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The universe shouldn’t exist, according to science
Yeah, "low and falling" for both of them.

There are only a handful of major engines today and it's been that way for years. Unreal, Unity, Frostbite .... a few games still roll their own but the costs of keeping up are getting extreme.

I really doubt the Unreal Engine developers feel abused. For one thing, the release schedules of engines and games are now to some extent disconnected. Games get whatever the engine can do. Epic isn't going to move mountains to add a feature to UE for a licensee unless they get a TON of money to do it.
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Yep agreed. Didn't want to post the spot pricing since it changes all the time :)
You don't see how ordering purely on name is extremely unfair to those whose first letter of name is one of the last in the alphabet..?
He's doing as a hobby but he isn't against any support you can give him https://www.patreon.com/lundman :)
Are there such claims?

For as long as I've been on the internet, the common claim is that there's three countries not using metric - USA, Burma, and Liberia. I believe this is still the case, despite some hand-waving by the Burmese administration as described in TFA.

USA doesn't sell soda, of course. Within USA, though it's been a while since I've been there, I thought most soda was sold in fluid ounces (a particularly weird-sounding unit to people outside the country, I'm sure).

Car engines I thought were still mostly measured in cubic inches, horsepower, miles per gallon, etc.

One area that the USA does embrace metric is photography - but then most cameras are designed and constructed in metric-adopting countries. I think it would be delightful if USitizens were obliged to talk about focal length in terms of fractions & multiples of inches.
The word excessive needs to be in the title.

In 20 years of looking I've never seen a study that links recommended daily allowance amounts to anything harmful.

Yes 1000x RDA vitamins should be banned, but incendiary titles muddy people's thinking.
apparently it's all over the board:

http://www.employees-lawyer.com/sexual-harassment-law-califo...
When it comes to open source on GitHub, what most people miss is that you don't necessarily need to do it in your free time. This is in general a misconception.

There are actually two scenarios which don't involve coding in your free time:

1. As software developers we are generating by-products all the time. And the trained eye can recognize reusable scripts that can be packaged and placed on GitHub. If you don't have a GitHub account with such by-products, then you probably have rotting folders on your hard drive with reusable stuff that will eventually wither away.

Good companies encourage or at least tolerate employees that do this, because it leads to higher quality code (by putting it out there, preparing it for the scrutiny of others), because it's good marketing for reaching job candidates and because once in a while such a projects ends up having other users, which end up contributing feedback, bug fixes or even features, aka work for free.

2. We end up using a lot of open-source libraries and tools and we don't have the resources to pay for support for all of them, plus if we are honest about it, we are cheap bastards in terms of wanting to pay other people money for the tools we depend on.

Open-source is a about having control. Does it have a bug, or a feature missing? You can code it yourself and send a PR. Which in many cases is quite easy if you've been working with the library or tool in question for a longer time — all it takes is for you to know what's needed.

As a software developer, you might work in an industry that doesn't benefit much from open-source, or in a company that doesn't allow such contributions.

Which is fine, but know that in many companies the people that have public projects to show the world will get picked over those that don't. It's simple market economics really — in absence of open source contributions, all you have to show for your work at that cool startup is a nice story of how it died or went sour. And some ranty blog posts.
Well, it's bad that the term has been used in the media. Probably more carelessness than evil intent, but you never now.

However, I have never heard it used in schools. German children will learn in school that these camps were German.
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Pegged to front page by autocratic decision?
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Why wouldn't they be? If Apple started selling iPhones for $20 against their best interests I sure wouldn't complain.
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Brilliant technical solutions are solutions to problems that people have, not problems we want to solve. As soon as there will be a serious problem, which can be solved by decentralized or federated social service — it will be solved graciously, designs are in place already.

Decentralized technology is in fact trying to solve a serious problem, but sadly it is a problem that most people choose to ignore in favor of the incentives offered by Facebook and other monolithic centralized services.

However, Facebook et al. provide and maintain huge, single-point-of-entry, solely owned, walled gardens with hostile privacy policies and yet they successfully serve millions of users...

err... try billions of users
he U.S. Supreme Court has emphasized that sexual advances must be unwelcome to constitute unlawful sexual harassment.29 California regulations also specifically prohibit unwanted sexual advances.30 Courts have noted that a hostile work environment can occur even if the sex-related comments are not sexual advances directed at the employee.31 But the comments must still be unwelcome.
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No wonder there is a reproducibility crisis. This one of the reasons why so many papers out there are so scientifically unimportant and statistically dubious and are only adding noise to human knowledge. Slow down scientists!
No, the stretch is that it's a definition that can be applied to any entertainment activity that isn't 100% passive.
It adds nothing to the title.

Mentioning in the article content that Felix works at Google would be enough. He didn't release that information as a Google engineer, but a private person.

This just feels like they want to play the Google vs. Apple angle, don't you think?
Yeah I agree, the problem applies to most of the entertainment industry. As a result more investment is put into sequels of successful games, artists, TV shows, movies, books etc.

Edit: as for crunch times, I expect this is to do with the interactive element of gaming. There is whole lot more work involved when the client has the ability to break your product.
In Finland it's extremely common for 5 year olds to walking and cycling (on the pavements) to school, and back.

(Both those things occur even in winter, where the temperatures might reach -25 degrees for a couple of weeks of the year.)
There is little evidence that "a lot of supplements" are doing more harm than good. That is speculation. If you search pubmed there are thousands of studies looking at potential benefits.

However, if you are going to regulate based on real evidence of harm, then you would do the same for fast foods. There we have substantially more evidence of harm than we currently have with supplements.

Or we could decide to live in a free country and stop criminalizing what people decide to put into their bodies of their own free will. We are trending to free access to marijuana, I would find it ironic to then start restricting supplements.
> use a well grown data type

What does 'well grown' mean in the context of data types?
WebGL isn't trying to be competitive with full blown game engines, is it?

For one, game engines normally don't use OpenGL unless they have to. The GL drivers on PC tend to be very weak. High end games target Direct3D on Windows/Xbox and these days are moving to Vulkan/Metal, even on mobile.

On Windows the GL driver situation is so bad that Chrome translates GL to Direct3D. This obviously will impose some overhead and complicate the driver bug situation still further.

Even when games do target GL they tend to exploit lots of vendor specific extensions and be tested against very specific graphics card/driver combos to enable them to workaround bugs and performance cliffs. Does WebGL even expose driver specific extensions? I don't think it does.

So you are not going to be competing with native apps on the web anytime soon in this area (as with all other areas...)
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Bear in mind however, that Unreal also had the best software renderer that could handle most of the visual effects on even something as simple as a 200 MHz Pentium w/ no 3d accelerator. I myself ran the game smoothly in 320x240 on such a system (and could run 400x300 if I didn't mind the slowdowns)
> ... you work 80 hours per week and make less than ...

I've read so many comments like yours, on HN and elsewhere, and invariably the argument hinges on some variation of the above sentiment. I've come to believe I just have fundamentally different values than the vast majority of people who work in industry.

To answer your (friends') question, because the work is more interesting and I make plenty of money as it stands.
Not all sexual touching in the workplace is sexual harassment, however. Federal cases have suggested that a single instance of breast-grabbing is not pervasive enough to constitute unlawful sexual harassment.18 It is not clear whether this case would have turned out the same way if it had been brought in a California court. But, the California Court of Appeal has held that two separate incidents where a supervisor rubbed his arm against the victim’s breast were insufficient to establish unlawful sexual harassment.19
IQAir is great. But if on a budget, I can recommend Coway. They are really efficient, use little energy and not expensive at all:

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/

I personally own a 1008-DH, which has much better filtration than the 1512 reviewed there.

Previous reviews at The Sweet Home also analyzed IQAir, which is probably even better as it filters particles down to ~0.1 microns. I'd love to see an unbiased review testing ultra-small particles.
EA isn't voted worst company for their working conditions. They're not even that voted for the quality/popularity of their games (games like Battlefront or Battlefield still sell very well). It's just a recognisable brand that people like to criticise, and that makes it an easy target for organized voting. Ubisoft is also in that category.
A cop lied saying I ran a red light. I instantly bought a dashcam after that. I haven't had to pull the footage for any reason in the five years I've had it, but it's well worth the security.
The best piece of advice I got about hiring was that the interview is to find a reason to say no. Too many people want (expect?) the point to be to find a reason to say yes. For better or worse, some companies will use lack of OSS contributions or side projects as a reason to say no.
The subjective similarity between the randomness generated by CA and the distribution of prime numbers is uncanny. There's got to be some CA that generates them.
The recently released Doom game is using OpenGL (and Vulkan).
Its kind of amazing how Unity forced change on Epic though. In the X360-PS3 era they absolutely _dominated_ the market, the list of games built on UE during that time is insane. However, after that, Unity started to come up as it had much nicer licensing and as a response to that Epic made UE almost free to use for small studios and more palatable for big ones.
On the other hand, If I as a user run into some trivial bug and go "hey feature XYZ is obviously broken" I get rather annoyed at repo maintainers who think I am then somehow required to debug the problem for them.
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Lawful.
I guess the idea is stability. Seconds are defined as a constant pattern for some physical activity of an element. If you are on a colony on Mars, you can measure that with a complex scientific gizmo and the specification sheet and you are golden. With mass.. you have to get a copy of a reference mass or a tuned measuring instrument up with a shaky spacecraft, then down again and hope it didn't break too much. Having something that would allow to create a reference object on site with only the specification sheet and scientific gizmos is a better way to go about it.

edit: spelling
If you made $5 million but nobody would ever know about it, or who you are, would you make a YouTube clone?

You're right that the idea is the easy part. Still, there are a number of TeamViewer clones, ranging from terrible to pretty good. They may not have the same brand recognition but TeamViewer is quite expensive and not everyone is willing to pay top dollar.
The reason people take 1000x plus etc is often due to absorption issue.

Many people have problems absorbing B12. That's why they have a deficiency to begin with. In order for these people to get normal B12, it requires extreme doses just for their bodies to absorb normal amounts.
I disagree, and further, I think it's dismissive to think the naming was done by a bunch of programmers.

It's not an easy decision to choose a more obvious descriptive name, rather than a less obvious mysterious one. Clearly, if it's descriptive, people know what you do, but on the downside it weakens the brand.

A company like this is taking an old-school service, and wrapping it beautiful branding and a more hassle free sign-up service. The actual product they deliver (moving services) is almost secondary to this.

So the entire company's competitive advantage is based on their brand and reputation... that's okay, many companies do this. For a company where branding is not the only competitive advantage, it's not a bad idea to be a bit more descriptive (e.g., General Motors, Showtime). But for companies where branding is their entire company, it does make sense to be a bit less descriptive and focus on building a strong brand identity.
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Looks like that section focuses on how to get some vulnerable services running in the lab to test against, which is why Kali isn't on the list as it's an offensive distro for your workstation.

Kali is very convenient and well-maintained, but at the end of the day it's really just Debian with a bunch of common security tools pre-installed. I usually default to using it since it's easy to install and I know it pretty well, but it's perfectly reasonable for someone to run vanilla Debian or Fedora or whatever they prefer and customize the tooling themselves instead.
Sounds ideal for storing training/intermediate data for machine learning. Niche competitor for Cassandra in this space?
Considering later in the piece they write “Interestingly, this marks yet another occasion in which Google discovers technical inconsistencies or vulnerabilities in competitors’ products.”, they definitely are playing that angle.
University has become a bit of a Ponzi scheme. I’d love to see PhD programs drop to 3-4 years from 5-7. Especially in programs like biosciences where there are limited job prospects. Universities sell a romantic idealism knowing the likely outcome. Most students are too young or captivated to really do their due diligence. There should be labels on a PhD like the anti-smoking labels on cigarettes.
I work in consulting, almost entirely for federal and state government. Here that number is low single digits.
The reason Nvidia quote 120 TLFOPS mixed precision on V100 is because of the new tensor core.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/
"For the scale that's in your grocery store or bathroom, nothing's going to change," Dr. David Newell of NIST said.

Was really hoping my Intent to Deliver charges would drop to simple possession, but I guess that's not going to happen...
I have such a name -- doesn't particularly bother me.

I understand how people can feel that way though, but my question is -- why is that feeling anything but obsessing over a vanity metric, and actually a useful mechanism for author evaluation?
That's a challenge but they could have made it work. Casper is making it work (I think). They could have also tied it to storage service and found their recurring revenue.
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It definitely is the most popular OS for security peeps, however those VMs mentioned in the article are purpose built to be vulnerable. They allow someone to spin them up and attempt to hack the boxes (likely using Kali) as a way of honing their offensive security skills.
If you're going to be running it for 24x7 for 3 years, I think it'd be worth doing the apples-to-apples comparison of buying your own V100s vs renting them from AWS. The DGX Station with 4 V100s is $70k
I've heard of lawful but never 'well grown' - where does the term come from?
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earth curvature should be visible at 35,000 feet
http://thulescientific.com/Lynch%20Curvature%202008.pdf

at 121,000 feet it's still flat without using fisheye lenses to fake the curvature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQITXbcz2hg

just search Michelson-Morley ,Michelson-Gale experiment, (professor Michelson is 1907 Nobel prize winner) Airey's failure, Sagnac experiment , Nordmeyer-Bucherer,
Trouton-Noble Experiment prove earth isnt moving.
In 1986 The US Air Force repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment, published in the Nature Journal Volume 322. reproving the motionless earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tIbwK0ulM
Also available directly here: [PDF, VLDB 2017] https://people.csail.mit.edu/stavrosp/papers/vldb2017/VLDB17...
Jack screwed over Noah Glass with Twitter really badly. His behavior in that is really troubling. I can't get past that even with him doing great things with Square after Twitter.
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Bingo! Bootcamps are basically multiple month training sessions for interviews. Princeton Review for dev jobs.

Regardless, I actually think this paradigm works for entry level jobs at most companies. You don't have to know anything for your first year in most cases. You just have to be able to show up and follow instructions.
Even on desktop. They have a modal pop up when I try to read page 2, requiring me to register. It doesn't even allow me to exit and disables the content behind the modal. Turning off javascript for the site worked, but sheesh.
LEDBAT typically runs over UDP and doesn't need kernel support. Windows has something similar with "background intelligent transfer service" BITS, but LEDBAT works just fine outside kernel.
Nazi forums closed as Reddit purges 'violent content'
I wrote something about this:

“How to write about your open source experience when you have none”

https://codeformore.com/how-to-write-up-open-source-experien...
The ones that escaped the farm might not get killed.
To advertise them. Duh.
bitcoin mining at any hope of profitability comes with custom, specific ASICs.
Technically yes, but my original reply was about games abusing this mechanism more often.
Definitely. But anecdotally I still see a new person join IG or become active again or for the first time pretty frequently. Maybe twice a month. I barely know anyone in real life who uses Twitter anymore.
ITT people assuming they have an objective view of coworkers performance.
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What subreddits (specifically) do you think should have been included?

There have always been some pretty obvious white supremacy or ultra-racist subreddits. I’m not aware of any violence encouraging left wing things, say eco-terrorists. Perhaps they exist but just aren’t very big.

I don’t like that some are trying to see this through the right/left lens. Banning discussion of how the holocaust was a good thing is unfair because those people probably voted for Trump?

I don’t think voting for Trump was the problem with them.
Sarcasm aside, I did read that over consumption of kale results in accumulation of heavy metals
Yes! I've been waiting for a fast userland OSS network stack forever. There's things like DPDK for IP but nobody has taken up the monumental task of getting TCP working and reliable
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Thanks! Curious how this would scale on the 8x or 16x instances
-Working for a big tech company: you're writing code to deliver more ads to more people so the company can grow and deliver even more ads to even more people

-Being a truck driver: you're moving boxes around

-Being a professional hockey player: you and your team are moving really fast with a disk shaped object trying to put it in a net while people try to prevent you from doing it

-Being a stock trader: making money by spending your whole life reading company reports and hoping you're right about whether they're doing well or not

-Being a quant: using your hard earned computer science skills to move money around and turn a profit instead of helping humanity

Almost every human endeavor can be trivialized if you choose to only see one side of it.
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It's quite probable that Caesar exaggerated the German menace to justify the invasion of Gaul. Interestingly, it's never very clear in De Bello Gallico what's the difference between Germans and Celts, but that the Celts can be civilized, and the Germans can not.
>"That's extremely far from the truth. The entire CRISPR field is focused heavily on being able to mass edit genes in adults in fact."

It doesn't seem so to me. I've noticed less and less focus on toxicity lately, as if they've given up on that. For example, I took a look at one of the papers[1] from TFA. All they look at is percent of sequences from surviving cells that contained the A->G mutation. They don't report how many cells died during the process to get there.

Also, they see these mutations in the control group too (figure 4 untreated A5 = 99.8), so it seems this may be yet another way to use crispr to select for pre-existing mutants. It's hard to say since no info is provided on the toxicity for this new strategy.

On the other hand, the new strategy may be less toxic since it is only supposed to introduce a single strand break rather than double (ie as opposed to cas9). Reviewers should be on this, not sure why they so consistently drop the ball regarding the role of toxicity in these studies.

[1] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaap/ncurrent/full/nat...
Every new medium of communication effects the substance of that communication. I doubt they can change the 140 character limit without changing the substance of conversation, but that may be the point.
It's no worse than the French use of "huit jours" (lit. eight days) to mean a week, or the terminology for musical intervals where a one-note interval is called a "second". I'd guess that the origin might the same in each case: if you start at 1 and count up N times, you get to N+1.
Sure yes, scores of people are going to die of much sadder causes - natural and manmade disasters, epidemics, crime

But a decent number will surive
and since they'll have the arduous task of rebuilding civilization (in a much more thoughtful way this time) - such treatments would prove all the more useful
Watching my supervisor in engineering convinced me that I did not want to become a professor. He worked hard... teaching, mentoring, grant writing, plus a whole pile of administrative duties.