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Exactly this. These are people with poor credit histories at high risk of defaulting and usually a track record of late payments on bills.

No one will touch them without charging exorbitant fees. We either stop it and let people suffer, or we allow it to continue and people at least have some ability to continue living a somewhat decent quality of life and not homeless on the streets.
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Nothing's perfect, but we do what we can. Swap encryption is cool.
I'm aware, such a stance is definitely on the very opposite end of the simplicity of a total market fund. Even choosing some sector funds is difficult. REITs for example would seem to be an easy one in my opinion (I see nothing wrong with renting real property for money), but the Vanguard fund VNQ still manages to own at least one company I refuse to own, Corrections Corporation of America, so I won't own that fund.

(Another term for this is "socially responsible investing" and there are indexes, and associated high-fee funds, that claim to seek it. However, I feel this is a very personal issue; I wouldn't use such an index because someone's definition of socially responsible/non-evil may be very different from mine. My opinion is such indexes/funds are just gimmicks with high expense ratios.)

And even if such an approach will most likely lead to lower returns (for example, due to higher fees in paying commissions, though that can be reduced or eliminated by smartly taking advantage of brokerage promos), I'm fine with that. I'll take my $1.00 earned from what I consider to be ethical means vs. $10.00 earned from what I consider to be unethical means.
Innovative, yes.

Intuitive, no.
If an entry has been replicated to a majority of followers, then the new leader is guaranteed to have that entry and therefore it won't be rolled back.
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Why do you randomize them?
And when someone implements new code dealing with security, such bugs are not possible ?
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They'd probably ban them if people didn't want to use laptops and phones.
So not exactly a "guarantee" that you'll be "a millionaire in a year" then?
It's probably not banned because someone who could take over a plane with a lithium battery could take over a plane without a lithium battery.
Ah, ah, ah. Plant basement full of grass and put a goat down there. Low maintenance and deliciousness to be had.
It amazes me that there was a point in history when Los Angeles regulators aggressively protected mass transit at the expense of automobiles ...
Oh, I don't know - I like browsing the web on my phone and I started feeling that my Nexus is too small. I'm seriously thinking of getting a phoneblet next.
The whole point of sports is not about perfectly enforcing the rules. I remember an article a while back on here about speed walking, and how a staggering majority of speed walkers actually violate the main rule of speed walking (you can't have both feet off the ground), and while that rule could easily be enforced with cameras it isn't because it would just ruin the sport.

It seems to me like the easiest thing to do would be change the rules, bringing the strike zone back to what it was. It'll most likely cause outrage, but ironically you'd be going back to the way things were before. It all comes back to the fact that the reason for sports is not to perfectly follow some set of bizarre rules, its just to be entertaining.
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That's not enough, since even -O0 applies a few optimizations, and which optimizations it applies could change in the future.

The best answer is really GCC's __asm__("" : : "m" (&key)), or perhaps something like __asm__("" : : "r" (key) : "memory"), after the memset. It generates no extra code, just ensures that the memset won't be removed.

For other compilers (in practice only MSVC, since clang is gcc-compatible), you could pass the pointer to a dummy assembly function instead of using inline assembly; even link-time optimization can't know what happens within a function written in assembly. Or, for better performance, create in assembly a "safer_memset" which is a single instruction: a jump to the real memset function.
I think Spotify over Slack would be awesome in a work place... Anyone could add a track to the playlist that is going in the office.
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Good to see other Dyson people on here.
Forwarding the user to Amazon through a redirect instead of plain visible Amazon links.
> It all comes back to the fact that the reason for sports is not to perfectly follow some set of bizarre rules, its just to be entertaining.

The participants or the audience?

I'm trying hard to imagine a world where the rules of chess are changed to turn it into a more spectator friendly sport.
IPv6 is about 15 years old. In technology terms that's ancient. IPv6 is roughly as old as AJAX, it's much, much older than Ruby on Rails. And IPv6 solves a major, catastrophic problem with IPv4. The fact that it still is seeing only very slow uptake in adoption is a testament to its weakness, I'd say, even if it has some otherwise favorable aspects.
Or the play que, I should say.
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Some reviewers seem to have that opinion, but many, many people use the high-frame-rate-simulators on their home TVs. I've seen the first two Hobbit movies in 48 fps and wish everything was there or higher. Hell, there are projects like SVP [1] to get video smoothed on your computer. People LIKE higher frame rates.

[1] http://www.svp-team.com/
Unreal Engine is already at version 4.4? So we can expect 5.0 in a couple of years? Or will they just call it "Unreal Engine" and be done with versions, like CryTek did for CryEngine.
I went and watched a sports riot once. The majority of the people around were like me, there to watch.

It was a small minority that were setting police cars on fire.

I don't think the sports allegiance caused the riots, they just happened to be the thing that the riot coalesced around. There was certainly a feeling in the air that there was going to be some riots in that city (friends and I drove in from ~1 hour away), and I think many of the actors went there to take advantage of the (so to speak) opportunity, not because they were upset about the loss.
Is there a way to charge this thing without the dock, or are you expected to carry that around with you?
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I'd bet against it. Those kind of specs are almost never reliably achieved. Besides, "DisplayPort version 1.3, which was expected to be finalized in Q2 2014, will increase overall transmission bandwidth to 32.4 Gbit/s" wikipedia
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For most 2014 TVs, it's not a limitation on the TV because they also support HDMI 2.0, but a limitation on the source.

What I don't understand is why these TVs don't have a DP input so we can use them at 60fps with modern PCs (and already on the market GPUs).
I agree completely.

The football World Cup in Brazil this year showed something similar with the 'goal line technology'. When Benzema scored against Honduras, in previous years, arguments would have persisted for years about whether the ball crossed the line. Now it was over within seconds. Similar story in tennis, cricket, athletics, and a lot of other sports.

Moaning about bad decisions is part of the fun. When you can't do it, the sport does get a bit more boring.
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> Unless the compilers "understand" memset and still optimize away the last two lines

They do. That's the whole "problem" - the compiler knows what memset is and what it does, since it's specified in the standard.
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"The rules for membership are simple—5 total investments in YC companies of any size or 2 big ones, a positive reputation among our alumni, and no history of bad behavior like breaking term sheets without great cause, pressuring founders into advisor shares in addition to an investment alongside others in a round, etc."

Or being a pervert/sex pest.
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Suggest people take a look at CoLearnr (http://www.colearnr.com), a project I have been working on for the last 15 months. I'm linking a mindmap to a pinboard. The pinboard supports all kinds of media, links, discussions and annotations. Don't want to hijack this thread anymore, but will be happy to have a chat prabhu at colearnr dot com
In which case, could you hibernate the CPU as well as the screen, but still leave the time on display?
Or skip ('veto') a track
I don't care. I am never wearing a watch again. The only stuff I want on me are clothes and jewellery. Clothes to keep the cold and wet and dirt off; jewellery as non-functional art pieces that speak to me in some way and say something about myself to others.

I don't want to have any piece of electronic technology tethered to any part of my body unless one day (God forbid) I'm forced to wear a pace-maker. I was never as happy as when I lost my last watch years and years ago and realised I didn't have to actually get another.
Could you integrate the graphics card into the moniter? Surely the bandwidth between the PCI express card and the motherboard will actually be less than the bandwidth of the cable to the display.
I've found the traffic warning notifications extremely useful, they've given me prior warning of heavy traffic on plenty of occasions and saved me countless hours of sitting in traffic jams. I've been extremely happy with how integrated they've become into my daily routine.

I've also got the email integration turned on and I've been impressed with the integration with ticketmaster. It knew that I was going to see a concert, knew how long it would take to get there for its start time and knew how long it would take to get home.
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I imagine time limits on moves are partly because of spectators.
> Here's the real secret: they'll make whatever you order.

I'm shocked by how totally un-known this is. Reminds me of ordering pizza with one menu between 10 people; everybody wanted to have a look at the menu because they didn't know if their preferred combination of toppings was on the pre-set list... even when their preferred toppings was "pepperoni" x_x
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I'm looking to upgrade my Nexus 4 (4.7") sometime soon. I used a 6" Windows Phone for 2 days (debugging) and it was horrible. I can certainly go a bit higher than the Nexus 4, but I don't think I want to go over 5".
but then you are defeating the purpose of wearing a smartwatch, which I believe is to keep receiving notifications for calls, emails, messages and so on. If you only wake up the CPU every minute to check then it's far too slow to be useful.
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Aren't watches (also) amazing pieces of jewellery?
My pebble lasts between 7 and 10 days. You must be getting a lot of notifications; do you enable accelerometer-triggered backlight? Do you listen to music often (with the music controls) ?
Nothing except efficiency is preventing us from using names as parts of network/subnet hierarchy instead of numbers, e.g. : steve.home.town.country instead of 192.168.5.6 (or the same thing on IPv6), and even efficiency could be improved by the smart use of hashing... BUT! The major problem I see here is that there simply are more numbers than words.

In practice, especially at large companies, it will certainly without a doubt degrade into workstation001, workstation002... workstation999 and then we're in effect back where we started from - using numbers.

This looks like a solution in search of a problem.
I hope so. I'm old enough to remember the time when smaller meant better, and miniaturization was a sign of progress (Hell, to me the first iPhone, for all its wonders, seemed at the time way too big).

Maybe one day people will re-discover the appeal of the candybar and slim-flip form factors, who knows.
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Interesting - in cricket there is a similar problem - the umpire has to judge if the ball was going to hit the wicket (similar problem to going 'over the plate'). They brought in a computer review system in and it also increased how often you were out LBW (similar to 'struck out').

"[ the review system ] has increased the bowler’s potential target area by a remarkable 70 per cent" [1]

However, it has improved things because it forced the player to do something rather than block the ball and hope they wouldn't be given out. So, technology helped in this case.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/engla...
> Google is one of the biggest lobbyists

[citation needed], I think. They certainly lobby, but are they one of the biggest? I think that, in reality, a lot of tech companies were kind of lagging in that department until relatively recently.
I agree that battery life is the killer feature that all these watches are missing. I can also see that Google, Samsung, LG, and Motorola are trying to hype the watches like there's no tomorrow.

I really think that the center of the universe for all these devices is the phone and that the watch is really a phone accessory.

Are these watches water resistant/proof?
Password safe for websites and I just memorise the password for that, my gpg key, and my ssh keys. I'm sure the ones I have memorised are not as secure as they should be but they are stored on my PC so if someone has access I have bigger problems.
Thanks for the reference! I can't access the article though, so I'll ask you: was this experiment conducted in the wild, or in a laboratory?
I'm also baffled that on one hand they have their amazing documentaries in North Korea, Syria (in IS) and other places which are absolutely awesome and on the other they have their trashy channel.

Moreover over the last year their main Youtube channel has gone rather stale and most good content moved to the "Vice News" and "Motherboard" channels.

Can anyone explain the rationale for their awesome content alongside the very mediocre content this comment speaks of? Why not focus on quality content (Which has been working great for them so far?) What's the business idea here?
Usually CPMs advertised in media kits are cut by ~50% by the time an actual insertion order is placed -
For a moment I thought it was another DIY 'super computer'.

Then I remembered the name from another article yesterday, it's our local galaxy super cluster.
In this case; this is absolutely true. But compare this to e.g. the Airfrance crash a few years ago...

The AF case was (also) presumably caused by pilot error - i.e. the pilots continueing to pull back on the stick - but this was a concious effort by one of the pilots due to an interpretation error of the engaged autopilot mode.

Problem with the more modern automation systems in aviation is that they become harder to reason about when you have no sound understanding of underlying software/hardware interactions. The day that the autopilot modes are as simple as 'follow the line' (i.e. flight director bars), maintain this speed and/or maintain this heading/altitude is gone with the Airbus flight control system incorporating 4 different 'laws' (modes of operation) with varying submodes.

Complacency is somewhat understandable given the increasing complexity of said systems.
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I don't think those are the only two options. Payday loan companies have exorbitant interest rates, in other countries there are different - and less based on graft - ways of dealing with this problem.

For instance in NL we have the 'Gemeentelijke kredietbank' (https://www.degkb.nl/diensten/kredietverlening in dutch), a bank that operates without profit motive for those in situations as you described above.
I do the same; only with vimwiki (so today's diary is just two key strokes away).
https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

I recently found a blogpost describing a way to add 'commit hooks' to vimwiki so that my repository is automatically synchronised when I make edits. You can still fall back on command line git for fixing merges / anything else.

http://jarvistmoorefrost.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/snippet-co...
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Can you play the game the other way and "fail safe"?

i.e. declare the storage volatile but running your crypto code on a non-volatile ptr to it (obtained via cast) to get your performance back?

If the compiler then generates enough smarts to work out that the non-volatile ptr you've passed into your crypto code is referring to volatile storage, then you keep security but get a (noticeable in testing?) performance hit.

I guess that's not as good as your solution though.
I think those are mostly to make sure a game will actually progress rather than that one party can force a losing game to a standstill.
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On latency, you're right. Minimising it is best.

There's no circumstance in which increasing the frame rate causes nausea. In fact, it tends to decrease latency and reduce nausea. In the limit, reality has an essentially-infinite frame rate and doesn't cause nausea.

When low frame rates seem choppy, that's normally because there's a mismatch between frame rate and display refresh. GSync/freesync fix that to make things smooth even when the frame rate drops. Choppiness can also be due to the impulse response; technologies with a bright and short apparent pulse (CRT, Plasma, some OLED) will show better 'motion' than those that display and hold (LCD, some OLED).
Steele/Gabriel about the name Common Lisp:

> After a day and a half of technical discussion, this group went off to the Oakland Original, a greasy submarine sandwich place not far from CMU. During and after lunch the topic of the name for the Lisp came up, and such obvious names as NIL and SPICE Lisp were proposed and rejected—as giving too much credit to one group and not enough to others—and such non-obvious names as Yu-Hsiang Lisp were also proposed and reluctantly rejected.

> The name felt to be best was “Standard Lisp,” but another dialect was known by that name already. In searching for similar words, the name “Common Lisp” came up. Gabriel remarked that this wasn’t a good name because we were trying to define an Elitist Lisp, and “Common Lisp” sounded too much like “Common Man Lisp.”

> The naming discussion resumed at dinner at the Pleasure Bar, an Italian restaurant in another Pittsburgh district, but no luck was had by all.

> Later in E-mail, Moon referred to “whatever we call this common Lisp,” and this time, amongst great sadness and consternation that a better name could not be had, it was selected.
I'd prefer plain lat-lon coordinates over this any day.
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You can legitimately argue about the legacy code base, but the bit about regular breakage is total bullshit.
Having had a look, I couldn't see any easy way to do that with the Web API. But I think it would be awesome to allow voting for adding or removing songs to the que.
Forgive me for being a bit out of touch.

Is the idea of a smartwatch to be your main phone, small enough to strap to your wrist? I imagined that it was more like a really good watch - primarily there to tell the time, but allowing you to use it as a phone when that would otherwise be inconvenient.

I played around with a prototype of an Android watch, and it just seemed too small to be useful. It seems like a remote control to a smartphone would be more useful - something that vibrated when I get a notification, and could send commands to Siri.
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Yep. Gear VR is like a posh Google Cardboard with a Samsung Note 4 strapped to the front (a, probably, offensive oversimplification, it actually has tech in the headset, but it's just a face-holder for the phone), and the Oculus Developer Kit is the whole thing in one package that plugs in like a monitor to your computer.
To be economically feasible, I think that light tubes, which capture sunlight and route the light indoors, would be necessary.

I grow food in two ways.

I use "earth boxes" (very water efficient) to grow veggies on our deck - where the wild pigs and other wild animals can't eat the plants.

I have about a 25x30 square foot area in a community garden. In return for doing a lot of volunteer work keeping a 1 mile irrigation ditch free and running (that supplies water to both the garden and a park) I get free water and use of the land, for non-commercial use. In other words, I can just grow food for my family and friends. Really hard physical work, but fun!
The problem is finding the balance. They will suffer without the fresh loan, but they'll suffer more if they can't cope with the fresh loan and end up in an even bigger trap with more predatory types after them. And some companies, going by certain leaked memos that have been circulating, are designed to be evil and extract as much as possible without any pretence of trying to help their customers.
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In a sense, the rules of chess are frequently changed - speed chess, chess-boxing, Cheshire Cat chess, etc.
I was thinking about that. I think the way to do the test would be to put in a known key value, then call the platform-specific equivalent of "abort and write a core file". The test would then grovel through the core looking for the known key sequence.
What in the world happened with mexico? xD
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYea... you're right to ask for a citation, I didn't specifically look it up before making the statement. It seems they are at least top 10 in recent years.
I see what you're saying and I'm not trying to come across like some kind of luddite (I likes me tech I tells ya) but I only want the jewellery I have on me to have aesthetic function only. Even the incredibly handy function of telling the time is one function too many.

And smartwatches? I don't get them. Don't you need your smartphone nearby, don't they work over bluetooth? So if your phone is in your pocket or somewhere nearby then aren't you paying an awful lot of money for a few seconds of convenience? If they work over wifi or cellular data that's another story of course.
I would consider those 'variations' rather than rule changes.
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I'm afraid i didnt get that far, to my knowledge theres no use for it outside the banking system. The example above is of an MT999 which is to send generic messages to and from systems, other codes do other things, have a google, theres a bunch of info on it.
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