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Of course games are going to change the way people see the world. Any powerful form of media is going to be able to do this. This can work out for good or for ill.

I once had an interesting experience when referring to a bit of anthropology in a comment. I brought up the well known idea that the requirement for cooperation in traditional Japanese rice agriculture -- namely for the maintenance of irrigation -- had a strong influence on the egalitarian peasant side of Japanese culture. To this, an avid 4X game player replied in outrage, "AGRICULTURE!?" He then elaborated that he had been conditioned to think of it as the starting point on the tech tree, therefore base, basic, and completely insignificant. This is completely at odds with reality, however. There is a lot of skill and knowledge involved with agriculture, especially so when done with stone age technology.

Does this make games worse than other forms of media? No. You can find examples of screwed up ideas people pick up about things in all forms of media, going right back to ballads about princesses and war heroes in pre-literate cultures. However, I would say that the potential for both good and harm is especially strong with video, cinema, and games, because they can work on such a visceral level. (Also, is our culture as savvy with such effects from games, as it is about such effects from songs, novels, movies, and TV commercials? I think it's currently catching up.)

EDIT: Please don't automatically assume that I agree with the loudest voices when it comes to the analysis of media. I don't! Reality is complex and nuanced.
That are a lot of gotchas with free .tk domains though (Google is full of stories).
My thoughts exactly. Kind of like it's more interesting to see who's using encryption because they're probably the ones who are trying to hide something.
Wouldn't that constitute theft, though? The intented recipient is stealing, for sure, but if she wants to send the money and you pretend to deliver but keep it...
I don't know about your language, but in English, the names we use for other countries, cities, and languages are often ridiculously different from what their native residents and speakers call them.

(And it's not just English, on further thought. Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"? And why are they all different from each other?)
rooftop patio party turns into ... huddled masses around a tiny gaming console? kinda unrealistic, imho. however, it's still quite innovative and i'll probably pick one up "for the kids." :)
And get rid of all of the free street parking.
I think you have a great point. Sorry you were downvoted.

I too see science being silly about aliens and ruling them out of bounds for a hypothesis space.

I see it like being on an island with no known wildlife. If you're trying to come up with hypotheses about why your food is dissapearing every night it would make sense to consider animals.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted here. You are correct: there is absolutely nothing irrational or supernatural about ET, and when looking for it we should consider ET as an explanation for any given phenomenon with as very low priority.

Most scientists agree that we should expect ET presence out there, it's just that opinions vary wildly about the probabilities involved.
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The Constitution Party is an actual minor party, not an alternative name for the Republican Party.
Consider that, as Thiel is not straight, actively inviting people from a region/religion where it is common to kill LGBTQ people may not be in his best interest - if he values his life that is.
Can we please leave the comments here? I just want to see what people have to say about what I saw in the video...
Would it necessarily? I can't imagine them packing that kind of power into a battery-powered tablet, especially with Nintendo's historical priorities.

Edit: Pastebin has what purports to be a spec sheet[1], but this 1024 FLOPS/cycle business sounds inscrutable to me and it's not verifiable anyway.

[1]: http://pastebin.com/UD1Vx9rf
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I make my own pasta and I still feel guilty eating it.
the older smash games such as melee have a higher technical ceiling also, which a lot of people enjoy. For example, the competitive melee scene has never been as big as it is now, even though the game was released 15 years ago.
My theory is that the smallest possible self replicating space probe is a planet with billions of inhabitants.

Sure cells can reproduce but they can't build spaceships.
One problem with selective leaking is that it tends to reduce the credibility of the leaker. If I filter the information I disclose, then inevitably it passes through the lens of my own biases and agenda. Whereas if I dump it all on w.l., that sort of signals that the info is not skewed. (This does not solve any of the ethical or moral issues raised by the author, mind you, but is a practical impediment to effectiveness of selective disclosure.)
I reposted your link on Lobste.rs. I noted that COGENT already was doing verified functional with certified translation to C or assembly. Also that F star to C seems to be Microsoft and INRIA's route. So, at least two projects are making it much easier to verify algorithms or protocols in functional way with C code resulting.

The other thing I noted is that most code meant for verification is designed to be easy for humans or machines. The F star and C is one of few that is easy for both. I rarely see that.
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A plausible financial incentive for them would be rent-seeking: they might be afraid they lose money on the balance if you only have to buy the game once. Doing it this way they have a shot at getting money from you again for the same game when new consoles come out.
Yeah the video seems to be selling a use case that likely isn't very common. How often are people going to go a bar and sit around a switch playing video games? Maybe once or twice? I imagine the dominant gaming habits are what Xbox/PS focus on (one person in a room, possibly connected by internet to others).
Yes, I meant add-ons. Thanks, I'll check it out.
>It's just hilarious the contortions of logic people will go to in order to put Musk down.

I see the opposite Musk seems to be the new Steve Jobs people are crazy over him and seem to think he can do no wrong.
Social security numbers can and have been issued to multiple people[1]. And some people have been issued multiple social security numbers[2] (which would allow them to vote more than once). Social security numbers are not a good unique identifier.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3004654/government/a-tale-of-...

[2] http://oig.ssa.gov/audits-and-investigations/audit-reports/A...
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the core knuth-plass line breaking algorithm is probably less computationally intensive than whatever nuttery is being performed by the CSS layout engine.
So someone found some sort of vulnerability in Angular 1, told Mozilla about it, but told them not to tell the Angular team?

What is going on here?
Or, how about Edmunds observes car resell values and is predicting whatever Tesla puts in cars today, will not maintain it's resell value (relative to other vehicles in it's class) tomorrow since this market aspect is going to move rapidly before it "gets it right".

The resell value may be less than a comparable "normal" car, and there's the risk that some government regulation makes all the technology in a Tesla today obsolete or illegal to use in the future.

(and I believe Tesla quietly killed their promise to artificially inflate resell values by footing the bill themselves a while back)

Some people naturally won't care about resell value - of course, others will.
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Seems like a lot of folks get 'privacy' and 'anonymity' confused. Should I have a right to keep information I create about me private? Sure. Should I be able to keep private or at least know the data that others collect about who they think is me? Muddier. Yes, perhaps when that information is used to make a tangible decision about me - think credit scores.

However, if I poop on a casino's lawn and it's truly me, and they bar me from their premises, and the casino uses some sort of digital, always on mechanism to ensure that I don't return, do I have a right to that data about me?
Sim City subways did nothing. I heard it from one of the developers.

That said, if it's people that need to move around, let's make fast moving sidewalks high above the city streets. Or tram type of technology like the zoo, but without imprisoning animals.
+ is specified in the core library, so yeah.
Yes, take a look at the source:

<script>document.write(navigator.userAgent.match(/Linux|Android/)?'Yes':'Nope')</script>

Its embarrassing imo. If you feel your vuln. is so important it needs to have its own website, at least give reliable info about this or tell us why you can't.
Limitations of P/E ratio (why financial data shouldn't be taken at face value)
Oh, you and your pesky "wait, but value isn't absolute" observations.

https://archive.org/stream/lectureonnotiono00lloy#page/34/mo...
Fitting. Elm's website and docs won't load without JS as well.
Normal updates (e.g. timezone rule changes, updated maps, security fixes) should be covered under warranty service, and should (imnsho) always be at the owner's discretion (even if it's a simple checkbox "yes, install updates without asking"). Additional features could be treated as an up-selling opportunity for existing customers, or could be provided for free to create brand loyalty. A critical bugfix should be treated as a product recall/replacement and communicated as such, not pushed silently: I really do not want the software attitude of "let's ship it broken, we can always patch it later if customers complain" to trickle over into other product areas.

(Yes, I'm aware that part of the above means that software engineering needs to grow up and become a real engineering discipline. I'm OK with that, in fact I think it's overdue.)

Warranties on physical goods have a long history (in the US) of being void if the owner makes certain changes. Should that apply to software?

I'm struggling to think of an example where this doesn't apply already. Can you give an example where a software company has honoured a warranty request even with custom modification? Or even where a warranty request for a pure software product was honoured? Even Firefox, a good example of a software product that thrives on third-party modifications, requests that you try to reproduce bugs in safe mode, with all add-ons disabled, and they give no guarantees about following up on your report.

The only example I can think of right now is Microsoft's support strategy: they will bill you for the support request unless you can successfully convince them that it's a genuine bug in their software. But I don't think MS support tickets are an example of product warranty, since it's provided as an additional service anyway.
This app is blocked at my work:

Security risk blocked for your protection

Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Elevated Exposure. Sites in this category may pose a security threat to network resources or private information, and are blocked by your organization.

URL:
http://hnlive.tk/

What are you using?

--update:

http://www.imcreator.tk ← This loads so maybe not all .tk are blocked. I'll check with security.
> I believe this puts the system in the PS4/Xbone ballpark

That's it? The PS4 is three years old now. They should be able to make something significantly better at this point.
Ever hear a plastic Wal-Mart shopping bag referred to as a "cloaking device"? Also, in some places, items that are banned when referred to by their proper names are allowed when they are instead called "contractor equipment".

The problem is that the level of control required for actual security prevents people from being able to do their jobs effectively. And if no one can get anything done, there's nothing to secure. So this leads to an environment where everything is oversecured by default, and bypassing the nominal level of security is simple, easy, and commonplace--sometimes even expected.

For instance, you don't have local administrator access on your workstation. But you have Visual Studio and its debugger, and can compile and run any source you can type in. You also have physical access to the machine, with its 5.25" removable-media drive. It becomes faster and easier to reimplement an unzip utility from a printed spec than to get 7zip installed on your machine. And the hand-rolled utility probably has a larger exposed attack surface than the open source program.
Bitwarden is a password manager? And their engineer is asking, after being told a hint of serious security issues in their framework, to just forget about it and let them publish?

That's an interesting approach.
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Title should by "Angular 1.x Banned from Firefox Addons"
It is possible that the researcher also secretly shared the results with Google, but then nothing happened?
I mean, back in 2002 I bought a power converter once so I could hook up my small CRT and GameCube and play Wind Waker in the back of our truck on a 10 hour road trip so I understand the appeal, just commenting that it's not longer there for me.
Doesn't this happen already with some classes though? Smokers vs non-smokers?
Guessing it's blocking the tld, which is/was known for being totally free but funded by seedy ad networks.
What is "memory safe" for you? If you use C arrays and raw pointers in your C++17 code, it's definitely not memory safe, but the main problem is that it's not modern C++.
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> The other matter is, of course, that you and Rob Pike wouldn't agree on what is a better OS: Pike's vision likely hews closer to Plan 9, a system that you would likely find too close to Unix.

Actually we are quite in sync there, as the latest version of Plan 9 was actually Inferno with Limbo as the main programming language for the user space layer.

And Plan 9, specially ACME, has quite a few Oberon influences as well.

Right now, the only thing I mostly disagree with him are some of the design decisions regarding Go.
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From XKCD themselves, an editor that only allows for common words: https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
I think that this is really interesting and shows how we all want information. When the NSA wants to scrutinize people we scream bloody murder but we want to be able to do the same thing to our elected officials. Does being a public figure forfeit all of the rights that we here are so passionate about?
If you use the earth as an analogy: why isn't every island on the earth populated with people, since humans are probes, self-replicating beings that communicate with others?

There's a lot of reasons there. Certain areas are unhabitable, or at least annoying to create a habitat (the arctic tundra, for example). Beings may want to cluster together (cities). There may be no interest in going to one territory over another - why bother spreading to all places, where there's so much out there?

Finally, you could have situations in which a probe or a highly advanced civilization could deliberately not contact a lesser-advanced civilizations. How do we know that we're not the less-advanced civilization? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
As claimed in the comments, Angular 1 is now community driven instead of officially supported by Google.
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I think the helicopter parenting debate could be reduced to just knowledge of consequences and systemic thinking. The situation you described was an excellent opportunity for you and your playmates to understand the consequences of play style and play environment as a messy real-world system.

This is something you don't get nearly as much of playing video games or going to the mall. So many of our experiences are curated, artificial, and fall far short of the real-world level of complexity.
People on mobile: looks like foxtype already is a product, it's a chrome extension.[0]

On mobile it just asks your email so they tell you when they launch (on mobile?). Horrible to have landing pages like that. Absolutely useless product page on mobile.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxtype/npcfiblhbj...
It is strange. On the other hand there's something suspicious here. Some things clearly aren't being communicated properly.
It's more than just high cost, LIDAR has issues with rain making it questionable in real world conditions. AKA, if you need some fallback, just use that fallback.
This project, and lots of others, would really benefit from a standardized crypto Javascript API in browsers so there is an opportunity for using better hashing algorithms than are realistic to implement in Javascript.

Im not saying its realistic to engineer sha1 collisions to serve up malicious content on a platform like this, but its getting closer every year.
Whether that's true or not I don't think your observation adds much to the conversation.
> In the Unites States, That is denser than just about any place other than Manhattan.

I think that depends on your definition of "just about." Every borough in NYC aside from Staten Island is much denser than San Francisco. Additionally, many parts of where I'm from – northern NJ – are even more so: Hoboken, West New York, Union City (the densest city in the country), Guttenberg (the densest township in the country), and more.

If you're talking about cities larger than a certain size, then perhaps, but even then, I personally think it's a bit misleading to single out just Manhattan.
No, the engineer is asking for more information so that he can determine if the application is truly affected by some unpublished Angular vulnerability or if Mozilla is just being too aggressive with their ban hammer because someone said "Angular 1.x was no longer being officially supported", which is false.
It's possible that the vulnerability only effects Angular running in Firefox addons, and not the general web. Mozilla takes an aggressive stance on what they allow in vetted browser extensions, as they should.

JS in addons runs in a different, more privileged environment than normal web pages, and isn't restricted by things like same-origin (although this is improving with Firefox's new extension APIs). Any project the size of Angular is bound to have security issues when run outside of the environment it was designed for.
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Was recently at an angular conference -- they said they would continue to support it until the _majority_ of the community had made the switch. That's so far from happening, I imagine they'll be supporting it for years.
I actually agree with you, a lot of games are being designed to keep you hooked. Which is not the fault of the developers as they have no choice but to try and extract money from their users if they are to survive. Those addict like qualities you saw in your kids, I saw in myself a couple of years ago and made my self go cold turkey. My drugs of choice were team fortress 2 and left 4 dead. I have thousand of hours logged between the two. I've made a lot of positive steps in my life since then and can't help but wonder how far I would have come if I had stopped playing a long time ago.
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Having to farm for rupees is the reason I never finished the Windwaker. That damn reinforce hunt quest sucked all the air out of the room and destroyed the game's momentum entirely.
People believe all sorts of irrational and outlandish things without a shred of proof, or even with proof to the contrary.
CDNs and cloud services cost money to setup and maintain.

This scales asset availability with popularity, automatically, for free, with minimal setup.
From my understanding, one of the tricky bits of biometrics as passwords in general is that you can't really change them. What happens when the future's equivalent of an ATM skimmer scans your iris?

Could also lead to increased violence in muggings/robberies, etc. If fingerprints or eyes become necessary to access what it is they want to take, they'll just add those to the list of things to take from you.
What do you think of Hackeysack? It seems to have all of the characteristics of the "no point anymore without a winner"

Looking clumsy or looking skillful is a consequence in and of itself.
They're reasonable extrapolations from current capabilities. Build a self-replicating 3-D printer, make it capable of finding and refining raw materials on asteroids, slap it on a Voyager-like slow interstellar platform, and off you go.

(Yes, I'm being glib, but it's not that much of a stretch.)
That's always been the problem with solipsism. How do minds outside the self experience the same local phenomena?
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