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That may have been true of their driver quality in the past, but it's really not so true now. On Windows, their constant work at improving drivers, leading up to the release of their Crimson driver software, has been evident over the last two years. I have not had an AMD driver issue since maybe late last year (when there was a persistent incompatibility for a long time between Oculus Rift and the drivers). I run a dual-GPU card (R9-295X2) so my setup isn't exactly vanilla either (admittedly though I only use a single monitor, multi-monitor seems to have been a persistent pain point for people).

I can understand AMD wanting to unify their codebase. I agree with the parent that they shouldn't worry so much about upstreaming into the kernel. I think their HAL approach is the right engineering one, given the constraints that their team is working under. The team seems to be trying to do the best with what they've been given.

Also, hasn't the graphics division been spun-off into a separate company now (Radeon Graphics Group)? Or is it just a more focused internal division within AMD?
A Traffic-Free Future by Sending Driverless Cars Underground
the sortest link to listen to it?
The US also has more people that work on that sort of thing. I don't see why it should not be able to scale.

Sure it might get harder with increase scale, but I don't see it as a huge problem.
I would think that any company that's lost as much money for as long as AMD has has a right to say that they don't have the necessary resources.
> Use of force is judged by what the officer knew at the time, and what a reasonable officer would have done with that experience

I agree that use of force may have been justified. I do not think the cop should have been fired. If you're going to fire cops for not shooting fast enough, you need to also fire them for what often looks like murder.
Perhaps this is more an exposé of human ability to generate rationalizations for chaotic biological workings of their brains, than it is a failing of neural nets to make rational decisions.
Not really though. Plenty of ads just tell you a thing exists.
You hit the nail on the head, there is an incentive to automate legal services ala legal zoom but for lawyers themselves the more tedious and paper based the process is the more they can make.
I hope you will be interested in the C#/LINQ codes found in following pages:

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Nobody has mentioned the movie 'Her' yet, so I will. Don't get caught up in being personally offended, I say imagine the evolution that leads to the point where you not only feel that initial warm acceptance of personal interest, but continues as you go deeper and receive recognition, understanding, even love.
import pdb ; pdb.set_trace()
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Really? I got 7 of them in a day's span, using just "feathers" in the generic search box at the bottom:

The First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber Is Covered in Feathers
1 points breadbox 7 hours ago 2 comments (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/12/dinosaur-tail-feathers...)

Dinosaur tail preserved in amber, covered in feathers
2 points mattybrennan 14 hours ago 0 comments (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosau...)

The First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber Is Covered in Feathers
1 points pmcpinto 19 hours ago 0 comments (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/12/dinosaur-tail-feathers...)

Feathered tail of dinosaur found in preserved in amber
3 points angrygoat a day ago 0 comments (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-09/99-million-year-old-am...)

Lucky find offers our first look at a dinosaur tail, complete with feathers
5 points mattiemass a day ago 0 comments (http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/lucky-find-offers-our...)

That Thing with Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail
3 points sharp11 a day ago 0 comments (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/science/dinosaur-feathers-...)

Dinosaur tail trapped in amber sheds light on evolution of feathers
3 points ssclafani a day ago 0 comments (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/dinosaur-tail-trapped...)
They are everywhere
I don't especially like his values when it comes to "bigger is better".

Don't get me wrong, it's good to be healthy and have muscle mass, but extreme bodybuilding is like burning rubber on a parking lot and never going anywhere with it.

Fuel and food is quite precious, at least on the scale of our spaceship earth.
But you have to quit your day job before starting the side business, or working on it at all. Otherwise your ex-employer still has a claim on your business.

The beauty of side projects is not having to make them pay the bills. As soon as you have to make them pay the rent, they stop being side projects.

But having an ex-employer sue you for lots of money because your side project is booming is a great problem to have ;)
> work closely with well qualified inspectors to get the best (lowest for buyer, highest for seller) price they can.

Kind of an aside; what's the motivation for buyer's agents to get good inspectors or the lowest price possible? They're getting a percentage and they're motivated to make sure the deal falls apart. Although, as a buyer it's not like I knew good inspectors, anyway. The best I could do is read their sample reports and go off of my own (sparse) knowledge of home construction.
I got one of these during the last sale (paid under $1,000):

https://goo.gl/qlBt8A

Very nice machine. Used it on two coast-to-coast flights. Plenty of battery life left after the flights.

I see some reviews from people claiming it overheated and failed.

Well, if you read their reviews they actually say stuff like "what's the point of a laptop if you can't put it on your lap".

One look at the machine and you see it has a vent on the bottom and one on the side. Which means that if you block the bottom vent by having it on your lap or on a blanket while in bed, well, you are going to cook it. And cook it these people did. Gotta use your brains folks!

Even laptops without the need for cooling airflow can overheat if placed on something like a blanket or the carpet.

That said, this is a common design "feature" of many laptops. Not a deal-breaker at all. In my case I always conscious of this stuff (probably because of being an engineer) and it has never been an issue. I keep a "lap desk" just like this one by my bed and couch just for this reason:

https://goo.gl/hS9pd3

I should have bought half a dozen of them.
This is not true, as the GP said, the $2000 MBP 15 does not have a dGPU: http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

(scroll down to see the $2000 model)
> RK Narayan, with his distinct characters and humorous stories, is the Indian response to Wodehouse.

I don't understand this. It's not a competition. The two are not even comparable. RK Narayan's novels have great characterisation, and a much more diverse range of plots than Wodehouse attempted, but not all of his work seems intended to be laugh-out-loud funny. And his prose seems quite dull, until you come to accept the plainness as having some kind of charm of its own.
I think a lot of the value in real estate agents is a motivated party to make sure the deal doesn't fall apart. Buying a house is emotional for both sides and petty things can cause people to walk away.
I've tinnitus, and hearing lost since 20 years old, I was musicians, playing keyboards. Now I am 42 y old. I hope, maybe soon we could have a solution, take a look this article ->
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229662-400-deaf-peo...
Having worked as a dispatcher, I can say that my training would have led me to get that information to the incident commander for the area (the "boss" of the cops that responded inluding Mader), but not via radio. I would have had a coworker relay the information to the IC via cellphone or telex.

Even so, that information may or may not have saved the subject's life. The IC could have decided the information is unsubstantiated and not have relayed it to the responding officers, or if he had relayed it, the one who took the fatal shot may still have felt enough of a threat to take the same action.

One more thing: I feel that Mader (the cop who initially responded) acted correctly in trying to talk the subject down, but when the man started raising the hand with the gun, Mader would have been justified if he had fired his weapon as well (remember, no cop on the scene knew the gun wasn't loaded).
Absolutely! If enough people are interested I have plans to add Jawbone, Google Fit, and others. Thank you for the feedback! :)
I'm pretty happy about it to be honest. The previous years they always let us choose the "give it to charity" option and I never did. But I much rather a kid in a poor school get a chromebook, than I get a gadget I can afford.

It's kind of like paying income taxes vs giving to charities. I'd probably vote for my taxes to go up more than I would increase tomorrow my private donations, it's psychologically easier.
Are there any UHS locations in New York State or California?
There's a difference between a project and a business, but the line is pretty blurry.
AMD is trying to merge a Windows driver with enough shims to make it sort of interact with Linux. That might as well be written in Brainfuck from the point of view of a Linux kernel hacker trying to figure out WTF it does.

To merge a driver into the kernel is to accept responsibility for maintaining it, which they recognize they are not prepared or even interested in doing.
Lots of commentary on this recent "Ask HN":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12771374
With an app like Spectral Audio, you can actually prove this to them. Though informing them of their inferior hearing may not be beneficial to a friendship. Ymmv.
In response for protection of automated marketing emails, can you think about such a bot as an extension of account holder persona? Many know how polite and honest are talent seekers from recruiting business, so does their bots. If we expose ourselves in social networks, we are automatically becoming targets for aggressive manipulation, nothing strange. FB, LinkedIN, they never considered you and I personas. We are goods, that has to be handled, resold and generating profits. Psychology behind modern recruiting business does not differ much from that of slave acquisition. And there is nothing wrong with it. Except one thing. Abolitionists could have saved you from slavery, but no one can save you from automated marketing unless you delete yourself from the Internet.
Considering AMD is bleeding money, I assume it was pretty hard as well to get someone to sign off on getting headcount/resources to write Linux drivers.
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So what advice you will give to your kids? "Don't call a police at all" or "call police when dad is already dead only".
> Switzerland has a population of 8.4M, about the population of NYC. US has >300M and a land area two orders of magnitude larger than Switzerland.

Can we start with the city? Bill de Blasio (bless his heart) won 282,344 votes in the 2013 Democratic Primary. What's worse is Lhota won his primary with just 32,236 votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_mayoral_election...

I hate to agree with President Obama on this topic but I have to agree with him. The first problem we need to tackle is not to fix the electoral process. The first problem we need to tackle is getting people to actually care enough to show up and show up in large enough numbers so we can effect change.
For what it's worth there are some "long slot" toasters available (Google it you'll find some models).
If everything else is equal, then obviously knowing the current language I need will push that person ahead. IME, the language(s) a senior person knows is the least important part whether they are a good hire though.

My reasoning for this is that we are always learning new languages and using new frameworks. Why would I let a better person go when the language is probably going to change, or worst case they pick it up in a couple weeks just by looking at the existing code base? One case where I would deviate a bit is if I was hiring for a functional programming position. In that case I would prefer experience with some functional language, but that is not much different than wanting OO experience for a Java/C# position.
Exactly, suspension with pay is NOT a justified punishment for an unjust murder.

Cops are quick to jump in and defend the department for firing this guy, but when is the last time you've seen a cop speak out against an unjust shooting?

Maybe if "suicide by cop" wasn't such a guaranteed outcome for brandishing a weapon near a police officer, people would be less inclined to attempt it.

This cop tried to treat the victim like an actual human being in distress and got fired for it. Guy that popped off 4 shots gets praised for being a "good cop".
So is that ONE picture the only one that shows the product being worn?
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Holy crap, is this what cops whisper to themselves overnight to make them feel better about killing people constantly? They aren't dealing with wild west, quick draw experts here. There was a guy with a pocket knife in Seattle awhile back that got executed by a cop because he was whittling (and deaf in the ear the cop was talking to him). Do you think that cop that that he was some ninja knife thrower that could make an accurate throw within milliseconds?

When driving, traveling at 60mph, you have 10+ milliseconds to react, often that's not enough time. However, if you have a gun trained on me, with your freaking finger on the trigger, and it takes about 10ms to pull it, There is no way the typical meth head can whip out a holstered gun and shoot 2-3 people before you can squeeze that hair trigger. The fact that cops want put push that as the "fact of the matter" is sad, and pathetic. Go ahead and keep justifying your murder.

Truth be told, most cops are probably scared shitless because your bosses push this bullshit about millisecond accuracy and military precision in thought and action, and it's your bosses that really cause this death-toll, it's best you just quit repeating their crap and focus on reality.
How do you validate that each voter is real? What if the fraud moves to the voter registration?
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Google doesn't work you into a ditch. I'm not sure where you got that impression.
I don't know much about corporate taxes, but isn't a charity donation the same tax write-off as a Christmas gift to employees, if they cost the same?

And is either of those different than the write-off for business-related costs? In other words, do corporate taxes look at more than "total revenue - total costs"?
Not sure, but if it involves automating more jobs away, wank off.
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AMD didn't deliver a Linux driver. They delivered a Windows driver plus a bunch of glue code that nobody really wants. In the best of all possible worlds, somebody would dissect the Windows driver for instruction and write a proper Linux driver and nobody would try to run the Windows driver as-is.
Maybe a better way of saying it is that whatever your fitness/sports goals, generally speaking steroids/PEDs will allow you to achieve them in less time and with less effort than non-users. I.e. if you and I starting from a similar base decide we want to achieve 20 pull-ups, and we will go to the gym for 1hr a day, 3 and a week doing roughly the same routine, if I use steroids, I'll start pulling away from you extremely quickly.

The steroid-user 'hard work' implication is often: "steroids aren't a massive advantage to me, the critical factor in my success is my hard work". I'm just saying that the critical factor is and always will he the steroids. Non-steroid users work just as hard, and in some ways harder because they need more patience, commitment and resolve over a longer period of time with more incremental gains to achieve the same result.
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If you're going to court, bring a lawyer. Courts are the domain of arcane procedures and common sense has no place there. My comments above refer to transactions, compliance, etc.
> This cop tried to treat the victim like an actual human being in distress and got fired for it.

The article implies that he was fired for a totality of events prior to this incident, including interference with a crime scene, an illegal search, and cursing at a citizen. It appears his department is using this incident as the "final straw" to be able to let him go. If all of those other incidents are true, I don't believe he should be a police officer, despite my feeling that he acted correctly in initially trying to de-escalate the situation with the armed subject.
I don't understand this idea that everyone needs jobs, all of the time. Ideas are not created so that jobs can be created, and workers on a societal level don't work so they have jobs. They work so the business operates and serves society. Why not develop ideas and businesses that provide value to all of society and provide benefits such as a basic income that compensate for the fewer workers needed?
My partner, who comes from a family of PhDs, is also dyslexic, she found highschool difficult, and didn't come to University study until her mid to late 20s ... she went thru this for most of her time at University, complaining about #1, that it was really the second option didn't really seem to stick until she was actually graduating summa cum laude (1st class hounors for non americans) with a small group of peers in a stadium full of other graduates
Linus made the right engineering choice when he took the monolithic route in the 90's. However, the technical advantages of that architecture are now moot. Sooner-or-later, Google is going to get tired of Linux's shortcomings and build a replacement OS.
8TB USB drives are ~$200 these days. Just pick up a couple and tell plex where the media is. I've built up ~30TB in odd drives here and there and available to plex and ubooquity and it's just about pain free to manage.

Not high perf, but my entire family can stream off of it fine so that's about all I care about.
You are probably right. But so are the kernel devs.

It seems to be an argument of: we do this for all drivers, vs amd pushing: we want to be the exception for this driver only.
Working 80-100 hour weeks will almost definitely lead to burnout, or any other number of problems that result from not being able to take a break from the work.
His name:

Eyjolfur Gudmundsson

Rector at University of Akureyri

IcelandComputer Games

Current: University of Akureyri

Previous: CCP

https://is.linkedin.com/in/dreyjog

-----
Dr. EyjoG felt an itch to apply some of the lessons he’d learned at Eve to the world of higher ed. So when Akureyri advertised for a new president in 2014, he once more found himself jumping industries.

http://web.uri.edu/quadangles/the-virtual-economist/
I am. Google "fiber optic DAS" and you will find quite a lot.

http://www.aogr.com/magazine/cover-story/fiber-optic-sensors...
This situation sounds terrible. Were you writing software for your employer? Why would you have told them you were volunteering non-coding assistance to a film production? Did they honestly think they had the right to require you show them copyrightable works created by other people who were not their employees? Did you truly take those creations and show them to your employer?

This whole situation sounds ludicrous and should never have been required to happen by management in a company whose focus is creating software.
I used Mindfire (http://www.mindfireinc.com/) when I did this.
That was the case with Tamir Rice as well. The dispatcher didn't relay that the caller twice said the gun was probably a fake and the kid was a kid. Two seconds after they arrived, Tamir was dead.
Exactly. Does it take ten times as much work for a real estate agent to sell a $1m house versus a $100k house? Obviously not. So what are we paying ten times as much for in the one case, and if there's no connection between effort and fee, what are we paying for, and why, even in the low end case? Totally a scam, totally ripe for disruption.
> If the same security demands were required when postal voting was introduced in 1990, it would never have been allowed

He has a point there. Transportation, heavy machinery, power grids, cruical infrastructure, healthcare, economy and so on all increasingly run computer systems with questionable security. Lives and world order depend on them. Are we really going to draw the line at voting? (edit: expanded on this point a bit)

Trust on the scale of several years is a difficult thing. People go from lovers to archenemies in that time.
But yes, some long term projects do need stability and long term support to become fruitful. You could introduce constraints to support this, or trust the voters to take it into account.

But even more important than time is the granularity of trust. Just as in everyday life I trust different people to different degrees in different domains, I would love to have a voting system that reflects this with regards to political representatives or activists.
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Odd. I wonder why that el reg article was flagged. Thanks for the link/info.

To all: Please feel free to flag my off-topic comments here - I can't delete the parent. And it seems there's a flagging frenzy anyway.
When did they add this? World of Warcraft introduced a similar system a year or two ago.
Yeah but Windows 10 is a bloat-ware loaded, ad whoring piece of everloving shit compared to Windows 7, so I really can't blame anyone from wanting to keep Windows 7. And honestly with Apple locking in users from keeping Windows 7 is a clear cut case of Windows pushing their shit-tier software on everyone without putting in any effort into it.

I'd rather pay 300 for a license than get a free update for a POS adware """OS"""...
Calling it a genocide is an important acknowledgement in its own right.
My point about the address comparison was that if you're using Google, you're asking them to send you data. Yes, you can route all requests through a VPN, just as you have send to a P.O. box or through a courier to hide your home address from Amazon. But I question the sanity of this. If you're worried about Google knowing your IP address or Amazon knowing your mailing address, it seems generally better to simply not use them.

If you're using Gmail (or sending email to people who use Gmail), Google already knows a ton about you. They can probably guess where you live without knowing your IP. They can certainly guess where you live if you're ever searching for region-specific stores/parks/directions/etc. I suspect if you're browsing through a VPN regularly, Google has enough data to pick you out of the searches coming from the VPN's outbound IPs with fairly high confidence.
That aspect wouldn't have to change from how it's done today. Go to your polling location and show/prove residency for registration purposes.
I had basically the same problem, but was unable to adapt. I got my hearing aid when I was 17 or 18. Everything sounded tinny and harsh, and my hearing in my left ear is more or less normal.

I guess the bigger problem was that putting it in my ear made me very dizzy, but I'd have tried to deal with that if the sound weren't so bad.
anything billing for data volume instead of by attendant would be a good start.