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Then in that case, I suppose it all depends on who is doing the justification. Nearly every police shooting in America is "justified" — be it by a police review board, a prosecutor, a grand jury, or a trial jury.
You're right, I'm sure it's possible. And it would definitely be the more visually stunning of the two: the variety of places and buildings and artifacts and creatures that we'd get to see would unquestionably outstrip those of Long Sun.

I hadn't thought about who would be good to produce/direct it, but either pair of brothers would be a great choice. They'd certainly have enough material to work with.
The US can't go in without either a direct act of war by North Korea or a UN resolution, anything else would allow China to declare war and that would be the US start of WWIII.

Removing Kim would just provoke a new round of discussion about a unified Korea an China loosening control over Burma and other areas. They would be a five minute hero with negative long term results.
I see that as a problem with the person viewing the content, not the device that enables them.

There are technological tools to help you. There are psychological tools to help you. You can call upon your friends and family for help.

But for gods' sake, don't blame the computer. That's not going to help anyone.
That's not true. Grant funding is a heavily bureaucratic process, with committees scoring proposals on matrices. The bureaucrats don't really care about your previous results (they have no personal investment), and even if they did, they don't really have a mechanism to hold them against you.
Total control gives North Korea all of the leverage. This is the part that the current administration doesn't understand. Tweeting about your policy goals undermines the US position.

Why should China give a hoot about intervening and giving Trump a win?

North Korea is a total dictatorship -- they have all of the time in the world. China wants to be a recognized global power. They won't take any action until they can do so while undermining the United States (not Trump, which is child's play). Our loss is their gain.
It is even richer considering Mao was an ardent follower of Stalin, and hated Khrushchev for disavowing Stalin's legacy (which, of course, would later lead to the Sino-soviet split).
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That's a fair argument.

I'd argue it's a new phenomenon in that this is the first time (I've seen anyways) people resigning themselves to simply giving advice on how to de-escelate the situation as a non-cop. But I can see how that seems like a stretch.
Material physics obviously. If can aperiodically pack molecules better than before you got a new super material. With an "Einstein" (single molecul) it would be easiest, of course. Penrose like tilers need two and they are not so easy to arrange.
You're thinking "drop" like a "drop point" where the binaries go after the build server is done with them. "Drop" in this case is like bike racing: "I dropped him on the last hill", i. e., I got rid of him by speeding up. "I dropped that like a hot potato" (picture holding a potato just out of the 200C oven with bare hands), a common U. S. phrase to indicate getting rid of something or having nothing to do with it.

So, Dropbox is dropping photos in the hot potato sense, not the build server artifact sense.
I think the author of this article needs to update everything on here. I realize that the article is dated as today and that he reports the latest price drop for the Oculus but none of the rest of the article is really up-to-date.

For starters, he complains about the comfort of the Vive vs. Oculus due to the weight of the Vive. He’s clearly using a 1st rev Vive, though, whereas the latest rev, which you can order today (and I don’t think I’m wrong in assuming that the target audience is those buying a new one) is actually lighter than the Rift.

As someone who has used both the 1st rev Vive and the latest and who also owns a Rift with 3 cameras, the Oculus Rift really only wins out for me in 2 areas:

1. The controllers are awesome but they’re not better than the new knuckles controllers. I even agree with his point that some experiences are actually better with the large, unwieldy Vive controllers.

2. The price. The Vive really needs to come down in price to be a worthwhile recommendation, especially now.

Other than that, the Vive wins for me. You can choose whichever audio/band style you prefer, the ease of setup for the lighthouses is light years better, and the experience for most people when done 1-to-1 is better (for all the people I’ve demo’d them to). I typically show people AZ Sunshine, the Blu, Job Sim, and some seated games on both and then show off Lucky’s Tale for the Rift (awesome game) and The Lab for the Vive. Without fail, everyone has preferred the Vive with a few people mentioning that the Oculus did have less distracting visuals in some areas.

Even for the price, though, I would recommend new users wait for the newer Vive when the knuckles come out. Especially with the Facebook fear-mongering, the Rift is just not where it needs to be to compete. There are too many places where it takes you out of the presence that VR absolutely needs to be compelling.
I agree fully actually, and I don't want to distract from that. I just don't think we should shy away from talking about the makeup of this "feudal elite."
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It became open source in the 90s. It's been used by several high-traffic sites/apps to support chat clients (Riot Games, WhatsApp, and I think Fetlife), but outside of that has seen very little adoption.

I think it's a lot harder to sell people on a language that looks syntactically unintelligible to a lot of web developers. Most people I know working with Elixir now are/were Rubyists, so it's easy for them to make the leap from that and start to understand all of the awesome things they get from BEAM and OTP.
Not to mention, the quadratic formula per se is needlessly complicated. If you break it into two or three steps it makes a lot more sense:

Step 1: move pieces around and divide by the leading coefficient to put equation into the form x² + b = 2ax (or if you like, x² – 2ax + b = 0; or feel free to swap the sign of b if you prefer). The equation for the parabola is then x² + b = 2ax + y.

Step 2 (optional): rearrange that equation to get (x – a)² = a² – b

Step 3: x = a ± √(a² – b)

In this form, the “discriminant” is just a² – b, the x coordinate of the vertex is a and the y coordinate is b – a², Viète’s formulas tell us that the two roots satisfy ½(x₁ + x₂) = a and x₁x₂ = b. If the coefficients are real but the roots are complex, then we know each root has amplitude √b and phase arccos(a/√b). Etc.
The use case for me is JSON blobs (mostly configuration files like package.json) that are checked into version control. Same motivations - reducing line-oriented diff noise.
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yeah go on with the downvotes, you know everyone's thinking what I said! Copying your way to success is a strategy and it's not the first time either way :)
Sure. I have a couple hundred TB in hard drive capacity and 1TB (4 x 256GB) SSD capacity.

I go for HDDs instead of SSDs because it would be cost prohibitive for me to achieve the same I/O bandwidth with SSDs that I can get on RAID 0 or RAID 10 HDDs and multiple 10GbE connections.

As it stands I'm already well into five figures between computing, storage and networking hardware. Replacing 24+ 8-10TB 7200RPM hard drives with equivalent SSD capacity would cost me nearly $100k in storage alone.
The Korea situation bogs down other potential powers like Japan and South Korea. That makes it easier to dominate the region.
Hah, I wonder if you're my coworker, we just had this argument during lunch today (about whether NK missiles are a threat to us in Mountain View).

>What I hear from my native-born Korean friends is a lot of nonchalance. The NK threat is all bluster, no action. Nothing is ever going to happen.

I remember this from my time living in Japan and Taiwan - everyone was convinced NK was not a threat because it hadn't been... in their lifetimes.

I see it here in the States too - "The USA is immune to revolution / constitutional crisis / splitting into a confederacy / totalitarianism." Intelligent people can read history books and know these things happened in the past, but these things can then seem like "the stuff that happens in history book." They're not real, that's not real life stuff.

I heard it from a close family friend about heart attacks, and then he had one, and then it became real. For him. And his family. But they remain unreal to the other morbidly obese people I know. Car crashes, heat stroke, being sued to bankruptcy, etc. Anything even slightly outside the norm, we're generally incapable of internalizing and planning for. It's just too "unreal."

I don't know how to solve this, I just observe it and do my best to adopt a mindset for myself that nothing is too "unreal" to happen, especially if it has happened before or to other people.
Admittedly I have no evidence, but anecdotally when I started taking my health and diet seriously I feel like I gained about 10 IQ points just from fueling things better. Similarly, learning various mnemonics's and learning strategies has really helped my ability to learn more rapidly. You could argue that I'm simply capitalizing on my innate ability better -- and that would be true -- but the same argument would apply to gaining strength by training muscles. Nobody sees a muscular person thats ripped and thinks they just are lucky to be that way -- we recognize that there is both biology and effort in play, but for some reason people seem to think intelligence is pure biology. I cant prove my case, but im skeptical of that proposition.

No doubt people have different ceilings for their potential, but I feel like most people who are viewed as smart arent just leaning on natural talent, rather they've cultivated skills that get the most out of what they have
Thanks for the details.
Yes, I agree with what you are saying. There aren't many things you can do when you have the majority of the hash power, but isn't there at least a (few?) double spend attack(s) you could attempt?
Yeah, I was purposefully vague about "innocent" because I don't know what the most interesting, precise definition would be. I agree with you that comparing results to crimes is important in assessing the role race plays in these encounters.

> I believe the average white police officer would still be more hesitant to use lethal force against a white assailant than a black one.

I thought I heard about studies into this, but I can't seem to dig them up. I'll edit or reply again if/when I find them.

> I won't deny the usual statistics ("blacks commit more crimes per-capita", etc) but don't think that's where I believe the problem is. I'm not content with the sentiment that "black lives matter" - I'd much rather it be "criminals' lives matter"

If the discriminant is criminal behavior and not race, then (by definition), the issue isn't one of race (at least not in any meaningful way). It would be good to identify if this is the case or not, so we can focus our national debate on how to appropriately deal with crime and not on racism.
I'm a dev that's used the knuckles controllers. You're in for a treat.
I'm only two years into my current project and already am feeling this bite :-\
What's the risk of getting counterfeits, or getting used drives sold as new?

Now that NewEgg's also into the 3rd party re-seller shenanigans, I've been getting my hardware from BB or Fry's more often.

Zemo's right: "And the Avengers [Amazon / NewEgg]? They went home. I knew I couldn't kill them. More powerful men [Walmart] than me have tried. But if I could get them to kill each other [3rd party re-sellers]..."
You're behind the times. OSX has moved on from animals to nature preserves. Much more logical.
One thing someone like you could use is append-only storage of anything critical. The idea is you never delete a file until you run out of room for it. There's a whole series of versions of a file with your system pointing to the recent one. So, if something bad happens, you can rewind an individual file or the system as a whole back to some point.

It might take a lot of extra storage to do that. I could see never losing work being worth throwing terabyte drives at a system only using 120GB. Add one or two for RAID, one for local backup, and some remote storage like Backblaze or Glacier for best results. The backups would just keep the current versions or periodic snapshots to reduce cost.

Note: I don't know if this feature is supported in the Windows ecosystem right now. Versioned filesystem was a feature of its predecessor, OpenVMS. It did much of what I described plus clustered apps. Only difference was storage was too limited for the versioning to really go as far as I'm advocating. Mainly just posting to give you an idea of how extra storage might help you should your OS support the use case.
Why are all the speakers at tech conferences so bad? And why do good presenters get invited to every conference on the planet?

Public speaking is a skill. It takes work and practice. Most tech folks have neither the time nor desire to do so.
This is not what the statistic or the study the OP pointed says.

The study is clear in its conclusions: in the hypothetical situation you just presented it is the white kid that has the higher probability of getting shot/killed by the police.

In a nutshell what the study based on the data says is: After you get stop by the police, you are more likely to get shot/killed if you are white than if you are black.
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Being quiet to not irritate the 39.2% of their customers is plausible, but in the case of Musk and Kalanick they didn't stay quiet. They left, and stated publicly the reasons why they left. I'm still inclined to believe that if the council was nothing more than a photo-op for Trump, Musk and Kalanick would've said that when they left. It would've made them look even better than they do now to that 39.2% ("I want to give my advice but the council is just a photo-op" is better to that segment than "I'm not giving my valuable advice because it's no longer a net-positive for my career/company").
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> Every bank website I've used so far does forced pop ups

But why do they do this? I have yet to have someone give me a good explanation.
How does contributing to RISC-V help? Makers of RISC-V SoCs are free to add their own Intel ME equivalents.
> If you like being inconsistent and tribal, then yes. You can.

I feel like you're pushing an agenda & have discarded any possibility of listening to other points of view, or modifying your position. I recognise it as 'listening in bad faith'. I didn't say I liked being inconsistent or tribal, you are putting words into my mouth in an attempt to discredit my position as irrational.

It's still a false choice: I can choose how I spend my time, and I can spend it in a way that I think is effective.
I think you are right to be cautious. It would be an interesting paper to read on the attack surface of a 'cloud storage provider' versus the attack surface of a single appliance.

In an earlier life I managed the implementation of system software on an Internet appliance. Later I worked in a team that implemented the system software in a storage appliance. It is a challenging thing to get right for sure. As with most things you can't really get to perfect. But I do believe you can get to "good enough" which is to say that for a large swath of the population I believe it is possible to build a dedicated storage appliance that you could leave connected to the Internet 24/7 and its systems would not be compromised.

And if you worked with applications that currently use 'cloud storage' so that your data is always available to you anywhere you have net access, I expect you could limit cross application vulnerabilities. You would do that by brutally simplifying what could be done on the appliance to the bare minimum, not even an OS as many would define it.

The advantages over the current notion of 'cloud' would be three fold, one your appliance would never withdraw its API and make your application unusable, two it would never be possible for a third party to be served an NSL which would give access to your data without you knowing about it, and third there would be no "giant bucket of user credentials and information" honeypot that once compromised at the cloud server would force a massive re-validation exercise on you and possible other issues with a re-used password.

I know from experience that attacks directed at an appliance stand out. That helps in making defense easier.
Shareholders, individually or collectively, don't make such decisions... but they later collectively judge those who did. (Fairly or unfairly)
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We take outages seriously internally, but users generally don't care about the nitty-gritty. For a full, detailed postmortem on that outage you can check out our status site: https://status.discordapp.com/incidents/ywdwttd6b0hg
National concerns are more important then whether or not you're a hypocrite.

At least, that's the justification that gets trotted out whenever an important politician gets caught in a lie.
She wasn't doing anything illegal, sure, but it was a bit reckless

Only in a world where random folks from the neighbourhood might come out and point a gun at you instead of simply asking a few logical questions and looking at proffered supporting documentation.

But it's a bit much to act outraged that anyone would misinterpret her actions.

Who's outraged at her actions being misinterpreted?

The outrage is at the fact that a panicky cop saw something they thought was suspicious and reacted by immediately pointing their gun at someone (something any good gun owner knows you never do unless you plan to shoot), creating a potentially life threatening situation, and the person on the other end of it was forced to defuse it.
"SystemD is not just an "init" system. You have to look at the larger vision for it being a set of building blocks for Linux system and service management."

This was not the way it was sold. It was originally sold as an init replacement.

If at the start the systemd guys had come out and said, "We aim to replace much of the core of Linux with some kind of Windows-Linux conglomoration: replace not only init but dns, syslog, turn all system log files binary, replace intetd, fuck with account naming, and oh, by the way, there'll be no easy way for distros that go with systemd to give their users a choice to use something else" then I'm not so sure how many people would have gotten onboard.

Basically, systemd has been a retooling of the core Linux ecosystem by people who think they know better. Well, this might be news for systemd fans, but they don't necessarily know any better than the rest of us, and the rest of us would like some choice in the matter. Instead we're force fed systemd and our operating system are no longer Linux but some bastardization of Linux and Windows.

"Nobody shoved anything down anyone's throat, least not the SystemD developers."

Tell that to the significan number of RedHat, Debian, and CentOS users who strongly object to systemd yet are forced to use it because that's all their distro supports.

"Anyway, in reality, software does not become mature and well-tested without early exposure to real users and systems. Chicken-and-egg problem there."

You don't have to test it out on all RedHat users, all Debian users, all CentOS, etc, etc. Getting a bunch of volunteers and letting them use a feature-complete version for five or six years before springing it on the rest of us would have been a good start. Instead you get an ever-morphing and ever-growing trojan horse.
> "White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population."

And yet black people commit more than 50% of all murders/very violent crimes crimes so it makes perfect sense they are more likely stopped by the police than whites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...
Why do you say that the Rift takes it comfort-wise?I'm only curious because I take issue with the OP for exactly this reason. The latest Vive release ways less than the Rift (according to their specs) for which the hardware has changed very little. They were so focused on the controllers that they haven't bothered to update the main hardware and I think their win with the controllers will be short-lived.
I'd like to see more about how that "negotiation" over costs would work. Would it be like retail suppliers negotiating with Walmart? Or like military suppliers negotiating with the Pentagon?

There's also the tough questions, such as who gets access to the best doctors, at the best hospitals?
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We love Cassandra, and hate it at the same time.

Check out this nasty bug we got. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13004
The bottom line is that both products are excellent, and you can't go wrong choosing either.

There are a few key deciding factors: people with (1) VR rooms > 4m^2 (~12'x12'), (2) large glasses, or (3) staunch anti-Facebook beliefs. If you fall into one or more of those camps, Vive is your best choice.

Otherwise, at $399 (vs. Vive's sale price of $699) the value of the Rift simply overwhelms all other factors. With ceiling mounted sensors, Rift's room scale tracking is within a percent or two of Vive's, though in a smaller range (as above, about 12'x12'). It also includes more software that adds to the value.

Note that a full apples-to-apples comparison adds the following costs to Rift: a 3rd sensor, a USB card, mounting brackets, and extension cables. Total: about $130 (note that the article misstates the price of a third sensor as $99; it is $59). This remains $170 less than Vive's $700 sale price, excluding software value.

Note that an equivalent comparison could also add costs to the Vive: A deluxe audio strap (for similar comfort and integrated audio), and potentially the upcoming Knuckles controllers. Total: between $200 and $250 (assuming a cost of $100 to $150 for the controllers, which seems conservative given a single replacement controller is $129 from HTC), getting back to the similar price advantage of the Rift.
I have never seen a language or framework used at a large scale that did not require digging, understanding, and tweaking of the underlying machinery for its specific use case.

The true failure of the platform happens when you cannot do these tweaks and adaptation, or that their cost is shadowed by having written it in a more appropriate technology at a lower time/cost/effort budget.
On the other hand, you do not negotiate with terrorists. Never, for reasons that are well-known: you make yourself a possible future target, and you fund their effort.

But I agree that it probably sounds cheaper to settle. The same is true with terrorists when it involves hostages, or kidnapping, though. These patent trolls are just corporate terrorists.
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I don't think that's what Erlang was made for at all?

Erlang was never about speed, it's about reliability, availability, and ease of concurrency. And Elixir just makes it easier to access those tools.