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My favorite canceled Nintendo project is Star Fox 2.

A team of developers got a prerelease ROM which was rather unstable, patched all the issues, translated it into English, and now it is fully playable from start to end on any emulator supporting the Super FX chip. I have to say it was better than Star Fox 64 considering the limitations of the Super Famicom.

You can watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqLwiVxTKY
I've always been curious... how does Google manage routing of their main domain name? google.com/_____ has so many paths that must be served by so many programs running on so many different machines.
We recently launched a bunch of really exciting performance improvements for Next.js. Would love to answer any questions about them or the framework in general!
I now use my android phone for everything I used to use my tablet for.
The only thing I miss about the tablet is that I could get a lower volume level on it than I can on my phone, for bedtime podcast listening.
And now you understand, right?
So much talent out there yet limited to US citizens only
Tss. What a bad teapot implementation.
While I don't have good knowledge about modules, I can only say, that I don't want Java SE to turn into Java EE. Let complex things stay complex, but SE should stay simple if possible. If modules were enough to modularize JRE itself, they are good enough to ship, modularizing JRE is a huge feat right now. They need to leave enough points to extend later, of course, so eventually everyone will be happy. All decisions set in stone now should be good, and that's enough. Everything that could be changed later without breaking compatibility could be far from perfect, I can live with it.
If you use the rather stodgy and formulaic scientific method, sure.

You mean the scientific method that has proven to work since the 1700's?

I think we'll have to agree to disagree that you can just riff it and still get results.
Doesn't this have some relevance to nintendo and sony and their history. I feel like sony wouldn't be where it is right now without that partnership gone bad.
>Well costs are ~quadratic in depth.

Anyone know as to why this is the case? At first pass it seems like your cutting tools should wear out in proportion to depth. But I suppose as things get warmer tool wear becomes faster. What types of tool materials are used for rock boring? Diamond? Tungsten carbide? Is is more of a "conventional machining" process, or an abrasive / water jet? Or explosive like in hard rock mining?
What else has an effect on cost for deep holes? Shaft length gets longer, so the twist becomes more of a problem if your are driving rotating bits from the top? Does it have to do with removing the material from the bottom of the hole to the top? Others?
Probably delivering Aircraft Engines to different Maintenance facilities around the country. If you recall they had to lease an Anatov to deliver an engine for Swiss Air when one of their 777's had an emergency landing in Iqaluit.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/swiss-air-777-engine-rep...
That's Bruce's fault, OP just copy-pasted the title
What ambiguity?
I have two tablets. No idea why. Although I do run my compiler on my iPad as an external monitor so I guess it's an extremely expensive, super tiny external monitor.
> I think it's less about the choice of tool, and more about designers who know what's possible in HTML/CSS/JS

This!

Most designers who don't code (that I met) have no idea about this. I worked with dozens of companies as a consultant and this kept being a problem. Especially where there is a client in the middle that receives the designs before the implementation.
Sincerely thank you for posting this. I had no idea of these timepieces and I am in awe of their beauty and sophistication. I think I have a new obsession.
Another, and better, alternative to slack: IRC.
What's the trick? I wake up starving. If I go to bed starving I sleep horribly and eventually wake up to eat.
Good point, I only looked at the text in the grey box at the right, not at the bottom, where it is clearer. (Box e.g. for "Violent Threats" or "General" says

CloudFlare will notify the site owner and, where appropriate, the web hosting provider for the site in question.

By submitting a report, you agree to submitted data potentially being released by CloudFlare to third parties, such as Chilling Effects.
True but not the whole truth I think. My tablet's battery recently died and rather than get a new one I now use my phone for everything I used it for.
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> 1. The halting problem states you can't predict what a turing complete program will do, until you run it. This means to some degree, that you can't predict what your "smart" contract will do, until it does it. Thus turing completeness causes security to be far, far harder than non turing completeness. This is how you lose the millions of dollars as the DAO did after it passed audits.

While others have pointed out that this is wrong, it's worth amplifying: Turing machines are deterministic. You can run the contract locally and observe how it behaves, and it will behave the same way in the same environment elsewhere. If this wasn't the case, you couldn't have consensus at all.

> 2. Competing implementations of consensus code in different languages greatly increases breakdown of consensus. (more millions have been lost over this, and it created a fork at about 10 percent the value of the old chain.)

The DAO hard fork had nothing to do with a consensus failure. There's been one single short-lived mainnet fork due to a consensus issue, which was quickly resolved with - to the best of my knowledge - no financial loss.
Thanks! BTW, It seems to be a really tedious work, I like the result :)
> random thought: Could geothermal power be considered nuclear power considering half of the Earth's internal energy comes from decaying radioactive isotopes?

Only to the extend that all power is nuclear power. Solar power: the sun is a huge fission reactor. Coal: ultimately got its energy from the sun. Etc.
I have it and like it too but it's a few years old at this point, the performance and battery life are not amazing.

I should put Lineage OS on it, it might give it a breath of fresh air.
I made no effort to read the paper and went straight for the pretty pictures. The basic idea seems to be that you can save a few percentage points on your energy usage by running directly on Linux without Docker.
No court has the power to grant Uber or any company the ability to operate nationally, let alone with immunity.

There are many overlapping laws, in cities, states & counties. Uber is subject to all the relevant laws in any area it operates--but, eg, Portland's laws only matter in Portland, Austin's in Austin, etc. So, for example, Uber chose to leave Austin because Austin passed laws that Uber already obeys in NY, but did not wish to in Texas.
The fanboyism is strong on this one.

> iPhone users very rarely switch to Android, while a fair number of Android users switch to iPhone

> this is the point that was forgotten the last time Samsung was held up as an iPhone threat — a Samsung smartphone does not run iOS. That has always been Apple’s trump card

Considering this is a stats blog these bold claims are both made without any proof. And Android being a far cry from iOS is an antiquated position to take in 2017. They caught up quite some time ago.

The core difference is usually lock-in from using the Apple eco-system. But on a UX/hardware value level Apple doesn't have a significant advantage over companies like Samsung anymore.

But agreed re: the china problem, I wish he focused more on that over making sweeping statements about Apple's (imaginary) unmatched competitive advantage.
That's not related at all.
No, dont do it. Never talk to the press about anything negative. It will come back to haunt you.
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If this is the case (and I agree that it sounds likely) then what's the appropriate response from a bad guy? You don't take an action without considering a reaction...

Could this method be applied to fabric? Perhaps certain types of plastics? What if the bad guy hints that this is their plan with no actual intent other than misdirection. This could overwhelm screening resources, frustrating passengers, and stressing security agents while the actual threat could travel through another means, if it exists at all.

I traveled this weekend and can't help performing threat analysis against these security models. It's never made me feel better.
What do you think about the idea that people in failed states with unstable currencies would want to store their wealth in Bitcoin? Or the idea that people would want to use it for international money transfers?

"Just pump and dump" implies you don't believe legitimate uses underlie the coin.
Macaw bridged this gap nicely in my opinion: http://macaw.co/

The downside of using it instead of PS or Illustrator is that you don't have the actual drawing tools at hand.
Me too, the first one had the digitizer and the SD port break and the second simply borked out of the blue... So I bought a cheaper and crappy smartphone to use as a GPS instead...

Too bad I don't know enough electronics to reuse their screens : I could make a neat raspberry pi laptop out of them.
I'm pretty sure it's perfectly legal to fly as much cash as you want domestically. [1] However, if they're scanning for other paper products that are potentially illegal, LSD comes to mind.

[1]: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/36740/is-there-a-...
I know this looks like junk but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances was the lead editor of DSM-IV.
My understanding is that it doesn't work the same way for everyone. My theory is just that if you're insulin sensitive, then concentrating your eating to one small part of the day levels your blood sugar and hormones out for the rest of the day. My experience is: once I start eating during a day, I will be hungry for the rest of the day. If I just don't eat, I basically don't ever get hungry: I'll know it's time to eat when I start getting headaches and dizziness.
I think they're asking which niche tablets are targeted at.
Yes we do, and no it's not, at least not the way Tesla is doing it. Because they're using a standardized cell and standardized packs, they can easily automate the careful recycling of a lithium cell.
What aggregation function is it using? For DNS, I'm usually more interested in the response time distribution since I've historically found that the average performance from anyone is fine but somewhere around the 90/95-th percentile times starts showing more variation among providers.
Yes I do mean design in general. The book titled "The Design of Everyday Things" is pretty good IMO, but probably would only interest an older child. Maybe some of the work is to just point out that creating things people use requires making decisions and that whole process is "design."
All in the name of DRM.
> 8.0–31.2 g per day

That is surprising amount of aspirin.
I personally believe the best move would be to make the Chromium engine shared across Electron instances. You can package Nodejs and Chromium as a shared library that every Electron app would then access.. And we have a 100MB footprint for having a single instance or a dozen instances, where the apps then compound on that themselves, rather than a linear relation of sandboxed instances.
Intel AMT vulnerability: Silent Bob is Silent [pdf]
I think if they just factored in the sales of "phone tablets" like the iPhone Plus, this decline would disappear.
How many murders is a reasonable amount?
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> This comment is simply incorrect. The gas limits do make smart contracts decidable. It is a mathematical fact.

This line of reasoning does not help me write better code, and does not address the parent's concerns. Using this argument, I can say that every single program I will ever run in my lifetime is also decidable, since eventually the computer I'm using to run it will stop working. This of course does not mean that I will write bug-free code, nor does it mean that I will write code that is feasible to prove correct.

What I want is a decidable programming language where it is always feasible to reason about the smart contract's halting states for arbitrary input. Bitcoin and its derivatives let me do this. Ethereum does not.
Thank you for this tip! I have always installed Abduction plugin if I needed this, but the less plugins the better.
Isn't "True Love Waits" detected as the most depressing? The happiest one is "15 steps".
Do you happen to know the chances of "being slashed by a 14 yo gang-member in USA", or did you just invent an example?
How slack copy from the source ? I'm missing something or you never do ctrl+c ?
Interesting, this is basically what Bromium does.
Kinda cool!
> What do people need any of this for?

I can write an app for managing a business, fund it, and then walk away forever. Ethereum is a platform for hosting autonomous corporations.
Nothing says that the civil disobeyer needs to go out of their way to turn themselves in to the authorities if the act of civil disobedience isn't known by the police. If I plan an act of civil disobedience like say sitting in the road to protest something, and it turns out no one drives on that road and the cops never come, I was still breaking the law. You have to accept the consequences of your civil disobedience, and I'm sure the people sheltering slaves/jews knew that if they were caught there would be consequences that they would have to accept.
first part; yes; second part; also yes
It has a ton of history in that context. But ultimately history is concerned about larger swaths of people than the design choices of two firms.
Does that mean the risks are very low? What about compared to aspirin alternatives such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen (in terms of how much damage they can each cause to the body, and which is safer)?
Agree with this. I teach middle school students how to code simple JavaScript games and they all do fine with text based coding in an editor. I have a few 5th graders in the class too and they also do fine. By this age, they no longer want to use Scratch. They actually associate it for the younger kids. They enjoy hacking around in code and get really excited being able to do some of the simplest things.

I do however think Scratch is great for the younger kids and is a great way to teach them some basic concepts in a fun way.
Agreed. This is not the sort of code you want to be dealing with in a few years time.

Also, I seldom find that string based dicts are what I need. One of the best things about Python is being able to use virtually anything as a key.
There is no immutable state, at best we have immutable data. Benefit of immutable data is you can inspect two different states when state transitions from state A to state B. You get time travel and all that with this basic concept.

MobX makes it very easy to do that inspection between states.

Don't look at mutable state as evil. Redux state is mutable too.
B2B here: Cold everything. Then put them on a drip to keep warm if nothing happens quickly.

Be active not reactive.
Being a consumer product and a museum (art) piece is not mutually exclusive. Lot of classical music and classical paintings were commissioned with a price to be "consumed".

> But archeologists aren't going to use it in 5000 years to understand contemporary (to now) culture.

Why not? While that particular hardware on its own might not explain the culture but knowing what people consumed as an entertainment and what people tried to invent for entertainment seems like a important thing to know to understand a culture. (This logic can be applied to classical music/painting)
You mean bob!accounts@localhost?
I am sorry, you are missing the point. Your anecdata doesn't make a fact, neither does your perception. This is what OP was trying to get across.

I switched from a white MacBook to black Asus many years ago. The former lasted 6 hours while the replacable battery of the Asus lasted 9-11 hours.

Now I don't go around claiming Asus is better than apple, replacable is better than sealed or that black is better than white as it was a universal fact.
Really nice game...great job! Graphics are really nice.
I have no problem sacrificing resale value if it means the ownership experience is better.
Why you compare mattermost to twitter ?
The top 5 ETH pools control about 75% of the hash rate. Buterin (for whom I have lots of respect) and others have routinely commented that centralization is a problem in both PoW and PoS systems. In both systems, the problem is "the rich get richer" (as PoW is essentially "proof of stake" in the form of expensive hardware and electricity).

But more to the point, look at what happened with ETH and ETC. The Ethereum Foundation could have decided to hard fork without any particular % of support. Consensus was needed for price support, not to complete the fork. Let's say they forked with only 25% support. The new fork retains the ETH brand. The old chain rebrands (i.e. ETC). The market then votes on how much they value the old versus the new. Now look at ETH/ETC since the fork: the market is saying that they feel more comfortable with a known, trusted authority (i.e. small group of developers with trademarks and a conference schedule) than they do with true democratized first principles of immutable code. I'm not a righteous zealot, I agree with what ETH did and would have done the same thing; I am just calling it out for what it is.

Humans love to collect, horde, and trade items: puka shells, tulips, dot com stocks. Speculation is hard-wired into the human DNA. At some points, asset prices become hopelessly disconnected from the value and utility of the underlying asset. I think the initial rush into crypto was healthy because it funded (and continues to fund) hundreds of full-time researchers who can push the field forward. But at some point the speculative fever becomes a disease that can hurt more than it helps. The sooner we develop real-world applications based on public blockchains as an anchor-point to reality, the better.
Spotify adds 'Spotify Codes' as a new way to share music
Next, we reduced the response hash to one hex digit and authentication still worked. Continuing to dig, we used a NULL/empty response hash (response="" in the HTTP Authorization header).

Authentication still worked. We had discovered a complete bypass of the authentication scheme.

What. the. fuck.

This is not the kind of bug you should ship in anything if you have the barest bit of testing in place, much less a large company like Intel, in an enterprise feature which has a lot of security ramifications, and which has apparently existed for a long time (years?).

Edit: Also, this is really good evidence for short and hard disclosure deadlines. What's the chance something as simple as this wasn't known by someone else? All they had to do was decide to look and they found something within minutes. It's not like this is obscure or doesn't get your much, it's about as juicy as they come.
HN post title makes it sound more impressive than it is.
I do the same as well. It pretty much has changed my life.

The only thing I have noticed is that it seems not work well for females (my wife is annoyed about that).

Also strangely my blood sugar has been above normal lately which is strange because I don't eat a carb heavy diet and I have never had blood sugar problems. Last time it was checked it was ~105 mg/dl or so (and I was fasted of course).

I have had some theories about this but curious if anyone else seen this.
Be careful you don't become an architecture astronaut though. At some point you have to stop working on plumbing and actually solve the business need.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
Sure, Uber may have broken the law (or evaded it); however, just because a law exists, doesn't make it correct. We should also question if the law should be there in the first place.
> So are you a hypocrite or callous?

...or merely not omnipotent?

I don't do anything for healthcare in Africa, true, because I can only do so much, and so donate money to more local organizations. However, I don't think that they should be left to fend for themselves, and do want help to be provided—and so am supportive of organizations that help.

That's a far cry from "I think people should fend for themselves", which conveniently ignores those that can't.
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So you like Bitcoin?

I don't mind Bitcoin. But it's 10 years old. I was warning them in November 2013 about getting their political act together and innovating. https://youtu.be/P-7JIQKbm5U is me keynoting in London on just this topic.

What do you see the next move as being?
Like most things, you get used to it. Eat dinner, and then don't eat again until lunch the next day. Have some water and black coffee in between.
My theory:

1) The sort of people who had pcs before everyone got them, use pcs as much as ever, though they also use mobile.

2)The sort of people who got pcs because of the internet have moved to mobile and won't get another pc.

3) Tablets are being replaced by smartphones rather than by new tablets.
The Her interface like all fictional voice interfaces benefits from the actors reading from a script.

Try dictating a simple email sometime. The best voice recognition in the world won't solve the problem that it's very hard to do (also, that movie utterly left out important corrollaries like all the people everywhere he was would have been speaking in weird monosyllabic commands and leaking personal information in public). As I write this in a hotel foyer, I'm very glad for my predictive keyboard.

The Her interface looks good only because its in a scripted movie. Because its the Wish-fulfillment interface in the plot.
My suggestion is to try Mobx and write your code in TypeScript. It's a different concept when you first look at it but then you'll see it's actually mostly the same as Redux but with less boilerplate code.
That says True Love Waits is the most depressing song though.. am I missing something?

>We have a winner! “True Love Waits” is officially the single most depressing Radiohead song to date. Rightly so, given that it tied for lowest valence (0.0378) and ranked fourth for highest percentage of sad words (24%). If the numbers still don’t convince you, just listen to it.
Your dad sounds like he is/was an interesting guy. I try to build memories like that with my children.
you know what they say, ten aspirin tablets a-day keeps the emergency room busy.
Having a "management engine" with direct access to the network and to memory is questionable in itself. Its code being secret indicates there's probably something bad going in. If it only does what Intel says it does, it doesn't need to be secret.
If AMT provides remote management of devices that are turned off, what program provides authentication of remote management requests when the OS is powered off? Has that interface been audited for authentication vulnerabilities?

If there is an OS-independent, network-accessible AMT management service, when would an admin need to switch from that service to the Windows-hosted web interface? Why can't all AMT operations be performed without an OS?
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"ADHD drugs have become the campus recreational drug of choice at parties"

Is there any well documented evidence for this? It certainly contradicts my personal observations.