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Here's where things go wildly wrong:

> Since computers don't have bodies, let alone sensations

Computers are not non-physical, they definitely have bodies (the physical machines which include the circuitry for executing their software and its necessary support mechanisms); they also can, and often do, have sensory systems providing inputs regarding the state of the world both external (e.g., cameras, microphones) and internal (e.g., temperature sensors) to their "bodies".

It may be that the "bodies" of current computers are structurally dissimilar to human bodies in ways which are detrimental to human style cognition -- its certainly true that they aren't build on the same kind of biomechanical design and it may well be that the web of biomechanical feedback loops in the body is important to human intelligence and isn't readily simulated in systems using the technologies used for modern digital computers. But even if that's true, it doesn't say we can't have AI, it just means our AI may need to be built on adifferent set of technologies, e.g., perhaps using biological rather than silicon substrates. But engineering biological systems is something we can do, and with increasing facility.

The belief that AI is physically impossible -- rather than just a very hard engineering problem -- is equivalent to the belief that intelligence is, itself, not a phenomenon governed by the laws of the physical universe, but magic that intrudes effects into the physical universe from outside that cannot be reproduced by physical means.
One thing that comes to mind is that unless you can pull them down to 24Hz, it will really suck to watch a 24Hz movie on a 30Hz TV.
Same situation for me. Been doing it for a long time now. Just remember to take time out to spend with the kids. Sure, the old adage that they grow up so fast is true, but also spending that time refreshes you. It will also ensure that you retain the dogged persistence to reach that goal.
I still fondly remember doing a Stage 1 install on Pentium 3 era 800Mhz Celeron with 512MB of RAM.

Days! Days of compilation.
NLUlite: Natural language parser and database
Yes, it is very simple. Docker.io uses LXC where the virtualization layer occurs at the kernel space while applications such as VMware ThinApp and others occur at the user level intercepting Windows APIs which are at a higher level than the kernel. App-V and SWV adds a filtering driver as a way to sandbox registry and filesystem.

One difference in the approach is that, for example, with Docker.io you can have your own isolate network interface while with the current Windows approach this is not possible.
Huh, odd... I'm afraid to investigate further you'd have to ask the game author to trial a non-minified version with you. I'd be keen to find out the cause so if there's an issue in Construct 2 we can fix it.
Taking a pause from all the drama.

AsciiDoc is really close to Markdown, is well specified and has a lot of features that are missing from MD like tables and footnotes.

If you want to migrate, rename the .md files to .adoc and fix the links syntax. Github supports that format out of the box and http://asciidoctor.org/ also has browser extensions to do live rendering of your local files.
> Like all geek culture, [video game] culture is little more than the consumption of media as a means of identity formation.

Already in the first paragraph I'm not so sure about the premise of this article... I don't connect with people who play video games just because they play video games, but because of a shared experience, language, and shared understanding that comes about from playing specific video games. Part of that involves the creation of ideas external to the immediate content of the video game itself, and it's often something that the creators of the game did not at all intend to be a central identifying feature. The cultural connections with someone are stronger with immediate shared experiences, which makes them decidedly personal. I can provide plenty of examples of this phenomenon.

But even if you want to play devil's advocate and agree with the claim, it must necessarily extend to almost all "culture," be it art, news, food, music, movies. The vast majority of people in any culture are consumers of the fruits of that culture. This article makes it seem like an inherently bad thing, or a reason to belittle the culture. But the logical conclusion of the idea is ludicrous, because culture is an unambiguously good feature of human society.

This isn't to defend misogynistic gamers (who I sincerely hope are an increasingly small fraction of gamers that just happen to be extremely vocal on the internet), but just to disagree with the unreasonable train of logic used in the article.
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Link: http://www.coelevate.com/essays/5-steps-to-choose-your-custo...
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There are two separate issues here:
1. You're losing your job, so you are losing the income needed to support yourself.
2. You want to find work that is more rewarding.

Please do not confuse the two. Your priority right now should be to fix issue 1, unless you have sizable savings you do not mind burning through.

In other words, find a new job, even it is not your dream job, and then work on exploring new fields (in your own time) to see what you connect with.
Creator here, what would you like to know?
Reminds me of Figure, an app (for iPhone) by Propellerhead of Reason fame. See https://www.propellerheads.se/products/figure/.
Yes. The Premier League is pretty hard on image rights, which is one of the reasons why we're using illustrations instead of actual photos.
Gentoo is often ridiculed for trying to squeeze more performance by using platform-specific compiler settings, but this misses the point.

It is the only distribution that can deal with the rapidly-changing nature of open-source software. Most open-source libraries are not designed with long-term viability in mind, and are not ready for binary distribution. Distribution makers put a lot of effort into actually making things work in the long term. Gentoo takes a different approach: just assume that you will be recompiling pretty much everything, regularly.

The result is a surprisingly maintainable system. As long as you update it regularly, it won't tell you to perform this monstrous cliffhanger upgrade, or reinstall using a newer version.

Sure, there is always breakage, but Gentoo has a different tradeoff: minor breakage happening more often vs major breakage happening when major releases are done.
The definitive Moto 360 review roundup
Whichever color scheme you choose, make sure it works for colorblind folks too! I'm not colorblind myself, but I know it's a good source of frustration for them.
Checkout this:
http://clrs.cc/

and try not to use similar colors after each other.
Has any of this supposed feud been documented publicly by either side? I'd imagine doing so could complicate things quite a bit.
I have seen some indications[1] that such a clause may be illegal.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/off-duty-conduct-empl...
LinkedIn Publishing: 727,632 Views in 30 Days
Saying "the man" or "the woman" is much more informative than saying "the person" in a title, especially in an article that is as much about character as about research.
Can anyone explain like I'm 5 what this is? I'm a Rails dev but kind of new to the Ops side of things. Thanks!
Some states tried that but iirc any that made it to a court challenge were struck down. Quite a few places have started issuing memos reminding officers that the public does have the right to record and they can only stop them if they're actually interfering with the arrest.
You honestly don't seem to be aware of the kind of unregulated taxi service that's common in the world and that we're talking about. I think it's probably best for you to bow out of the conversation until you learn more about them.
Thanks Petrosh!,

That's the idea, to start thinking about names and how can be improved, Location Aware Names is just a starting point not a final product.
Clearly there is a need for something like payday loans, where people in dire straits can get small cash infusion to get them by. It also seems to be the general consensus that these same people are "high-risk", and so require higher interest rates.

So what's the solution to this problem? Clearly a lot of (maybe all) of the payday loan-type places are evil -- is there a way to service these customers without being evil? Would a not-for-profit (or perhaps even a not-for-an-exorbitant-profit) payday loan organization be possible? Or would the typical nasty collections process, the thousands of dollars of interest on a $500 loan still be required, even if the people at the top weren't becoming millionaires?

I guess what I'm asking is, in the story, we see someone paying something like $3900 on a $700 loan, made by one of these evil companies. What would their total bill be if the loan was made by a non-profit organization? Would it be more like $1000, or still closer to $3900?
Similarly, I created a new coreos droplet just to play around, neglected to add the cloud_config yaml configuration. I couldn't find a setting to add it to the droplet afterwards.
This looks a promising approach to the chaos that is writing reusable and maintainable CSS. I wonder about performance though, especially on mobile. Will this perform as good as regular class-written CSS, even if you have >2000 loc CSS files?
> smart watches currently seem like tablets before the iPad. There's something not quite right about them but it's hard to pinpoint. I'm hoping that Apple is going to come along and fix that next week.

Paste an Apple logo sticker on it if that makes you feel better...
ok, well to me that doesn't work for me, I'd prefer:

"show me a great piece of clothing as exactly worn by a celeb, then let me buy it"
Being an Entrepreneur Is Really Hard
Everybody keeps giving examples of Uber in SF, but we haven't been talking about Uber for quite a while, and none of my claims or questions were about Uber.
No, you're not showing me any respect.

I see I attracted a lot of negative attention. It's not safe to share certain experiences on the Internet, thus the warning at the beginning of the post.

I've also seen other people using it and my response is genuine. I don't think that the substance will help the user on the long run and I find meditation a much better alternative.
This image uses the CoreOS Alpha channel, which is not supposed to be used for production[1]. It "closely tracks current development work and is released frequently" so I would be using it with the knowledge that things might break. In other words, CoreOS on DigitalOcean should only be used for trying out CoreOS and not for running production apps (for now). But if I were going to do that, there is already a Vagrant setup[2] that is super easy to use. Hopefully DigitalOcean will provide a CoreOS Stable image soon.

On the subject of DigitalOcean images, there was a severe Docker bug[3] the last month or so that made Linux kernel 3.15 unusable. Linode let me easily select a 3.14 kernel to use for my host OS to get around the bug, but DigitalOcean doesn't have that level of granularity. So DigitalOcean either needs to provide more fine-tuned configuration of images or provide a CoreOS Stable image before I would think of using it for production Docker containers.

Finally, CoreOS is still an enormous pain[4] to install on Linode, so I hope this gives Linode a strong nudge to make it easier to install there.

[1]: https://coreos.com/releases/

[2]: https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/platforms/vagrant/

[3]: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/6345

[4]: http://serverfault.com/a/620513/85897
Willow Garage Founder Scott Hassan Aims to Build a Startup Village
As a C dev, no. First, stack allocation is a type of "automatic memory management", and in most situations we C devs are perfectly comfortable with it. Second, in terms of how the memory is allocated/deallocated, the above doesn't sound any different than stack allocation. The difference is more like "volatile", telling the compiler "this memory is special, treat it carefully", and it mostly doesn't seem unreasonable. Note that C compilers frequently have extensions providing a way of naming destructors for particular variables. It probably would still be possible to skip it with a non-local jump (longjmp or computed goto) but avoiding those in security conscious code is probably already standard - it basically is in most code I've encountered.
I use funtoo for my personal server... It's partly because I've used gentoo for so long that I understand it well and I find it very easy to mainting. I also love the fact that it's just easy to install newer versions of any software I need which is great for development and testing (which tends to be more of a problem with ubuntu and debian in my experience where I often end up having to compile from source). That said while I use funtoo on my server, I use ubuntu LTS on the servers of my clients. It's just much easier if there are other people working together.

I used to use gentoo for my laptop and desktop until I switched to Mac and while I do like Mac OS X, I kind of miss the freedom I had with running gentoo. I enjoyed spending hours to scripting fvwm just the way I liked it :-)
I disagree with the basic premise that Tom's was a source of good before the purchase, let alone that it is one now. Flooding the markets of developing countries with free clothing -- ie, goods that those countries already have the skill and infrastructure to create and sell -- is harmful to their economies.

Throwing free shoes at these markets shuts down the people trying to make a living for themselves making shoes. We're not talking about software here, it doesn't take a great deal of skill or resources to make shoes. 2/3rds of readers' clothing here probably comes out of the developing markets that Tom's floods.

I will consider Tom's a "charitable organization" when they build and hand over ownership of factories and farms for free.
Essentially it lets you run 20 super-lightweight VMs on a single machine... Each one of those could be running different apps, and Docker makes it really easy to build a custom machine image using a single script (called a Dockerfile) using any standard linux OS as a base.

So yes, powering 20 thin clients running different apps from a single server is a perfect use case.
Why Women Stand to Change the Face of Mobile Gaming
I wholeheartedly agree.

We had these things called RedBooks at MetaDesign in SF. A huge library of notes, sketches, diagrams and final work etc from each project. There is something about the tangability of a physical book when you want to retrieve information thats just much more intuitive than having some complex structure on some hard disk somewhere. It's simply the wrong way to use computers.

The force of digitalizing information is the ability to retrieve contextual information from a fuzzy collection of knowledge.
Not a well-informed article.
I also have fond memories of gentoo. I got my start in linux using GentooX on a chipped Xbox :). I had a dedicated TSOP flashed Xbox running Cromwell bios as my main server throughout my middleschool / highschool years. I did stage1 installs on all my machines and it was a blast and great learning experience.
Each of the PCI graphics cards in your 2002 PowerMac was using a long-established standard signal (VGA) to communicate with the monitors, so there was no problem.

If you build the graphics card into the monitor, you'd need a new (non-existant) standard to pipe graphics bitmaps and draw instructions between the PC and the monitor. (Unless X is up to the task... hahah)

OR, you could just extend PCI express over cables to the monitors. Which would work (you can already buy PCI express breakout boxes) but then you have much greater latency between the card and the system, etc etc etc.
Droplets running CoreOS will receive automatic updates through the normal CoreOS update service.
I agree. Their pop culture section is garbage.

They do go into dire situations that are under reported. Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be much of a bias in said reporting.

But, when it comes to any sort of opinion piece, pop culture, or something of the like, the bias is overwhelming. I remember there was an article about a woman who went to the Bush Library at SMU. It was obnoxious. Terrible writing.
Don't be daft. It might be possible to take you seriously if anyone, ever, had made the same complaint about an article entitled "The Woman Who Will XYZ". In fact, such articles are celebrated as encouraging more STEM awareness and participation by women, providing positive role models, and other benefits -- which I fully support.
I made a non animated and "cut to the chase" slideshow you can acces on a "Slides are too slow?" link now on the website, hope that improves the experience!.
To fair-minded proponents of #GamerGate
Vultr have supported CoreOS for a while (and FreeBSD!)

https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/vultr...
Sorry about that!.

I made a non animated and "cut to the chase" slideshow you can acces on a "Slides are too slow?" link now on the website, hope that improves the experience!.
Good read! thanks
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about it. So if I want to make money selling apps, I better appeal to women. ;)
I'd gladly buy one, or even four, if they just worked.

Unfortunately, high-res multimonitor setups are
horrendously unstable

Trickle-down effect, friend! Today's bleeding edge is (usually) tomorrow's mainstream.

This bleeding edge problems are (unfortunately) a necessary first step towards that.
Hands-on: Moto 360 is a great leap forward for Android smartwatches
My grandmother runs a (quite large) group that provides a similar type of community for retired women over 65. It's a really interesting idea: they're all very smart and do a lot of interesting stuff. Most memorably they gave speeches in the Connecticut state senate advocating the right to euthanasia for terminally ill people of sound mind.
If you don't accept that there is something we haven't yet explained because we haven't found the right paradigm to explain it yet you're stopping the evolution of science at the current level.

At the moment science has a materialistic view, but for all we know in a 100 years they'll discover things that we're unable to imagine now as we are thinking within science's current principles.

So magic is just undocumented science :P
The Alpha channel contains some work to interoperate with the DigitalOcean metadata service properly. CoreOS promotes images roughly every two weeks. So in that time, the first Beta will become available on DigitalOcean and about two weeks after that the Stable channel will be available as well.
Good read thanks!
Great, thanks for that! Not a sysadmin by trade so didn't know whether I'd misinterpreted how it worked.
Actually I did some sleuthing from the minified code and found where it corresponds to in our engine. It's just calling a tick function on one of the behaviors, and I guess from the error report it's calling a function on an array with an empty element in it. No idea how that could fail or why it would only happen on one system and not another, this is probably only Javascript logic. Maybe the author is using an old version of C2, or a broken third party plugin... or you have a buggy extension that runs in incognito mode?! I still want to get to the bottom of it, maybe if you head over to our forum at www.scirra.com/forum and post there we can dive deeper.
A Radical View of Software Licensing and Piracy
I completely get that, but we're talking about something that is $250 and supposed to bring a benefit to your life. If it's offering no additional benefit beyond the other devices other than looking nice, does it warrant such high praise? I personally don't think so. You're letting a poor product slide just because of it looking nice.
Sounds fun and I would definitely play with my friends :)

Add touch controls for mobile devices if possible (check PewPew for a similar movement mechanic) and you got yourself a pretty fun mobile game. I'm not sure if mobile browsers would be up to the task though, just throwing random ideas.

Does Construct2 include networking and lag compensation? It's hard to achieve smooth gameplay over the internet, especially for fast-paced games like this one. Check [1] for a great resource on networking.

I have some experience on game networking. Feel free to contact me at (el + my HN username) at gmail if you need some help.

[1] http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
CoreOS has a pretty great update mechanism. You can read about it here: https://coreos.com/using-coreos/updates/

In short, CoreOS maintains two OS partitions, A and B. When an update is available, it is automatically downloaded to the B partition, and upon reboot the B partition becomes active, effectively rotating the partitions.
Currently the mafia could advertise as being cheaper than Wonga.
Check out Head to Toe with Lenny Kravitz. http://vimeo.com/88261633 - he goes through one of his outfits and where he got the items, and declares his fashion philosophy "Be Yourself."

He's wearing it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM_8YbRZYps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22tbWQgp5g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j93MoZdeU (and in numerous photos from 2011 (with slight differences))

Not sure where this could lead, but that video alone could be on the site. Even that philosophy would be useful to people who have not realized it yet.
Yes but people shouldn't be running much outside their bodies comfort zone so it should always be pretty efficient for getting your thoughts in order and think. It does for me at least but it only did once my spacial awareness was at a level that I could do things like get out of the way of people and increase or decrease my level on the pavement without much thought. It doesn't happen straight away but develops pretty quickly at least for me. I can do about 12km/hr for 1-2 hours without issue but sprints etc make me have to focus completely on the running so they're no good.
Entrepreneurs Need to Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap
>Of Ray Kurzweil’s singularity thesis, he says, "I don’t believe it for a second." Computers can run models of neural processes, he says, but absent bodily experience, those models will never actually be conscious.

Ironically, Kurzweil is big in to the stuff the article goes on about like bodily sensory input, metaphor and using fMRI to see what is going on. From his recent book:

"Inputs from the body (estimated at hundreds of megabits per second), including that of nerves from the skin, muscles, organs, and other areas, stream into the upper spinal cord."
...
"Key cells called lamina 1 neurons create a map of the body."

"A key aspect of creativity is the process of finding great metaphors - symbols that represent something else. The neocortex is a great metaphor machine, which accounts for why we are a uniquely creative species."
The Media Must Find a Way to Support Freelancers Who Risk Their Lives
Right, but watching a 24hz source on a 30hz screen is pretty bad - the technical term is "judder" if you want to learn more.
There is also:

Harrison, P. J., and Stevens, C. F., 'A Bayesian Approach to Short-term Forecasting', Operational Research Quarterly, 22, No. 4. December 1971.

Harrison, P. J., and Stevens, C. F., 'Bayesian Forecasting', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological), 38, No.3, 1976.
[Xiaomi] Hugo Barra Answers the Privacy Issues on Redmi Note and Mi Cloud
3 mantras to shape winning teams
>This isn't to defend misogynistic gamers (who I sincerely hope are an increasingly small fraction of gamers that just happen to be extremely vocal on the internet.

It's in the industry, too. It's not just a vocal minority.
Attribute selectors have the worst performance of any selector. Coupling that with the =~ operator is even more cause for concern. This is why classes and id exist.