. The employers that are willing to hire you because you said you are cheap are mostly the kind that will scam you with stuff like open vacation policies.
Or Réné Descartes in the 17th century. The fundamental nature of res cogitans so to be conscious... if that rings any bells. :)

It's also an idea that few philosophers of mind agree with at this point. Gilbert Ryle did a pretty good job of showing that the mind-body problem is a pseudo-problem [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Mind-Gilbert-Ryle/dp/02267329...
Mediocre or not, my personal view is that everyone should envision themselves as the person they want to be.

Being mediocre may or may not prevent you from achieving your highest goals, but believing in your mediocrity will prevent you from setting out to achieve those goals in the first place.

Tell yourself what a badass you are every day, surround yourself by the kind of people you want to be, and keep persisting until you get what you want or are simply satisfied by the effort you put it.

There are plenty of roadblocks between you and your dreams that are completely out of your control - and the question of whether you believe in yourself doesn't have to be one of them.
I do get it. You're saying Echo has the best IoT integration of all the assistants. That may be true. But it's also possibly irrelevant depending on what combinations of IoT devices someone wants. If everything I want has HomeLink integration, then Echo's broader integration means nothing to me.

> This is something Amazon did; "it doesn't say much about Echo itself" is completely mistaken.

You're misunderstanding what I mean by that sentence, which I guess could be clearer. What I meant is; it doesn't say anything about Echo's independent functionality apart from any other devices. Does that help clarify?

My point is that ability to integrate with other devices is great but it's only one thing that a digital assistant has to do. Echo is missing other things that assistants on phones can do not only because the phone has capabilities Echo does not hardware wise but also because our phones are so integrated into our daily lives.

Anyway this discussion has really gone off the rails. My original point was this article is clearly just an Echo ad and it's a bad one at that.
In some country that kind of auction is considered gamble indeed and it's against the law (most EU as far as I know). From a Mechanism Design point of view, they are maximizing their own profit and they also expect their players to be not very rational entities and so they don't nee to use a truthful auction.
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Setting his/her rant aside, Greece is suffering from a serious case of "Brain Drain" that their brightest people had fled the country a long time ago even before this latest economic crisis hit them, and after that it accelerated this trend and became more pronounce to the point that it really drags their economic recovery.

I know some Greek expats and they told me about this problem and the dilemma that they're facing now between returning to the country and facing the mounting challenges there, or staying put and watching their country go through this difficult time from faraway.

So, certainly Greek people is not a low-educated populace or whatever he/she said.
The writer probably wished to say "perfunctory" but experienced a brain fog moment.
João Goulart, former Brazilian president ousted by an US plot, was also killed by poison.
It is supposed to be passive income, so yeah, you have to build a lot of such sites (or a few with high payouts) to replace your regular /salary earnings.
Ok, but it's really lycra clad commuters I've had bad experiences with... some of them are just oblivious

I don't find black cabs threatening. It's the Ubers who are usually really dangerous. Not sure if it's because they're new to their jobs (a high turnover occupation?), or half asleep.
Ask HN: Why aren't system libraries/packages distributed using torrents?
This looks like an ideal scenario for torrents, everyone has a copy of packages on the server so seeding will be through the roof, usually on the same network.

No more breaking the world because PyPi/NPM/apt mirror is down.

One tool could support every type of package repository, and then the main mirror will be 'constant' seeds that simply proxy the current locations e.g.:

https://pypi.python.org/whatever-4.3 => torrent://pypi.whatever-4.3

So that you can always get a copy.
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Could you explain what the real Dunning-Kruger effect is? I always thought it was pretty much "you're so dumb that you think you're smart".

Wikipedia says:
"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is"

Which, to me at least, pretty much reads as "you're so dumb that you think you're smart". (Or, to be slightly more accurate, "Your ability is so low that you think your ability is high")

I don't claim to know anything about this, just genuinely curious what you mean.
What a shame, the web counter seems to be broken. Having mostly forgotten about them, it hit home for me to see those silly things mentioned.
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In the UK, apparently, 3% of adults cycle every day, and 9% at least once a week. The reason for the difference would likely be that we have many roads on which it is reasonable to cycle, and lots of infrastructure for cyclists - you can cycle to a train station, hop on the train with your bike, and cycle to work on the other end, for example.
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And now they're taking over mounting and unmounting filesystems, too. What's it going to take to get this cancer out of Linux distros?
> abstract nonsense

this would get downvoted quickly if it was a comment
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Intel just announced they will be fabbing ARM chips

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/intel-lice...
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"Unlimited vacation holidays" Just doesnt work well. Most people dont know how much they should get, and are looking at co-workers. In the end nobody takes holidays... I would just leave work and mention the 'unlimted holidays' in your contract (I hope it is in there).
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Maybe this is part of the reason Intel decided to re-license ARM and get fabbing

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-16/intel-lice...
Maybe "having a life" could be replaced with "being happy". It's different for each one and in the end it's the actual result of having a life that matters.
Yes, brain drain is an issue for sure (it is also an Issue in Italy, for example, even if the country is bigger and economy is somehow in a better situation, at least for now).

I am an (Italian) expat myself, so I know the dynamics very well.
When I was 5 year old, I thought I was a maths genius. I had arithmetic absolutely nailed and I knew there were a few more things to learn, but arithmetic was easy so presumably there was just a little more to learn before I could be a professor.

I think that's what he means.
The answer is not basic income.

Look at this Graph for the US as an example.

http://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/styles/report_371px/...

Social Security 24%
Health Care 25%
Safety Net Programs 10%
Benefits for Retirees 8%

Social programs according to this consist of 67% of the total budget.

Where is the money going to come from?

Also, you know what happened to France when they hiked up their Tax rates? They moved to London. Where did the Russians go? They moved to London. Where did the Greek millionaires/Billionaires go, probably London.

The rich in the US have already started making plans on where to go, there are a lot of places for them to live.

If you think Basic Income is going to be the solution. I'm very sorry to tell you. It's not!
Reminds me of "ponder this" from IBM research: https://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/index.sh...
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STEM work requires above-average intelligence, and even the most basic jobs are probably only available to 25% of the population. Hard-core mathematical engineering is only available to the top 1-2%. So yes - retraining is pointless if the raw ability isn't there.

But people don't need to retrain. What they need is an economic system that allocates their time usefully instead of declaring it worthless and wasting it.

The amount of work that needs to be done and can't yet be automated is almost infinite: infrastructure improvements, simple renovations, community projects, recycling - the unused pool of potential is huge.
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Is it just me, or is there no download for Android?

Is/will the stack be Free software?
You don't have to look far:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... [XLS]

That's 8,643 pedestrians killed between 2000 and 2013 on UK roads. It's not even solely when people are crossing the road: cars frequently mount the pavement (sidewalk) and kill pedestrians.
Good question. This is what the Swedish Gaming Board says about it:

http://www.lotteriinspektionen.se/sv/Icke-tillstandsgivet/La...

Lowest-bid auction:
"In a lowest bid wins the auction it alone in having placed the lowest bid and not the one who placed the highest bid. In this way, it is largely a matter of chance decides who wins. We therefore believe that the lowest bid auctions are a lottery and not an auction."

Penny auction:
"In our opinion this is not a lottery in the legal sense, because it is the highest bid within a certain time "wins". It is not chance that determines who gets the goods. In this way, a penny auction works the same way as a normal auction."

(Google Translate, may do a proper translation later.)
I'm using Overplay vpn service.I chose it from this rating https://myipservices.com/vpnrating . I chose a paid service as they say that it works much better and faster. And to be honest, their security is much better.
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I haven't voted, but I am rather fascinated by the idea that cat parasites might be influencing human behaviour. Unfortunately I'm not really scientifically literate enough to evaluate the reliability of this and other research into the topic, but I'd like to know more.
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Anyone have details on the cache design for this? 2048 bits is much larger than most cache lines in chips today.
I have no idea what is the premise of the article and what is the problem that the author wants to bring up to the light. The author jumps between anecdotes and some situations from her life that ultimately lead to no conclusions. I stopped reading here:

>Is it so hard to work ten hours for your rightful 77% of a salary

as this is definitively not true, unless she's okay with this kind of discrimination and did not take it to the court.
No, it was just wishful thinking, based on "given the 1ML inventor's main job".
There's reality, and there's the interpretation of reality. Reality is the location of atoms. It's the hard cold facts that all observers can agree on. The interpretation of reality, on the other hand, is fickle. If I am sad, I can listen to happy music, and I'm happy again.

I try to affect reality, not the interpretation of reality. I write software and sell to customers. This is reality. My software exists, my customer relationships exist, and the software is solving my customers' problems. There's really no good answer on whether my business is mediocre or not, so I try not to think along those lines.
> Which is why I wrote that the length promise can be broken.

I didn't see this in your comment but was responding to the expectation that GIFs are 'bite size'. I would honestly love for them to be that but it's regularly not the case.

> Yes, it is such a problem. If you promise the user that the clip is silent, you also promise the user that it can be consumed in silence. Yes you can click a youtube link while keeping your computer on silence, but guess what, chances are the video is made for consumption with audio.

It's still the responsibility of the user/site as video clips have different purposes. If the purpose of the embedding is a 'clip' rather than video the site can mute it (or a pseudo-container format like GIFV, like you mentioned). Some hosts disable audio encoding, others mute them by default (eg: Vine), but I still don't believe that GIFs being the incredibly poorly optimized, 256 color limited bloated format it is should 'win' merely because videos can have sound. There needs to be the concept of a generic 'clip' upload/post to differentiate from a regular video upload, GIFV is one such solution. Users expect Youtube videos to have audio, they mightn't for a short clip, which is why it would be great to see sites adapt and continue to be more conscious of this.

> All the gif purveyors support webm. It is typically called gifv, because users recognise the gif word and believe all the promises I mentioned. But there isn't an alternative as ubiquitous as animated GIF.

By posting platform I mean every site/app a user will post on that either encourages or only supports the use of GIFs over video clips. Yes Imgur and Gfycat will auto encode GIFs to VPx/h.264 however only GfyCat supports direct video uploads, on Imgur you can't upload a video clip directly. With only GIF uploads supported by most hosts it fuels the cycle of users, clip creators, sites (blogs, forums, etc), and even browser compatibility sticking to GIFs as the primary clip format.
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The dominant ideology of Western aesthetics in life is existentialism: the idea of excelling by your own definition. But in order for this to be meaningful, "your definition" has to be socially informed, and yet by construction, it's not part of the theory. In some sense there's an essential tension between the need to be free and the need to not be insane. Unfortunately, succeeding according to a socially-informed but ill-defined set of criteria basically always reduces to being socially successful in one way or another, and it might be cheeky, but it's true, to point out that this is a perfectly reasonable metric of success... for philosophers. However, the fact is that everyone can't be socially successful, and the result is that many people who are motivated by existentialism in its popular form end up unsuccessful and unhappy.

Note that "social success" does not mean socializing; Paul Dirac was extremely socially successful, yet nearly incapable of socializing. And despite this it strikes me that he would have been less happy if he had not been one of the greatest physicists in history: introversion or even (possibly) autism is no antidote to vanity.

In light of this people point the blame at social media, but don't ideas matter?
Dunning–Kruger showed that less competent individuals in a sample thought they performed much better than they actually did, whereas more competent individuals thought they had not performed as well as they actually did.

The less competent individuals did not think they were "smart" or on the same level as those that performed better in the tests. Just their perception of where they were was markedly different to the perception of those that did well in the tests
Conversely it shows that we need to protect ourselves and not depend on a government to keep us safe... And no matter how many laws are made, scammers will always be 1 step ahead.
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> "Orange cones are really a great prototyping tool," says the activist. "They put something on the ground that's visible. Cars really slow down around orange cones—it's really a remarkable feat of psychology."

Keep this up and pretty soon it'll be like when CNN prefixes a headline with "BREAKING NEWS: ...".
It seems that we could expand this for n people with n choices.

So in the first case where there are only 2 people and 2 colours, they assign, say 0 to black and 1 to red. Then they each sum up the other choices they can see (which happens to be only one other choice in this case) plus their own assigned number (0 or 1) and answer that modulo 2.

Er..I think...?
Or SparkleShare, which is essentially a Dropbox clone backed by git. IIRC it doesn't use anybody else's servers