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We have made some questionable choices in defining the problem of climate change and its solution:

* The definition of ‘dangerous’ climate change is ambiguous, and hypothesized catastrophic tipping points are regarded as very or extremely unlikely in the 21st century

* Efforts to link dangerous impacts of extreme weather events to human-caused warming are misleading and unsupported by evidence.

* Climate change is a ‘wicked problem’ and ill-suited to a ‘command and control’ solution

* It has been estimated that the U.S. national commitments to the UN to reduce emissions by 28% will prevent three hundredths of a degree centigrade in warming by 2100.

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Up until recently, consoles have been a bit of a weird case, since "game" in that context usually meant something more like "game plus a baked-in operating system communicating directly with the hardware". The Xbox360 and PS3 were among the first major systems (outside of the PC realm) to run games on top of an existing operating system. Even somewhat-recent consoles that ran proper operating systems (original Xbox, Wii, PS2, Gamecube IIRC) treated them more like really complicated firmware/bootloaders; execution would be transferred to the game itself even as late as the Wii (where each game would implement certain things like the Wii home-button menu individually).

In such cases, most console games were thus mostly protected from software updates on the consoles themselves, but this also made it much harder for developers to patch their games after release (they'd basically have to rerelease or otherwise introduce fixed copies of the game alongside broken ones). On the plus side, it meant that the only time one would likely have to learn a new programming method/framework/etc. was when programming for a new platform.
Consider the cultural norms of old European sword nobility. Soldiers, particularly those that saw combat, aren't treated at all in the same way today as they were 100, 500, 1000 years ago. Pre-axial religions were more to my point than axial-age, universalizing faiths like Christianity, Buddhism, Islam. For example, human and animal sacrifice.

A different example not centered on violence: carnival.

>though I am skeptical of their desirability. Perhaps the latter might be reinstated as a voluntary contract for consenting adults, but it's treading a fine line.

That's fine, but you need to realize that this viewpoint is about an ideal societal arrangement and doesn't accord with the entire range of human desire.
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Society does have alternate means of accomplishing the first without the second - there's the Peace Corps/Americorp, getting a job, starting a business, volunteerism, doing a Ph.D.

Not all paths are appropriate for all people, though.
If programming with just one instruction seems too low-level, I have just the solution for you! Now you can compile the user-friendly, high-level language of Brainfuck to this single-instruction machine!

http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2013-10-05-yo_dawg_i_heard_you_lik...
The key thing to remember is that generics are just for the compiler. There isn't anything actually embedded in the bytecode that knows what type a generic is.
My question isn't really about stabilising the platform, as others have mentioned that should be off the shelf marine tech.

But this isn't exactly landing a helicopter on a ship/platform. I'm expecting a rocket to be a fair bit heavier... as that weight comes down, unless it's perfectly on centre, you now have a large force acting to unbalance the platform. Whilst X-Y may be stabilised, the pitch and the yaw is going to be affected by that weight.
Why is it callous? Why get in the army in the first place, if not to do the work of the army? I'd be hypocritical to join the army with the desire to then avoid operations.

I can understand that people be against war. I don't like violence. I don't encourage violence and certainly do not enjoy wars. But wars exist and as a citizen, you can decide to wish that war magically weren't a thing, or do something about their existence. I did not encourage the concept of war by taking part in it, no more than I encourage system outages when I take part in building or fixing them.

War is not just war. It's not "just going somewhere to kill people". I didn't decide "Oh all that sweat wasted, better kill foreigners to make up for it". I volunteered because I thought I could make a positive influence, if any, by being a reasonable person doing their job in the most humane way I could. Not every soldier is an angry, bloodthirsty, moronic killer. Most of them aren't.

I don't wish to kill an innocent person anymore than you do. I don't wish to kill a guilty person either. But sometimes, participating in a war, or killing a person, is the only way to make the war less harmful, or prevent that person from killing many more.

Avoiding wars at all cost is not a magic bullet against wars. That's my take on it, I might be wrong.
If someone joins during a war, I agree, they are usually doing that of their own accord, modulo a few people who maybe felt they had no other economic/etc. choice. But that's not that many people, which is why the U.S. military started having recruiting problems after they launched the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: many people who had previously signed up now regretted it, and the supply of new volunteers dwindled.

My own experience with classmates is quite different, but it sounds like it's a few years prior, so it might already be out of date. Around when my friends and I graduated high school (~1999-2000) the military was seen as a reasonable career path with a primarily deterrent and strategic role, and a fairly low chance of offensive deployment. And the reserves were seen as a last-ditch force that would effectively only be called up if the U.S. or a NATO ally were invaded. Many of my classmates who entered around then signed on for this mission, and didn't agree with subsequent decisions made by the political branches to change their role. The "stop-loss orders" of 2002–03, in which they were not allowed to discharge at their originally agreed discharge date, and the calling up of the reserves for something that did not really fit the prior understanding of how reserves would be used (both done as desperate measures to make up for volunteer numbers absolutely tanking), were particularly unpopular, and at that point many no longer felt like they were still volunteers. I feel myself like I dodged a bullet by not going that path (I had talked to a recruiter in 1999, who painted a fairly appealing story about technical careers in the military).
Fixing Italy, a little bit at a time
Sounds like this guy pissed off someone who knew a NYTimes reporter.
For not helping developers make money, developers sure do make a lot of money on iOS compared to other mobile platforms.
"Callous" is probably an imprecise word choice for the sentiment you're trying to communicate. And anyway it's not necessarily immoral to go to war for this reason depending on how you perform the calculus, e.g., depending on how much government money went into training and considering most soldiers don't kill others, it might be morally permissible.

I also doubt that the commenter would wholly support going to war or that he would seriously disagree with any of the assertions in "your second paragraph". But life is hard, and people have to try to achieve their goals and form a coherent narrative out of things. You might do better to reconcile a critique of the military with the fact that people in the military are not all bad or in the wrong.
Does the US not have regulations about UAVs automatically firing of weaponry? Don't all current UAVs have human operators. The so-called "man in the loop". I'm having trouble finding evidence one way or the other but does the man in the loop have to pull the trigger or can he override a pre-programmed fire order. Allowing robots to automatically fire ordnance seems something congress would legislate against -- or at least I hope so.

I'm a little concerned with a swarm of drones controlled by one human. Humans have limited attention span -- they just can't watch 30 video feeds. Could this pre-programmed approach with limited human control lead to greater civilian causalities?
What about all the square footage present for solar panels?
Source control works similarly as to how it does with other languages. (The modified binary image thing was never the only, or the main, option).
Friendly word of advice: do not hook your "tell me a joke" response to a source of misogynistic jokes regarding feminists and domestic violence.
If you've got fixed length registers you can subtract via addition or multiplication.
My major PDFs problem is to redo the table of contents in an existing PDFs as well as changing the page numbers, so that the front page and preface don't use the first number 1,2,3... But one matches the first page of chapter 1.

Is this even possible?
Yammer is a team communication solution Microsoft already bought, but is way worse at synchronous communication (chat) than Slack, but also better at at asynchronous communication (threaded conversation, like on Facebook).

Microsoft would want to buy Slack for the same reason they spent $$$ on best-in-class products like Yammer, Sunrise, rebranding Acompli as Outlook. Slack's revenue is incredible for a startup, but a drop in the bucket for MSFT (for now). More immediately, Slack represents an entry point for Microsoft to upsell Slack's customers to other Office365 services and Azure services.
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Although you can't change the bg color, you can certainly change the coloured left-border.
So... as someone who knows him what's your take on this?
I said can't, not lacks a desire to.

Non-technical users that are unable to use IRC require more handholding than other users. I'm not capable of providing that via a chat client.
Personally, I suspect that psychology will get overhauled. It already has been to a significant degree, actually.
Not sure if images on the registry also support the new labels functionality, but that might be a way to avoid to obvious image architecture (x86 vs ARM) issues.
A quote from "This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History"

"The single greatest weakness of a free people is always their moral doubts."
How do you get the idea of isolating 100 people in a lab, half with only white rice, and half with rice and barley? You could try hundreds other kind of experiment, so why this one in particular? Specially if you think the cause is bacterial/viral in nature...

This is were epidemiology gets very useful: you look at data for correlations, and from there you can design experiments to check for causation.
Nonsense. Hello world code in Pharo / Smalltalk is still a line or two, like in other languages.

You're probably referring to the fact that there's an option to deploy the hello world PLUS the VM it runs on, in a single package. That's like saying "You can't give a Java hello world to someone under 50 MB". Yes, technically true, the couple of lines of Hello World source code don't work without a 50 MB JRE. But you're being disingenuous.
Missions can be pre-programmed, but there "will always be a human monitoring the mission", it added.

Great use of it.

Reminds me of Eclipse Phase nano swarms. The video suggests these are less than a meter in length and not yet weaponized (although the nice CG at the end suggests they will be firing off missiles to blow up random buildings in a desert like environment).

Whatever your opinion is it doesn't really matter, the US government will continue in this direction because it is expedient.
Slack is really a nice application. People have been saying email overload is a problem for years, and Slack has really put a dent in it for work/office use. Yes it's a simple app, but so is email, and simple done better is genius.

[1] http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html (pg, 2008, see number 28)
Or if you go back further raiding, blood feuds, and that sort of thing. The formation of states with their monopolies on violence was a huge change in the human condition. We certainly gave up something fundamental to the human condition when we decided that personal vengeance was anathema. But still, I think it was a good trade.
It doesn't necessarily need to be an "official" clinical trail like those done for FDA approval. That would be overkill in terms of how rigorous it is (which also means it's expensive).

Probably the best way to get the data would be a pilot with a pharmacy or PBM. Offer to cover the costs of the pilot (yes it won't be cheap) and I think you could find someone who would be game.
Have people not heard of the flynn effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Basically, IQ has been continually increasing since it was first measured, by about 3 IQ points per decade in the US. IQ tests are readjusted based on this.
Why do you think there is no visible investment/improvement in App Store UX, from the world's premier design proponent?
"We started by looking at a paper from Paul Pedriana on N2771 “EASTL -- Electronic Arts Standard
Template Library”. While this paper was submitted in 2007, neither chairs of LWG recall reviewing this
paper and no record of its review exists."

I give you the C++ standardization committee. Someone submits a paper to them with their issues and, moreover with solutions fully implemented in a library and also details the whys and wherefores. I have nothing to say whether this was good, bad or middling work just that the C++ standardization committee "has no record" of actually having read and considered it 8 years later and the chairs don't recall doing so. But I'm sure they all ran around as "anointed smart people" claiming all the others on the committee are anointed smart people instead. Sorry if I'm sounding a bit bitter but they really need to be called out, this is really gross. It's contemptuous of people making the effort to make the language better is the best you can say of it. Arrogant, stupid, unkind, vicious and bitter might describe me and I am sorry for it if you feel that way (please note it and I will try to do better), but I think it's also a fair description of this act by the committee.

Also on the front page today was Bruce Eckel's "thoughts on scala" which were utterly ridiculous for the first 10 minutes I watched. -He's a C++ stanardization committee alumni.

"We feel that a holistic "here's a new STL and our problems" approach to any change seems a bit
doomed. "

WTF? You can't learn anything about what changes are desirable in the language from the implementation of how they solved their problems and assess whether they are more generally applicable? Pieces of them aren't worth assessing to be just adopted (or rejected)? You can't criticise what they tried and note the implementation and why the STL can do better?

Seriously if you can't learn anything from this on the committee what the hell are you doing? Well NOW they are looking at it, hurrah! While justifying why it wasn't done before, boo!

Mea culpa and a rocket up the committee members of the time seems vastly more appropriate if you actually care about this language. (Obviously if you don't, resign from the committee, immediately, anything else is immoral) If the members didn't care then, highlight the fact and state it is unacceptable going forward.

If it's common or garden (hopefully isolated) incompetence like all of us display at times. "We're very sorry this happened." Would seem to be about the minimum standard here. It's the arrogance that goes along with the committee when they act like this that really gets me.
Note that that solution won't work with signed values, and compilers will happily optimize out the check in that case.
"there is an innate element in young men trying to prove themselves. I think YCombinator appeals to a similar desire."

being young, male and bottom of the totem-pole, a place where you are valued, relied on, protect and protect others why wouldn't a kid see this as a great option. Junger makes the point a number of times that as a 17-26y/o you are 6 times more likely to be killed than F or other M in different age groups. You are physically safer in the services.

"Alternate rites of passage, I would think. We need more of those."

Second that. What ROPs will youngsters choose without some element of danger though, to prove themselves? I'm convinced the danger element/risk seeking and success is bound tightly with ROP. That was my youth, though I'd been well trained in calculated risk.
I guess it depends on how you define "profiteering". The drug distribution business has many competitors and margins are razor thin (think <2%).

PBMs are also pretty competitive and I don't think they make a ton of money either.

As for insurance companies, the ACA put limits on profit.
It's actually kind of fascinating that the HN shortened title omits "games," which is really what this document focuses on. Specifically the document investigates "EASTL", i.e. the Electronic Arts STL, and how its learnings can be applied to the common STL.

The actual title: "Towards improved support for games, graphics, real-time, low latency, embedded systems."

These little pieces of censorship—that's not a sign that for some reason, we really don't like to talk about games. There's no pervasive second-class-citizenry attitude towards gaming. I don't really know how to interpret the omission, other than it's a little piece of little consequence.

Gaming keeps surfacing in places big and small as a motivation behind some technical or business innovation. Here we get very real improvements to the STL. This certainly matters: we celebrate Quake's square-root estimation trick as a cultural artifact, evidence of the beauty of programming. Elsewhere, in recent news, we hear Stewart Butterfield's narrative, which was as much about Flickr and Slack as it is about his twice-failed game concept. Lots of ideas and characters in the tech world have touched gaming in one way or another.

In my personal background at my startup, I keep running into folks pushed out of gaming. They start making "apps." Surrounded by app people, I might miss that a third of all new apps in the App Store are actually games[0]. Even then, games are disproportionately represented in Apple Design Awards. It's tough to get an accurate figure we'd all agree on, but I believe games are nonetheless also overrepresented in revenue (definitely from the looks of top grossing, if we're strictly speaking about mobile software).

If we really want to talk about software, I'd expect 1/3 to 1/2 of the content on the front page to actually be about games. It's certainly what most software people are working on, and it is probably where the plurality of the money is made. I'm not going to speculate as to why (I'd leave that for certain ex-Google developers, who possibly wanted to make a card game all his life). Here, we're actually seeing gaming omitted from the title, as though it's verboten.

[0] http://www.pocketgamer.biz/metrics/app-store/
For some values of "humor". (Just don't ask it to tell you a joke.)
Treating them as seperate languages would be silly, since they aren't. There are some gotchas, but it's far from porting code to a different language.
The article specifically mentions using this motor for hybrid passenger aircraft (which is what my post addressed). I mentioned nothing about UAVs or solar power (which is only possible with an enormous wing/fuselage ratio).

FTA:
"This innovation will make it possible to build series hybrid-electric aircraft with four or more seats," said Frank Anton, Head of eAircraft at Siemens Corporate Technology
War is Boring has some really great writing both on current military journalism and historical. If those interest you at all the blog is a must read.
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AMD has been pathetic business wise for a long time now. Everything they do is stupid and makes no sense, they seem to be paralysed from the inside. Even when they manage to roll out a product it doesnt go nowhere. All their mobile APU announcements are on paper, there is no hardware on the market(or rather one small product that goes unnoticed and quickly discontinued). The only solid division left is GPU, the remnants of ATI. AMD used to do great things. They took Alpha, glued x86 decoders, married it with Motorola SOI process and BEAT Intel leading desktop PC performance race thru year 2000.

Nowadays? They sit on ARM SoC for 2 years now, while small Chinese shops ship new chips every 6-9 months. Even Nvidia was able to ship something (slow, too late, and too expensive, but they SHIPPED every time). It seems like there is someone at AMD simply deciding its not worth the effort to even try. Like this SeaMicro - W T F? You buy 300mil company and do NOTHING?

Yes AMD, micro server business didnt sell any of your chips .. because you DIDNT EFFIN TRIED TO SELL ANYTHING :/

This is the sign of Ivory Tower thinking at AMD HQ. They are all too smart, too well off, to content with life and too disconnected to do anything. Only hungry desperate people are able to make leaps, AMD forgot to be hungry.
Because the people that care about design don't really care about the App Store (they care about products instead), and the people that run the App Store don't really have an incentive to try and make dramatic changes in something that, from their perspective, is wildly successful. Change might break things, especially when operating on the scale that Apple is (just think of what the load must be on the App Store).
"I also highly recommend Restrepo, and the follow up, Korengal."

and, "The Last Patrol" ~ https://youtu.be/KwOAVSprv64
As Sun Tzu said, the greatest warrior is the one who need never fight. While this can be interpreted as a pacifist/moral sentiment, it is really deeply practical: fighting incurs risks and resources, even if victorious. The most effective victories come from a credible deterrent which is never actually used. So I don't think your training would have been wasted by not seeing combat, any more than a policeman's weapon is wasted even if it is never fired.
Missions can be pre-programmed, but there "will always be a human monitoring the mission", it added.
Great use of it.

Reminds me of Eclipse Phase nano swarms. The video suggests these are less than a meter in length and not yet weaponized (although the nice CG at the end suggests they will be firing off missiles to blow up random buildings in a desert like environment).

Whatever your opinion is it doesn't really matter, the US government will continue in this direction because it is expedient.
As I know, it went something like this:

-Both wanted x86 for better usability (PS3 Cell was a hard-to-tame beast for many devs, ARM not strong enough)

-Intel was not interested in manufacturing semi-custom chips

-Nvidia simply did not have x86 licenses

-AMD was left as the only option

Of course other things also factored in the big picture, profit margins for example, but those are more known.
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That billion dollar settlement came after they had to close down their fabs due to the anti-competitive moves that Intel had made. A billion doesn't come close to the set-back it caused them. During that time, for those who don't remember, AMD literally couldn't give their chips away, because the vendor kickbacks from Intel still made Intel the better choice.