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I feel as though art can have a much greater payoff, and money can be produced in bulk, at a guaranteed value, but even $27k for a card, which you can make a small number before that market is saturated, probably has poor ROI.
I got involved in Magic speculation as a small-time "side gig" long after I was done playing regularly. Primarily I would buy some boosters and/or a booster box of a high value limited release (like Modern Masters), hold onto it for 1-2 years, then sell it on eBay. I did the same thing with the collector's edition of a WoW expansion awhile back too.

I've since stopped doing it because the hassle wasn't worth the relatively paltry profits from it (a couple hundred bucks a year). It was worth doing in college but not anymore. Also, having to hold onto physical inventory is annoying, especially if you move between acquisition and sale, which I did frequently.

My advice would be to not get involved unless you're going big and have the storage space to match. Then through economies of scale it can be worth your time ... if you don't mind spending lots of time managing eBay auctions or a site and packing/shipping things, anyway.
What really frustrates me when I watch this kind of demonstrations with bionics is the delay and inaccuracy between desired action and the real effect. I know it's not that simple, but from my perspective since the desired actions are transmitted through our nerves at 100 m/s and we can send an message thousands of kms away in milliseconds, I think there is always space for improvement. I am curious which is the real bottleneck in all the process.
I would give it a try. A reinstall of the OS is more thorough than wiping the data from it.

http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...
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That range isn't quite correct. It only impacted 4.13 kernels, and only 4.13.0-4.13.6 (inclusive, distro-dependent due to backports).

It was patched in 4.13.7 after being introduced in the 4.13.0 merge window.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/736348/

This issue shouldn't have happened at all, but it was caught and patched very quickly, so relatively few real-world systems are or were affected.
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Ask HN: Max data storage density?
I would like to know what could be considered as the record data storage density (TB per gram) for present day industry-grade data storage.

With DNA, researchers claim 214 PB per gram; however, the setup seems decades away from anything that could be used at scale.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/245304-researchers-increase-storage-capacity-dna-214-petabytes-per-gram

In contrast, Sandisk has 400GB microSD card, which would certainly qualify for industry-grade data storage:
https://www.sandisk.com/home/memory-cards/microsd-cards/ultra-microsd-400gb

According to Wikipedia, a microSD card is about 0.25 gram, that is 1.6 TB per gram. However, I suspect, that at least 80% of the volume and weight of a microSD card is merely the inert material holding the whole thing together. If this assumption is correct, then, we would have already an example of a 6 TB / gram data storage.

Is my 80% guess correct? Then, as of today, is there any existing industry-grade data storage which provides a higher density?
Considering ST3 hasn’t broken ground yet, I find it hard to believe that the cost overruns are due to construction.
The one advantage is that you can use knowledge of the game to know in what to "invest" as opposed to other stuff.

Considering the game is a huge money sink, it's very dangerous for anyone to see it as merely an investment. Those that do can make a LOT of money. There are some online exchanges doing very smart stuff (probably applying the same sort of stuff they do for stock trading).

I used to play, and sold all my cards cheaply (about 2010), after that older format tournaments exploded and my collection would be 20 times more expensive today.

I did do some very good purchases - I pre-purchased 8 copies of the Tarmogoyf card before launch for 2 dollars, then sold them years later for 200, and they would be worth 500 today.
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Compared to cellular, ptt networks are often vhf frequencies (<200 MHz) and higher power (>5 Watts), therefore coverage from a mountain top repeater is practically infinite compared to cellular, and limited only by terrain, requiring far fewer base stations and repeaters and backhaul for the same coverage.
Demo video by the creator here - https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/906191200838877184

This is made by the same person who developed http://pork.io/ , which is a very useful web app for creating a tweet storm.
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So the issue I have with people citing gentrification is: given gentrification alone (without an accompanied descrease in overall wealth inequality) wouldn’t the concentrated wealth attract crime? So any argument that cites gentrification has to show that it brings up everybody, not just the gentrifiers.

The rust belt has no effective welfare system akin to http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448741/new-york-city-m.... To my knowledge the rust belt only offers disability.
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There are tons of people who buy used Apple hardware because they can't afford to buy it new. If anything, Apple hardware is probably used for longer than Android phones. People who want a cheap Android phone will just buy a new low-end phone instead of a used flagship phone. People who want a cheap iPhone have to buy a used phone because there are no low-end Apple phones.
That's a good comic, thanks!

"Wait a minute... That means a qubit corresponds to a unit vector in two-dimensional Hilbert space!"

And quantum gates/operations on qubits are just unitary linear transformations on those vector spaces...
> the ad bubble needs to pop already!

I agree, but it will be ugly. These "ad" companies are really surveillance companies who can currently print money by selling ads. When the bubble pops, they'll still have all of their surveillance data, but will be forced to sell it in different and sleazier ways. Think credit reporting that is technically not "credit reporting," job applicant screening based on web histories, reporting on political dissidents, etc. FB/GOOG will get seriously evil as they collapse.
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CTE is not about concussions. CTE is about repeated, sub-concussive hits (https://concussionfoundation.org/CTE-resources/subconcussive...)

So, I don't think it's fair to say that you're not "killing the brains of your young men". Based on the best research available, Rugby players, who may be at less risk for concussions due to the safety protocols you have outlined, are still at a high risk for CTE.
> If publishers like EA and Ubisoft lose faith in the system's ability to protect against piracy, they're less likely to go out of their way to develop for it.

This was part of what killed the Dreamcast. It became very easy to burn CDs of games, rampant piracy, developers dropped out.
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The end of culture -> a culture needs a community to generate it, the current set of social structure being mediated by internet technology isn't sufficient.
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I grew up with the bleep. And those calm American voices. (UK)
Societal norms for theft of physical property have been fairly clear for a long time, and shared across nearly every culture (every one I’m aware of). It’s a huge leap to apply those norms to downloading and running software on your own computer.

You’re claiming that, by choosing to visit a website, I have implicitly agreed to and am obligated to download every resource and execute all code that website’s maintainers decide to include, and to do that recursively for each downloaded resource. That is preposterous. It could, for instance, obligate me to download a literally endless amount of data, which might be very expensive for me. It might also obligate me to perform limitless computation on my machine, if for instance the website includes a script to mine Bitcoins.

I try to avoid making moral arguments, but I will certainly point out logical consequences of other people’s moral arguments that to me seem absolutely ludicrous.
There's no consensus on why the Industrial Revolution started in England. Some common theories include:

* It could have happened other places, but started in England by pure dumb luck.

* English legal structure (common law and property ownership rules)--note that the Glorious Revolution took place before the Industrial Revolution, unlike, say, the French Revolution.

* English economic situation (holding a large mercantile empire).

* English natural resources (the loss of the forests to make charcoal, prompting the need to dig deeper to get coal).

As I said, there's certainly no consensus on why it occurred in England. Generally, the more interesting question is not why it occurred in England and not France, but why it occurred in Europe and not China, which after all had access to things like the printing press long before Europe.

To actually answer your question, one feature of Western Europe in the Early Modern is that serfdom was effectively abolished. Russia and Poland did not abolish serfdom until the 1800s (in the case of Poland, after the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist). Slavery is generally considered to retard the development of technology, and serfdom is similar enough to slavery that it would have a similar effect if such an effect exists. In that vein, it's dubious to think the Industrial Revolution could have developed in Eastern Europe.
Modern hardware allows for new different tools. For example, Red Alert was available for DOS. But to play OpenRA, you need OpenGL support.
No code or artwork has been copied from the original game, so why would it be copyright infringement?
Interesting that sha256 is mentioned as approved by the government, didn't the NSA invent this encryption? Also I seem to recall another article on HN this year about the 1st sha1 collision being found? Maybe it won't take a QC to break after all. My mistake just reread, it AES256 mentioned sorry.
This is 4.11:

https://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.11/source/kernel/...

The code is significantly different but I still see a lack of access_ok(), so was the checking performed somewhere else that I didn't notice (I haven't looked closely at this part of the kernel before)?
it was introduced by this commmit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

which by itself is in a 4.12 vanilla code tree
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...and people scoff at Elon Musk for saying he can significantly reduce the cost of tunneling in the US...
That is a good question, I guess its an underrated market.

I played a lot of Magic, most of it between 2002-2007 when IME, the prices were starting to get way too high for me as I was still a teenager, nevertheless, for those willing to put an effort into negotiating you could make a decent change.

I saw several fake cards during that time, some of them were terrible, HP home printer cards you could see on the spot, most of them you could still see with just a careful check. IMO, you would get away easier if you forge the most used standard and modern cards, which often go over 30+ USD each and they can undergo a huge price hike if there's a high demand on major tournament registrations, people will not be as careful checking them.
The original article that this one links (1) goes into more detail. The issue isn't the existence of a roped off area and signs, which are indeed all over Chicago. The issue is that the roof's huge overhang means they have to rope off an excessive chunk of the surrounding area.

Not as big of a deal as the article makes it out to be, no. Especially since the store's located in a sort of out-of-the-way area, so the caution tape isn't really blocking traffic. But still amusing.

[1] https://www.spudart.org/blog/design-flaw-apple-flagship-stor...
Read the article. It's not, despite the title, claiming that the best idea wins as a generalisation about what products/companies succeed.

The article is about the importance of creating a culture where the best ideas are adopted, regardless of who/where they came from.
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So did you make it to a good company?

Yes, I'm still in college, although I'm in final year, so only 6 months left. What you said is true, I realize that most companies are ignoring my resume(as I am not from IIT/NIT, I am not even from a autonomous institute). But I hope I can at least get placed in small scale startups, or small product businesses.

Wish I had concentrated more on OSS contribution/ side projects rather than competitive programming. Let's see what happens now. But I'm sure I won't join the likes of TCS. Worst case, I'll become a Uber driver.
Hard to believe how sedentary people can get that such a program can makr a diff.

I moved to the NE US after living in the midwest most my life, and the amount of walking ube had over the last 6 years has done wonders for my daily health.
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Small story; when I was a kid my father helped MTG secure the buildings for their new HQ. After move in they held an open house and I met the CEO. He pulled maybe a dozen Black Lotus cards out of his pocket. As an avid fan at the time, he reached god status but of course the CEO had those cards.
In any other situation in society, the content owner is responsible for controlling access to the content until a price is explicitly agreed upon. An artist can’t display a painting in a public place and charge everyone whatever they want after they happen to view the painting.
Ask HN: Do you have a desk to sublet for a tiny startup in SF?
Hello :-) This might be a long shot, but a shot nevertheless.

We're two founders of a tiny, early-stage startup with no employees. We moved to SF from Zurich 6 months ago and have been working at WeWork. However, we thought it might be more fun to rent a desk at a startup. We're an EdTech company and are working to make math & science tutoring more accessible (orders of magnitude cheaper, better product than incumbents).

If you have a desk with two chairs to sublet or know someone, please let me know (email in my profile), and we'll be happy to get to know you.
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I'm speaking broadly to decentralized "blockchains". If any or all were to crash a new one will replace it. In that sense the cat is out of the bag and "the game has changed". It doesn't matter if any websites from the 90's still operates, the internet was a game changing invention regardless of when mass adoption took place.
I'm no business expert either, but I know a handful of small town bar owners. Without too much detail: just consider the case in which someone buys a bar or rents a place that was already a bar before.

The people that I know would make an inauguration party, adjust prices and renew the place and the offered products for a better fit with prospects.

And suddenly a failed place becomes a profitable business.
Anything by Michael Steil is well worth watching, but hold on to your hat. I highly recommend his Ultimate Gameboy talk as well.
it is the use of unsafe_put_user without access_ok(), not access_ok() alone
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Then SomaFM's Mission Control station may interest you: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
IIUC, you only need the access_ok() when using the new unsafe_put_user(). That code is still using put_user().
I don't know any good reason for them not to make ast2 and the battery health check available directly, other than to promote sales and additional door swings at their retail locations.

I've always hated how opaque iOS is; Android allows wayyyy more insight into data/battery stats, and most Android phones (unless carrier locks them down) allow the user to dial a #code to test most features.

Hopefully, Apple will change their tune going forward.
... or tried to get some software written. The IT department of a BigCo operates in the same way, except that their currency is time rather than money.

But I think the problem is that we have no decent middle ground between "screw the worker" and "screw the employer."

I don't belong to a union, yet I get treated fairly well. But at the same time, my skill set is in short supply and high demand. And I possess a considerable amount of mission critical knowledge that exists nowhere but in my head.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
SHA-256 (SHA-2) is incomparable to SHA-1. The (first) successful SHA-1 collision attack executed by Google et al earlier this year implies absolutely nothing about the computational hardness of SHA-2.

There is no evidence whatsoever that quantum computers will break SHA-256; I'd be willing to personally stake essentially all of my assets on the bet that it won't be broken within our lifetimes. I also cannot think of a credible cryptographer off the top of my head who has voiced the opinion that quantum computers pose a threat to the SHA-2 family (or SHA-3, for that matter).

At best I could see a complexity reduction, but nothing in polynomial time. Cryptographic primitives have such attacks published against them (and survive them) all the time.
As an aside, you should generally avoid grid search in favor of random search or an evolutionary algorithm. Grid search can waste your time budget on likely bad combinations of hyperparameters instead of looking for combinations local to or nearby a known-good combination.
Pffft, everyone knows the real money is made by investing in CS:GO skins. /s
How should one prepare financially for the fact that you're going to die one day?
as soon as there's a precedent that schools (particularly high schools but also colleges) are financially responsible for CTE in football players (and possibly other sports) they'll be unable to get insurance which means those programs will be shut down

without school programs as a pipeline the nfl probably can't continue to exist
Damn. I haven't played much since about 1998 or so, and still have several of my decks from then, and some of the cards I used were quite valuable at the time.
I've personally had different experiences in a professional workspace. I'm currently sitting at a ~15% replacement rate (e.g.: Apple saying they cannot fix it, and giving us a new one) across ~12 touchbar MBP's. We have 2 of the 13" MBP's sans touchbar and they've been relatively trouble free.

That's similar to Macbook Air's, which I despise in the workplace simply because they seem to randomly die much more than other models.

All of our 2012-2015 MBP's are still going very strong. We have not replaced a single one.
Just want to share this vey interesting channel on the topic, Alpha Investments: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTp-iVOtTrKau0skmfZlo5Q I'm no into magic but I enjoy the explanation and history
Yeah, the only independent guy I knew to succeed in this carried about $10,000 worth of cards on him from tourney to tourney. You really have to operate at scale for it to be worth the effort, and like you said...at that point, why not something else?
> or did you stop reading after a while?

Of course. How much time do you spend reading opinions on a highly technical field from hobbyists who readily admit they are no experts, and whose work is based on a hand-picked list of comments posted by anonymous people on social media?

I would gladly read the whole presentation from start to finish if it was written by experts talking about their research in their domain of expertise. This is not that.
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I don't think the response is good enough.

- They make no promise of the target lifespan of their devices. It appears that their internal culture believes that devices that last only 1 year is acceptable. They do not say if they want to deviate from this.

- No transparency on the expected battery degradation and performance impact over time.
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I see they list of OSs but no location to actually download any older version except sierra. Where do you see that?
That commit is correct (4c48abe91be03d191d0c20cc755877da2cb35622), but it was not in 4.12 as cut by linus.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c48abe91be03d191d0... (click the little '...' to expand tags it's in) or:

$ git tag --contains 4c48abe91be03d191d0c20cc755877da2cb35622
v4.13

What is your methodology that gets that it is in the 4.12 tree?
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I think that the popular idea of inherited or generational wealth is getting a fat 6 figure check when a grandparent dies, which doesn't really happen to most of us. Rather, it looks like what the author describes -- a safety net that allows upper middle class kids to do things that their peers can't afford. As someone in the top quintile, you may not feel that much richer than the people in the next neighborhood over, but for a lot of folks, that dad could have said, "I'm sorry son, but I need to pay rent too." Instead, it was more of an annoyance at his son needing a handout. But these things accumulate over time, and this kid from a top-quintile family gets a better resume than his neighbor who washed dishes over the summer.
Completely off-topic: All five people mentioned as experts on CSS Grid towards the end of this post are women.

(I don't have anything else to add, just found this interesting.)