skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Direct from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#In-country_check...

It is the obligation of everyone travelling within the area to be able to show a fully valid form of personal identification approved by other Schengen states.[98]

and

Although travellers within the Schengen Area are no longer required to show documents at an internal border (although there have been some controversial instances when they have, and it is fairly common at major land border crossings with Switzerland), the laws of most countries still require them to carry identity documents

Your interpretation of this doesn't seem to be correct. The whole point of Schengen is that you don't have to show ID at internal borders, which were supposed to cease existence. Rather, you have to be able to show your ID at any time whilst travelling ... where "travelling" is such a general concept that it effectively means at all times unless you are e.g. at home.
Author of the article (and the game) here. I didn't mention MUDs because I didn't want to scare away people with more concepts, but of course they are a huge part of what I consider interactive fiction.

I'm not sure if any MUD worked with something I'd call a "fractal story", though. The combat I remember was fun but it was always "you miss X. X hits you." I didn't play all MUDs, of course, so I'd love to know if there are any examples from that era.
What makes this the most retarded is that the plan is to tax something that doesn't exactly exist. It'd be like trying to apply sales tax in the MSRP, and not on the actual money changing hands. Which might be ok, except the MSRP is a myth, and is actually used as a price anchor more and more.

My suspicion is that this will cause universities to start charging different amounts for different degrees, or, when that may be illegal (state schools?), they'll lower tuitions across the board and find ways to tack on fees for students who wouldn't otherwise recieve waivers.

Either way it's a really bad precedent, it's bad enough that I can claim someone owes me money, then send the IRS a form saying I've forgiven said loan. Now you've got to convince the IRS that the loan never took place.
This is about death
To a certain extent, I think the lack of applications, driver compatibility, and "familiarity" are excuses trotted out by Linux Desktop evangelists.

Don't get me wrong, they definitely are a problem, but they'd be solved problems if people actually wanted to work with a Linux Desktop. The thing is, people don't.

I grew up in the 90s, and I was even a Linux and OSS evangelist during my stupid teenager years. I really wanted to make a Linux Desktop work. I still do want a viable OSS desktop. But what I found was that the community built up around Linux, and the Linux Desktop in particular, seems intent on making things suck as much as possible. I can hypothesize a wide variety of reasons why, and I suspect anyone who's spent a significant amount of time working with OSS communities can as well, but the upshot is that pretty much nothing they do is conducive to producing a good product. What's worse is that they largely refuse to recognize any problems they might actually have, technical or otherwise, preferring instead to believe they are a perfect beacon of The Way Things Should Be, that everyone else is doing it wrong, and blaming Windows's dominance for their failures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15664839
> If you can afford to start from scratch, you can lose a lot of this baggage.

Effectively, this argument is much like saying that your personal workloads don't use AVX and demanding that Intel tape out a whole different die without it. You would very rightly be laughed out of town for even suggesting it.

Much like the economics of cryptomining cards that lack display outputs, this comes down to whether there is actually enough of a market to justify taping out a whole specialty product just for this one niche, vs the economies of scale that come from mass production. AFter all that is the logic behind using a GPU in the first place, instead of a custom ASIC for your task (like Google's Tensor Processing Unit). On the whole it is probably cheaper if you just suck it up and accept that you're not going to use every last feature of the card on every single workload. It's simply too expensive to tape out a different product for every workload.

This only gets more complicated when you consider that many types of GPGPU computation actually do use things like the texture units, since it allows you to coalesce memory requests with 2D/3D locality rather than simple 1D locality. I would also not be surprised if delta compression were active in CUDA mode, since it is a very generic way to increase bandwidth.

The GPGPU community absolutely does use the whole buffalo here, there is very little hardware that is purely display-specific. If you want hardware that is more "compute-oriented" than the consumer stuff, that's why there's GP100 and GV100 parts. If you want even more compute-oriented than that, you're better off looking at something like that's essentially fixed-function hardware dedicated to your particular task, rather than a general-purpose GPU unit.

So, it doesn't really make any economic sense.
From the sounds of it, his lawyer gave him a bit more advice then just how to incorporate. I'm more surprised that he didn't give him the advice that the corporate veil will not shield him from outstanding sales tax receipts.
I'm fairly anti-authoritarian, but there's a difference between "The neighbor is making noise, so close your windows" and "The neighbor is making noise so close your windows and install double-framed exterior walls"

We have gotten to the point where even reasonably conscientious and responsible adults have trouble raising their children. When the advertisers make money by making it a harder world to raise children in, they are externalizing their costs and internalizing the profits.

Some amount of externalities we allow due to pragmatism (the cost of enforcing the regulation is greater than the benefits), but when the line is crossed, some sort of regulation is required.

It is a reasonable policy question to ask where the line is drawn, and what sort of regulation (on the extereme authoritarian side, it is drawn very close and uses criminal law, on the extreme libertarian side, it's drawn less close and might use tort law), but outside of pure anarchy, it's not reasonable to say the line need not be drawn.
It's not really a good comparison. Google purports to promote topical news in several places (search results, news., the Google App).

If Comcast was taking up an editorial function I'd criticize them for doing it poorly too.
Can't remember but I can find out. It had to be strapped on to me very precisely and they had a lot of issues with keeping it steady. Once it was one we could actually see the cells.
Scientists Were All Wrong About That Zombie Ant Fungus on 'Planet Earth'
How old are your kids? My daughter is four and for the last two years has watched a few thousand hours of YT Kids while battling cancer. We've had nothing but good experiences. The toy uboxing videos have created friction in so far as she wants to buy a lot of the toys she sees demonstrated, but beyond that the worst thing we've seen are a few scatalogical references surrounding diaper changes and other fairly normal toddler fare.

I've been confused reading all these stories about YT Kids, how do the kids even get to this stuff? The obvious search terms are banned by the app, but how deep down the rabbit hole does one have to go?
This is a complex issue but I'm inclined to agree with you. Giving Facebook/Youtube the responsibility to censor content feels dangerous with the amount of influence they have.

I know it's the "think of the children" thing, but I hope Youtube sees the outrage about these spammy kids channels and does something so they aren't suggested and autoplayed. To me that's a special case. Grown adults who see fake news on Facebook and take it as the truth regularly.. Is that really on Facebook to fix that?
Wait, really? By who? For what reason?
Seattle didn't though, largely because licensing was completely bottlenecked. The city itself took a while to permit more than a handful of shops. I don't know the numbers, but given that Seattle is a bigger city than Portland, I wonder what the data normalized to shops per capita - hypothetically considering Vancouver to be part of Portland, as it probably would be if there wasn't a state line in the way!
It helps when a state border is a day trip drive away from a major metro area.
It has to be getting sensory input, though, right? So it must be reading that out of the brain somehow even if it's not controlling the brain, right? Or no?

Wondering now how ants walk and climb and such -- it would seem easier to go for the brain if you need to effect complex behaviors like that. But I recall that with insects' wings, at least, the brain only needs to send one signal and they'll beat for a long time. So maybe such behaviors are stored down by the legs or whatever, and that's why it doesn't need to go for the brain?
I don’t understand the point of this article. I found Bridle’s original piece to be much ado about nothing. He basically complains about algorithmicly generated content being too “weird” for kids then does English lit style analysis looking for malicious undertones in said content. I didn’t agree with it at all but at least it was an original blog post that was trying to make a point.

This Bloomberg piece on the other hand simply links to Bridle’s blog and says “Yeah! What that guy said!”. Really thin “content” imo.
hopefully sooner rather than later.

when we said "regulate and tax it" for decades, we didn't mean give the blackmarket a greater marketshare by making the taxes exorbitant.

People are going to buy weed, if the taxes make it not worth purchasing legally the blackmarket will always be there to undercut it.

you have to COMPETE with blackmarket prices, you can't just jack up prices, legalize it and then expect people to stop paying $25 for 3.5 grams of top-tier marijuana.

no one is going to continually pay $75 for 3.5 grams, especially after the novelty has worn off.

If you have a who buddy will sell you the same amount of equal or higher quality for a 1/3rd of the price, would you pay 2/3rds more?

If cities add more tax on top of state tax, then it'll push more medical and recreational users right back into the untaxed newly formed gray market. Same with cities who don't open shops.

I think this is a result of being blinded by dollar signs instead of practical and thought-through policy.

Yes, it'll still rake in tax dollars and yes, people who don't know any better will buy from shops, like tourists.

But for the target market? I'm not so sure.
Their logo/mascot is kind of obscene when you think about it.
Oh, but I advocate precisely what Wikileaks is doing. In the essay I linked Assange describes a rather effective approach to disrupting these organizations. Leaks such as this one will eventually lead to these organizations having to be so careful that they'll simply be unable to act.
A universal tradeoff between power, precision and speed in physical communication [pdf]
Limiting things to EU-region AWS might have worked on paper. But in practice there is a lot of conservativism in play. It's not just about doing the bare minimum to pass the certification audits. Some customers also demand detailed data-flow breakdowns, a manifest of data processing agreements and lengthy check lists to comply with their internal data protection policy. Combine that with with the CJEU toppling safe harbor, the Microsoft case, the snowden leaks etc. it's simply a lot easier to pass customer audits when you run on an exclusive EU-soil, EU-jurisdiction policy. And forward-looking it provides some certitude, i.e. we won't just pass the audits today, we're reasonably sure that if Privacy Shield falls too we'll still be fine.

Basically, if you provide SaaS for corporate customers and handle their PII (HR records, occasionally some medical data attached) then the intersection of various demands ends up fairly restrictive.
With so many issues related to non .com TLD, I was in deep shock to learn Google registered abc.xyz
Humans to vet Facebook revenge porn photos
Is this the equivalent of "Android had it first" anytime there's an iPhone feature announcement?
If pretty basic software can place misleading markers on internet traffic and file metadata, why is the presence of Russian metadata in a hack or leak considered evidence?
> I still play all the time and there's some truth to them all being the same. They get more and more polished on a UI level, and more realistic looking, but remain static mechanically.

I think the progress is more meta, trough merging and creation of whole new genres making them more approachable and lowering the learning curve, instead of singular technical feats or "gameplay innovations".

Some of that is enabled through the adoption of new technology, our modern flood of 3D shooters wouldn't be imaginable without the mouse having itself established as a PC peripheral first.

In the end, it's also always a question what a game strives for. If it strives to simulate some kind of reality with its own internal workings, like many RPG's do, then there won't be much room for gameplay mechanic innovation, most of it will boil down to making these realities more convincing trough gfx/sound/system interactions.

At least if you don't strive for a complete simulation and end up with something like Dwarf Fortress, where the sheer number of mechanics (for the simulations sake) ends up being part of the allure. A modern alternative to that would be something like Rimworld, which has comparable simulation but tries to package it into something way more approachable.
How We Deliver Global SSL with Let's Encrypt
I just really hate that there doesn't appear to be any way of getting RSS links to podcasts from Apple's database using just a browser. I have no other reason to have itunes installed and won't be installing it just for this.
>unless you view libertarianism and feudalism as equivalent.

::cough::
How about "Do we need algorithms to find child-friendly conent?"
Same here. After a LONGGG phone call cradling the receiver while trying to type, etc., I had my neck spasm severely -- so much so that the following day someone else had to drive me to urgent care (1). They prescribed a strong muscle relaxant in combination with either Percocet or Vicadin -- I forget which.

I switched over to the default over the counter dose of ibuprofen, and it worked better than the combination of those two "heavy duty" prescription drugs.

I will say, though, that doctors in the U.S. have been damned cavalier about ibuprofen. One doctor with a popular radio show would cite the nickname, "Vitamin I", and routinely tell people to use it non-stop for a month or two.

I've found that now, a few days on it will make me rather lethargic. My cardio strength and sometimes rhythm feels impaired. And lo, there are studies now coming out that indicate it may carry as much risk as Vioxx and the like.

(Incidentally, a doctor prescribed me Vioxx a month or two before it was yanked from the market. I questioned this, remarking on recent news I'd read indicating it had problems. He had no clue and told me it was perfectly safe. Sure, it was still on the market, then, but he appeared to have no clue about the looming controversy.)

With any medicine, it really seems TANSTAAFL. You have to carefully weigh the benefit against known as well as suspected risks. And the U.S. medical system completely falls down in not fully informing not just patients but also doctors to the existence and nature of these.

1) Well, that urgent care experience -- a new facility opened by the premier area hospital -- was itself a horrible experience. Deserted facility, by all appearances, yet it took about 2.5 hours to see a doctor. Who gave me no neck brace; family took me to their chiropractor, the next day, who DID give me a neck brace -- which provided the first real relief and stopped me from constantly retriggering the injury with every movement.

To be clear, I refuse to have my neck cracked. And the chiropractor wouldn't have, at that point, anyway, given my severe spasming. But at least he had the sense to immobilize my neck. (Then he provided some ongoing care to encourage the release and healing of the spasming. To whatever extent this may have helped, that initial immobilization was key. WTF was wrong with that fully credentialed MD serving the urgent care's rather extensive ER facility?)
Blind dev here and I played through it. Might need a touch up here and there but it's moderately accessible as-is. Text-based games are great for VI people.
You can just place any such file outside the Dropbox directory. Doesn't seem like a big deal.
What a bunch of propaganda. The central theme of the article is that if Apple could repatriate its $200 Billion, it would have more money to invest and create more jobs. But this assumes that Apple is not investing as much as it would like.

There is no reason to believe that Apple feels it needs to invest more. And, if it did, it could borrow the money from its foreign subsidiaries and spend it without paying any taxes (and charge itself whatever it wanted in interest since it's borrowing from itself).

As the past 9 years since the Great Recession have shown, companies do not make investments just because they have more money. They invest for business reasons. It is true that Apple investors will be worth more if the money is repatriated, but more jobs?? not so much.
The linked article and NYT report would really benefit from some statistical reinforcement. Some of the videos that the two posts show are indeed disturbing, but how many of these are there actually? Bridle's point was almost more aesthetic, pointing out the crudity of animation which is a widespread problem.

That said there is a MASSIVE difference in a poorly animated earworm like the "Finger Family Song" and Chase from Paw Patrol being decapitated in a strip club, which is a rarity.
One of the things that has struck me with getting used to i3, even after a decade and a half "faking it" by mostly running apps maximized anyway, is that it is changing my thinking, not least due to the API. E.g. I recently started writing a text editor (because, why not), and it struck me that I really don't have a reason to support multiple windows. I added "splitting buffers" today by having it exec i3-msg to start another copy of itself.

I think what is really hampering Linux on the desktop is trying to play catch-up with Windows and OS X instead of rethinking the processes.
The difference is choice. Companies can offer whatever they want and it's up to me to decide whether I consume their products and services or not.

Government on the other hand makes the decision and forces it on everyone. Not just those who elected it, everyone.

Edit: as for the foreign propaganda, how many nations and what interests were/are they peddling? If it's already illegal then sure, it should be forbidden from the network. If it's not, then I'm fine with it.
I grew up in NJ - I'd do the same thing to rile people up, but deep down I knew: South Jersey is part of Philly, and anything north of Mercer Co is basically NY. Except for the shore counties - they hate all of us equally. So I consider them to be New Yorkers out of spite.
I didn't downvote ekianjo (my question was genuine), but I do think if one is going to tar an entire 127M country as mostly devoid of individual thinking, it's reasonable to expect them to provide some reason for doing so. Extraordinary claims and all that.
Tesla snags Microsoft augmented reality engineer to lead UI engineering
Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas crashes on first day while shuttling passengers
Also, a lot of the people working these jobs have very few other options in life. Back-of-house food prep is one of the few industries that won't bat an eye at a felony on your resume.
Maybe they would have had better luck if they didn't create their own distro? That seems like a lot of unnecessary overhead, unless it's just marketing for "Ubuntu + preselected set of packages"

> Along the way, it was reported that 20% of the users of Limux were not happy or satisfied with it

I would guess you could survey users of any computer/OS combination and get that response. That means 80% of users are happy (or at least, not unhappy) which is phenomenally good, really.
Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company?
If you look at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need for meaning / meaningful contribution is extremely important.

I’d say that jobs in the context of survival are useful, but we as human beings also need a sense of accomplishment, of being useful to others beyond the value associated with mere profit.
So, then, you'll be providing your children for testing, to be sorted into the <likely traumatizing content> group?

For some things, the potential hazards (in this case, lifelong desensitization to, or increased propensity to violence) so drastically exceed the potential benefits (in this case, a bit more profit and less work for Google), that we should proceed with the precautionary principle, rather than just saying "F-it, show em whatever, we don't yet have proof that it's bad".

Learn a bit of perspective.
NYC is basically decriminalized at least from a usage standpoint. Walk through Brooklyn or Manhattan at any hour of the day and you will smell week multiple times on each block.

There are delivery services advertising via craigslist
In Go it's impossible to make for...range support user-defined types, and you have to write out every loop the hard way (and rewrite any loop that was using a builtin type). In Python you just define __iter__. That's what's meant by expressive, you can write what you mean instead of having to explain yet again how it should be implemented.
To be clear, the crash was caused by a truck driven by a human backing up into the driverless shuttle.
>>In online games like League of Legends, we do not say that whales are the customers and the players are the product

We don't? Seems accurate to me.
Hadn't really used the document scanner yet...but it sounds like I might have to now. If they keep moving on this it's going to replace my primary use of Evernote...and since Dropbox has a Linux client but Evernote doesn't it'll end up being a pretty easy switch.

Are there any Evernote -> Dropbox Paper migration tools out there?
Huh, why? We aren't really discussing exploits here.
> Perhaps the author does not understand the logistical nightmare of having human moderators manually approve all content.

Pretty sure he does, from the OP:

> A step back to assert human control -- even if it cuts into the tech companies wide profit margins -- is overdue indeed.

The tech companies use these algorithms because they're cheap and they're good-enough for their profit-making purposes. If Google's algorithms can't keep YouTube Kids kid-friendly, then they need to hire the human moderators to make up the difference or kill the product (because it's false advertising).
Might be splitting hairs. There are fakes, mocks, and stubs. Generally, mocks assert, stubs do not. Some folks define both stubs and mocks as fakes. This does not fit perfectly for Go. The "fake" in Go is just a struct that matches an interface but is purely for testing. It allows for dependency injection where you pass a fake designed for your test. It can have its own properties and helper methods, but the key thing is that it matches your interface. You don't make assertions against the fake like you would a mock. You assert against responses from your functions under test.

Example:

> type Bar interface{
> Walk() (int, error)
> }
>
> func Visit(b Bar) (string, error) { ... some code ...}

In the production code, you call Visit with some struct that matches the interface (has a Walk method). In tests, you create a new struct like fakeBar that also matches the interface. You can have your fakeBar return any string or error you like and you can verify that Walk behaves the way you need it to.

Hope that helps.