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Actually Andrew Groen recently (2015) finished Empires of EVE - a history book for EVE Online containing many stories like this one. http://www.empiresofeve.com
I guess it does, yes. But then I expect a lot more from Apple that I do from Ikea on this market.
> this animal is happy and thus does not want to be killed

You're assuming this as a premise, which I think may be the root of the problem. Plenty of people don't believe that livestock is intelligent enough to comprehend the idea of death, or really anticipate the future in general. How then would it have a desire about future events?

> Don't these two sentiments exclude each other?

Wanting something to be happy whilst not respecting its autonomy is common amongst humans, so I'd say no. Additionally, killing an animal humanely doesn't cause it to be unhappy, since dead animals are incapable of experiencing emotional states.
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and Reddit (front page only)
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If you really want to improve the Joel Test, fine. The suggestions are even right. But please, KISS. The original test had 12 items, this one 20. This should be the upper limit, more or less, for any improved version. Otherwise it is probably too long or detailed to be of practical use.
> upgradability and configuration is difficult due to the small form factor and awkward interface, hence why many IoT providers are going cloud first which makes sense from consumer level while it does not make sense from privacy point of view.

Remotely pushing updates and configuration doesn't necessarily imply loss of privacy in practice. I think that's a red herring. I work for Resin.io - we do automated deployments and updates and configuration management for fleets of IoT devices, but that's totally independent of how the device's data is stored and shared (or not).

Remote updatability does open up the _possibility_ that somebody could remote connect in to read that data out, or push an update to get to it, but that's quite a different gambit to devices that automatically scoop all your data, analyse everything you do and resell that to marketers. It's also essentially unavoidable if you want to have IoT that can accept remote updates, which given the IoT security situation to date is sadly clearly necessary.

This move to cloud-focused IoT architecture isn't about upgradability at all. It's a separate decision, with sometimes (often?) dubious motives, and that's where the privacy concerns come in for me. We shouldn't let the necessity of keeping devices up to date lead us to sacrificing the privacy of all our data, they're not that closely related. Windows automatic update is not really a privacy concern, Windows 10's ad tracking and cloud integration is.
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I was looking into this recently and found this for Elixir, it looks good: https://github.com/xavier/european_vat
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Which aspects of MQTT are you not happy with?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal , looks like it was pretty relevant from 2000 onwards at least. The excerpt below seems to strongly indicate manipulation designed to improve banks profits over a long period of time

"Statistical analysis indicated that the Libor rose consistently on the first day of each month between 2000 and 2009 on the day that most adjustable-rate mortgages had as a change date on which new repayment rates would "reset". An email referenced in the lawsuit from the Barclay's settlement, showed a trader asking for a higher Libor rate because "We're getting killed on our three-month resets." During the analysed period, the Libor rate rose on average more than two basis points above the average on the first day of the month, and between 2007 and 2009, the Libor rate rose on average more than seven and one-half basis points above the average on the first day of the month."

Also from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-28/libor-lie...

"At Barclays, derivatives traders made 257 requests for U.S.-dollar Libor, yen Libor and euro interbank offered rate, or Euribor, submissions from January 2005 to June 2009, "

So whilst it may be true that it became more relevant after 2007, it seems be that there were some elements of this that were longer standing.
Cloudflare hasn't even mentioned adding that record type
Nothing is stopping you from authoring your math however you like as long as there are tools that support the translation[1]:

[1]: http://fred-wang.github.io/TeXZilla/
Sammy Jenkins had short term memory loss. When he's confused about where he is or what he's doing, he sees the message on his hand, and remembers Sammys condition and understands he has the same condition.

Yeah, it's a slight mental leap, but "remember you have Sammy Jenkins' medical condition" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. :)
Their argument is that most stocks are mediocre, with a handful of big winners mixed in: that means building a portfolio of hand-picked stocks is likely to underperform since it will probably miss the best stocks.

But there's a symmetry argument there that the article misses. Surely I can make a portfolio that tracks the market, but excludes a handful of stocks I think are going to be lousy. Because I have most of the market in my portfolio, I'm likely to hit the big winners, and with high probability I'll ditch losers.

To build on their poker chip analogy, what if there are four $10 chips, one $100 chip and I pick four chips each time instead of two?
Right, but is the expectation to stay in that platform as one improves his skills?
The players who played against AlphaGo and lost said they got something valuable out of it. They started looking at completely new possible combination of moves they hadn't thought viable before. (The guy that played against AlphaGo before Lee Sedol said how it improved him. He even climbed several ranks.)

This makes me wonder. Maybe the human brain never computers for global optimas. It gets to a point where it's good enough and then stops. Clearly, if they play vs AI and then start improving their strategy again, the brain might have thought defeating most human is a good enough strategy.

This is also see in other games, someone who plays in "easy" difficulty or low ranked games in multi player games are stuck with "bad habits". As in they do really well in those thresholds but perform poorly when introduced to higher difficulty. But as soon as there is a need, good players rapidly adjust. (Example: In MOBA games like leauge of legend or Dota, higher ranked players adapt at a much higher rate to new emergent strategies while lower level player tend to not manage this and find things unbalanced.)

My point is, as we discover more of these `slighly better than human AI`, we'll also discover that human brain might be capable of much more. It just never saw the need to pour more resources in it till it found a healthy competition. Our only (soon to be) sentient friend, the AI.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-NdPtFKq0
Sorry to hear that. What part of it didn't work?
Centaur chess has been a thing since Deep Blue.
I think the problem their future of ai stuff is having is most orgs have no idea which of their zillion problems actually needs this tech. Hopefully this will raise more awareness.
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When you're focusing on customer satisfaction and cost control I suspect any idea of an 'Cloud Light Control Panel' or some other such nonsense was axed rather quickly.

They'll be making plenty of money on the margins on the lamps and gateways as is.
Is it open protocol? If not, then it's pretty much useless anyway.
I simply shut down. The VATMOSS nonsense ate up all the profits

I'm sorry to hear that, though sadly not surprised.

It's also scary how much misinformation or simple ignorance is out there about this issue, and I'm talking generally here not just about parts of this HN discussion. I saw a discussion on another forum recently, and someone there was stubbornly maintaining that compliance was easy and they'd done it and helped other people to do it, yet there was no indication at all that they'd even been aware of the number of edge cases and minor details that can affect what you're supposed to do. I suspect they'd just slapped country-level geolocation on a customer's IP address, checked a country they got from a payment service, and looked up the headline VAT rate, or something along those lines. To be fair, that would probably give the right answer most of the time.
Most of the time it's pronounced as the "a" in ball.
While I don't disagree with the facts you presented, I do disagree with the sentiment. Your argument is akin to passing the buck, yet the issue of climate change affects us all. Maybe let's ignore the GP's examples of flying and instead discuss industry. How many of us by pre-packaged foods or have Amazon Prime accounts and use it to order stuff we could just as easily get from our local shops? How many of us support wasteful industries because they sell our products cheaper or manufacture more desirable products? How many of us with access to clean water still buy bottled? Or buy fruits out of season and other import produce?

Most of us westerners have a pretty decent standard of living. Yet we blame industry for the environmental costs of our standard of living while simultaneously paying industry for their services. So I think we are just as much to blame. And by "we" I am completely blaming myself too.
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I think that depends on the country you're in - AFAIK the UK has quite good standards for products bearing the "free-range" or "organic" labels. The UK has also seen a wholesale consumer rejection of battery farming and a lot of shops now stock free-range eggs and meat by default.
Tackling the problem from the top-down (regulation) and bottom-up (personal responsibility) is the most effective path forward. The first step is education, actually understanding what contributes to our carbon footprint and more importantly radiative forcing. This gets complicated fast (here's an article on aviation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/sep/09/car...), but reasonable ballpark estimates can be made.

Transportation accounts for about 14% of emissions, compared to 24% for agriculture and 21% for industry. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...
I simply forgot that I did it. I gave them my credentials half a decade ago when I didn't know what I was doing ...
Seriously?

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=chess+engine+elo+rating

And we don't know "with 100% certainty", but we can calculate a projected win/loss probability using those ELO ratings[1]

A 3300 rated chess engine vs Carlsen at 2850 gives a 93% win probability to the chess computer.

That's roughly the same probability of an International Master raned player (ELO 2300) beating Carlsen.

The top ranked engine is Stockfish, rated 3500+

[1] http://www.bobnewell.net/nucleus/bnewell.php?itemid=279
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It's not like Mir wasn't campaigning actively against Wayland.

No project exist in a vacuum. I like it that way.
I think you are wrong in the detail of your statements, but anyway, I am not vegan.
Almost all birds are killed and eaten. Birds in the wild don't die peacefully in their sleep. The real difference is what happens before they die.
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> Coral reefs are magical places

How so? How are they different from any other natural ecosystem?
Lovely. He claims it's 2000 firearms per day, so more than 700000 per year. A 2013 article puts the number at around 250000[1]. Time for a war on firearms, maybe?

[1] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24...
The scores are still pretty dang close.

I would guess the majority of those who made the descision to purchase a Surface bought it for specific functionality reasons, whereas the iPad owners bought them just as a general purpose device to browse websites, etc. You could give the iPad owners a Surface and they would have a similar satisfaction score to what they have with the iPad. Of course this is purely guess.
> equity benchmarks are so reliant on gigantic gains in just a handful of stocks that missing them

Perhaps we're witnessing a shift towards an industrial model where a small number of players control disproportionate amounts of value added in their respective industries. I'd be interested to see historical data for Herfindahl indices for key verticals in the U.S., and globally.
Again that is the difference between parents and copyrights.
With a patent you can't make a copy.
With copyrights you can't claim you made something.
For example if I see a dress in a magazine I can make one, what I cannot claim is that it is Dolce and Gabbana...
I coded a script to extract data from transcripts of an automated customer support chat and enter them into a CRM. Even if customers had to answer quite precisely defined questions (example: birth place and dd.mm.yy) they make all sort of mistakes, which won't be mistakes at all in a normal conversation. Do you have something to handle messy data or does your tool works like copying all it sees in a position to a form field with no further processing? Obviously processing can be done later on and better questions might be asked.
> "3. And that nobody involved really thought this was a serious issue, much less a crime."

I'm not sure where that point came from. It's not only a crime, it's an extremely serious crime. What on Earth are you talking about?

LIBOR is a derivative of daily rate data which is shared between banks. It is not rigged centrally.

You can't tell investors that the rate is based on a daily measurement of interbank risk, and then just go ahead and base that rate on something entirely different when it suits you. That's called fraud.
I live in Bristol, and graffiti is definitely not dying out here.

[1] http://www.upfest.co.uk/

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bristol+graffiti&tbm=isch
And yet you fail to provide a non-puff-piece link to the study you're talking about?
So there was a nice little JRPG series by the name of Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.EXE in Japan) [0]

Aside from its obligatory antagonists, the world presented in it seemed more or less like a utopia. What I really wanted to come true from it was how every device – from doghouses to alarm clocks to ovens – had a standard interface that you could "jack in" to with the "Navi" (AI avatar) in your smartphone-like PET (Personal Terminal)..

In current world terms, ideally that would be like:

• Every electronic appliance will have an standardized wireless interface, with no physical controls other than maybe hard reset/power buttons.

• Whenever you get a new device you'd physically tap it with your phone/wearable to register it on your Apple/Google/Microsoft/other cloud account.

• You'd get different tiers of controls for each appliance based on your physical distance and the level of authentication on your primary phone/wearable. e.g. to unlock your front door you have to be standing right there (like how unlocking a MacBook with Apple Watch works) but you can turn the lights on/off from across the world if you've unlocked your phone and entered your cloud password – and only from that phone.

• Personal Assistants (I hope they get to be called Navis at some point) would be interchangeable and customizable – like ringtones and wallpapers – each with its own visual avatar and personality. You could even have multiple Navis, each with its own duties; a butler-like personality for controlling your home, and a chirpy R2D2-like robot that handles everything else.

We can see some of that happening with Apple's HomeKit and its integration with Siri, and of course their competitors' offerings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Battle_Network
Offensive!? You're of course free to get offended, but pointing out that flying pollutes a lot relative to the proposed limits is certainly valid.

I think the point is that there is an opportunity to take personal responsibility here. Why wait for government? Using a couple of your examples, buying less stuff made in China would go a long way.
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Certainly ruthless optimisation of their corporate structure with respect to tax helps contribute to their low prices: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139.

But it's nice to think that it could also be due to genuine technical ability.
I wish people used LaTeX.

I only get "what's that?" most of the time.
It is a good example of marketing dollars influencing protocol adoption. I've met a remarkable number of people that work in IoT that know nothing of CoAP.
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It's a great example of the power of marketing.
I think it's the other way around, no? People panic, and then sell their equity.
I personally do not enjoy fatty meats. I much prefer the leaner breast meat over the fatty dark meat. Partly a texture thing for me.
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I strongly prefer chicken and turkey breast because it's easy to deal with because it does not have bones or cartilage. When it's cooked it usually doesn't have any weird colors and the taste is relatively boring but consistent.

Thighs, wings, drumsticks etc all have problems I just don't want to deal with as an eater.
Yeah, I can imagine that if these things shake out well and I figure they should sell fine, IKEA will slowly add more and more software-driven stuff to their line-up.
No idea if that means in-house software engineering, I imagine it wouldn't as they want to keep prices low. Just heavy QA? Or they might eat the cost for local development since the software cost is pretty small and doesn't scale up with the number of units produced.
Ikea, as far as I can tell, does a very good job of providing good value and products that are well-designed. From the electronics perspective, I have had a peek inside some of their LED fixtures and USB chargers and the designs inside are textbook and well-executed. I'm not at all surprised that an IoT implementation would be equally well-designed.
I'm talking about personal impact on a single human being's biological well-being. GP framed their question as being for "a homo sapien".
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> discounting welfare issues

Well, that's the whole point.

I thought you were going to say that in the UK, you can't just chop down a tree on your land - there are often legal barriers preventing the felling of listed trees!
It's the "hopefully always up-to-date" that is my concern.

There are, at minimum, 28 different rates to monitor here. They can be changed arbitrarily by their national governments, and in at least one case already such a change has been made with just a week's notice.

Even if you're only checking those rates against your existing look-up table manually, the effort to do so at least every week is going to add up.

There should have been an authoritative, machine-readable source for this data from day one, and vendors should have been able to rely on that data and protected from consequences if the authorities provided incorrect information and vendors acted on the incorrect information in good faith.
A better question would be: why should we care? I really don't see much value in spending a lot of effort and money into protecting a coral reef.
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DDD is basically more of a code first MDD. It's still very much in vogue.

I do like DDD, the idea that you have a project that is completely focused on solving the business issues. Then the infrastructure/technology concerns simply plugin into that model.

Gives you flexibility on changing technologies more easily, and well designed domain model can give you a serious business advantage.
The nation state actor who cried "BWOOOOOOOOOO"? That is, if you turn on the sirens often enough, maybe they'll be ignored in an emergency.
True, but not much team follow these, in practice. We just want to make it more specific and modern.
Plants react to things that can harm them. Pain, however, is something that it requires neurons to experience.
> Literally everything is a fucking carcinogen

> > Red meat is not dangerous.

Pick one.
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You haven't read the comments in your links, they say tuat this ELO was not calibrated with chess players which means it is not an ELO.
Do you have automated end-to-end tests in DSL?

Seriously? What is considered a DSL?
Unsurprising given the stories.
Check out books of the memory champions (Tony Buzan, Domnic O'Brian, Joshua Foer).
The idea is not to improve your memory, just to use it efficiently. The core is very simple: our brains have a hard time memorising abstract things. Solution—convert them to highly vivid imagery/stories. Visualisation being step one, step two is somehow to link the resulting images. Here you have a choice of link system, peg system, memory palace/method of loci. That's basically it. You will probably learn some system for converting numbers to images (Major system, o Dominic system), but that's just a tool for the first step.
Also, get enough sleep.
The unbridled price-inflation of basic goods which mathematically must follow any broad per-capita capital injection will certainly not bring anyone closer together ... except maybe in terms of overcrowded / shared housing as rents soar.
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In England and Wales, the circular orbits simplification is used at GCSE [1] (age 15-16), but the orbitals/probability thing at A-level [2] (age 16-18).

My teacher (the same for all four years) explained that the first model was an oversimplification, but I don't think it's inappropriate to use it.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr_pr...

[2] http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/chemistry/atomic-structure/r...
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Yeah, IKEA isn't really a saint, few corporations are. But they've done a lot of technical optimisation as well that should contribute to their low pricing. Flatpacks, big production runs, design stuff to be cheap to produce. A whole bunch of things.

And while I doubt their morals (corporations rarely have any) I generally have faith in their quality-to-price ratio. Not a resounding endorsement, just have had few problems.
Ok, sorry, now I see it :)
I got a Samsung KS8000 and honestly couldn't be happier. I didn't see an image improvement in the 9000 series to justify the additional expense and I didn't want any bigger than 49"

I would love OLED but burn in concerns me still. Maybe in a few years.
In almost all jobs that I have had since the 1980s, I have negotiated working 4 days a week for 80% of the offered salary. This takes some sensitivity and flexibility in looking out for the interests of my employers.
If someone enjoys torturing animals for fun do you feel fine legalizing it?

Dog fights used to be very popular, but for some reason most people find it unacceptable even though those dogs probably had/have better lives than most farm animals.
See wally walington for contemporary usage of very Old tech.
A lot of companies get the basic source control, builds, bug tracking and writing code during interviews parts right, but tend to skimp on these aspects of the Joel test:

- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?

- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
Thanks for feedback. We decide that more detailed test - more precise measure, but we still try to keep the list as short as possible.