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you don't understand what it means to be a minority. We don't get anywhere near equal quality coverage and are basically forced to subsidize better medical care for white folk. For years, my father was prescribed a drug (simvastatin) that actually did damage to his body because it's nearly universally assumed to be good for him (it is for most white people), and strongly subsidized by the government (he's a military vet).

I only found out because I got 23andMe, and I actually know biology. It was dismaying to find out that very few of the tests on 23andMe are useful for Asians like me (fewer still if you're hispanic and if you're pure African, the affymetrix chip they use is basically useless). As we move into an era of personalized medicine, we'll be subsidizing better healthcare and better outcomes for some ethnic groups over others.

The faulty assumption behind universal healthcare is that a one-size-fits-all prescription is good for everyone, but there are some really ugly disparities that no one talks about; and these disparities serve to reinforce preexisting social inequality. While I'm lucky to be in a minority group that's likely to live a long time - if we have it, a lot of universal healthcare coverage will wind up being plowed into gerontological care costs, which tend to be super-expensive; so in a way, it's a subsidy for rich white people.

Now, I do think the american healthcare system is awful. In particular being able to be put into permanent lifelong debt from healthcare costs is only one small step above barbarism. But I don't think that universal healthcare is the solution we're looking for. Obamacare is even worse, it combines the worst parts of universal healthcare with the worst parts of the crony capitalist system we have, and I won't be surprised when it turns out to be an even bigger albatross on the shoulders of this country.
Not yet. We're github-only at the moment.
People who think the show is not "close enough" to real life don't know enough elite physicists or Caltech grad students/research scientists. Even within the world of tech PhD's (a small community in the scheme of things), Caltech is especially unusual. I have been impressed that the creators of the show can capture some of that oddness and make a go of it for a mass audience.

The show does struggle with female roles. As does its real-life counterpart.
As other have pointed out, you are obviously wrong about Microsoft Direct X being available on Sony's Playstation 4.

But you are also wrong in the larger picture. Direct3D and OpenGL are first and foremost abstraction layers to access the GPU. Since in a console the hardware is immutable, you can gain a lot of performance by skipping (or trimming the fat of) these abstractions.

The XBox 360 version of DirectX is very different from the PC version: it's much much closer to the metal and exposes pretty much all the GPU functionalities.

Here is a thread talking about XBox 360 dev:
http://beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=62049

There's no reason to think that it will be any different for the XBox One. Hardware-wise it's a very average PC: its sole advantage versus an actual PC is this ability to get that much closer to the metal.
Strange nomenclature. I would have thought it should be called Quad-HD since it is precisely 4 x 1920x1080 screens.
> Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform?

no.

porting and refactoring tools are so good now you can even port a direct3d app to opengl in 2 days or less, you could use a d3d>opengl wrapper in a day of work.

libraries are also so good at dual platform it requires minimal changes (usually just a new build system).. afaik the biggest change is handling input (theres no directInput on linux - most games use directInput for mouse/kb).

theres also numerous benefits to a closed system economy like an app store - for example even if nobody uses it you are practically exclusive and will get more buys than other places you can sell your app.
Aha! Thanks, that makes more sense. So 1 inch = 25.4mm. 20 dots per mm is sufficient. So 20x25.4 = 508dpi. That's more believable as a rough minimum.
According to an X11 dev, Daniel Stone, Wayland reduces the latency and eliminates tearing issues associated with X11.[1] This is exactly the kind of upgrade to Linux that will make SteamBox a viable alternative to PS4.

As far as audio goes, PulseAudio is fine for playing music, but a real PITA for many hardcore gamers[2][3] including myself. I found latency was terrible with Wine + PA and later saw the developers had an issue with PA too.[4]

I've been playing native and Wine game on Linux with for about 6 years now and by far the best experience I had was with OSS4 and my old SB Live. When I eventually "upgraded" to ALSA, I immediately noticed some latency in games like OpenArena.

I'd think that maybe this issue was just me, accept Steam said in their announcement, they were "targeting audio performance". If they do put some resources to clean up the linux audio subsystem, it will be a win for us all.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

[2] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/pulse...

[3] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=960195

[4] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyODM
Kind of crazy to think that Valve has the power to make 2014 the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop" simply by making HL3 a Linux exclusive.
> ... that falsification is often unavailable ...

Yes, and the possibility of falsification is required for science. It's not a convenient option.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Quote: "The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain, which is measured by its ability to make falsifiable predictions with respect to those phenomena."

No falsifiability, no scientific theories. No scientific theories, no science.

> What a mature scientist does is say, "OK, let's accept the limits of our field and do the best we can".

Yes, in science. Psychology is not a science. You do grasp, don't you, that there is a lower threshold below which it's misleading to call something science? This is why the director of the NIMH recently (and reluctantly) decided to drop support for the DSM.

It hasn't occurred to psychiatrists and psychologists yet, but when the NIMH dropped the DSM, it dropped them too. This fact may require 30 more years to sink in, in much the same way that the changing status of astrology did in Galileo's time. As serious as astrologers sometimes are, astronomy just works better.

These things take time.

> I expect that psychologists and psychiatrists will change their theories to fit the evidence.

1. Psychologists don't have theories, they have hypotheses. A scientific theory must be falsifiable.

2. I expect more fiascoes like Recovered Memory Therapy, in which science and evidence were held in contempt. So do many others.
What about trade? Paul krugman (the economist known for his liberal views) wrote a compelling thesis on the role of transport costs in the rise and fall of manufacturing hubs, etc. It might explain the empires unaccounted for in this model.
>So tell me, is this a good engineer ? Great ? Or a disaster ? He's not exactly a stabilizing force, that's for sure.

Sounds like he doesn't want to be working there. Sorry, but it's probably the right decision to encourage him to find a job that he wants. Elsewhere.

In a few of the behaviors he described, I find some sympathy. I do have a high opinion of myself, and at one job would end up in loud arguments with the CTO over how to do things. Sounds like this guy takes it farther, though, doing things that are spiteful when he doesn't get his way. That's a scary, pathological behavior, and that alone would make me think you'd be better off without him. I wasn't happy when I didn't get my way, but I'd suck it up and deal; that's the only professional response.

And speaking of pathological: It sounds like he's intentionally misinterpreting instructions when he can? Again, that speaks of passive-aggressive behavior. And he avoids other employees? Not to say that anyone is in danger, but you've painted a scenario that strikes me as the backstory for "the guy who cracked, came in to the office, and went on a shooting rampage."

Or he's just Aspergers. Can't really tell the difference from here.
You solution is to fly business or first class. IME, they just 'suggest' that you turn things off there.
It's odd that the carry applies to each deal individually. In contrast, VC's take a carry on the aggregate return of all of their investments.

If a VC does twenty $10MM investments, and sees a $100MM return on two of them, they break even. No carry would be charged to LP's (although management fees would apply).

Meanwhile an "LP" auto-backing an AngelList syndicator pays a carry on every winner, but still loses 100% for every loser.

That's a big deal in angel investing — generally you're counting on very few winners to cover the costs of your losers. Shaving 15-20% off every winner can very possibly turn your overall returns negative.

Finally, the syndicator has a mis-aligned incentive to broker as many deals as possible. It's now possible to net a profit via carry, even if your losers would have outweighed your winners investing alone.

Tim has fantastic taste in startups. His investment in any startup is a strong signal. But AngelList's terms are pretty iffy for syndicate backers. If the carry was applied to his deals' collective return, I'd be the first in line.
I told you so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186806
I think those are wired.
They are different because you can't hear emergency announcements. The in-seat audio is able to cut across to an announcement if necessary.
The armrest stations are interrupted for deafening announcements over the PA system.
This just in, no pot leads to less munchies. Here's Jim with the weather.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/technology/faa-nears-new-r...
I'm 99% sure it is no longer limited. Notch and Co. added some code so that it can dynamically increase the height in an area allowing for taller builds.
Yes, that was poor wording. I meant to imply it is often difficult to graduate debt free for STEM majors as well. TA stipends simply aren't enough to pay the bills these days.

I don't mean to imply a STEM major is more valuable than a History PhD either, simply that its (likely) easier to get a job after graduation. Honestly, its a damn shame the public doesn't appreciate both of these areas of work more as they are the cornerstone for improving society.
We switched to CircleCI from our own, painfully maintained Jenkins box to test our Rails apps. Between their clearly highly tuned infrastructure, nice little tweaks like caching the installed gemset between builds, and automatic parallelization of the test suite, our average build times dropped by 50-75% and became much more consistent. We did give up some flexibility in determining which branch names automatically run, or whether builds only run once a pull request is opened, but it's well worth it.
It's not worth reading that, because it's taken completely out of context. As badly as it's taken out of context, you're actually taking it even more out of context in your comment here. Weev actually said that shorting stock would be illegal, and said something to the effect of "if you do it, I don't want to know about it" and discouraged many other "suggestions" from people who didn't appear to have any real part in it, but were cheerleading.

In any case, that is very typical IRC conversation for a large portion of that subculture. They joked about doing these things, but they didn't actually take steps to do them. He considers himself a satirist, so it's not much different than some comedians talking nonsense over beers and having it show up in an indictment.

One of the chatters observing said they should post the list to full-disclosure. Weev replied saying "no, don't do that, its potentially criminal." He then talked about how he gets to spin it in the media and he's won. That says pretty clearly that he was only out to make a scene, which is what he has always done.
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I think almost every plane in the US these days has a bunch of phones with their radios fully active. People simply ignore the instructions. I'd love to see the raw signal and position data from cell towers near the airport.
Intriguing concept and neat approach (tower defense anyone?), but many of us perceive civilization as arising much earlier, around 10,500 BCE.

Also, I cringe over this statement: "if military technology is removed as a factor, the model’s accuracy falls to a mere 16 percent."

That's like saying, "If you take the beans out of my soup, it doesn't taste like potatoes as much."
> By "overall curvature", do you mean spacetime curvature, or the curvature of a spatial slice?

I'm referring to the overall spacetime curvature shared by the universe as a whole.

> ... and that that model assumes a particular spatial slicing which is not the only possible one.

Sorry, out of my depth.
A few things here bother me:

- You can frequently find fraudulent positive product reviews on amazon; there is a community that writes satirical reviews for fun. I really don't like the principle that doing something for your own personal amusement is fine, but doing it for profit is illegal. (Yes, I'm aware that this principle is deeply embedded in US law. I just hate it. I also hate the similar principle of "X shall be legal if you are a good person, but illegal if you are an evil person".)

- Many, many comments in this thread (like yours!) are defending the idea of punishing false negative reviews. False negative reviews are not even mentioned in the article. Would you want to open a yogurt shop if you knew you'd have to deal with other yogurt shops getting positive reviews online?

- People seem to like thinking of false reviews as "fraud". "Fraud" doesn't mean lying. Since the people hypothetically making false statements aren't actually getting any money from the people they're making false statements to, and aren't even targeting any identifiable person, a fraud charge might be difficult to stick. (Or it might not; wire fraud is notorious for its applicability to anyone and everyone.)

- Suppose I take money to write a positive review of a yogurt shop desiring the same. I write "Of all the yogurt shops in <area>, this one is my favorite. The food is everything I expect and I have a great relationship with the people there. Highly recommended." It's intentionally misleading, in that I like them because they pay me to like them, but it is punctiliously honest. Under what grounds should that be punishable?
Thats the great thing about making your money from advertising...you can always take away products at the drop of a hat or if anyone complains you have the "you get what you paid for" defense... eventually humans will begin to realize that their focus, attention, and metadata is of value and you rarely get something for free.
If you still really want to be a professor, find a load of other unemployed PhD's and a bored billionare or two and go and found a University.
Given the sales of Surface and touchscreen PCs I have to reject the whole premise of your question. What is Apple getting a 'pass' on here? They seem to be giving consumers what they want/expect out of these devices. Apple could snap their fingers and have a touch enabled version of OSX that's better than Windows 8. They could easily add an x86 target for iOS apps and have a massive library of native touch enabled apps for the Mac. They could do a legacy touch mode as good (low standard) as what Windows 8 has to offer. They obviously haven't done it because they think it sucks. Again given that the market has said the same thing so far the premise of the question is really backwards to me. Apple is getting a pass on not picking a failing strategy!
When I've been lucky enough to fly private, they have not once said a peep about turning off my phone, which I'm sure they would have if they were legitimately concerned about safety. Of course, the service doesn't work at altitude, so I tend to put it in airplane mode anyway just to avoid the battery drain of it constantly searching for a signal.
Ya I don't understand some of the comments in this thread. I didn't read this as a guy that was blindsided. I think there's some conscious choice at work here. He could see what his finances were going to be if gave his savings to his kids for down-payments and he chose to do it.
Besides the fact that he is making a podcast app, has any other announcements come out about it? Descriptions, screenshots, etc?
Why don't you just make a completely empty account with a throwaway email account that tells people not to trust linkedin and pointing them to a place on the web that you control?
2014 Toyota Corolla's touchscreen tricks
Universal health care has _nothing_ to do with treating all people alike. It just means treating them all.
It sounds to me like your father's issue was not that he was not white, but that he had a rare genetic condition...

There was even a study that found on the whole, simvastatin is equally helpful across races: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16709304
English is probably the best language.
Let's not turn this place into Reddit.
Valve: How going boss-free empowered the games-maker
Here is my analogy:

1. You just finished your workout and went to a locker room at your gym (he went to a public website)

2. You opened up your own locker and took your stuff from it (checked his account)

3. You found out that very few people are using locks in the gym locker room (figured the account id in url )

4. You know that it is not your belongings in other people lockers, but they are not locked just because people are just lazy or don't want to spend money on the lock (he knew that those accounts do not belong to him, and were accidentally not locked by by at&t)

5. You decided if those lockers are not locked - that means that clothes inside of those lockers are public property and you can easily borrow them (tried to browser to other urls and get private account info)

6. You go ahead and try opening every single locker in a room and put all the belongings you find in opened lockers on ebay to make profit and sell it, BEFORE letting know the owners or the gym that those belongings are not locked. (sold private data to somebody)

I think thats not legal behavior, as long as you understand that the property you are taking is not yours - you are making a crime by taking it (stealing)
> if military technology is removed as a factor, the model’s accuracy falls to a mere 16 percent

Imho technology drives culture. Drives our history. History focusing on dates and decisions of individuals or relations between groups of people and their character is bogus narrative. It should focus on technology available and how this technology enabled things to happen.

It's often claimed that our technological development outpaced our cultural development. I think that's not the case. Imho only new technology can cause culture to change. If not for development of nuclear weapons we would never could form culture that makes us civilized enough not to use it.
I don't have any instability problems, with neither AMD or NVidia (I have a computer with each).

What kills those drivers is ongoing support. Since they aren't at the mainline kernel, they lose sync, and upgrading the kernels turns into a lottery where sometimes I have to uninstall the newest one, not a big deal, but anoying.
Yes, but in your example (where someone is killed) there is rather obviously an underlying act that may or may not be criminal depending on the intent. There are infinitely many acts that cannot be considered crimes regardless of how malicious the intent behind them may be.

Furthermore, just because someone feels that they have done something wrong does not make what they have done a crime. The law also must consider that action to have been illegal.

Hopefully, the appeals court will determine that accessing a public unrestricted URL cannot be considered illegal, regardless of the mindset of the person who might choose to access it.
I didn't agree with anything anyone said on Twitter. Sorry, but you are mistaken on that opinion you believe I share. Don't know why you would go about imagining that I am aligned in any way to anything that I did not read.
Also, there is nothing wrong with gender neutral language, it just doesn't apply to something that is told in the first person. If you find that to be not inclusive enough for you ande a standard to judge what you read, that is your own inner workings. It will just make you loose out on a lot of great books. Either way, others don't have to externalize the same things or put up with your labeling, that would be very odd.
Microsoft is sure hoping you'll try the new Outlook.com...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-com/gmail/

(It's actually decent too)
For many systems, maintenance requires more effort than construction. Bad coders require much more maintenance. Some of it is from code not built for reuse, and some of it is for "Drop everything everyone is doing until someone can figure out why this isn't working any more!"
The lesson: health insurance = bad luck
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Oh man, an analogy which actually makes sense! This has got to be a first. Please spread it far and wide.
> Private property is private property

Except in many cases the private property is being made accessible. Imagine going to an open house and the owner accidentally left the basement unlocked. You open the door and walk down, then get arrested for breaking and entering.
Ironically, you're close enough to the truth. The only thing that stands in the way of dignified living for everybody is people like you. There is enough resources in this world (especially the US). Why should kids everywhere live in poverty, starve and not be given the same opportunity under the same conditions as more fortunate kids (well fed, good schools) because their parents couldn't find or hold down a job? Instead, kids grow up hungry and can't focus on school, and even if they want to, they live in a poor neighborhood with bad schools, perpetuating the situation for yet another generation.
Yes...

"One of the less obvious consequences of serious accidents is that victims often become uninsurable on the individual market as a result.... Obamacare really will change that."

Making this sort of insurance available amounts to a wealth transfer to people who have been victims of injuries. That's fine, if you're into wealth transfers and all that, but...

wouldn't it be better if we just admitted it was a big fat subsidy to the sick and injured, and paid for it out of the general fund, instead of paying for it by making insurance more expensive, especially the young healthy twenty-somethings who struggle to afford it? so that these twenty-somethings wouldn't be tempted to skip it, among other things, and would be less vulnerable to these $200,000+ risks (and further undermine the system)?

I mean, all else being equal, it is probably a good idea to be insured if you can, Obamacare notwithstanding, but the fact that it incentives people this way is a fundamental design flaw, not a feature or a fix.

Oh, wait, I know why we're paying for it this way. It's so we can pretend that it doesn't cost anybody any money. :P
or http://www.rainymood.com/
Fair enough, I just couldn't resist it :)
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Yeah, after I wrote it I thought it sounded a little obnoxious. Ah well.

At least I got a nice lecture about respect.
Which columnar store do you use?
Not to say that anyone is in danger, but you've painted a scenario that strikes me as the backstory for "the guy who cracked, came in to the office, and went on a shooting rampage."

This is a highly irrational conclusion, even with the meaningless caveat.
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