Kronopath

Those scenarios aren't comparable. For gun manufacturers, you need a person choosing to use a gun irresponsibly or maliciously to cause damage. Car liability is more complicated, but in a lot of cases it's the driver that's held at fault, and rightly so. In the cases where a defect in the car causes a crash, car manufacturers typically are held responsible.

IMO a better metaphor would be to car manufacturers being held responsible for undue environmental degradation, something that does happen to a degree already. (Hello Volkswagen!) The manufacturer should be held responsible for damages to common infrastructure or resources caused by design flaws or deliberately negligent design.

Already exists, in some form:

http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=77ff00cb8af50...

People are already paying to promote apps though. I've heard of plenty of app developers paying for huge numbers of app installs in bulk in order to get them to the App Store's top downloaded lists. This is Apple trying to capture some of that market and bring it away from these kinds of shady practices.

"…usually performed at the conclusion of a project…"

Conclusion, not unsuccessful conclusion. It's not incorrect to use it for any retrospective for a project that has concluded, regardless of whether it's successful or not.

There's a common fallacy that happens frequently when Silicon Valley technologists start talking about Nintendo, and that is the idea that "their hardware can never compete with the ubiquity of mobile platforms, they should just become a software company and port their games to iOS and Android!"

The success of Pokémon Go, and this new Mario game as well, is showing that Nintendo is taking a different strategy: they're creating custom-made mobile games for the purposes of driving attention and vigor to the main games on their hardware platforms. You can see this with Pokémon: the success of Pokémon Go has been driving sales of the 3DS and the currently-released Pokémon games, and will surely help bolster the hype for the next-generation games that are due out later this year. As far as strategy goes, these mobile games are more similar to the TV shows and movies Nintendo makes than the DS games they came from.

I think this is a good strategy for them. An iPhone or Android will never be as tailor-made for gaming as the Gameboy or DS were, so it's good to see Nintendo sticking to their principles.

And this one is so much better for actual RPGs, it has sounds that are much more relevant for your typical D&D session. No coffee shops or highway sounds, but instead creature growls, rattling of horse-drawn carriages, and the clanging of a blacksmith's hammer.

You think that's bad? I only upgraded to Windows 10 last week, and within minutes of booting it up, it quietly started downloading "Candy Crush Soda Saga" without my permission. I only caught it because I noticed the download indicator in my Start menu, at which point I cancelled it. Apparently there's no simple user option to turn these auto-downloaded apps off either.

I'm sorry, what? Last vestige? That's not even close to being correct. Off the top of my head, here are some websites that still have a separate mobile domain: YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and a whole host of smaller websites as well. Granted, many of these do some kind of automatic redirect, so that you're redirected to the appropriate domain for the device you're using regardless of the link you follow. But none of them do the kind of responsive-design-and-media-query approach that you're talking about to differentiate between desktop and mobile.

As a student at NYU working with him on one of his research projects, I can confirm that yes, he's a pretty nice guy.

So in short, by comparing identical twins, this study found that people with better mental health tended to achieve a higher education, meaning that the arrow of causality doesn't go the other way: education doesn't necessarily improve mental health.

In my opinion, this is actually one of the benefits of simplified characters as compared to traditional. They have much more varied shapes and as such are easier to tell apart at a glance: compare characters like:

双飞机会带着几个人

to:

雙飛機會帶著幾個人

Both are actually the same set of characters, but the first one seems much easier to distinguish at a glance. I'd suspect this would Be true even for native speakers/readers, though I've never seen a study on it.

This is what happens when companies are expected to sustain themselves on ever-increasing investment money until an IPO, instead of actually making money themselves. It's a Keynesian beauty contest gone wrong.

I like this term. Let's start using it everywhere.

Structure of arrays vs. array of structures. I.e. Having one struct that contains several arrays as its members, vs. having one array that contains several structs as its elements. The former keeps like data together, so when you need to, for example, iterate over the position vectors of a bunch of objects in a 3D graphics program, all the position vectors for all the objects are tightly packed in the same array, increasing cache efficiency.

What kind of days were those bad days?

Heartbleed was the first one to do that: they gave it a suitably scary name, dedicated website, and logo. The result is that the media went wild over it, and people have been trying to replicate that reaction ever since.

I'd like to take the opportunity to point out that when people talk about how mobile touch interfaces have "low discoverability", comments like this are exactly what they're talking about.

Dark matter isn't made of protons, neutrons, or anything as pedestrian as that. It's a sort of "placeholder name" for an effect seen in situations like the collision of galaxies, where there seems to be more gravitational attraction between the two of them than there should be given the matter observed in them. It's as if they had a whole bunch more mass to them, but for some reason that mass is interacting gravitationally, and not in any other way or through any other forces. Scientists can model this by assuming that this type of gravitational-only matter is real, calling it "dark matter", because we don't have a better sense of what it really is.

The stuff made in this experiment, on the other hand, has more to do with what you find in something like a neutron star—clumps of neutrons (which are regular, non-dark matter) packed closely together—albeit in an extremely small scale compared to the star.

There are plenty of those. Voice recognition is nothing new—I remember playing around with "speakable items" back in Mac OS 7. It did well enough to recognize certain key words and phrases.

The article isn't really about the supplement industry, though. It's about news media's complete inability to do anything investigative, as evidenced by the fact that this guy, with a handful of publicly accessible tools and websites, was able to find more information on this scandal in an hour then the journalists who were covering this case.

The moment I saw "foddy.net" next to the title I knew what I was in for. This is the same guy behind games like QWOP (http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html), GIRP (http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html) and CLOP (http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html). He's an expert on making games that troll the player.

Definitely, I've seen them around NYC as well, including on subway platforms. I've always wondered what they were.

You can:

    unset $HISTFILE

This is honestly fascinating. You should write an article about this.

The problem with your analogy is that while a movie can take two or three hours, a game can take dozens or hundreds, which means a lot more time spent in your "pod".

It's interesting to note, however, that a variation on this idea has already come and gone: arcades. Those were the places you went to when you wanted to play a game somewhere other than your home.

Link to the relevant scene [kind of NSFW]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5eGo1vE41w

I can say I've had a lot of moments where I run into a situation in my actual life that makes me feel like I'm living in an episode of this show. It's a modern-day Twilight zone, and although I wouldn't say it's always a hit, when it's good, it's really good.

It sounds like this has immediately defeated the purpose of the product already.

You have to write a price. Ad blockers or tracker blockers mess with the page as well.

Though it was interesting that my tracker blocker made it think I was from Stockholm.

I'm not 100% sure. The version from Dropbox has some differences in the Xcode project file, including a different "target version". The Dropbox version says it targets 8.0.

Note that the study only tracked people for a single week, so it's likely that while it does show a positive improvement on moment-to-moment happiness, it neglects other longer-term effects like, possibly, social isolation from cutting yourself off from a major communication medium.