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Did you get a BBC micro ?

Nowadays it has an SD Card reader attachment. I got mine full of ROMs.

It is also possible to make PROMS for it.

I have a BBC FORTH rom in mine. I use it as a test machine because of the fantastic I/O : A/D, D/A, 8 bit parallel bus, serial all with a monitor.

If your 8bit machine has serial you can use it as a Unix TTY and connect it to the Internet : read your email on a C64!
Yes, this is a link for viewing your location history with Google. A surprising number of Google users don't realize they do this.

Also, congrats on not having a Google account. Still working on getting rid of mine.
Perhaps separate the nostalgic element from the desired experience of learning to program a simple computer and participate in its development culture.

You could get into the contemporary 8bit scene, which has an advanced homebrew side and a kid-friendly scholastic one:

http://mega65.org/

https://hackaday.io/list/2402-homebrew-computers

http://playpower.org/

Or even Pico-8:

http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

If nothing else, it might help you figure out what your obsession is really attached to...
I agree there are legit problems in the way valuations and fundraising gets reported. But what would you "prefer" they say?

I don't see leaking/reporting details of term sheets becoming a trend any time soon.

$150mm is ~1.6% of $9B. If they sold the whole company the day after this last round at the same price the last round paid the day before - without us guessing what random clauses might be in the term sheets or how much the bankers and lawyers might siphon off in fees (7% is not unheard of) - then the last round should just get their $150mm back or 1.6% of the total.

At least its not fake news. Mainly this is useless and inaccurate news. But it's info of interest to bloomberg audiences, many of whom know what valuation on paper means.

I agree it's misleading numbers for many newsreaders. What else could/should they report?
> Every other kit we tested relies on a smartphone app and cloud services for configuration, which means if your Internet goes down, your home network—partially or even entirely—goes down with it.

I am getting so tired of this. Why are engineers working for companies that build stuff like this? This is consumer hostile.
I hear you on the lack of critical thinking, instead it's being replaced by a defaulting to a conformist view of surrounding peers. In harder sciences this is easier to combat because of objective data but personal viewpoints have jack-diddly to do with logic/reason.

I was 'attending' a 400 level course on contemporary arts at my local university and the groupthink exhibited by the students was insane. With only 7 students in the class it was intimate and dialogue based. Just for the sake of provoking actual defences and backing to viewpoints I took up a contrarian stance on damn near every topic.

Sure I was labelled a racist, bigoted close minded hoser. But the conversations were integral to proper development of critical skills. The professor told me at the end of the year that the only reason she let me remain in her class (as opposed to booting me out as I wasn't a student or qualified) was because of this generated dialogue.
> ...Mitt Romney actually had a much wider margin in Texas than Trump.

Texans absolutely care about Texas history. You regularly hear the 'we have an independent power grid' and jokes about secession come up in conversation, etc. There are many possible reasons why Mitt Romney would have had a wider margin in Texas than Trump. It's premature to jump to the conclusion that it's turning 'purple or something'.

That being said, Texas is a bigger and more diverse place than popular culture respects. The center of Houston, Dallas, Austin, and similar zip codes are definitely 'blue' country.
Isn't the US Navy basically fulfilling all branches to some extent?
Such machines back in time were much harder to acquire, especially as a kid. Today as an adult you are free to get as many as you want. It is not necessarily bad, unless it is harming you somehow, which seems to be the case.

I have books I haven't had the time to fully read but somehow I still getting more, and I sure that am not alone in this.

This TED talk about addiction from Gabor Mate is very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE .

Now, I would ask:

What are you getting from your addiction? does it make you feel a sense of happiness, control, success, of comfort (e.g: revisiting your childhood in the 70s)?

I would ask you to not try to satisfy your emotional needs through consumerism but rather through another activity. There are communities about retro-computing, e.g: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing . You can have conversations with them to know better the machines you already have rather than buying more.
I would never make that argument nor have I even seen it before now, so please don't hold me to that standard. It's a completely ridiculous argument, false on its face, so not something even worth discussing.

Edit: in case the sporadic downvotes indicate some confusion, let me elaborate.

Certainly there is a common argument which involves comparing artificial radioactivity to natural sources. The infamous "banana equivalent dose" is an example of this. But that's fundamentally a quantitative argument about accepting small doses. It's not a general argument for neglecting the danger of nuclear waste in general.

The argument that you should, say, not worry about the dose you get from the americium in your smoke detectors, or the ocean contamination from Fukushima, can be made based on this. That argument is fundamentally sound. But it does not imply that you should go swim to the bottom of a spent fuel pool and hug the canisters, or that it would be a good idea to have a play in the mud next to Chernobyl.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with making similar arguments for coal. For example, if the amount of mercury contamination in seafood was small compared to the amount of mercury naturally present, it would be quite sensible to argue that coal is not a major problem when it comes to mercury pollution of the ocean. The problem, of course, is that it's simply not true: the natural level of mercury is pretty low, and the contamination from coal power is substantial. When the FDA recommends limiting the intake of seafood for young children and pregnant women, it's not because of the naturally occurring levels, it's because of contamination due to human activity, of which coal is the largest part.
Nuclear power supporter should point out, that radioactive emmisions of the power plant are lower than those of coal plant.
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Speaking of Saint Augustine, one of the most amusing parts of the City of God is the point where he refers to people who "have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at will, so as to produce the effect of singing".
> Are all ZKP probabilistic in nature?

Yes, but in some cases the probability is too small to consider.

For example, take digital signatures. These are in effect a proof that the person claiming to have signed it is in fact the holder of the private key behind them, without revealing the private key. But it is possible for someone to accidentally generate a valid signature without having the private key. Extremely unlikely. But possible.

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The problem you pose is interesting because most ZKPs involve a prover and a verifier. Here, there are many separate verifier entities each with different information that need to be convinced.

What kind of communication is allowed?
> Killing one object (its count dropping to zero) may cause a chain reaction of objects whose reference counts to drop to zero and need to be cleaned up.

That chain is trivial to interrupt and resume later. Compare that to interrupting any mark based GC.
Facebook's folly library contains a general purpose, multi producer multi consumer queue[0]. It's general purpose and linearizeable. It's used extensively inside Facebook.

Disclaimer: I work at Facebook.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/MPMCQueu...
If liking is the problem, you can usually follow pages without liking them. You can also make your following list private.

However I think it's unclear what you will get from following a real extremist group, except if you like to see repetitive propaganda. Following a somewhat-reputable news source that's usually opposed to your views may be a better solution.
Send me some? :-)
I wrote about the general ZKP in a post here: http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/03/05/exploring-zero-... . It covers the graph coloring ZKP without requiring physical presence.

(I'm not sure what you mean by non-interactive -- is it the one with the hashes? "interactive" in a ZKP is a process with a back-and-forth. I guess you mean the ZKP that doesn't need physical presence? Regardless, I explain that a bit in that blog post.)
Great illustrating artwork.

I wish people were making art like that today.
>half a trillion in federal funds over half a decade

Don't multiply to make it sound like something. That works out to less than 100 million a year. To three significant digits that is 0% of the budget.
I guess you mean in the best case scenario and with a solved	ultimate disposal problem for the nuclear waste.
I wonder why there aren't more pictures and videos of Fukushima.

For Chernobyl, we even have youtubers now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHnApxVFQU
how about when said brave superstar LEANS IN and delivers a lecture to the planet via book (sheryl sandberg)?
They used qualified imports:

import qualified Data.ByteString as ByteString
import qualified Data.Map.Strict as Map

So everything from “Data.ByteString” has to be prefixed with “ByteString.”

In real-world code, depending on conventions, you’d probably add unqualified imports for the type names to avoid the needless duplication:

import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
import Data.Map.Strict (Map)
import qualified Data.ByteString as ByteString
import qualified Data.Map.Strict as Map

type Chan = Map Int ByteString

pushMsg =
…
let inserted = Map.insert …
For a mathematical background we are editing this soon to be published doc about zk-SNARKS: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B57LWnAurZr_OGhVOENnbHRoaGM...
You can include hydro too.
Banqiao Dam. Or Sayano–Shushenskaya power station accident in 2009 if you want more recent one.
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Surely there are more alternatives than that.
Sell them to me for my museum (well over a 1000 60-80s (with some late 80s - begin 90s ones which I had to have like SGI/Sun) computers) and come here on vacation to play with them :) (including programming, hardware fixing, hardware extending).
Thats the article that should have been posted. Scary that this is an actual company that built this complex spyware. Given that their customers are nation-states you could consider these folks to be a terrorist organization.

Also shows you how hard it is to build secure systems, you have to be perfect and the attacker only has to be persistent and succeed once.
From my initial reading, the end user can't create environments? Is that a feature that I can expect will eventually come?
First they came for the ethernet port, and I did not speak out - because wireless is ubiquitous.

Then they came for the headphone port, and I did not speak out - because I could still plug into my external audio interface or mixer _when at home_.

Then they came for my keyboard, and NOW I CAN'T ESCAPE!
I've been using the linux version for a couple months now, and it's a truck ton better than exploring through VS. I'm still waiting for it to support tabs, or any other multi-tasking interface. That's sort of a pain.
Oh, that's very sad. Was recently looking at these because my wife and I have been having connectivity issues with our old netgear router. Figured I'd just use it as an excuse to get permission to upgrade. Guess I'll hold off.
Principle 1: don't call home. Ever.
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The documentation says it's not serializable or linearizable in some cases, nor does it have preemption or fairness garauntees so you are correct.
If Westworld is so advanced, how come they’re still using React.createClass()?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but what would most users need to be able to use the network for if the internet is down?

The only use case I can think of is transferring files around? Do you think that's so common amongst most users?
you say Jordan has

> a weird obsession with Marxism

but from the article:

> My primary interest has always been the psychology of belief.

> I got interested in ideology, in a large part, because I got interested in what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Cultural Revolution in China, and equivalent occurrences in other places in the world. Mostly I concentrated on Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

> Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I’ve been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism.

Doesn't this make clear why Jordan mentions Marxism? Why do you say he has a "weird obsession"?

> I can't put a finger on what exactly he believes is common among and unique to Soviet nationalist and contemporary social justice discourse

One of the questions in the article is:

> you wrote that ‘words like zhe/zher are the vanguards of a radical left wing ideology that’s frighteningly similar to Marxism’. Can you elaborate?

doesn't this address that?
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It depends how many hyperparameters there are. Many popular general-purpose ML algorithms have only a handful of numbers for hyperparameters, so they don't embody much human input. And they can sometimes be tuned automatically.

Also, an algorithms that can learn 100s of different games with the same hyperparameters is more highly regarded than one that needs different hyperparameters for each.
And even if Le Pen is elected in France, the election for the parliament the following month would surely go in the opposite direction, meaning her power would be limited (since, in France, the government is chosen from the party with the majority in the parliament).

Still, I don't think that Le Pen would be that bad, especially considering the failures of the two last présidents.
I never said they did or didn't. Your quibble is with Abraham Lincoln, not with me.
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i used http://www.gogle.com [http://google.com is not allowed.]
If you're doing best-effort soft-real-time on a consumer OS then
you probably don't have control over thread affinity to _guarantee_ one thread per CPU

Which consumer OS? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows all offer the functionality. To my knowledge MacOS is the only consumer OS that doesn't.

and you certainly can't disable IRQs

This has been in Linux for over a decade. You can modify IRQ affinity from the root shell via the proc-fs [1].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt
That's not a bad thing, but they've chosen to become a delivery truck for the id.

That's fine, but will ultimately kill the brand. Good riddance.
Unless I'm missing something, that Wickard/Filburn example is bonkers! I can picture a Josef Heller/Catch 22 sorta scene:

"you are influencing the market"

"i'm not taking part in the market!"

"yes, by not taking part in the market, you are influencing the market"
Museum have a website? Is it a public museum?
Sounds like the guy is looking forward to 2018 more than 2017. Like "everything is so 2000 on WP and they're focusing on the rest API and an editor. Fuck! But 2018 will be awesome."
> inciting violence

I don't think there's actually a clear dividing line for this, especially when we consider "dog whistle politics" and things like the notorious "blood libel", Protocols of the Elders of Zion, etc; there's definitely a category of material which is both false/misleading and intended to incite prejudice against a particular group - but stops short of mentioning actual violence.
Seriously. I bought The Legend of Zelda (the original one) 10 years ago for <10 Euros. Now it's over 100! And that's a super common game (I assume)!
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Too bad Iphone doesn't support a vnc server.
Would be nice to add some android apps if they could get permission.
i wouldn't blame them in the moral sense of the word. But looking at the world today, it is obvious that something has changed. From Erdogan in Turkey, to Trump, Brexit, today's referendum in Italy etc, the is a definite trend.

Now some people obviously welcome this trend, but lets just assume there are a few who see this as quite frightening.

I've been debating the causes of this with friends, and it's actually quite murky. The US is running with the "too much identity politics" and/or "economic stagnation for the white lower class" as explanations.

The problem is that these simply don't work in other places: Germany is doing better than ever, economically. And even if you're unemployed, your basic needs are not in danger. Britain was doing fine, as well. Same for Turkey.

Germany has 1 Million Syrian refugees. But the US only took 10,000 and the UK haa half that.

The one mechanism that's universal is the change in media consumption. The media used to be controlled by the elites, who generally remained within the narrow window that's sometimes called "reality". Now, it's a free-for-all and groups have started to coalesce around any possible ideological bend.

Facebook is probably the central mechanism. People always seek the approval of their peers, and it has become so much easier to get that gratification, even if it's from people you rarely see in person.

Of course it'd be possible to change all that by "not using Facebook". But we all know it's impossible to change human nature. That's why people are grasping at ideas of how to inhibit this mechanism.
Not really, purse.io does not facilitate fraud more than Amazon itself does. Purse.io just connects people who are willing to buy bitcoin using Amazon gift cards for a premium, and those that would like to purchase products on Amazon using bitcoin.
I'm not so keen on that anecdote, it's too similar to "this is why we need feminism" anecdotes, but I'd sooner see penalties for flagging articles you politically disagree with.
The problem with computers (abstracting from accidental complexity) is, that they do what you tell them to do, not what you think you told them to do. You cannot somehow make an agreement or solve it, how it is solved with humans - by communicating. You must formulate your thought exactly.

And that's what most people have a problem with - except for some hard sciences, they never needed to formulate their thought that way.
Related but slightly off-topic, there is a great sci-fi story by Ted Chiang (the same author who made the story behind Arrival film) about humans raising AIs in an artificial world. The premise is that if we want AIs to act like humans, we must teach them like we teach humans: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_...
> If everyone put 1/2 TB or more to google, can google backend really handle that, if so for how long?

Not everyone is going to do that though (anytime soon anyway) so that's not a real concern. It's like asking when gmail first launched "okay but what if EVERYONE uses the full gigabyte?"
I love these kind of projects. I'd love it even more if it was open source.

Preservation of the software is the most important thing and I'm glad the game pirates are very fastidious about it, but preservation of hardware like this is - if not as important - at least as fascinating!

And still, I won't buy one. I doubt I'll ever earn enough money to make retro game collecting feasible, so I'll stick with collection retro game controllers and connecting them to PCs for faithful emulation ;)
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> It is also unrelated to dismissing military spending wholecloth as nothing but a waste of resources.

I'm not sure this was the OP's intention.

I see this more as thought experiment in terms of "Mankind doesn't actually lack financial resources.". Ideas and measures that'd improve the quality of life often are bluntly shot down with the argument that we don't have the financial resources for implementing them.

We do have those resources. We just need to use them purposefully.
Multi room DVRs are one thing that comes to mind. And as more and more IoT devices come out, this'll get more important.
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I suggest having a look at the jupyter-vim-binding¹ extension. It improves the experience for those comfortable with Vim.

¹ https://github.com/lambdalisue/jupyter-vim-binding
"At least the papers on requirements and methods for achieving that were all published."

Hi there! Ive seen you post on these before; do you have a collection of links or references to papers an infosec engineer interested in this should read? Ty
Does that mean we can't train it on new games? only preexisting ones?
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Use emulators. Much easier and fun because you don' have to deal with real hardware

(Get and MSX 2+ or a TurboR (16-bit) - as an emulator - btw)
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Used to work for a WISP. Got to know Ubiquity through their rock solid backhaul radios. Was hyped when they released the Unifi. Utterly and totally agree. Three UAC-AC-Pros over two stories deployed here, homeplug AV1200 for their uplinks and local PoE. Controller running on my VM server. Being at other people's homes has become amusing, link outage when you close too many doors and no coverage in front of the house? I remember that, but not fondly.

The Archer C7 the article recommends is solid, too. At least when flashed to OpenWRT, stock firmware is horrible.
In Canada here we have a strange definition of a weapon (as opposed to firearm or otherwise). A object becomes a weapon when it is used with the intent to harm/kill someone. Or something close to that, prevents shenanigans trying to skirt the formal definitions.

For this reason some bikers carry hammers on their bikes, y'know incase repairs need to be done. In the case of Nice, a truck is inherently a weapon. Can't really regulate every truck though
I think the time machine example is circular logic. Consider a scheme where you uncover three adjacent nodes instead of two. We know that this does leak information, since it will tell you whether or not two nonadjacent nodes share a color.

Applying the time machine to this, you can't fake having the solution with a time machine because after many runs the verifier will know which nodes share colors, and will find an inconsistency (unless you had the correct solution after all).

In effect, the time machine doesn't work because you cannot simulate a given run of the process without leaking the same information that a correct solution would leak unless you actually know a correct solution.

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It's pretty easy to determine that the regular two-node scheme doesn't leak data. In each run, the verifier is just given the information that the colors of two adjacent nodes differs. Assuming a correct solution, this isn't new information. Because of the permutation the actual colors don't matter and can't be correlated between runs. So the only information that "leaks" is the fact that the coloring is in fact valid, which is all we wanted.
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