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Could Indie Filmmakers Use Robots as Camerapeople? Maybe, Yes
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> Adria Richards did a lot of wrong when she tried to ruin someone else's life

Since ludicrous lies like yours are so common, I feel compelled to reiterate that the sum total of what Ms. Richards did was say something was "not cool" and ask the convention organizers "Can someone talk to these guys about their conduct?"

Those two direct quotes are the complete entirety of her actions against them.
21 is best understood as an attempt by the VC community to break the Chinese Bitcoin mining monopoly. 21 doesn't appear to be working on Lightning Network like layer 2 technologies that would make the Bitcoin micropayments for server bandwidth viable on the blockchain. In fact as useful financial applications of on chain transactions start to materialize, even P2P payments may start to struggle to be included in blocks.

21 faces one of the most profound information security problem faced by any company. They propose to put their companies capital assets into the homes of consumers and then extract value from those assets in a manner adversarial to the consumers interests. End users/attackers can do everything from blackhole the network traffic of the device to modify the firmware to target the hashing power to a new mining pool. Virtually any weakness in the engineering has the potential to be exploited at vast scale. This should terrify them.
You can throw a lot of CPU power at your Websphere apps and do things like lease capacity on demand. It's useful in some business models. Power8 cut the power/cooling requirements dramatically.

If your employer historically likes IBM, it makes sense. I don't think they have any new customer acquisition.
The thing is, those apps aren't very useful at Windows either.

Get to any Windows user, and ask him when was the last time his anti-virus stopped him from doing anything. Malware has adapted since the 90's.
You say it's not about race, but let me point you to the story of a Texas freelance racist who was supported by many racist cops and citizens for a long time. I have lived in Texas all my life, and he is a household name among people who care about civil rights.

I don't mention this to say civil forfeiture is necessarily racist, as much as to point out that it is a tool entirely too attractive to them. And they are using it as much as they can, here.

http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27/coleman_convicted.ht...
There would no doubt be plenty hacking to disable them, or modify to feed the Bitcoins back to the user.

It certainly raises some interesting problems with ownership... if I can modify my hardware/software to disable unwanted features, this certainly fits in that category.

A USB charger that phoned home? If it's free, I'd certainly take it and modify it so it doesn't, in a similar fashion to the way a Lenovo laptop with Superfish would get its OS wiped and reinstalled.
Check out Tim Follin's N-channels-through-1-bit on the Spectrum's piezo-electric buzzer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42WuUpBuHE (AgentX)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hPOUvgKTA (AgentX II)
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There are some topics that are impossible to discuss even for 5 minutes, before it turns ugly with labels, name calling etc. Gender topics top that list (others include religion, political affiliation, eating meat etc). May be what you are saying is true, still it would be nice to refrain from name calling etc, right? Not that it bothers me personally, it just diverts the conversation from the actual issue. In the end, many people just keep quiet as they realize nothing they say is going to help.

We have managed to figure out how to land on the moon and yet we can't figure out how to weigh certain issues on their merit, and merit only.
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this topic and the power8 have come up before.. i think it boils down to what companies have already invested in. if you have a strong AIX team already supporting power/ibm infrastructure, this is great. you have one of the fastest system platforms out there.

however, if your application/workload can be distributed over multiple machines, Intel is going to eat your lunch on cost, as you can buy several of these new Xeon systems and crush it.

not all of us have the luxury of control over the software we use (many enterprise shops are held hostage by vendor software which hasn't scaled out, and continues to depend on scaling up, because distributed is hard)
Graeber: governments, to pay soldiers, came up with the first currencies.
In Poland we had free data plans for a couple years now from company called Aero2 - they won the right to use a certain frequency,but only under the guarantee that they would offer free data usage on their network to everyone(for up to 5 years I think?). So I know a lot of people who bought cheap 3G modems and got their simcard with Aero2 just to have free internet at home, there are no usage limitations, except for the speed limitation(is limited up to 5mbps)). There is no contract either, you order the simcard online and can use it straight away.
You've handed out a math assignment that was an open unsolved problem

Yes.

and not told your students what you had done prior to them leaving for the day?

No. As the comment I responded to says: I

reveal the full truth after they have been working for fifteen minutes or so.
The war on drugs is a war on due process. It should bother you.
"To this point, foreigners have found it complicated to participate in managing Estonian companies. The e-resident’s digital ID provides the needed flexibility"

http://www.grantthornton.ee/infokiri/en/the-digital-e-reside...
Some CDs are distorted because the mixers boost the volume until it clips. No doubt this could end up influencing a music style in the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
A vicious racist killer is proudly displayed on our $20 bill, after all...
From Q&A:

"Q: How is this different from previous VM escape vulnerabilities?

A: Most VM escape vulnerabilities discovered in the past were only exploitable in non-default configurations or in configurations that wouldn’t be used in secured environments. Other VM escape vulnerabilities only applied to a single virtualization platform, or didn’t directly allow for arbitrary code execution."

Edit: Xen advisory: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-133.html
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There are so many problems with this article.

> A cohort study of patients older than 65 who were their own control found that all cause mortality was 3.6% higher when patients were taking the newer antidepressants for one year than when they did not take antidepressants.

This is a well known effect where depressed people previously didn't have the energy to follow through with suicides. Some antidepressants increase energy much sooner than they improve mood and so you have a depressed person who now has the energy to follow through with suicide.

Edit: I just realized this article presents both sides of the argument. This just seems like super clickbait for a hot button issue.
I dont understand. Could you explain why?
Me want.

And that's just my born in Computer Shopper Pavlovian response to articles about new more powerful CPU's. I have no idea what I would do with eight fifteen core CPU's and six terabytes of RAM other than write checks to Alabama Power and think of ways to mention it in casual conversations. I mean a 911 Turbo? at least I could use it to pick up hamburger buns.

At a deeper level, I always wonder, what [besides mining bitCoin] would other people hack up with a monstrous amount of computing power on the order of a data center in a container?
This is very true. The propaganda filter is gone now.

>Now we steal their money.

Subtle comment but it's true. Most white, affluent citizens don't ever run into these types of police state problems. In a sense, we are no different than leap_ahead in that we are finally seeing what the poor black community has had to experience for generations.

It's scary for sure but the zeitgeist seems to be shifting. I have high hopes of the future but then again maybe I'm just overly optimistic.
If we decide to measure time in tenths of an attosecond, no, it won't do.

But if you want to measure in seconds, 64 bits are enough already.
It's extremely odd that the article completely fails to mention the real apocalypse that almost broke Eve, and was the real motivator for the establishment of the CSM years before the Summer of Rage: staff cheating. In an MMO, not having staff play the game often leads to a strong disconnect between the company's interpretation of the state of the game and the reality, but in an MMO like Eve where the entire game is built on forging long term interpersonal relationships on a massive scale, having staff play the game can present a great danger too.

The most successful of the early 0.0 power alliances was fueled in part by having a developer who revealed his identity to the alliance leadership, funneled limited rare items (blueprints) to them which were used to fund the alliance's growth, and abused their GM powers to threaten other alliances.

The revelation was a massive blow to the playerbase's faith in CCP and the CSM was established in large part to increase the transparency and communication between CCP and the playerbase, as some of the foul play was long-suspected but the concerns unheeded.
Not ill for 32 years (except the minor flu/cold once every 2/3 years), and what you feel is delusional, is real to me.

My immune system does what it needs to do and I can eat from the ground, i live a lot from dumpster dived food, have walked barefoot for months through cities and nature. Even when I had an open wound from dancing in glass that I didn't feel at that moment, I have walked all night through dirty discotheque floors, rat infested city squares, before I found out the next morning when I woke up that there was a wound, black with dirt and crap in it.

Anyway, look up information about the power of the mind, you can manifest anything you need and whatever you believe in becomes real. I thought it was the biggest bullshit ever, until I found out it's true by experience.
Most American women won't call themselves feminists because it has a bad image. Where do you get your idea of "cool"? I am curious!
Well that's not on when I pay good money to Vodafone for the same service.
>And two, there's not a lot of point in spending $300k to get $12.5k back from the government. //

Don't injured parties receive costs from the perpetrators in USA courts? The risk may not be worth it but provided you have reasonable legal costs they get paid, surely? Also if the action is without due process or is malicious then you'd get punitive damages as well wouldn't you [which would have to be high to discourage the behaviour in the future]? At least in a democracy you'd have these things ...
Some high-end workstations are sold with Xeon CPU's. I had one years ago, and while overall it 'felt' like a high-quality machine, it didn't really feel like it was that much better than other machines for software development (C++).

So, does anyone have experience with today's Xeon based workstations? Are they worth the 1-2k (or more, if you go crazy...) premium?
Venkat Panchapakesan, chief of engineering at YouTube, has died
Yes, this all can be improved with practice. But it also means caring differently about the outcome of communication. Like it might take more than one conversation, or it might not matter all that much if you can't get your ideas across to the other person this particular moment.

I find I argue a lot less with people as I get older unless I really know the person, because it's so easy to be misinterpreted. I've found that a Socratic approach helps a ton if I'm not thinking straight - asking more questions about the areas I am worried about is easier to form for me when I am not able to articulate a position. By asking questions you are simultaneously showing empathy and communicating your own thoughts.

A lot of it depends on the situation and past history - sometimes people are in need of a full bore reality check and don't need much empathy. :)

Other times it helps if you care less about the outcome of the conversation - ie. It's okay to defer the issue to give you time to think. Or to just let the other person "win", if the topic isn't all that important.

Anyway I appreciate you sharing the experience, it made me reflect on how I have changed.
Since the article was written, bowhead whales have been discovered to live 200 years, making them the longest-lived mammals.
In general I agree with your sentiment, but not to the extent that you do. 40 people a day die from prescription painkiller overdoses. They are, in fact, addictive. And they can and will kill you if abused. (http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20111101/4...)

I'm very much a libertarian kind of guy and part of me wants to say "well so, its their life, let them do what they want". But these deaths have serious societal repercussions: the removal of an otherwise productive body and the orphaning of children.

I don't like shades of gray, but this seems like the government overreacting to a problem. I don't think people should go to jail because of substance abuse, I do think that people in legitimate pain deserve to be relieved from that pain, but I also think the government has a legitimate role in regulating these drugs.
Are you saying that this article has a summary or TLDR at the bottom? I didn't find any.
Not sure about India, but China is already in trouble

http://www.forbes.com/sites/china/2011/05/13/chinas-growing-...
> There are a weird number of posts here unequivocally saying "the women did it".

I don't see any posts saying that women are responsible for the current condition of men; only ones saying that they are, in some ways, far more privileged in terms of being treated favorably in the average case. Please feel free to link or quote any posts that say "It's specifically only the female part of society that is responsible for this." I am pretty sure they won't be anywhere near the top.

If you asked me, I would say that it is mainly large corporations, political parties, and some educational institutions that cheerlead femininity and demonize masculinity in the hope of getting more votes/sales/students. These can have both male and female components.

> We think that getting men having simple conversations about their mental health will make it easier for them to seek help when they need it.

This is correct. However, you are talking about addressing the symptom, and the so-called MRAs about addressing the cause. You are saying "it is essential to get quinine to malaria victims", and they are saying "there are a lot of disease vectors here, how can we stop them?". It is not at all clear that one view is more valid than the other.
From a mainstream consumer software startup's standpoint I'm pretty sure adoption of mobile is still the biggest trend. The last 10 years was about everyone starting to have "smartphones" and mobile internet access. Now it's about society adjusting to "mobile" and doing more with their phones. Just look at Snapchat, Periscope or how people use Messenger. We definitely have at least 5 more years of major innovation in mobile usage. I think we're only about to hit the "early-majority" stage.
Adopt an standardized OS would push manufacturers out of business.

They don't want to be recognized as another android phone, because then consumers would simply move tho the cheapest capable ( or faster, or better camera) android phone.

My thought is that Samsung need that it's phones be seen as a totally ( and worth) product that Moto X. So they can monetize on this perceived value.
The question of ownership on this topic isn't as new as you'd think.

If you get a free sports bag from your local training center, is it ethically right for you to use a black marker and erase their printed logo?

I think most people would say that once the training center has given you the sports bag, even if their intention was for you to advertise their brand by walking around with it, it's no longer their property and they cannot control it.
It's a little frustrating to see that the most secure (yet still usable) alternatives aren't the most popular (perhaps with the exception of iMessage, although 95% of the security of those messages is compromised anyway by the backup system that's enabled by default).

I like to tell myself that this is because the really good open source options don't have enough money or clout to make themselves popular, while apps like Whatsapp or Skype or Telegram do. It's just unfortunate that the least secure apps and services get pushed to the mainstream simply because of money.
> "And as he compares Google to 1800s colonialism, he is making a _complete_ mockery of history. Are you freaking serious? Free Internet offered on balloons is equivalent to EIC-style Imperialism / Colonialism ?"

Colonialism comes in many forms. Sure, there are obvious forms such as enslaving a population and making them mine ore from a mountain so that the colonist can get physical goods. Then there are less obvious forms, cultural imperialism as an example (or as Aral calls it, Digital Imperialism).

Open your mind a bit and criticize him for what he's really saying. You're fighting a straw-man here.
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The issue is that 'Better' is a subjective term.

I don't enjoy wild swings of emotion and the loss of control that often accompanies; so level-headed and clear thinking are better for me.
Over standard similar arch i7s you mean?

They support ECC ram, which is pretty important for some people. I believe the pre-fetchers are more aggressive on the Xeons as well, to make more use of the available memory bandwidth available with multiple QPI connections.
And fucking teenagers is not child abuse. They are not children, but almost fully developed sexual beings.

Neither man nor woman should go to prison for years on end because they banged a teenager.
Interestingly, it used to be pretty common in the US to refer to the Netherlands as Holland--maybe even the norm. Anecdotally, this usage seems far less common today. I have to confess that I didn't know until I looked it up just now that Holland was a region within the Netherlands.

In English--I have no opinion about other languages--it would certainly seem odd to refer to the entire of the UK as "England." For example, you'll get looked at funny if you say you're going to Edinburgh in England next week.

[Edit: My recollection is that it also used to be more common to refer to the "U.K." as Great Britain.]
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It strikes me that you expect students to behave that way for challenging them. Maybe it is a matter of cultural differences? In my university, at the most they would complain to the administration. And even then the problem would have to be tied to their grade so they could make the case of unfairness.
Fixing the kernel now gives applications >20 years to get fixed up. There will still be a huge scramble in the dying months of 2037...
Facebook is not my desired source of news. The use case I had for Facebook is based upon it's original premise. Connecting with Friends, seeing what they are up to, where they are and sharing photos.

They are littering their platform with features that further dilutes the experience that everyone used to like/love. I despise seeing Buzzfeed and clickbait titles on the site. This is not the content I want to consume here. How can they get this so wrong??
Wouldn't that make two "evils" to eventualy converge, so that difference between bigger evil and lesser evil becomes insignificant?
Double-plus ungood.
In terms of self-driving cars, I think one of the major opportunities there is mobile devices, but in a slightly different context. People will still have their commutes, but now they'll be time to fill. Which will probably happen via mobile devices.
ecc memory for one, even if it's just as a psychological reassurance in my use case.
>> May be what you are saying is true, still it would be nice to refrain from name calling etc, right?

It's just language....

To put it another way - it's easy to see that a mens rights movement could exist that actually pushes for mens rights. All we seem to have now is a group of reactionaries that like to rant about the evils of women and feminism, and espouse some (IMHO) horrific views about women and their place in the world. They also see mens rights as a fight against feminism in a sort of tug-of-war where no fight needs to exists - gender roles and inequalities could be fought together.

I think calling them misogynist dickholes just about covered it though, because that is the way they generally come across.

I have no problem with the "actual issue" of discussing ways in which men are treated unfairly by society. I have a huge problem with the people who have taken it upon themselves to stand up and be called "mens rights activists" and then proceed to rail against women's rights and women's rights activists as if they are the enemy.
That's actually not true.

Compared to men, women:

* Live longer

* Are less likely to kill themselves

* Are less likely to be the victim of violence

* Are better protected under the law if they are victimized

* Are less likely to be homeless (and receive more support if they are)

* Receive shorter sentences for the same crimes

* Are less likely to be victims of police brutality (the disparity between men and women is actually greater than the disparity between blacks and whites!)

* Are protected under the law from genital mutilation

* Have reproductive rights

* Are more likely to go to college

* When applying for academic positions, are twice as likely to be selected over equally qualified men

* Are the majority of the electorate

* Receive preferential treatment in civil court

* The youngest generations now out-earns their male peers

* Are provided government loans, tax breaks, and contracts unavailable to men

* Are given better grades in school for the same answers

* Own the majority of wealth in the United States

Everything else being equal, men face far greater issues than their female peers.
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It is odd that they didnt mention the T20 incident, but, I guess they went for the more well known incidents, and the GHSC and Summer of Rage are more well known outside eve, when compared to say, the T20 scandal or the 4 year unfixed duping bug which resulted in quite a lot of the T2 items in existence being there because of duping.
These things happen, but they are incredibly unlikely to happen to you. They're trumpeted in the media and discussed on HN because they are so outrageous to our sensibilities, not because they are common, everyday occurrences. They're very rare in a country of 300 million - but still too common on the grounds they should never happen.

In reality, you would be much better off and safer visiting the US now than you would have been in the past - especially the 60s and 80s.
> Have you noticed how people get really annoyed when you make it? It's not because it's a good argument!

People also used to get annoyed when people said the Earth wasn't the center of the solar system.
Why do you think I recommend prison? I don't. I advocate a change in society so that people with destructive paraphilias can get support to live with those paraphilias without raping children -- and yes, teenagers are children. That's why we don't let them fight wars or run for office or do a bunch of other stuff.