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Given current transaction costs, yes, but we don't really know what would happen if these were lower (both in money and hassle).

In any case, it's not every day people are given the choice. There's probably a handful of sites you can pay to remove ads, and the cost is usually much higher than the value the user would have provided in ad revenue.
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They haven't gotten into the specifics, but they are pretty adamant that this isn't just reskinning and randomly putting stuff on prefab environments. Their interviews with Eurogamer and the like from E3 are illuminating in this regard. I understand the skepticism, but I personally would rather be excited that this might in fact be something very new. The proof (or lack thereof) will be the game itself, so we'll just have to wait.
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Well, he mentioned that he noticed an exceptional circumstance right when he arrived -- notably, that computers which were usually his responsibility to turn on were already on. You could argue that a less negligent (and more aware) individual would have extrapolated that into a heightened sense of awareness.
As someone who has always heard, "Ideas are worthless without execution" and who was recently told, "Just because you have an App in the iTunes Store doesn't mean that you're not still at the idea stage" I'm going to say his idea isn't worth anything.

If I'm going to give 5% of my company to someone, it will be to my very first Dev who built V1.0 for very little money to build out his portfolio and because he liked the "idea". Without him I would never have had the opportunity that I do today.
PEP 393 introduced flexible string representation which can use 1, 2 or 4 bytes depending on the type of the string: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
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It basically means everything is happening in the shaders, not in geometry. There has to be some vertexes though, and the minimum you can have to cover the screen is two triangles.
Parachutes also hit a lot harder. Powered landing you can touch down with ~0m/s. Parachutes you'd get something like 10 m/s (~22mph.) Not necessarily nice on your equipment.
Sweet. I loved the promise of SFS and was really sad to see the development on it die.
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Interesting article for sure and I think it highlights exactly how you get unwanted bloat and how to prevent it. Budgeting has always been a dark art, especially for creative work, and adding smart constraints on the front end are some ways to reign things in - however I think this largely applies to the companies who can say the following: "we had plenty of cash in the bank." I know for us our budgeting process is, what is on fire and can our limited amount of cash put it out?

Changing gears though, I have to say that I was immediately turned off by Ben quoting a rap lyric at the beginning of his article. Not because I don't like rap, I do, but because of the lyric he chose.

I think this one is particularly egregious given that the quote includes the term "nigga" - even though it was of course self censored - which I don't think is particularly appropriate coming from a white man.

Not really a big thing, and it doesn't impact the overall message (which is why I think it only hurts things) but it may strike others wrong too.
My experience has only been in managing veterinary systems, but from what I've heard and seen, the wider healthcare world desperately needs more technological infusion, especially in interacting with clients.

Glad to see stuff like this and Oscar insurance entering the space! One of these days, I'll throw my hat into the ring and try to get vet clinics some tech attention...
If you can deliver a payload and recover and fully reuse the rocket then your costs drop by an order of magnitude. I can't imagine that the economics won't work out.
Here's an old video from on of the people working on the game with a demo of terrain generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4X_EZZn7dc&list=UUqN5uW6xLO...
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Yes, but keep in mind that this is 28% over an entire year (during which I'll be working there) -- not a bulk sum.

But maybe you're right and it's too much.
I went through a rollercoaster phase as well, lots of fun. If only I could find my account...
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What's the difference between a picnic cooler sized inverter, and the one in my Jeep, which is nowhere near the size of a picnic cooler?
Interesting. How is this better than just sharing the Dockerfile directly? Or just having a free instance hosted on Heroku? It's not too hard to load a container. As an example https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker makes it pretty straight forward to host discourse.
Depends on cost of refurb
These jurisdictions likely have special laws regarding contests with prizes.
For example: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...
I'm pretty sure they're planning to fly the first stage back to the launch site (Cape Canaveral in most cases for now). It wouldn't return to the same tower, but somewhere at the Cape.
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Two triangles make a flat screen (a 'quad'), which is sized to fill your actual screen. When you run a pixel shader over the quad, it ends up running for every pixel on your screen. The result is you have the visual effect of the pixel shader giving a very detailed-looking scene, when the actual geometry is as simple as it gets.

Here's an old experiment I did where the pixel shader is running on the faces of a cube http://dgholz.github.io/GLSLSphere/ The cube edges are highlighted in red so you can see them. I like green.
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SFS ftw! let's make it happen.
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How many replies did you get? If you're doing this for free, you could also help out Techstars in their associate program.
I think they're talking about a barge or floating platform of some sort out in the Atlantic, at least for the initial tests.
The same thing happened about a month ago with an Xbox One commercial that would turn on people's consoles: http://www.businessinsider.com/xbox-one-ad-turning-on-people...
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Right? Especially because she was a woman of science. Pulaski should have marveled at the technical accomplishment Data was, even if she retained some healthy skepticism of his apparent humanity. Instead, she took the "tin man" approach, and from an almost Cartesian, animist sense, seemed to dislike him because he didn't have some sort of metaphysical spark of life. I can see that sort of attitude coming from some, but coming from the science-minded doctor, it was odd. Especially because everyone else was just so unconditionally cool with it all.
> Men are presented as objects just as women are, that is how you sell in 20 seconds.

It's not the same, because women are politically/socially much more vulnerable. If you are one woman in an office of 10 men, one of the men objectifying you is a threat, but not vice-versa. If you are blue in a world run by green people, constant advertisements objectifying blue people is threatening, but not those objectifying green.
SpaceX has said that they want to fly the booster back to the launch pad from the first announcement of their reusability plans. Yes, the rocket launches with 30% extra fuel - Falcon 9 v1.1's first stage was made bigger to accommodate that need. Fuel is a small cost relative to everything else.
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Browsing around the users in the org at https://github.com/usekite also leads to https://runkite.com/ (Ghost blog hosting).
Sure, it isn't ethical to experiment w/o consent. But in order to program an AGI, you need first to conjecture an explanation of how the mind works. One may be able to deduce from that explanation some of the ways in which minds can go wrong. Also, assuming consent is given, it will likely be easier (and less physically invasive) to observe the internal state of an artificial person.
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Very true, a lot of software with time limited trials or features like "check out a network license for 30 days of offline use" used to be easy to bypass by turning your clock back so that it never expired.

This is pretty widely fixed now, but often overzealously. Clock changed unexpectedly? User is a dirty pirate and the license should deactivate.
They've already talked (and showed) quite a bit about how stuff like animals, trees, ships etc are done. Essentially what they're doing is building a base model (a prototype, I guess) for everything that is then changed with something like the sliders in any character creator, but more extreme. So from the "cat" base model you'd get house cats, lions, leopards, tigers etc from that, in addition to really wild things.
IIRC, current x86-64 chips are limited to 48bits virtual address to simplify the address translation logic (cheaper to manufacture).

This makes sense for the current generation of storage sub-systems, though it would be misleading to say using memory map technology will be "obsolete in half a decade". The 48 bit limit is arbitrary. Manufacturers have 56 bit designs on the table right now, and there is nothing stopping them from implementing full 64 bit virtual address support.
There has been a consistent onslaught of articles by the same cabal of the authors about sexism in the gaming industry. All of them include anecdotal evidence that rampant sexism exists and how terrible it is, but offering little concrete evidence proving the problem is getting worse. From the article "Things aren’t getting better for women on the internet; they’re deteriorating." By what measurement? Could it be because there now more prominent women on the Internet, or because the problem is actually getting worse? Is the expectation that the Internet becomes the one and only bastion of humanity where sexism doesn't exist?

I question whether this problem is so pervasive that the authors and editors feel readers need to be consistently bombarded with it, or whether the position is so salacious and instantly defensible that authors and editors have learned they can benefit from the attention the topic receives.

Perhaps I'm just bitter because I was just banned from Polygon for expressing this very perspective.
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It's part of an effort to move towards something called "combined engineering" and was started as a pilot in Bing. The basic idea is less testers, more devs. Devs take on more responsibility for testing, while at the same time getting more details about usage from customers in the wild... My understanding is that it's like A/B testing features - something Bing does a lot with "micro-flighting".
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Yes, this looks normal for a research/academic paper. It isn't a news article. The details are important.
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I'm sorry, what do threats have to do with insults? Conflating the two is a classic technique in this strange attempt to create some sort of right to never be offended, but they have no relationship to each other at all.
The one in your jeep probably puts out 150W, as opposed to the 3kW that's needed to run household appliances.
> He was in a perceived low-risk window.

... because he was negligent. "Oh, all the computers are already on? That only happens when Washington's waiting on something. Oh well, I'll carry on like this was any other low-risk morning"

> Else why would the F7 key be next to F6?

Same reason why "rm -rf " is the one keystroke away from disaster. Perceived risk has nothing to do with it.
From the description, it sounds like they're not at the moment. Instead, they seem to be aiming for the globally replicated, consistent, SQL-supporting features. Nothing wrong with that -- the world could use more geographically-aware database implementations. Seems like they'd be able to make use of the time sync for more efficient replication/failover/transactions in the future when the hardware is more widely available.
How many people would be offended at the statement "white people can't see the colour purple"? Very few, I'd imagine, because it's patently ridiculous.

If you imply that women are inferior though, the statement has to be vigorously opposed. Imply that feminism isn't necessary, and the tumblr and twitter brigades will come out to shame and silence you, until you agree that women have it harder.

It's absurd behaviour for a group of people who supposedly believe women are equally capable as men. Once you figure this out, feminism makes a lot more sense. When they can blame men, they blame men. When fairness requires them to blame women, they blame 'society'.
Yeah, he said: "Loop around the moon, possibly land on the moon - just to prove the capability" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thKMqN-2E4s#t=50
It's funny; without your example, I probably would have had to spend another 5-10 minutes figuring out exactly what this was.
If they launch from their Vandenberg launch complex they can "easily"[1] land in the high deserts of California or Nevada. Although I believe the plan is to return to the existing pad. And in answer to the expense question, 9 merlin engines are pretty pricey compared to just fuel costs.

[1] scare quotes because I know its never easy to land and California or Nevada east of Vandenberg for minimal delta-v requirements.
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Because most years they hire more people than they lay off.
They're shooting for no refurb on per mission basis and potentially to fly it the next day. Apparently the first stage is about 70% of the total $60M mission cost.
That is not true. I am sure add-ons can access the same stuff that built-in tools can. Most of the stuff are exposed as JS objects and there are APIs for a lot of stuff. APIs for devtools may be a bit hard to find the documentation sometimes. I guess it is because it is still being developed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/...

Firebug 3.0 will be built on top of the native developer tools

https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug.next
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Makes sense. I've never plugged anything more powerful than a laptop charger into it.
Fuel is a small cost relative to everything else.

But the extra weight is a concern, it limits payload to orbit. Try flying the first stage back to the launchpad in Kerbal Space Program while delivering a useful payload to orbit! It's instructive. KSP really develops your intuition for rocketry, everyone commenting in this thread ought to buy a copy.
Text is hard, and HTML/CSS has a monopoly on it in the browser.
If you consider an object as something to be acted upon, of the 4 ways of representation you cited, only the first usually applies. Other ways of representation, in the examples I can think of, are often of active characters, either the corporate alpha male, or the frat-house bro. Sure, these are simplifications and stereotypes of men, but I don't think they can compare to the objectification of women through their sexuality, as portrayed through our mass media. Men act, women are acted upon.
I didn't say it was a rational fear. You are not wrong. :)
How do you see that happening?

The WebGL standard is supported in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Safari on iOS, and Chrome and Firefox on Android.
Site is down for me, however this works:

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I am quite sure that it is not facetious.

A very interesting bit of history of work ethic is discussed in David Halberstam's book The Reckoning in which when the auto industry began to take hold in Japan, the workers there could not understand how hard the Americans worked--three shifts? Working in the middle of the night?

Now, it might seem reversed.
I heard that Microsoft is almost a direct feed into Google. Perhaps he should try there?
You'd have to be pretty quick to get information out of the phone before the user catches on, especially if you've just asked the user to watch a video.

I just don't see this as an effective means of controlling a phone, when your primary means of "infection" involve user action.

The paper even acknowledges this, though almost dismissively: "One potential limitation of GVS-Attack is that the victim may notice the voice command played by VoicEmployer and interrupt it."

That's like, the whole reason this attack isn't very useful except in specific situations. No one's going to be running their botnet via GVS-Attack, that's for sure.
To be honest, I thought our sun would be around a lot longer.

“If you were to visit one virtual planet every second,” he says, “then our own sun will have died before you’d have seen them all.”

...

"The tens of millions of planets that comprise the universe are all unique."
Why, when I see a wired article title, do I immediately assume that it is going to be completely untrue?
I was wondering that as well. Three possibilities come to mind;

1) Atmospheric conditions are right for it (flying a subzero steel device through clouds with moisture in them, same problem that airplanes have)

2) The burning of the cryo-propellants lead to additional ice formation (as they burn they expand from liquid to gas and pull heat out of the tanks/body)

3) "snow" which is a variation on #2 which is that ice crystals that are forming on the rocket as it burns propellant in ascent the camera is accelerating away from them, but in descent the crystals are coming towards the camera.

Either way its an 'easy' fix, whether you heat the cover, add a wiper (ala nascar) or change the position.
What happened is that I wanted to register a domain using www.mediaon.com, but that failed because someone else registered the same domain in the meantime using another company. When I asked for my money back because they failed to register the domain, they refused, saying that firstly it wasn't there fault (which is technically true) and secondly that I would be free to use the paid money to register another domain. That's in direct contradiction to their "money-back guarantee". Anyway, Paypal sided with them. It seemed to me that they exactly knew what to tell PayPal and PayPal does not seem to be very consumer-friendly when it comes to digital products (the policy for physical products differs).
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I know this is off-topic, but anyone else had "Benson, Arizona" ringing through their head when they read the title?
Not particularly nice on your astronauts / cosmonauts / 赵里昱 either, though they have training, preparation, and (according to an interview with Cmdr. Hadfield awhile ago) specially-poured per-backside crash seats to ameliorate it somewhat.
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is there a reason a storeowner wouldn't have to be out of his or her mind to accept amazon wallet? Amazon already actively cannibalizes sales of merchants on their platform by figuring out what sells best and sourcing their own products to compete. Now a storeowner would be telling amazon who their customers are (particularly their valuable ones) and maybe even leaking what they're buying.

I don't understand why anyone would possibly use this over square, whose ambitions don't include competing directly with the storeowner.
Yeah, the research paper is a bit wordy. It's novel, though, because here it adds another vector for malware to inject into legitimate apps to hijack a phone, without requiring new permissions.

I could see it becoming a serious concern in places like China, where 3rd party markets are much more popular, and republishing existing apps with malware is commonplace.
There is no misunderstanding. The parent comment is trying to reinforce the practice of pitting the genders against each other and continues to argue that men need condescendingly "lectured" on the matter.

My change in wording is meant to show how ridiculous a notion that is. Sexist remarks in articles such as this are getting a free pass because at one time feminism served a purpose, and today's hypersensitive political-correctness puts it above reproach. But when you take those same statements and put them on an axis of racism, their nature is revealed.
Vandenburg AFB is used for placing payloads in polar orbits, which means they launch north/south. However, because of the population centers north of the AFB, they generally launch all vehicles south. This mean launches will happen over the Pacific Ocean, and they would not recover the first stage in the high deserts of California or Nevada.
I know I'm wasting my time, you've made it clear that your opinion won't be changed, but just know that not everyone agrees with you. Steam is DRM, and that's not a bad thing. You can have a local police department without existing in a police state.
Shame it requires polluting the root of your zone. Could have used a TXT record at "_redirect-name.example.com" or similar instead.

[edit] Also, this service will be abused by spammers and it will then become impossible to use a "redirect.name" URL in email.
Keep in mind they have a very aggressive flight schedule planned, with basically 3 weeks between launches. August 4, August 25, Sept 12. Possible, but not probable. And if those are delayed, then the later ones are too.
I helped set the presentation up. Jitsi is actually the ideal choice, but it's too unstable for something like this. Google Hangouts was used at Snowden's request.
It seems to me that the solution would be along the lines of a 1 bit DAC. The caps then have less smoothing to do.
Maybe companies should pay for good design instead of paying as little as possible for people to enter "competitions"? Good design takes time. Good designers should be compensated.
I'd be happy either way. :) But really, for the sake of their own credibility, they should demo these things to the public (regardless of how broken anything is, it would go a long way to reinforce what they are saying). I definitely would not say they are "lying" about anything, just that until they show their tools, we have no idea how in-depth the generation is.
Thanks, I've never heard of sleep architecture before.

> If I could guess, I'd say you probably have very few dreams anymore, maybe just one occasionally, shortly before waking up?

Wow, that is spot on. I've been doing under five hours of sleep for the past six months now, and I made an comment the other week to my wife that I no longer dream. Given what you said above, it agrees with what I'm experiencing.
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Yeah I read a few more articles and it sounds a bit more promising. As mentioned above, I'd still like to see them actually demoing these things so I can make a more solid judgement of what is going on.
> Trees where the trunks are people or hands

Oh hey, Khan Academy!
You did note that the OG2 flight 1 payload was about 1/4 of the max? And the next 2 flights aren't going to try landing because they need all the fuel to get a big payload into GTO[1]? SpaceX seems to have all this under control, even if you can't imagine that it will work out.

[1] http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/07/22/spacex-soft-lands-falc...
It wouldn't benefit anyone. Spanner is most likely tightly coupled with their internal services and infrastructure.

If you want to know how spanner works, read the paper. If you want to use it yourself, you'll need to build it on top of your own infrastructure, just like Google did.
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