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Actually, technology is neutral. What isn't neutral is to what ends that technology is leveraged. The human ability to be smart brought us amazing technologies. Our ability to be wise is what will determine whether these technologies will eventually amplify our happiness or our misery, and I think the jury is still out on whether humanity is getting any wiser.
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In London some leaked TfL research suggested that women were killed far more than men because women obeyed the traffic laws more closely, and so found themselves crushed by left-turning trucks more often when they could have got out of that situation by breaking some rules.
The same computer and hardware runs both Linux and Mac OS without issues, so if it's some other piece of hardware, Windows is the only one choking on it. And it only manifests when the Microsoft keyboard is plugged in.

So yeah. Sure, possibly it is some other piece of hardware in combination that is exposing brokenness in the MS USB drivers. But that doesn't change the fact that the software is the problem here.
It doesn't. Bitcode is arch specific and unportable. It allows some instruction-set level optimizations, but not changing e.g. endianness (exactly what x64 and arm differ in) or type sizes.
But sill, wealthy enough people, who have access to medicine and other resources still don't know how to be happier. They just are less sick and live more.
Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/306660/

It looks like it's been available for about 8 months.
As others have pointed out, that might be hard. On the other hand, I'd say just do the drop anyway and cover the damn thing with fire retardant. If any drone owners bitch about it, throw them in jail for having interfered with the firefighting effort in the first place.
Seems like they have like the maker put up a new cover image, pretty sure that stupid cassette tape wasn't the official cover image a week ago.
I honestly don't believe Bayes is that relevant to day to day decision making but I'm keen to see a counter-argument (I have some but I don't find them convincing yet).

I see Bayes as a method to solve certain classes of problem but the key challenge in everyday decisions is more like a design problem i.e. to define what the problem is. Once you have defined "what would be a good outcome of this decision" sufficiently, the answer rarely requires statistical methods. The common sources of error in a decision are in its definition e.g. omitting a requirement that is later revealed as essential.

For example, if you are analysing drug studies, Bayes is obviously relevant but for something more common place such as choosing a software tool, the main challenge is to understand what your goals are so that you can identify the criteria by which to judge the tools and the trade-offs you are willing to accept.

The biggest steps to improving decision quality appear to be process related e.g. using prototypes to explore options before making a larger commitment. Such acts are so effective because they reveal information that lets you improve your goals rather than just clarifying the quality of an option.
Why doesn't the OS take care of this?

It seems like the prototypical task for the OS.
I also stumbled upon microprofile https://bitbucket.org/jonasmeyer/microprofile which has similarities to Remotery.
No one said that it doesn't catch different types of "easy" type-mismatch bugs (which dynamic but strong typed languages will catch too at the first test run) - Clang, for example, warns a lot, and there are industry-strench static analysers for C. Nevertheless complex code is usually buggy. Integer overflows is very good example of a bug by human programmers.
difference being they scan and validate content and apply their own family rating, instead of relying on third party, so anything that gets under the radar is their liability, as opposed to book/music that have the explicit/mature label slapped from the origin.

this looks more the result of living in the land of the lawsuit-happy easily offended puritans than anything else. if they could shift liability to esrb for their apps and games, they would

actually, I wonder how did they managed to pass under the esrb radar so far.
Have I?

"does not necessarily" -> "can have an opinion [...] depends on one's values"

This was in response to your original statement: "it makes no sense to say that 2015 music is necessarily better than 18th century music".

I am stating that the superiority of one type of music, period or composer over the other is subjective, that is, that the value judgement changes depending on the person. Therefore, it does make sense to say that one is better than another, even if this value judgement varies between persons - you need to frame the argument.

This was a sideline prompted by the idea that technological progress is objective (including in music); that is, one cannot argue rationally against the idea that knowing nuclear engineering is an improvement over not knowing nuclear engineering, regardless of its usage, that ignorance is never desirable. Science is the discovery of facts about nature through reason, even if the process itself is filled with uncertainty and "progress" between dogma (the earth is flat, then round, the centre of the world, then not...). Science can approach objectivity, which the arts cannot (even that judgment is subjective).

We appear to disagree here as you do not separate the knowledge from its intended use ("Is the progress bring made in the name of humanity or in the name of technology?") and therefore create cases of "desirable ignorance". I consider that this brings unwarranted subjectivity to the argument as "humanity" needs to be defined (Imperial Japan would disagree that their defeat and restructuring in 1945 was done in the name of humanity, which much of South East Asia at the time considered a good thing; in the Japanese narrative, a global or much larger Empire of Japan would be a net positive by bringing Japanese civilisation to the barbarians). As far as I am concerned, the misuse of technology is a squarely political and/or philosophical problem separate from science and the blame goes to the users, not the scientists. Further, intention does not guarantee outcome: nuclear weapons have basically averted any new global conflict after WWII via MAD, but they were not designed with this purpose in mind. Apologies if I misunderstand your position.
I wrote a Chrome/Firefox extension to address the problem of finding "notable" forks of original repos. These often are community supported version of the original which would have been hard to find otherwise: Lovely Forks ~ https://github.com/musically-ut/github-forks-addon
A company's prerogative, if they choose to do it.
You mean, the gas? Dry ice, yes, because it is cold, but the gas? (This is the first time I heard that and I find it hard to imagine.)
Anyone with any intelligence of the Internet/Web knows online bandits are already having a field day with government data and public information online. It is insanity for ANY company or organization to place ANY information online without PRIVACY or ENCRYPTION. Website owners need to protect what they have invested in from being stolen abused and misused worldwide. ICANN is playing big-data, police state and does not care for the protection of business or privacy. The fight for privacy is a MUST!
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Zawinski's Law

I guess when we reach the point where everything can read email (pretty close, if you replace email with 'receive messages'), there will be another function to be attained by every software with their newer versions. Maybe something like having its own neural net to adapt to the user.

"Version 12 of our monitor calibration software now can learn when you actually want your monitor calibrated, and when you want it somewhat offset, for those mornings where there's no work to be done and you just want to read email, which, by the way, can be read on the same monitor calibration software you've come to trust since version 5!"
> the US Ambassy is no more than 500 meters from the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères...

You make it sounds as if this would undermine the credibility of the statement in the article.
I don't see how the physical proximity of an embassy to a ministère would even remotely be relevant. But maybe you can explain?
From the paper:

> This is because objects that end up being moved to the regular (unsafe) stack are usually large arrays or variables that are used through multiple stack frames. Moving such objects away from the safe stack increases the locality of frequently accessed values on the stack, such as CPU register values temporarily stored on the stack, return ad- dresses, and small local variables.

I wonder if this speedup effectively hides the performance overhead of SafeStack.
Well, but you missed that data can not be executed.

Unless you store your MP3s and jpegs in .text, the memory pages all that stuff is in are marked not executable and will only cause a crash if you jump to it. Regardless of whether the bytes make useful instructions.
This argument is just like the one used against Mars program. In competitions, asymmetrical developments are often better than symmetrical ones.

We can build more toilets (aren't we already?) or we can educate next generation to aspire to do something great.
Apple probably made a mistake and needs to adjust their policy. Steam deliberately did this because of that mistake. Apple didn't intentionally ban a civil war game for PR, they enacted an oversleeping policy that resulted in controversy for this game.

It seems like steam deliberately did this to thumb their nose at the situation.
>unlike the US, India is a country with real problems

Every country has "real problems" unless your definition of a real problem is the winner of a who-suffers-the-most pissing contest. (In which case perhaps the Congo is the only country with real problems.)
Agreed. This feels like a sticking plaster when Volvo could do so much more to help safety. Like with the design of their vehicles.

These Volvo SUVs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_XC90) are very popular where I live and they are huge, with poor driver visibility. I was almost reversed into by one only a few days ago. I was waiting for a gap in the traffic to pull out of a side road with another cyclist. The SUV turned in to the side road, discovered that this road was not passable for motor vehicles and attempted to reverse into us. Luckily I noticed what was occurring and intervened. I have no idea how they failed to see us when pulling in and in their mirrors.
Bad hires are certainly a concern. I think this is the reason why people buy screening products such as personality tests. Paying $100 for a screening test that promises to prevent the $100k cost of a bad hire seems like a pretty good bargain. It reminds me of Pascal's Wager, where you give a little bit to the church in order to avoid the infinite risk of hell.

The test seemingly has to be 0.1% effective, to pay for itself. The thing that's hard to imagine is that the test is even less than 0.1% effective, because it's a scam. This is also how things are sold like a $5 extended warranty for a flash drive.
You may however be able to get different legitimate instructions than originally intended by jumping to an address in the middle of a multi-byte instruction that happens to decode into a useful series of operations. It follows that there are more usable "returns" in a body of code than just those written in the original source.
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Ah, I think I see the problem now.

Company "A" pays less but actually offers a higher total happiness level, lets call it "quality".

Company "B" pays more but is has a lower "quality", all things considered.

Applicants are going to tend to apply to Company B because salary is a simple metric that doesn't have to be explained. Company "A" needs to educate their applicants/"consumers" in order for the applicant to see their value proposition - and that is something that is hard to do in a job ad.

This sort of thing is very common in the retail market. For example, (in the U.S.) if you are under 30 you probably have never even seen a quality shovel. Good luck finding a shovel today that you can use without wearing gloves.
I disagree, but only based on empirical evidence (and I have no idea how one could measure it scientifically without getting into an argument as to what defines happiness - Maslow?).

I've lived in third world, "second" world, and a host of first world countries including the very desirable Australia, Singapore and Switzerland and I've definitely found a strong correlation between wealth (including scientific and political) and happiness.

Past a certain level of personal wealth and regardless of the surroundings (although they affect that level), philosophy becomes more important, but that's another argument. Even there, I'd argue more prosperous countries are correlated with sounder philosophies and happier HNWIs, but my sample size is much smaller.
I've seen this behavior from time to time.

The fix for it was pretty awful, as well. Under "System Devices", I'd locate the parts of the chipset associated with USB and PCI, find the driver the OS was referencing and remove the files associated with that driver from wherever in the OS they were being grabbed[1]. Then I'd download the chipset drivers from the chipset (not motherboard) manufacturer and install those. The problem always went away after that step, but often took several reboots to get everything exactly right for the new drivers.

It seemed to happen most commonly in Windows XP with motherboards that were Intel based and had USB 2 controllers with third-party (I want to say Realtek[2]) USB 3 controllers. At the time, Intel had no chipset that included a USB 3 controller so motherboard manufacturers would use a non-Intel controller for the USB 3 ports and the Intel controller for the USB 2 ports.

It's possible my problems were simply an artifact of working with USB 3 devices that were bleeding edge and not implemented exactly right, but in all cases replacing the chipset drivers with the ones provided by the chipset folks did the trick. Doing the same with the ones provided by the motherboard manufacturer (often ASUS for me) would result in the same behavior.

[1] The best way to do this, I've found, is to remove the files associated with the broken drivers and reboot. Once they came up as "Unknown Devices", I'd proceed with the installation of the drivers I grabbed from Intel/Whomever. If the device was detected properly -- in the case of this specific problem -- the new driver would be skipped in favor of the one provided by the motherboard or the Windows installation.

[2] I may not have this right. I tend to jump to Realtek when I think about devices I've had terrible experiences with. Their network adapters that seem to be included on a lot of lower quality motherboards have given me so many problems that I no longer purchase boards with them installed and if I have no other choice, I'll buy an Ethernet adapter from someone else and use up one of my PCIx slots just to avoid their drivers.
A little, but at least it could open an 8mb file, not to mention a 2mb file...
I ride an almost entirely black bike with no reflectors and often no lights. Mostly because I don't use it at night unless I have no other choice. I'm interested by this paint for that exact reason.

Your assumptions don't really hold up that well.
I respectfully disagree. But that is just, like, my opinion, man.
It skews the market, of course. Currently, I stay in South Africa. Here they don't have a similar mandate, but a de-facto one by virtue of giving a large tax-benefit to individuals who put up to 25%(I think) of their annual income into a Retirement Annuity. This is a private thing (except for government employees), but withdrawal from it is regulated by government among other rules.

You lose an immeasurable amount of opportunity cost by putting away so much of your earnings there. Not to mention that most of these retirement products are heavily linked to equities, meaning you are very likely to lose a lot if the market down-turns. Short of going on a huge rant on the topic, I'll just settle to saying it's a huge scam that makes people indebted/vested into keeping the market system chugging along, no matter what.

And then we are being told that "rich people" are causing inequality. Right.
This would be perfectly fine if all the project data was stored into git. Unfortunately github issues, comments, project metadata, webhook setup, team membership, ... are not part of the repository.
To know more about them, read Leijonhufvud's "Life Among the Econ" http://www.econ.ucla.edu/alleras/teaching/life_among_the_eco...
my thoughts exactly: AI drives like an asshole with inhuman reflexes :)
> it was France that one that stopped the Bolivian president's airplane breaking international law, just because US intelligence told them Snowden might be on board

you might want to re-read your own article. The plane was grounded in Austria. France has only been one out of three countries to deny Morales' plane into their airspace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Now if we could just get an emacs written in Python =).
I see this claimed a lot, but as someone who grew up on a farm and has decent understanding of the middle ages, I find it very, very hard to believe.

There was always work to done. If wasn't something that was pressing right now (fieldwork, baling hay), then it was needed to be done soon (fixing fences, equipment maintenance), or improving your infrastructure (building better winter pens for animals, better storage for hay/crops). Add to that without IC engines, all work has to be done using human or animal labor. A
Speaking of animals, they don't take days off. If you have milk cows, that's 20 minutes a day (for each cow) of milking by hand. Think your commute sucks? Try walking everywhere you go.

Just go to an Amish community and you will quickly see that they spend more than 40 hours a week working, and most communities still take advantage of some technology (small tractors, tools and other items that are manufactured by the outside world).

There seems to be this idea among office workers that the M-F, 9-5 "grind" of cube-life are the most terrible conditions humans have ever lived through, and it shows a laughably sheltered viewpoint.
> Thus we may charge Carlyle not only with Hitler, but also with Stalin. Both dictators! You see what these dictators do.

> Of course, we are on equally safe ground in noting that both Hitler's party and Stalin's originated as political parties, and reading both genocidal maniacs as accidents of democracy.

I read Moldburg and I see an intelligent guy exposing the hypocrisies of politics left and right in an erudite, reasoned manner. I read yours and I see outright dumb slurs and lies.
Can one ever be cynical enough when politicians are involved?
This is something that Checkmarx.com (checkmarx.com) does. They recently received substantial investments and seem to be popular.
Why does Linux?
Clang's tooling is amazing, not a single word against it. I gave Java as an example intentionally.
If you are writing the FAT, you could really screw things up
I am sure I have seen Python libraries that are wrappers around R. As someone that's never used R, I would try that first.
Fun story. Once I helped a friend with his Arduino code. I program the Arduino on his Windows PC and remove it. There were still issues, so we had to program it once more. “Great” he says, “now we have to reboot”. “Why” I ask and he replies “these are windows man, they aren't like your linux machine”. In disbelief I connect the Arduino to the USB port but indeed, Windows fail to detect it. Trying to be smart, I pull out his usb mouse receiver and swap USB ports with the Arduino. The PC recognizes it and I feel triumphant. “Now you've done it” he says, “we have to reboot if we ever expect Windows to recognize this mouse again, you don't just move things between USB ports in Windows”.

He still uses Windows to this day, I guess we value different things as important in our OSes. :)
Are the hashes of dead people really any more dangerous than the ashes of coal or wood that every fireplace or BBQ produces? Sounds too heavy-handed an approach to me.
Right... sure...

Eilidh Cairns death, the driver had incorrectly adjusted mirrors, failed an eye test, overtook the cyclist in a road not wide enough to do so [1]

Prominent artist death, the junction is badly designed and was on a blacklist but funds not allocated, the junction forced HGV drivers to watch the wrong side of their vehicle, leaving them blind to cyclists... in this case the truck drove over the cyclist without even seeing her [2]

Another junction in which 2 (two) cyclists died in a month due to the confusing design and narrow spaces [3]

Cyclist killed after driver is on the phone [4]

HGV Driver jailed for killing a cyclist after previously being banned from driving 5 times [5]

This was the first page of hits for "HGV cyclist death" that I found.

And there's an elephant somewhere? It's far more likely to be junction design, unenforced laws on driver behaviour, and a very very low standard applied by HGV contractors for their drivers.

[1] http://www.roadjustice.org.uk/case-study/driver-lorry-which-...

[2] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-cyclist-dies-aft...

[3] http://road.cc/content/news/133336-second-serious-cyclist-cr...

[4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-32999770

[5] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3082792/Lawless-self...

Edit: I fell for the new troll account. I apologise to HN, but I bit before I realised it was a troll account and the overwhelming evidence is the opposite of what was claimed.
There is no regulation.

Different companies contribute different amounts, all part of their benefits package.
Ex:
Company A might pay a high salary but low match.
Company B might pay a lower salary but contribute x% to 401k.
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The game in the link is the same game Apple removed. So the story is that Steam is promoting the same game Apple blocked.

The cassette tape seems to just be the graphic they're using for the top-page feature. The game's store page shows regular trailers screenshots.
One should make it clear that the quoted price on the Maxim product page is $0,76 @ 1000, so if you order 1000, you pay 76cent per chip. But you can easily find offers going down to about 50 cent.

https://octopart.com/search?q=DS2401%2B

As the DS2401 uses the 1wire bus, which requires a relatively complicated logic inside the chip handling device isolation and power recovery from the data line, it's not the cheapest option. Maxim, for example, has a SPI connected digital serialnumber chip going down to 35 cents.

https://octopart.com/search?q=25AA02UID

These chips all come in small SOT sized packages, if you really want to shave off the last cent the companies will be happy to sell you the bare dice you glue on your PCB, bond with wires directly to the board and protect with a glob of epoxy. Also: if you are going to build 1 million devices you'll not pay the standard list-prices but your procurement department will negotiate with high-volume sellers or the chip manufacturers directly. So, you'd probably pay around half.

But then.... if you are going to build 1 million devices you really want to have individually numbered, you might not use the off-the-shelf USB controller without serial number plus a 20cent serial-number chip, no, you'll redesign to use a 5cent more expensive usb-controller with unique serial number, and leave out the external serial-number chip completely.