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> Compare, for example, the ubiquitous software application PowerPoint [171]
and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [211]. We can identify four key differences
in interaction which help to characterise video game play as distinct. First, in
using PowerPoint, a user’s primary objective is the creation of a presentation and
the interaction is a means to this end. In playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,
however, a player’s primary objective is play and the interaction is an end in
itself. Second, given this difference, users of PowerPoint expect the interface to
be as unobtrusive as possible, while players of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
are specifically focused on the interface as they play: the interface is the game.
Third, while we generally think of PowerPoint as solely facilitating our work, Grand
Theft Auto: San Andreas frequently assigns tasks such as killing gang members,
evading the police, or navigating the world. Finally, in PowerPoint the ideal user
experience is seamless and without error, but a successful playing of Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas will inevitably and acceptably include mistakes, challenges, and
the frequent death of the player’s avatar.

This is the first thing I saw in his paper and I have to say those claims are, well, interesting. And I say this as someone who plays video games. I can think of numerous counterexamples to each claim and even examples that conflict with every claim. Take Dwarf Fortress, who's interface is the bane of every player's existence, or Human Resource Machine which is essentially a learn-to-program game and therefore most serves its purpose when its emulating a beginner's version of MSVC. Minecraft's creative mode offers no fail states, cathartic killing sprees or explicit challenge, but merely stimulates parts of the brain capable of 3D processing. Competitive gaming like CS:GO, COD, Dota (and about 30 more) also don't fit into this model of games.

Admittedly I'm not a PhD in anything, much less video games, but this paper's analysis seems to fall short of explaining most games.
That's great, and there are other painkillers on the horizon too, but that's "maybe" and "later". Today we could take concrete steps to alleviate this crisis which we created in the first place. Cannabis is a good choice for people addicted to opiates, along with medical detox. You also have to manage underlying mental health, social, and medical issues.

No amount of throwing new molecules at these problems will solve them.
"A 90-day window might be better for you if you want to stick around at a company for a while"

I don't know many people that go into a job not wanting to stick around for a while. But that's at the beginning of the relationship, when everything is rosy. After the honeymoon, if it turns out that the company is toxic, things change.

"They're your employer, not your parents."

This statement makes no sense. That doesn't mean they aren't obligated to act ethically.
Go ahead and be serious. That might work decently well. We could upgrade it and cover more ground: eat a bacon cheeseburger to get a visa, and then another upon arrival in the USA. If somebody doesn't mind this too much, they are probably harmless.
> Therefore it can make sense for some women who have children out of wedlock and continue to look for suitable mate.

That's the problem really. Making life better for single mothers is unnecessarily increasing the number of children with single parents. It is just treating the symptom.

The cause is that mothers who are not ready to raise children bring a pregnancy to term. We can attack this in a two ways:

1. Planned parenthood campaigns that make potential mothers believe that they will not be able to handle adulthood

2. Stigmatizing single motherhood

What about the children? The socialized care is already there for them so these incentives shouldn't affect them much.
I (respectfully) disagree entirely with this conclusion.

If you want to do analysis like this, you need to weight these numbers against the possibility of it happening to get the expected value of each column. You have also simplified the smaller exit values to not include investor preferences (which means investors are first in line to get money, founders second, employees dead last).

Additionally, most contracts do not allow for early exercise so lots of these ideas are moot. If you do not have early exercise in your contract and you leave the company it's usually a leading indicator of failure. Either the company laid you off to reduce burn (do not under any circumstances buy stock if you have been laid off), or you left the company for a moral/business/whatever reason. In the latter case, it seems unwise to put your money where your heart isn't.

If you are optimizing your life for the best chance of striking it rich do not be a startup employee. Be a founder. Better yet, be an investor.

There are lots of reasons to be a startup employee, but being in it for the options is not one of them. Treat them as worth $0 and negotiate for more cash or things you care about like vacation or part time hours.
Even more facepalm...

"But with Bitcoin came a great idea: we’re not going to ask for an email/password registration! Instead, we’ll use the transaction hash as a proof of payment… and that proof of payment is also an authentication for the user. In a word, the transaction hash is the user’s login/password! and it’s certainly way more secure than a password like ‘password’."

So your proof-of-payment, is confirmed by the public blockchain including a particular hash. And your login authentication, which is apparently way more secure than "password" - is that hash, which is on the public blockchain?

BOGGLE!

(A day's worth of bitcoin transactions is something less then 300,000 publicly available transaction hashes - simplistically "password" has maybe 28 bits of entropy - or about 1000 times _more_ than a bitcoin transaction hash from a particular day...)
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Because s/he wants to build up a straw man. I was in the Chancellor's house before Dirks moved in and it was in dire need of repair. That plan was also made when Birgeneau was still Chancellor.

The fence... not sure if that was a judicious use of UC money.
I'm not going to argue with you there. Most people in the US know who has the power to make policy, and who policies are made for. The only options for fighting it involve rat mazes set up by those with power, and there are only false goals.
What if I told you there are countries where you can use a credit card, and still have reasonable expectations about privacy, where the information gatherer must erase personal information on demand and bears the burden of erasing it and notifying everyone they sold the information to erase it too?
I think this depends on perspective. Meta-level discussions are a big reason why I visit Hacker News.
That's then 'easiest' path on what planet? It's the absolute hardest path, and utterly defeatist.
I don't buy that argument for a second. The employees actual work, causing the startup to be able to actually do something or sell something, is what allows the company to survive.
Rolled oats with blueberries, almonds, flax seeds and soymilk.
The company's financial fundamentals are terrible. The only thing holding the value up is fluff and hot air. If people get less excited by that the price goes way down and that's what happened today. If people really really lose excitement the price will fall like a rock since there's no typical financial fundamental circuit breakers (like P/E ratio) to stop the thing from just going down down down.
For Windows RT, looks like there wasn't that many certified devices.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#Devices
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By "correct dosage", I meant that there exists a dosage for each patient that neither induces withdrawal symptoms nor causes acute health risks.
C/C++ is almost the only choice on most embedded systems, which is where most safety critical code lives.
And premature optimization (ignoring architectural concerns) is usually a mistake.

Profile, find hotspot, then use your clever cache-friendly hand-rolled tree algorithm when it makes sense.

I'd rather a programmer understand that than to have a bunch of programming puzzled memorized.

And for seniors, architectural questions are far more critical. Fixing a hotspot may get you a multiple or maybe 10x. But architecture is what gets you orders of magnitude.
Actually that's not true in California. The UC system is constitutionally independent from the state, and answers only to the Board of Regents. They could go full private and the California government couldn't do anything about it beyond withdrawing funding.
Offering a reward that rises in proportion to the number of sites with your personal information might just provide an incentive to create more such sites.

The more you'd pay for privacy, the more it would be worth to violate it.
Yeah, those commercials are painful. If you're taking so many opioids that you have trouble pooping, maybe the solution is to take fewer opioids rather than adding another medication to the mix. Really damning commentary on how easily and flippantly we overmedicate.
Useful for email, but this is primarily about postal spam.
New blood test could help detect and locate cancer early on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Shepherd

These guys don't do it for you? Basically it is there business plan.
Functional programming for a lot of numerical computing maps easier to mathematical notation. However, Scala is usually a worse choice than Java for numerical computing since everything is a boxed type.
This completely fits with the discussions that I had on the topic. However I have no idea how representative my random contacts were.
He was of course not a huge fan of VCs

>Back in 1997, one of our competitors raised $20 million in a single round of VC funding. This was at the time more than the valuation of our entire company. Was I worried? Not at all: I was delighted. It was like watching a car you're chasing turn down a street that you know has no outlet...

etc (http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html)
What kind of skill set are you referencing?
‘First Robotic Bar Experience in the World’ Heads to the Las Vegas Strip
... says the guy who doesn't have 4 academy awards ;)
>decreasing state funding per student.

I don't get this. Not only can a person who has pauper parents afford tuition + cash left over to pay the rent at any state school in the nation due to Pell Grants and subsidized student loans, but in California you still get additional state grants on top of that. Not to mention all the other freebies that California dumps on its residents.

If you mean to say that kids aren't going to college because they can't afford it, I don't buy it for one second. That is unless the student's parents have a job that gives a middle class income, disqualifying the student from getting a Pell Grant, and not contributing towards the education costs. Is that what you're referring to?
I don't understand this "purity of argument" argument. You'd like to ignore prohibition as a cause of these problems, apparently since this other cause also exists (...conveniently ignoring that they're actually two aspects of the same cause, since pill mills are an unavoidable result of prohibition: never mind that). I contend that looking for "the one true big cause" is a mug's game. Sure, it would be nice if physicians were more skilled at pain management. Maybe they should go back to school? b^) Perhaps if they were more skilled, these problems would be reduced. Regardless, if the prohibition regime changed into more of a treatment regime, that would also reduce the problems associated with addiction, especially for existing addicts who have already received poor care from physicians!
Thanks for pointing out the broken links, I'll fix those shortly. Until then, https://bazel.build/versions/master/docs/be/docker.html has the relevant information about Docker in Bazel.
In some limited, restricted cases, yes.
Thousands of details like the lamp bumping come together to make the movie. To quote Mr. Plinkett: "you didn't notice it, but your brain did".
> The school and in-state population have a conflict of interests

Is it that clear that they do? For out-of-state students who leave after graduating, in-state students gained a broader network contact. For those who settle in California, the economy and tax base just grew.
Maersk and IBM aim to get 10M shipping containers onto blockchain
What's really interesting about the above is that it is "seeded" with a random number. :-)
The most direct reason is because the current team enjoys functional programming.

From a business standpoint though, there are a few main reasons:

–Data pipelines are well modeled as functions: they take a few input datasets, return a few outputs at the end, and do a ton of processing in between

–FP idioms generally make parallelization easier, and this is very important for the datasets we're dealing with

–A strong type system like Scala's lets us prevent many runtime errors, which is quite important when your pipelines can take several hours

–It's fairly trivial to wrap a statistical/ML algorithm in a pure functional interface, even if the algorithm itself is imperative
What a nice response :)

I think identifying these differences between countries will bring governments a step closer to finding some sort of solution. Not exactly an easy one though when it comes to culture though. How do you break strong cultural associations?

There seems to be a number of (bad)role models that glorify different drugs in sub-cultures. Opiate use is glamorised from what I can tell in southern HipHop, Cannabis promoted all over the shop, Xanax frequently referred to in Hollywood.
Wonderful! Syntax feels very much like Oberon. But I couldn't find which version of Oberon it extends.
How are secrets intended to be managed? E.g.: NPM auth tokens (for private NPM modules), Github tokens (e.g. for private Ruby gems or submodules), Slack webhooks, etc.

I suppose one could bake that stuff into a base image, or store it in a Kubernetes secret that the build service account has access to.
Agreed, and cannabis is a good choice not only for the addicted, but to those suffering chronic pain what would eventually use opioids.
It's only a loss if they sell...
This is not the full story. Alcohol provides some other "benefits" (quotes intentional) for those on the autism spectrum:

* Alleviates sensory problems. I used to get hammered before heading out for the city; it was the only way to survive the usual barrage of stimuli that accompanies a hectic Saturday night.

* Numbs emotions. A hallmark of autism is a great difficulty regulating emotions. Alcohol and drugs make them manageable,
even if only temporarily.

* Dissolves the usual rigid thinking, which makes social contacts much easier.

* Makes you forget all the damage, guilt and shame that the neurotypical world has inflicted upon you.

Answering your post - yes, the majority never gets exposed to the drinking world. But those that do - tend to sink in, often with disastrous consequences.
Coulda used a `[2012]`.
The game represents pessimism, the concept, not pessimism, the philosophy, unfortunately.
Aside: this is a great blog

https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
Gluten-free steel cut oats, almonds, walnuts and either blueberries or apples. I buy a 4 pack of the Red Mill oats and slivered almonds on Amazon. Much cheaper. Blueberries are frozen Whole Foods. For the oats, I make from scratch (18 minutes) but you can make a batch and keeps in fridge for a few days
Is Bob stuck in a time warp where the SvN post from 2012 is a "recent post"?
The problem is that the whole point of options is as consideration for the employee's time investment.
It satisfies someone's intellectual curiosity. That is the bar, and it doesn't need to be higher.
To me this was apparent in their corporate rebrand as Snap Inc. Threading the needle and parlaying your hype into a diversified, profitable holdings corp is the formula they seem to be following. IMO Amazon got there naturally, FB took big, deliberate steps to get there, and Twitter is not getting there fast enough.

I'm bearish on Snap at current numbers, but willing to see how they play their position for long term growth.

(I have no positions, this is not investment advice, reality is a construct of the human mind etc)
This is extremely similar to what works for me as well.

Any chance you're currently using a water tracker app?
I don't understand why is it ok for a university to serve a political purpose. A university is a place in which science is done, nothing more. No matter by whom.
I think the fact that it's not unilaterally lethal, but typically so, is the reason for the quotes. If it were literally lethal, no quotes, it would imply that any human that drank that quantity would die and that the subject here is simply superhuman.

It is totally offtopic, but I consider their grammar absolutely correct.
Fewer out of state students at a higher tuition could yield the same funding. Do we know what the curve looks like?
Is this open source? Why does the download require some "offer" completion to unlock the download link?
Just because it's legal and in your best interest to do things doesn't mean that it's ethical. This is analogous to misleading advertising.
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That's not quite right; the University is a public trust defined in the California Constitution, which defines the role of the Board of Regents and limits legislative control over the board. The Regents could not go "full private" as that would violate the Constitution.

Also, the Board of Regents consists almost entirely of 7 government officials and 18 gubernatorial appointees (the exceptions being two members representing alumni, a faculty member, a student member, and the current or acting President of the University.)
> 4) Uber having a set of formalized HR processes that facilitate the sexual harassment of female employees

Is this publicly available information? First time I hear of it.
The future of AI in fashion
> For others, especially the higher-functioning, undiagnosed and too smart, alcohol, drugs and sex may become the means, end, and medicine.

How's your sex life? Is it an escorts thing or do you try for relationships?
Google apps can kind of do it[1] (although it appears to leak the main address on purpose), so I guess you can also do it with your own mailserver?

1 - https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
> embedded systems, which is where most safety critical code lives

For how much longer?

The machines running self-driving cars aren't tiny little processors running single threaded code. They're basically full server racks worth of compute with multi-core cpus, gpus, and who knows what else.

The current approach of "use crufty-but-trustworthy hardware and never do anything too complex" doesn't scale to the next generation of "embedded".
Clearly the robots are too weak. Time to dust off that Jaeger design.
Does anyone know how software quality is handled in complex supply chains, e.g. automotive? From my point of view software is a 2nd grade citizen in areas dominated by manufacturing and classical engineering.

I guess testing an over-the-update for a car that was build by ann OEM and thousands of suppliers must be quite a task.
I think people are taking away the wrong message here. It's the "easiest" as in "on the lowest shelf". It's easy just as it's easy to grab undocumented immigrant parents in pickup lanes at schools.

There's doing what's hard (either politically, or by effort) but "best", and there's being lazy and incompetent and just doing what comes easiest. Our current administration does the latter.
I've never been much of a soda drinker, but for those seeking a carbonated alternative with less side effects, La Croix flavored sparkling water (can version) is pretty great; it also has no calories, sugar, or sodium.
Heroin clinics can be very helpful for that. By providing the heroin and requiring that it be used on site they take it out of the community. Nobody sees their friends using and gets offered a bit to try. Starting drug use is often a very social phenomenon, generally people are introduced to them by friends.

From a study on the Swiss clinics [0]

>*New Use Rates: Slightly lower than expected. 1) As reported in the Lancet June 3, 2006, the medicalisation of using heroin has tarnished the image of heroin and made it unattractive to young people. 2) Most new users are introduced to heroin by members of their social group and 50% of users also deal to support their habit. Therefore, with so many users/sellers in treatment, non-users have fewer opportunities to be exposed to heroin, especially in the rural areas.

This is only helpful for people starting from heroin though, the problem of people getting addicted to opioids from taking pharmaceutical drugs
[1] is an entirely different matter to address.

[0] http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/resources/swiss-h...

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/
What are you talking about? This is C++. Everything can be dangerous.
Interesting I will have to have a proper look at Scala when I get my baby cluster up and running.