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> Yeah, and why does it have to be that way?
> For instance, Congress should have no ability to tell the military what weapons systems it's going to buy or fund R&D for.

Umm? The Constitution? You do realize that the United States isn't even supposed to have a permanent standing army, and that it has to be reauthorized every two years?

ARTICLE I, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 12: The Congress shall have Power To ...raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years....

ARTICLE I, SECTION 9, CLAUSE 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

The appropriations clause of the constitution is generally interpreted as giving Congress the power to dictate how the money is spent. This was very specifically argued by the Founders, "The Power of the Purse" as a check on executive power by the people, and very specifically, assigned to the House of Representatives.

You're telling me it can be done, I'm telling you 240 years of history and the very structure of law makes it very difficult. The US is crafted to have a weak executive power.
Well, it's not a question of whether the next generation will be fine with it, it's a question of whether that is something we wish for them to have to accept. Yes, we are definitely the old farts, but we also get to shape culture, because we are still part of the culture we live in.

I would add, though, that whether the next generation accepts it or not is not really the problem. It won't likely be viewed as a positive thing, whether they accept it or not. Why should the next generation have to accept something that is a net negative for them, just because the current generation has decided for them that it's how it's going to be?
If they've switched to a capacitive touch screen instead of resistive then there's the potential for easily porting Unity based Mobile iOS/Android games to this.

This could be a great new marketplace for indies that make pay up front mobile games.

F2P mobile games monetization strategies rely on huge install bases that the Switch is unlikely to reach, so porting these games over may not make as much sense, but it could still be worthwhile to port to the device in order to provide more gameplay options to existing users.
Share what ever is in heart do not keep it because it is important to share
I am an introvert and for me it is very impossible to share anything. I was very shy from my childhood and it is very tough for kids like me. When I was in college a girl proposed me I did not tell anyone about a relationship. For five years I was with her. We were in different college. after four years I got to knew she was cheating on me. I never had a sex with her as to waiting for marriage and after four years I got to knew she was cheating on me from almost 3 years. I can not tell that to anyone kept that inside. I loved her very much and for me this is the one thing I never wanted. I dropped my college. I was so disturbed went to rehab and almost become insane. Did not know what to do all my life was around her. She was just not my love, she was also my only friend. Then she married to someone else. it is the pain that even it is like four year I still have that in my heart. Can not tell my parents my friends. I started a company raised seed amount of half a million and them my partner cheated on me and ran away with all the money. fighting in court but he is still not traced.I can not tell that either to anyone. I am lying to my parents, family and I am totally broke. Every where it seems that world is not good for me. And few months back i was travelling and I found there are so many people like me who are afraid of sharing with lots of reason.I visited a rehab and there was a girl she was sexually harassed by her uncle and she can not tell that to anyone. I met a young student who wants to do designing but his parents want him to join enginnering and he can not tell that to anyone and this is the reason that every 3 out of 5 people in the world are depressed as they are afraid to share. So I created a platform Dilspeaks.com where dil means heart it is an hindi word.I want everyone to share what ever is in heart no need to keep it in heart and suffer. Share and it really worked for me and I hope will work for many people especially introvert. dilspekas.com.
So soon, we'll all be driven autonomously 80% of the time, and 20% of the time, some guy will drive. At that ratio, it seems on-demand transportation wins over cars, and the end result is the same - we don't drive.
That's easy to say, especially in hindsight, but when it's someone you've messaged for 3 or more months, gets into trouble and then asks it's difficult to be cool headed. You convince yourself that you DO know them, and it's above board. Of course, like in this case, once it goes on long enough the penny does drop, but by then it's too late.
>a car seat is not ergonomically designed to accommodate a toddler.

Neither are church pews, why are you worried about ergonomically designed seats for toddlers? Daily 8 hour car rides?

Or is it along the lines you are worried you won't be paying enough attention to your child and something horrible could... while you are not driving?
Those all sound like more or less the same problem: traffic.

Why don't some of the teams impress me and try driving somewhere with black ice, strong crosswinds and blowing snow. If their systems can't drive in negative environmental conditions, they will be largely worthless in many locales.
> In a few decades, you'd not really own anything - the house you live in [...]

Just to clarify, in the true meaning of the word "own", you never owned your house, and that goes to at least post WW2 times.

If you believe you own your house simply because its paid off, then try not to pay property tax imposed on you by the county you live in. But don't be surprised if one year later Sheriff shows up at your "own" house doorstep with eviction team.
Yeah but then would you really restrict yourself to this kind of hardware?
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There is no reasonable argument for preferring that more people should die as long as the agents of their deaths are the kinds of biological organisms we're used to. What we happen to be already accustomed to has no relevance in determining what we ought to do in the future, except in trivial cases where the different alternatives don't lead to widely distinct numbers of casualties.
The time is saved as unix timestamps(milliseconds since epoch). There's no timezone conversion business on the server!
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> The only thing I want to know more about is the online store. From what I understand, Nintendo's eStore has a lot of shortcomings in a lot of weird areas.

Haven't run into any as a casual user – Nintendo managed to make the purchase workflow easy even on a 3DS, which is impressive.
A lot of the backlash against autonomous weapon systems is fed by the last 50 years of sci-fi movies showing what might happen (however unrealistic), self driving cars are a different thing and there isn't really an equivalence.

Sure there will be legal issues (in a crash who is responsible, the driver, the manufacturer or the programmers) but they will get resolved with time and case law.

The economic advantages to self driving cars are huge (unless you drive for a living but then progress is what it is), 35,000 people a year die on American roads an order of magnitude improvement would save ~32,000 lives a year (and that's just accidents resulting in fatalities, many many more experience life changing injuries), this generation of drivers might not like it but as the cars get better and better at driving themselves the next generation will hand over more and more of the responsibilities until a human driving a car manually on the road will look like an anachronism.

Also people aren't ever going to be happy with a bug in hardware or software killing someone but we are currently 'happy' with allowing tens of thousands of people to die from car accidents, if the motorcar had been invented in 2000 many people would have wanted to ban it immediately.

"You want to operate a 2500KG metal box at 40mph in proximity to people!? oh hell no!"
Video of it being made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuRLaO1G5A0
On the pricing page: "545 domains available, yes sir."

What does that mean? TLDs?

Looks very nice in presentation/style. I'm not seeing what value the service provides over using a registrar directly. I've never had to enter my details multiple times after I've registered for one domain at a registrar - I can just select the details that are on file for any subsequent domains.

"We find you good domain prices on the internet" tells me that I should go elsewhere for the best prices. From common english usage, "best" is so often paired with "prices" that to see the word "good" coupled with pricing in marketing speak, one immediately wonders why it isn't "best".
I wonder if there is a tool like this:

1. You enter a sentence

2. It gives out 5 different ways to say the exact same thing.

Such a tool not only would help ESL people but also it would help native speakers find more relaxed or formal versions of a sentence.
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Because they're leaving money on the table by giving away 25% of ridesharing cuts to lyft/uber for doing nothing compared to what Tesla did.

Tesla made this software. They spent years planning, designing, and working on it. Uber have a scheduling app.

Frankly I'm all for this. Tesla is a MUCH better company than Uber. Let them take the ridesharing market and our world will be much better off.
Oh wow. Most of the types of romance scams I've read about involve the scammers pretending to be people in other countries, inventing dilemmas that require money while romancing the victim. I assumed this to be the case, but it apparently is not. That is scarier.
Oh no, you're wrong. Public transport literally CANNOT work... after all, it didn't work in the USA. It's fundamentally impractical, and countries that make it work are performing magic.

/s obviously.

God I hate the responses on threads like this that insist on the impracticality of public transport worldwide because it doesn't work in the US. It's like mass Stockholm Syndrome or something!
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

Ignoring Context is Enlightenment.
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>6. Spend time figuring out if the product is available locally for the same (or better) price. I feel like sucker buying from Amazon and waiting a minimum of 2 days to get something I could have gotten locally in 20 minutes for the same/cheaper price.

I don't have this problem. The only place within 20 minutes I can drive to to buy stuff is Walmart, so if Walmart doesn't carry it (and they frequently don't have the greatest prices), then I'm looking at a substantial amount of time just to go buy something. I live a couple miles from work (about as far as the Walmart), so this means I only go to farther-away retailers on weekends, usually as part of an all-day excursion, so if those retailers have crappy hours (very common), then that makes it even harder to visit them. On top of this, there's a $6 toll bridge in the direction of the nearest area with a lot of retailers. Because of all this, I get a lot of stuff online when I can: it's usually no more expensive, and it's far more convenient.

That said, I've been becoming more and more disappointed with Amazon over the last year as well. There's just way too many scammy sellers and Chinese sellers on there (and they don't make it that easy to tell which ones are in China either).
> But, I'd love for them to learn to use a CAS engine

SymPy is the best CAS I know of. You can use the methods like expand, factor, collect, and solve on any expression.
For those wondering, no, submitting at times of high traffic will not necessarily make you more likely to hit the front page/hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254

For submissions that do hit the front page, high activity is positively correlated to the number of pageviews the submission gets overall, though. (i.e a front page submission on Saturday will get less page views than a front page submission on Wednesdays)

That post was done awhile ago and I have not looked at the data since, mostly because the algorithm has changed, and the increased manual moderator intervention had made it more difficult to apply heuristics accurately.
It's not at all the same -- self-driving cars can risk the lives not only of the passengers, but of innocent bystanders. Several commenters have pointed out problems such as rain, snow, darkness, etc., but there are more fundamental problems. For example, self-driving cars based on machine learning may be susceptible to adversarial attacks that cause the car to behave unpredictably [1,2]. How will self-driving cars know how to react when things go wrong, e.g., the stop light is broken? What about construction?

I'm not saying humans react perfectly in these situations, but self-driving cars are rule-based, and have zero ability to adapt to unanticipated situations. I'm not arguing that Tesla shouldn't push forward. However, I believe that so far, Tesla has demonstrated a lack of concern for user safety. Companies like Google, Mercedes-Benz, etc. have tech at least as good as Tesla's, but have been much more cautious about deploying it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04435

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199
The "am I affected" section is incredibly misinformative. Reading the page on iOS it merely says "no" with no further explanation... So maybe the bug was just in an unreleased development kernel? Nope, Debian just released patches I needed to apply on my servers. So I was definitively affected and the page lied. Looks like it's just some javascript looking for "linux" or "android" in the user-agent string. It'll probably even say "yes" if you're browsing on a patched linux pc.
As steady as possible. Your liver processes alcohol continuously, so you want to hit your optimal BAC by drinking somewhat faster at first and then maintaining it.
The Wii was very successful. But was very underpowered when compared to the 360 and PS3. As a result it did not get many popular AAA multi-platform games such as Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Assassins Creed, etc.. and when it did get games from those franchises it was a simplified or less feature filled version of the game.

It meant that the Wii was not really viable as your "only" system if you were interested in those games. While the NES, SNES, N64, and Gamecube were either competitive or the leaders technically in their gen.
ET should always be the hypothesis of last resort.

It is the modern equivalent of blaming the gods for a natural disaster.
> I would give a lot to live in a world where there was no risk of getting some illness or accident that could cause intense pain or suffering, yet otherwise everything else was exactly the same. Wouldn't you?

Not really. I would argue that life is suffering, or at least entails suffering. Without physical suffering, you would suffer psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually - perhaps to a far greater degree. I strongly suspect that the confusion and malaise which afflicts modern man, compared to his tribal ancestors, is correlated with a reduction in physical hardship.

So no - while removing a specific source of physical suffering may sometimes be prudent, in general I would not sacrifice anything I truly value in a vain attempt to avoid suffering in general.
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how do we know whether this is true or not?
what do you want to integrate it with? Also, what language/platform?
Maybe the initial screening is designed to weed out people who are good, so that the only people who pass screening are not worth very much money.
Even if we ignore the apples and oranges comparison, it's still not true; I think someone calculated it'd require almost 300 million miles of autonomous driving without deaths to know the death rate was actually lower, and Tesla's first death happened rather sooner than that.
Why? You'll earn the same money as with Uber. The cut goes to Tesla to reward them for their work in making the hardware and software. That's instead of paying Uber, who fire people by email.
Well, Tesla's strategy is extremly risky. Most companies, and maybe even most startup cannot handle that kind of risk.
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We're looking to integrate a Salesforce solution and Salesforce recommended a firm that whose integration cost was very rich. Anyone here with any personal experience with an integrator that you could recommend?
Power supply for charging? Wired ethernet port? (doubtful) Maybe a hard drive for local game storage? Discrete/external GPU for pushing more pixels? I doubt 4K, but its possible... also, the portable screen might not be 1080.

I'm sure we'll learn more over the next 6 months... but there's a lot of things you could do with a dock like that.
This is similar to https://favoritewords.com (which never took off)
I had hoped to see this technology occur in my lifetime, I said to myself "I hope I live to see the day" a few years ago. Here it is in 2016, obviously its just a highly controlled demo but it has connected the dots. I'm confident the technology is there and the hardest work will be overcoming legislation and politics.

But does anyone else find this bittersweet?

I had an awesome moment of pride for what Tesla and Elon have done here. The dream is now reality.

Followed by a moment of sadness. The dream is now reality..
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try nightly or developer edition. Its fast without consuming 10gigs of ram as chrome does wit 20tabs.

Lets not forget that big part of what made chrome leader was branding. Even the idea that chrome is so fast was put into our heads using those expensive chrome lighting ads.
what do you need to do?
Someone needs to pay for the R+D before the hardware can exist, so I don't see anything wrong with considering R+D as part of the cost of the hardware (its "worth" if you will). The alternative is only considering the raw materials as part of the cost of building something.
Push is a crutch for mobile platforms with gimped network access. It's a shame that browsers are bending over backwards to support these disabled platforms and making the experience worse for real computers because of it.
I'm glad you asked. tdo is based on the Cx front-end framework - https://github.com/codaxy/cx
Scammers can be very persuasive in person, so it's not a given that the scammer will ignore her.

I know someone in a similar situation. She's been abroad to see her "love" in Egypt regularly, and he's very attentive when she's there.

Of course they're planning to get married.

Of course it's love. What else would it be?

Works on guys too. I know someone else who has given rather a lot of money to an East European woman. I don't think they'll ever meet, because most East European women in these scams are actually criminal gangs. But we'll see.

Also, it's worth considering that these scams are marketing funnels designed to select the most gullible people and filter out everyone else. So the victims are self-selecting, because the scams are designed to find people with their particular psychological weaknesses.
I too would like to see these videos.
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> Waiting three years for your car to arrive isn't revolutionary.

Context : No other car manufacturer will have a comparable EV on the road in the next 3 years. I will take what Tesla gives me.
No problem for me with Chromium on Linux.
Page is fast.
So let me get this straight: kids who didn't study enough math in middle school have difficulty doing harder math later on, so they rote learn it to get into college, then drop out of math. Okay?

And the kids that studied math, e.g. because they enjoy it and/or have good teachers early on, take AP math and go on to do well in math in college.

Is this a Captain Obvious moment? When will people learn that there is no shortcut and they actually have to do the work, and pay a living wage to teachers?

It reminds me of the 'coding in schools' thing. Who exactly is going to take a massive pay cut to teach computing? And do we just give them a walled garden to code in?
If each half of the controller is similar to a Wii Remote (+-pad and two or three buttons and an accelerometer/gyroscope) then it'll be plenty to play a lot of Wii U games.
They are just going to regulate encryption to ensure the masses can still be spied on while protecting their own communication.

Anyone who doesn't see how we are on the path to totalitarianism is deluding themselves.
That's a bit pessimistic.

"I wonder if Elon will go down path A...." "Interesting that the battery is now x, this is probably a result of Y technology they developed last year." Etc. I don't find it hard to discuss a topic in a positive light at all.
I think the interesting point here is that the hardware is available on all Teslas. The functionality shown in the video could be available on everyone's Tesla by installing an update. What they showed may be similar to what's been demonstrated by other companies in the past, but the potential for broad availability is novel.
Realistically, I'm betting this one is going to lag the competition in terms of specs, and imho that's okay. Nintendo made a huge splash with the Wii while making a weaker device.

This thing has to run on batteries. It has to include mobile-quality batteries and a screen, which is an added cost that other consoles don't have.

With those components in mind, I fully expect it to have comparatively weak hardware so they can hit a comparable price-point.
Actual psychiatrists do not distinguish much between so-called "situational" depression, vs some hypothetical "100% organic" depression. That seems to be rampant on Internet message boards for some reason. A psychiatrist will ask about your life circumstances a little bit, but if you have certain symptoms, whether you perceive them as externally caused or not, they will diagnose you with Major Depression, i.e. "clinical depression."
I'm really interested in how you came to these conclusions as it seems you have trivialized the basic cognitive ability of the people who might engage in these acts.

> In-person voter impersonation is just about the least efficient and highest risk way to manipulate an election.

That is incorrect, as it is done in almost every election for the last 2 decades (iirc). I remember multiple stories about democratic fraud from as far back as 1994 (I usually vote democrat). "Hope nobody recognizes you" is not a concern across county lines, much less state lines. Did you even take a moment to read up on how it HAS been done? Republicans are much bigger on the absentee fraud. It's also very effective (and cost effective).

Since nothing much has been done in the past 20 years, I don't expect anything to change when you inevitably find people on camera.