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Re:Fifth Amendment Flowchart
on Thursday October 08, 2015 @04:33AM (#10351511)
What I don't get why would you have to explicitly invoke your right to remain silent, if the law says that you have the then.
These are interactive novels/games, similar to time travel books you might have read as a kid, but in an browser format.
Here is a link that has a zip file with all the games: http://ifcomp.org/ballot
Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself?
on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:32AM (#10345002)
What we're missing is a serious change in mentality. Internet Points/Karma and a different UI won't change that. We already have all the technology for such discussions, but no one is interested. The closest thing to serious public political discussions is happening in the House and Senate floor debates, or whatever is equivalent in your country, and nobody watches that.
Re:Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself?
on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:53AM (#10344890)
Speaking of voting. I cannot find any terms of service for hacker news when you create an account. Can our information legally sold to advertisers?
Re:Facebook, others confuse consumers for profit
on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:56AM (#10344591)
Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays the buttons--even if you don't click on anything.
As far as I know Facebook has been doing this all along. Perhaps they only made it official this time? Still disgusting, but otherwise nothing new.
Re:Reddit prepares to launch new news website 'Upvoted'
on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:40AM (#10337933)
archagon is making the hasty generalization combined with a biased sample fallacy.
Re:Joseph Stiglitz warns of Trans-Pacific Partnership dangers
on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:27AM (#10336891)
Skipping the court system in case of disputes in favor of an arbitrage.
Let's say a country established a law that prohibits smoking. A company conducting business there (selling cigarettes), can complain based on the loss of future income. According to the bilateral agreement, they demand an arbitrage that is performed in secret by a third-party and is binding and final.
Re:Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
on Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:50AM (#10326833)
Don't call them the standards, if almost nobody is using them.
Re:Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
on Sunday October 04, 2015 @02:17AM (#10326682)
I mostly agree with you. The web itself is wholly incorrectly designed, or should I say evolved incorrectly. Instead of generic content that gets modified to individual users preference, we have the inverse, every site has some special functionality/code and therefore needs a web designer. This is not only increasing complexity, but also cost. With generic web, anyone could make a web page, no coding required, and anyone could read it. You can see that there is actual demand for this, as there are emerging solutions out there that try to solve it. Unfortunately they are solving it the only way possible, by using the current web standards of building stuff on top of more stuff.
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
on Friday October 02, 2015 @05:39AM (#10317539)
Nice catch. They don't trigger according to the latest rules:
702.25d The phasing event doesn’t actually cause a permanent to change zones or control, even though it’s treated as though it’s not on the battlefield and not under its controller’s control while it’s phased out. Zone-change triggers don’t trigger when a permanent phases in or out. Counters remain on a permanent while it’s phased out. Effects that check a phased-in permanent’s history won’t treat the phasing event as having caused the permanent to leave or enter the battlefield or its controller’s control.
I don't think this is a problem because they don't use phasing to trigger comes-into-play effects, but only to change the color rules. This is clever because you can keep both parts of the machine, head and color, from interfering with each other.
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
on Friday October 02, 2015 @05:16AM (#10317473)
Fun fact. The deck size isn't limited by the rules in tournaments as long as you don't delay the game by shuffling/handling it. A deck with around a thousand cards would be quite a nightmare to deck-check by a judge, and still be fairly quick to shuffle.
Re:Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (v5)
on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:52AM (#10317395)
The procedure mentions that you need 43 Rotlung Reanimators. A magic deck can only have at most 4 copies of the same card. :-) How are the copies created? Shouldn't be too hard to create infinite copies of a card, but I didn't see this mentioned anywhere.
Re:Mealworms can eat and biodegrade styrofoam
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:17PM (#10314798)
I think there should be a word for not having this fear, since I think most of us shudder at the sight of those images.
Re:Go maps don't appear to be O(1)
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:08PM (#10314729)
Actually in the theoretical world, the cost is always O(1) because the hash function computation always takes constant time. You are restricting yourself to a machine model with bits, which is not assumed by big-O notation.
Re:Go maps don't appear to be O(1)
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:29PM (#10313991)
That is not what we are measuring. We don't care about the cost of the comparison itself, as long as it stays the same for every element for a chosen key size, but the number of comparisons performed. A hash algorithm, that has a constant number of chains, will always perform a constant number of comparisons, regardless of the key size.
Article makes a different mistake, OP doesn't understand big-O notation and takes his conclusion on a real world example, instead of it being theoretical.
Re:Classic bug reports
on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:23PM (#10313945)
How do you even fix that? Do you have to update every compiler so it checks the generate machine code for that problematic sequence and insert some nop's, or is there a way to update the cpu itself?
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @02:14AM (#10302100)
People die in crashes, they don't like to breathe smog, they prioritize their safety. All cars "kill", that is an established fact, but we also need to transport ourselves whether we like it or not. Here is a car that is, compared to other cars, safer in those areas by a large margin. Wanna buy it?
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @01:30AM (#10301983)
And the only problem is because they technically used 5.4 and stars together. If they called 5.4 with some other magical unit they invented, or simply called it theoretical/hypothetical rating, there would be no problem.
They also make it pretty clear: NHTSA does not publish a star rating above 5
You would have to be either a lawyer or pretty dense to see that as deceptive.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:48AM (#10301851)
And where is the claim, I can't seem to find it in your link.
Edit: My comment is still valid, there was simply no such claim made.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:46AM (#10301840)
In contrast to an uptight corporate event, it felt genuine and realistic. You know, like that time you got your keys, for the car you bought, from a normal human being.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:41AM (#10301822)
This gives you a good description: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-...
With graphs!
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:40AM (#10301819)
Can you source that actual claim about Model S?
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:32AM (#10301781)
Normal doors do just as bad in those conditions. Falcon doors perhaps block better at the side and worse, obviously since there is a hole in the roof, at the center.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:26AM (#10301751)
Err, kinda: https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/tes...
You would have to be pretty athletic and not too big.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:17AM (#10301709)
Dunno, but he showed the falcon door opening problem doesn't exist.
Re:Tesla Model X Launch event, livestream
on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:12AM (#10301692)
The doors opening in that narrow space; crowd went insane.
Livestream link: http://livestream.com/accounts/4186560/events/4387735/player
Re:Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Auton...
on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @05:15PM (#10299679)
This is what he actually said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299634
Re:Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Auton...
on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:23PM (#10299349)
Who is distorting the reality here. The journalist or the source? Watch the video and then look at the title.
Re:Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Auton...
on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @04:13PM (#10299266)
Of course not. The range given in the title comes with the context(which is not explicitly given). The average speed to obtain that mileage is very low.
Watch the video, this question is addressed in the last few minutes. Transcript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299634
On a side note; you are basing your expensive decision on an arguably click-bait title!?