skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on jurisdiction a lot, quite honestly. Nintendo can say it's illegal all it wants, but if I own a physical copy of a game, and make a digital backup of such, then I'm in the clear as far as Canadian law (see our copyright bill C-11) goes. A ROM made from an official copy vs. downloaded from the internet are pretty hard to tell apart, but regardless you are allowed to own and retain such copies if you own the original.

That being said, if there's DRM and you break it, then you have a different issue entirely. Owning the ROM wouldn't be illegal, but breaking the DRM certainly would be. Even if in the process of legally backing up your data off of the disc you break the DRM, you're still in legal hot waters.

Quite frankly I'm convinced Nintendo can say all it wants, it's a scare tactic and for the most part they're full of shit unless you take into account a specific part of US or Japanese law in a specific state or jurisdiction. I would not assume that they know exactly what they're talking about globally.
__I am average at my studies, what seemed to be super easy to my peers seemed strenuous for me.__

This is probably going to controversial, but her core problem seems to be an insufficiently high g-factor. She could have contributed to a prominent open source project like the Linux kernel or the C++ compiler. The only barriers to entry are technical competency and ability to focus.

__Hard work has been overly simplified to “If you work hard, you will achieve your dreams.”__

This is true assuming your dreams are calibrated to your capabilities. I presume the problem was her map was not in sync with the territory. Elon Musk can dream about going to Mars. I can't because I simply lack the willpower/drive/intelligence to achieve that.

We need to stop perpetuating the egalitarian fantasy. All men are not created equal.
As an interesting thought experiment, consider that VC is a tiny asset class. Now consider that if the amount invested in crypto were the same as is invested in VC, the market cap of crypto would be over 100 trillion dollars. At least if you assume a fixed ratio of dollars invested to market cap.
Flagged and voted this up. HN should scan for AMP links and ask the submitter to fix the link.
since the futures are cash settled, is it really possible for there to be such a tight correlation?

also, I surmise that a major factor in the correction we've witnessed in the past month or so has been the congested mempool (high fees and slow tx times).
It doesn't seem to have hurt sales, it's outpacing Zelda: Twilight Princess in terms of sales and that's currently holding the record.
I think of hubris as a form of delusion.
I use Leaflet for 90% of my mapping projects. But once in a while a complex requirement comes along and only OpenLayers has the power to solve it. Rotating a map was a recent one.
Disney Enterprises, Inc. V. RICKSON RODRICKS / DOMAEN.COM
OpenLayers vs. Leaflet is a bit like Rails vs. Sinatra: one is a lot bigger and heavier, but you'll probably end up reimplementing 1/4 to 3/4 of its features if you go with the other.

Plenty of cases where either choice is the right one, IMO.
Seems natural continuation of a post titled "Researchers finds".

Seriously - wat.
React native module for drive directions
Before few days a built small library for react native app which helps to you open default navigation app with driving directions. Module use Linking from react-native.

If you wnat to try this library you can find it here:
https://github.com/laki944/react-native-navigation-directions
Meth is actually really interesting. It's a very democratic drug in that it's really easy for the user to make it themselves. Pot is another one that theoretically lets you grow it yourself, but it's significantly harder and requires a larger investment. From what I gather, as long as you manage to not blow yourself up, the shake and bake method requires very little supplies and tools to make meth.

Edit: to be clear, I am not advocating that anyone use meth. It's a horrible drug that will fuck your life. I do however find its particular properties interesting in the abstract.
PostGraphile is super cool. Especially if you like centralising logic at the database level. There are pros and cons to this approach.

Personally I prefer keeping my database layer as simple as possible - no stored procedures, no queues and certainly no communicating to external systems.

But I still see great value in generating a GraphQL data API and using that as the only way to interact with the database. GraphQL Bindings is a new technology that allows you write a server that acts as an advanced proxy in front of another GraphQL API. It allows you to recompose the schema, and intercept requests for specific queries or mutations.

Using an approach like this you can pass through queries to PostGraphile almost unmodified while taking full control over mutations.

It's early days, but we have a pretty cool setup that generates TypeScript type definitions based on the underlying GraphQL API. And it is all open source :-) https://blog.graph.cool/reusing-composing-graphql-apis-with-...
This is all definitely math and physics interesting but a real beach has waves, currents and rocks. The lifeguard has spent weeks or months staring at it for hours on end. Probably has a good idea best way to save someone. Otherwise continue.
Normally I'd agree, but I just got a redirect to the ZDNet page.

Did someone change the link?
It's actually a good idea within limits. Faster block times reduce the variance in the time it takes to achieve a certain degree of safety. 3 confirmations on BTC takes 30 minutes in expectation, but it's very easy for it to take 60 or 90. In contrast, while it would also take expected 30 minutes to get 120 confirmations on Ethereum, the likelikhood of it going substantially longer is small.

Waiting 30 minutes for a transaction is annoying, but you can plan around it. Unexpectedly waiting an hour and a half is maddening. :)
> If you're getting paid handsomely in cash, you should be able to weather that interruption.

Two glaring issues:

1) What people should do and what they actually do are two different things. People should eat sensible portions of healthful food. And yet, we have an obesity epidemic.

Saying people (even among those with high salaries) should be able to weather an interruption isn't very helpful when in practice many can't [1].

2) Which startups can afford to pay people handsomely in cash? (early) Startups offer equity to employees in large part because they can't afford to compete on salary.

> Amazon equity is publicly traded; you can buy as much of it as you want with any salary.

It's on top of Amazon's fairly generous salaries. The comparison was between being given Amazon equity, which is obviously worth something, vs. a private company's equity which is almost always worthless.

Which non-unicorn startup is offering $250K+ a year in salary and bonus for a plain old software engineer?

1: https://qz.com/520414/the-high-earning-poor/
> I believe I heard that the xbox360 contains an Xbox emulator for backwards compatibility. If it wasn't the Xbox360 it was some other console.

Yep, the external HDD for the Xbox 360 has the "secret sauce" / binary blobs that allows this to work and emulates certain Xbox games.

Similarly, the Xbox One also has the backwards compatibility library to emulate 360 games, but doesn't require an extra accessory. Each game download contains its own wrapper of the 360 emulator.
Since I have no Apple hardware except for a work provided laptop, I don't use Ulysses' proprietary format. I just have a folder (that's in Dropbox) with straight .md files in it, and have added it to ulysses. After the Evernote mess, I don't want anything in a proprietary format.
Plus, since I'm cross platform, with different apps on each platform, I don't have a choice.
Learning to stop spending so much time customizing everything and work with the defaults was one of the hardest but most productive lessons I’ve learned over the years. I used to have a custom bashrc and custom vim and everything on my phone was custom and I put a lot of effort into it. I even found the perfect keyboard layout for me and switched my keyboards to that. To the point where I couldn’t effectively use someone else’s machine.

And then I became a consultant and was logging into someone else’s machine every day, often when I couldn’t install any customizations at all. I learned to love bash as-is, and vim as-is. And my custom launcher stopped working, so I switched back to the default Android launcher. And then my work gave me an iPhone that I couldn’t customize. And suddenly I was spending more time working and less time customizing and my productivity shot through the roof. All I had to do was stop seeking things to make me work better and actually just start working. And in addition to higher productivity, I now had more free time in the day because my work got done faster.

It really is freeing in a Zen-like fashion to just use a tool as-is and not constantly wonder how you could make it 5% better or 3% faster.
PDFs:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=39284158802843660...
Maybe not intentional but certainly misguided.
I have this thing called self-control and discipline. It doesn't cost anything except respect for one's self. Throwing technology and apps at character flaws isn't a long-term solution for anything and only feeds consumerism and materialism.
My response to What exactly are Blockchain Forks?
Backdoor Found in Lenovo RackSwitch and BladeCenter
> Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed?

I think Facebook is a company that is based on insidious manipulations and deceptions.* It's about making the users think that they are freeing themselves and becoming more connected, when the company is actually restricting them and locking them in. It seems unlikely that they would give users control in a way that might make the site less sticky.

* I could provide specific examples, but it would be a long comment. I took screenshots of examples before I quit.
Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies suddenly aged 46
Yes, the futures price settles daily based on the reference rate. Eventually such correlations become more efficient once you have a real market. (As another poster pointed out it's still thin).
Any studies that support the answer "no" for both questions?

Technical interview performance has ~0 correlation with performance on the job? I find it hard to believe. Is the mean performance on the job of a software engineer that fails to pass Google interviews as good as one that does? Why do most companies want to hire Google software engineers if that is the case?

As for my second question, it should have been "is it easi-er to measure this performance reliably than other skills that may be relevant"? It sounds like this would be hard to answer. But this kind of interview seems to be best suited for repeatable evaluation (although, of course, you do have the problem that people will prepare and bias the results, but I don't see how you can avoid that if you want a repeatable way to measure performance).

Finally, "and companies use them in spite of that". Any guesses why?
The complaint about Ethereum's uncle rate seems a bit off base, since unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum's uncles aren't wasted; they contribute to its accumulated hash count, play a part in fork selection, and reward the miners who make them.
Do we really know anything siginficant about the extent of the players in the cryptocurrency marketplace to know if the statement "cryptocurrency is less manipulated" is true or not? We don't even know who created it in the first place!

I thought the general assumption is that there's a lot of "unknown unknowns"? Am I wrong?
> And, I find it so sad that the first independent government chose to double down on the control on the economy rather than just open it all up.

This is not accurate. The Indian economy was pretty open; the overwhelming bureucratic red-tape started after Indira Gandhi's nationalization program (and other such policies). India under Nehru wasn't laissez faire by any means, but neither was it Communist.

You also have to see the context under which the politicians operated then. Unbridled capitalism had lead to colonialism and the World Wars and led to much oppression for workers worldwide; the Indian leaders were trying to avoid that kind of wealth aggregation and income equality.
To summarize, someone is typo squatting Disney (an many other domains) which tricks users into installing a Chrome extension.

Here's the relevant part:

> Respondent’s <disenychannel.com>, <disneychsnel.com>, and <disneycjannel.com> domain names are identical or confusingly similar to Complainant’s trademarks.

> Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the <disenychannel.com>, <disneychsnel.com>, and <disneycjannel.com> domain names. Respondent is not commonly known by the domain names, nor has Complainant authorized, licensed, or otherwise permitted Respondent to use the DISNEY CHANNEL mark. Respondent also does not use the domain names in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services or legitimate noncommercial or fair use. Rather, Respondent displays the message "You’re one click from your destination" on the resolving domain, and asks visitors to click a "CONTINUE" button in order to view the website. When users click this button, the user is prompted to agree to install a "Safe Browsing Chrome" extension. Respondent also uses the <disneychsnel.com> and <disneycjannel.com> domain names to redirect users to a landing page which have links to sites related to Complainant’s products or services, although not limited to Complainant’s own goods and services. Further, Respondent attempts to sell the <disneycjannel.com> domain name on the resolving domain. Finally, Respondent’s slight misspelling of its registered marks and domain name constitutes typosquatting, further demonstrating Respondent’s lack of rights and legitimate interests.
NI!
We've updated the link from https://www.google.com/amp/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/....
Wow, this paper's conclusion is delayed by 3 years. Willy and Markus bots are old news for anyone who has been following bitcoin closely. The source of all these allegations was this blog appearing in 2014:

https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-repor...
I think it’s the former. Not wearing corrective lenses (glasses or contacts) when needed causes additional eye strain.
You know, a large proportion of companies don’t even have developers employed or much to do with software, yet they still have people in management. This implies that there are multiple ways!
Increased mining of BTC and similar cryptocurrencies does not result in more blocks, just more energy spent.
In the long run hardware efficiency shouldn't matter. At longer time scales the cost of the electricity consumed will always trend towards the value of the reward.

Just by the simple mechanism of people seeing an opportunity to profit and buying hardware and turning it on.
I mean, as long as that person is getting their 'friend' to do the work while on the job, who cares?

Like, things get out on time and shipped, right? I may misunderstand the intent of the comment though.

But if they are sub-contracting out their work AND the work is done correctly, on time, etc. then it's all gravy. Yeah, you should probably hire that 'friend' instead, but if the interim works, it works (speaking very generally here)
The Economist is about as liberal as a newspaper may come. And it's definitely English and very much free market.

That said it's very progressive on a social level. Like arguing for gay marriage and for legalization of dope, both already in the mid nineties.
By showing us something strange and beautiful. Technical yet artistic. It is convention breaching and paradigm cracking. Inspiring, educating and illuminating too. The world can use as much of that as it can get.
In all seriousness, I greatly appreciate corrections like this in a way that so few people do.
What's neat about the analogy is that it easily models one of the most fundamental tensions in human society: how much privilege should we be able to pass on to our children?

In a perfectly fair world, we would all be born with the same number of lottery tickets, the same equal opportunity. But one of the primary goals of being successful is to be able to ensure better opportunities for our children, in essence giving them lottery tickets.
Honestly curious, do you have links?
Practicing meditation and giving all my effort for an achievement I thought was unreachable.

Before I learned how to meditate, I thought of everything logically and incorrectly applied that to relationships as well. I found it incredibly hard to understand other people, their motivations, and why they acted certain ways. I wondered why so many of my relationships failed out of no where and why it was so hard to connect with other people. After I observed my background processes with the help of meditation, I realized that people act primarily out of emotion, not logic.

This is where I made leaps in emotional growth. I realized that I had many emotional processes running in the background, like daemons of an operating system. The majority of these processes were subconscious and unaware to me, yet they were impacting every decision I've ever made! Subconscious sensations of fear, sadness, and anger that were influencing my conscious mind. Before someone even considers the logic of a question, they've already made an emotional answer. I could write a book on this, but Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman explains this so much better. Once I realized this and confronted my inner demons, the behavior of other people was much more manageable.

Reaching an achievement that I thought was unreachable was life changing as well. On my final semester of college, I had a senior project that was out of my skill level, but it was required for my degree. Without any background in development, I had to develop a web application for a customer, with an entire LAMP stack behind it. I came from a Windows background so I had to learn Linux administration as well as 3 new programming languages within 2 months. I worked extremely hard on it, but did not receive any input from the customer. The due date rolled around and the project inevitably did not meet the his expectations, so he pleaded with the professor to fail me so I would have to retake the class (and he would get more free labor). Despite all that work, the professor gave me a big fat F and I was unable to graduate. The night I got that email I felt so crushed and defeated, I couldn't sleep and developed a stomach ulcer.

But I didn't give up. I petitioned for a grade revision, I had no other choice. I made an 8-page report explaining that I completed everything the customer agreed to in the project proposal. I presented it to the department head, but he said there was no case. I presented it to the grading committee, and to my luck, they accepted my case. They gave me a second chance to complete a revision of the project and I would receive a passing grade in return. The only problem was that the customer was asking for a task that was not possible with the application and I had 2 weeks, Christmas vacation. Despite that I was determined. I developed an extension for the application that accomplished his goal. After turning that project in, the professor awarded me an A in the class, I got my degree cum laude, and I realized the limits I can push my mind and body. Anything you want in life can be achieved, despite the obstacles, you just need to spend enough time and effort on it.
VMWare and EMC backup tools vulnerabilities
What makes you so sure fixes are trivial? Do you know what their code looks like? How big their team is? What resources they have available to devote to this? What their runway looks like? What pressures they're under from investors?

In a legacy codebase, even the smallest change can introduce all sorts of problems; and a small change to output or business logic can require disproportionately large changes to code. They may simply have determined that finishing the feature changes they think they need for their business to survive is more important than protecting against exploits that they consider either unlikely or low-value.

And how acceptable this is may depend in large part on what the service in question is and how broadly it's used. The lack of concern you describe would be totally unacceptable from a bank or even Twitter, but perhaps excusable (at this stage) from an early stage company trying to build the next Twitter.
There are other particles that move at the speed of light (gluons, gravitons), so in that sense, light is not special. Classical mechanics can be formulated in Lagrangian form such that the path that a particle takes is the path of least action (for light, action is proportional to time). Don't put too much weight on light having agency because this description of how particles move is mathematically equivalent to a system of differential equations, in which the infinitesimally future position of a particle is determined by local information. Classical mechanics is just an approximation of quantum mechanics anyway. Quantum mechanics clarifies why particles move according to the principle of least action: the paths close to the path of least action have large probability amplitudes.
A year of building Gyroscope
The "Drug Trafficking Organizations" are the cartels. It is important to remember they don't exist to traffic drugs, they exist for the top leader(s) to obtain and maintain power, like a state-in-waiting. As other activities become more profitable, they switch over to those. Marijuana loses its profitability, they can switch to other drugs, guns, smuggling, "coyotes", or legitimate enterprise.

This is what unfettered capitalism (anarcho-capitalism) looks like. I like capitalism, generally, but divorcing morality (or, alternatively, failing to separate socially-contracted power to coerce action) from economic gain results in the violence and brutality.
Oh I didn't mean to imply that at all, I am sorry if that is how it came across. All software is imperfect. If there is software that you care about and want to make better and get paid to do so, that sounds like a potentially good fit.
I take your point. I did not intend to shoot them down or suggest that his personal growth was imaginary.

However, I think you missed the main point of my post, which was to suggest that perhaps there was a comorbid reason for his perceived cognitive deficiencies that were not a direct result of marijuana, but related to known side effects, such as REM sleep disruption.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660250/
How well do these do on Winograd challenges?

https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-18/aaai18winograd/
In (iOS && iPhone<9), you can toggle this filter with the triple click trick. In Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut, select Color Filters, then triple click the home button.
Surnames are basically a government invention.
I would say that Company Loyalty is a dangerous thing. The Company isn't going to be Loyal to you. I happen to like my workplace, but I know that if the company is ever in trouble again they will fire me without hesitation. I survived 2 firing rounds already. I will not survive a 3rd one. I didn't quit till now because I was loyal, but I stayed because I was lucky.

Some have decided to quit just before the firing rounds, because we all could see it coming. That is "disloyal", but they are now employed again. That may have been the better decision for them.

All of this was in a European Company.
Adventures in the Rho Calculus: The heart of Goldman Sachs billion dollar secret
There's nothing random about Facebook advertising sales. Regardless of how your feed is customized, they know exactly who you are and what you're interested in.
i know :(, i've been tweaking it but cant get it to work (not a coder by trade)
ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies Under EU Financial Law