skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ThatGeoGuy: "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."

Nintendo: "whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."

Those seem like conflicting statements, if you assume that "such copies" means both "a ROM made from an official copy" (i.e. read by the individual from their own cartridge) and a copy "downloaded from the internet".

And further, Nintendo claims that game copying devices themselves are also illegal.
> I remember when I first quit facebook. I still had the habit of quickly pressing "F, enter" for months after I quit.

Same.when I run a distraction blocker, I often don't realize I'm firing another ’ctrl+t,f,enter' sequence until I hit the blocker.

It's made me realize how devilishly efficient companies are at exploiting our dopamine cycles. Case in poin: I tried to disable in app purchases in Google Play, but short of removing all payment options (which breaks my project fi billing), there's no way.

For as frustrating as I find it, though, it's devastating to think of the impact on ppl living in poverty,for whom every source of daily relaxation is probably some well funded dopamine dealer trying to extract their $11 / hr pay one micro transaction at a time.
Crowds Throng to Tesla Store as Model 3 Goes on Display
India to add facial authentication for Aadhaar card security
I would echo the comment you are responding to: if you have a bad direct boss, get out and work somewhere else. If you decide to stay, for example because you have golden handcuffs, make a clear decision on how long you have to / want to stick around and leave after that time elapses.

If you cannot leave, understand why (e.g., does your resume feature COBOL as a top skill?) and try to fix this quickly. Having a mindset "I like working here, but I can find another job quickly if I have to" helps greatly in any job, e.g. by letting you take calculated risks at your job (and sleep well at night), which on success can give you great benefits. My 2c.
I'm not even considering the block reward, consider when there are only fees (or block reward is negligible). In that case profitability is determined by energy/hardware costs vs fees.

If costs go up (eg energy becomes scarce) the minimum fee also need to rise. Each "unit" of economic activity using the currency will be more expensive when energy is scarce than when it is abundant. This is a natural feedback loop.
Tether claims to be backed by USD but could easily be a money printing press injecting fake value into the crypto markets. According to their own data, they have created $1.6B worth of tethers:

https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
The Silent Rise of the Female Driven Economy – Noteworthy – The Journal Blog
I wouldn't got that far on the truck front, in fact Ford just announced a V6 Turbo Diesel half-ton that should get 30MPG(the Dodge equivalent EcoDiesel already sees 28-30mpg in real-world scenarios). You're not going to see a truck that will fill that role as pure EV for a long while(and I say that as a Model S owner).

Agreed on the announce-but-not-build front. VW did the same but seems like GM is the only one following through.
I live alone, but I still don't like doing dishes manually, especially after having gone through the effort of cooking, I'd rather chill out a bit after I finished eating.

I just throw them all in the machine and run the machine once a week, way less effort, way less time wasted.
Is there a container system that I can use like Norton Ghost? Where I can set the base image to anything I want?
I can attest to perseverance and luck having been crucial to my success as a developer. Getting in the door for an internship was a numbers game, as I was still in community college and most companies don’t take candidates like that seriously.

After getting in though, personality and hard work factored more in carrying me through to better opportunities (luck was still involved though).

I suspect your journey will be the same from here on out, and you don’t seem to lack perseverance and personality. So good luck!
FWIW, if you haunt the Humble Book Bundle, you will end up acquiring a significant percentage of O'Reilly's library over time. O'Reilly itself does bundles there fairly often, and O'Reilly imprints like Make: and No Starch have put all but a few books that they've published in the last several years up in humble bundles.

One of the last bastions of good DRM-free eBooks is Pearson/InformIT, which includes a lot of big ones like Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, Addison-Wesley, Que, Sams, etc.
Why the Indian Market Continues to Disappoint
For all of Nintendo's posturing on this subject, they've been selling games on emulators for the past few years, both on the Virtual Console and in the form of the NES and SNES Classic.
Most recently, there's the tape-painting bot Picasso: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/meet-picasso-the-painter-on-g...

If you were paying attention in the week that followed this post, the spread between GDAX and the other major US exchanges narrowed from $1000+ per coin to just about $11 right now, and trade volumes on GDAX plummeted. Maybe theres's some other reason, though there's some crazy correlation there at least. I'm surprised more people aren't talking about that.
Technically your "that" is superfluous. ;)

> In all seriousness, I greatly appreciate corrections like this in a way so few people do.
With crypto I think the math becomes even worse for startup options...would be interesting to see numbers around employees leaving because of crypto.

Brightside is that if the trend continues then perhaps it will force the entire startup/VC ecosystem to rethink options and/or create more guarantees around liquidity that isn't so completely up in the air.
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paywall, so cannot read.

i assume it's because you volunteer your location to uber, whereas you don't to gov't (and something about warrant-less surveillance/wiretapping laws). there should be an easy way built into Android/iOS to transmit your location during a phone call to the other end. it would not just solve the 911 use case but a lot of other non-emergency uses.

EDIT: i'm also very interested why this comment is garnering downvotes.
Would you mind sharing which books?
Android supports (and at least on my Nexus 5x, enabled by default) disk encryption.
My goodness, were you personally involved in all those events? You seem to have 9 lives.
The ability to continue to flip the coin is generally it's own kind of luck, though.
Ask HN: Which DRM-free ebook reader to buy? (2018 edition)
My question is similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682793 from five years ago: Which e-ink ebook reader can one buy if one wants to avoid things like remote wiping, creepy tracking of reading habits, and lock-in into a single store?

I'm currently using a Kobo Touch, which is fine except that its battery is starting to go. Also, I have to use a very old version of the firmware because at some point newer versions started to force you to connect to the Internet and register the device with Kobo just to be allowed to use the physical object you bought, and which until that point worked fine without registration.

I'm happy to sideload all my EPUBs via USB from my PC, so "never connect the reader to wifi" is OK for me. But I don't want to be forced to register an account with anyone at any point.

Good PDF display would be nice, but it's not particularly important for me.
The market will react, though, by launching new coins. And soon that 100 trillion dollars will be spread out over 101 trillion currencies or tokens.
It's an iOS app: https://www.oakmeditation.com/

For me it hits the sweet spot for simple, attractive, and useful.
Pine nuts. Saved you a click.
In fairness though, talk about going out on a high!

Twilight Princess was released on the Gamecube and Wii, as well.
Could you send a list of instance IDs and timeframes where you saw this?
You're describing quantum mechanics, but the phenomena here are classical. There is no mystery with Fermat's law, even if you do not accept wave optics and want a theory of light particles. At each instant in time a light particle can determine how its trajectory will bend based on purely local information. The bending of light is determined by the local variation in the index of refraction. Snell's law is what you get if the index of refraction jumps discontinuously. This is analogous to how in classical mechanics the trajectory of a particle is determined by the local variation in the potential energy function (or more generally, the Lagrangian), and how a particle's trajectory has a kink if the potential energy has a discontinuous jump. The particle bounces back if the jump is too high, which corresponds to reflection of light.
> ...that is, sent them to a verifiably unspendable address.

How would you accomplish something like this?
https://plasso.com/membership starts at $0/month with 4% transaction fee. Uses Stripe as payment processor. We moved away from plasso (now using https://quaderno.io/) because we needed European VAT/tax handling features.
Work/life balance issues are something I care a lot about it (in fact, I wrote a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).

So I've walked away from jobs where it was clear I wouldn't have work/life balance.

E.g. one company told me: "We don't want to, but we're working 50/60 hour weeks. We had everything planned out and then a big customer had a big feature request and it blew through our schedules."

Good planning involves setting goals, but also making sure you have time and resources available to deal with unexpected problems, because there will be unexpected problems. To lose one weekend to an emergency may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose all of them looks like carelessness. And I didn't want to be working long hours because of what was clearly bad planning.

(Sometimes you can catch warning signs in advance: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/10/14/job-you-dont-hate/)
The first song I ever heard sung Dolores:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s
Decentralization comes and goes. Gnutella clients used to be the rage, and now YouTube and Netflix are kings. The cloud is the new mainframe. We will shift into distributed software then back to consolidated platforms, and the pendulum will keep moving.
Towards a More Peaceful World [insert `!' or `?' Here]
Alternative Minimum Tax on exercise on ISOs is 100% grade-A bullshit. Special incentive stock options with tax benefits negated almost completely by AMT? And the only real way to deal with this tax is to either hold til a liquidation event or sell it to one of these equity collector firms for pennies on the dollar?

The ONE good thing Trump & congress could have done this year was eliminate AMT, and they didn't.

For the average Joe equity isn't much better than a lottery ticket. Equity is a LIE. Give me $$$$$$$
Here's a related article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211...
...and a few other interesting ones from my link archive

Brain map http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/227498-uc-berkeley-team-b...

3d-printing by thought http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130613-3d-printing-your-th...

Brain computer interface for controlling a Hex Bug and painting tools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBCI

Typing by thought https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/fa...
This is exactly how sidechaining works. I was heavily downvoted in another thread for suggesting that sidechains can mitigate network “sluggishness” for more complex Dapps.
Anyone who has bought a Virtual Console game from Nintendo: Emulators. Ditto, anyone who has bought the NES/SNES Classic consoles. Those are just an ARM chip, a bit of flash, and a custom Linux with an emulator running ROMs that match the exact contents of files available online.
CVS bans photo manipulation for store beauty brands
Are you sure? I have “show best tweets first” turned off and my tweets are not in chronological order after signing in to check right now.
Also unable to read the article no matter what tricks I use, but I'll add this nugget of info for E911 requirements. I believe we are coming up on the deadline years for when telcos must incorporate barometric measurements from barometer-carrying phones into altitude calculations so that 911 emergency response can get an altitude clue from the moment you ring.

Edit: PDF source https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-9A1.pdf

And edit: This is a tricky situation, because the barometer does not provide real altitude data, and if the math is done incorrectly or there is some interference, the 911 response could be sent to the wrong altitude. Perhaps there are delays with that because extracting the correct altitude from the data is extremely difficult to do with only a single phone to use a source.
> That said, I think the path to 'real' AGI lies in some combination of DL, probabilistic graph models, symbolic systems, and something we have not even imagined yet.

Well, that really made it much clearer to me ;)
>Isn't that like a turkey asking why they haven't been slaughtered yet? Then the day before Thanksgiving comes and times up.

This is an excellent way to illustrate so many problems of this nature. "If X is a real concern, why hasn't it happened to us yet?" is such a huge problem in so many organisations, and it's so frustrating.
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Divorce, second breakup from a BPD person, meditation, tantra, yoga and ultra running. There are moments in ultra running and tantra that transcend everything, a glimpse of enlightenment and the simplicity of life that make you get through anything life throws at you.
19.5% of what total?
http://archive.is/l5uLn
A Nigerian immigrant addresses President Trump's alleged comment
How World Bank unfairly influenced its own competitiveness rankings
> i'm also very interested why this comment is garnering downvotes.

Your comment about the paywall is explicitly off-topic, and then you've commented without reading the article. And now you're posting about being downvoted, which is likely to attract further downvotes.
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/... will let you read it :)
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Wow thanks for that Pearl link! I know how I'll be spending my afternoon......
Recently I've had the opposite experience, trying to un-customise my Emacs config.

First I've tried mg. Nope, back to Emacs. Then I've tried no init file at all, but the defaults were really driving me crazy.

I've tried Spacemacs in Evil mode. It's an amazing and very polished package, and so many things just make better sense... But the Vi editing style is just not for me, I needed to get stuff done and muscle memory was getting in my way. Next I've tried Spacemacs without Evil, and then Prelude, and both were quite decent, except I was missing maybe half a dozen of my most common tweaks... Like C-x C-a to call align-regexp. When I started copying over just the bits from my old config that I needed the most... And turning off some of the more annoying stuff in Prelude (eg. I dislike both helm and ido)... Look, we're back to square 1.

I went back to my old config that I've been tweaking endlessly for over a decade. I finally feel productive again.
I read this in the voice of Maester Aemon.

Completely agree now that I not so suddenly have a girlfriend and her 10-year-old boy to think about. It changes things. A lot. And we're not married, and the kid isn't even mine.

But every aspect of my life has changed. All of my priorities have changed. That woman and that kid are all I care about after I leave work. And when I leave work, I fucking leave it.

I agree with what you said. Everyone needs to accept who and where they are. But I know this: I'm no longer interested in the gigs that take me away from my family. Not my girlfriend or her son, not my dad or mom, or my brothers either.

I've done my time with that pretentious horseshit. I'll take a job real close to the people who spent their lives loving me and give it back now.

Different people will feel different ways. For sure.
That's a really uncharitable interpretation of the other comment. That's the way that commenter likes to connect with people he might otherwise not engage with. Sure, he could call them, or whatever you're thinking of - but probably, he just wouldn't. Facebook makes it easy enough that he can keep in touch with these people that otherwise might be too much effort.

Call that lazy, or whatever, but I think it's an extremely reasonable admission. Not everyone has the inclination to pour tons and tons of effort into maintaining a large social network purely through offline means.
Good trick, thanks! Reading now. Super interesting.
i was just thinking this morning that the eventual legacy of the US just might be the understanding that exceptionalism is largely a myth. the US has been this great experiement in individualism (among many other things), and while the country has had a great run, we're learning over and over again that we individuals stand on the shoulders of giants (of our own making), that our accomplishments are a peculiarity of both our own efforts as well as those of hundreds if not thousands of other people.

it's great to celebrate our accomplishments, but attributing those accomplishments to a single person--as tidy and satisfying as that might be--is simply incorrect (e.g., steve jobs, bill gates, elon musk, etc.).
I invest long-term into a couple of interesting projects and you're absolutely right. Most popular alt coins suffer from near daily pump and dumps and and a casual look at hourly charts will easily reveal this. I can't even imagine what a nightmare it is trying to do technical analysis and make sense of the market for those who day-trade cryptocurrencies.
> then ask yourself, are you writing code or is code writing you?

Lol what?
This! I don't want to see any video content.
prev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7796748

[EDIT]

>Further proof that the absurd run-up in November when bitcoin reached $1,200 was illegitimate.

That's 4 years ago.
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I think the ethereumj commenters come-off as whiny in all this and they are most certainly confusing LGPL with GPL. Calm the f down, seriously.
Actually I noticed something related with websites. It's not that they want to be "an immersive experience", they want to be the immersive experience. In the world of free, apps and websites compete for our attention. This is what "please register" is about. Every website wants to be your home of sorts, track you, give you badges for activity, wish you happy birthday or new year. Few of them recognize that you just want them to be useful. Just use them and get the job done.
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I'm likely to be dead before copyrights expire on anything that came out during my lifetime.
John Oliver covered this topic back in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs
There are some systems which are memory-bound by nature, not as a consequence of poor optimisation, so it's not really as simple as "needed" or "not needed". As a basic example, in compression, more memory available means that we can use a larger window size, and therefore have the opportunity to achieve higher compression ratios. There are plenty of more complex examples -- a lot of mapreduce work can be made more efficient with more memory available, for example.
Well actually... :)

If you read to the end:

"After we had properly configured our cluster and the auto-scaling settings, we were able to lower it even more to only 4x EC2 c4.Large instances and the Elastic Auto-Scaling set to spawn a new instance if CPU goes above 90% for 5 minutes straight."

From last time's discussion on this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845820):

This comment is kind of insightful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9846606

"I was confused by the numbers at first, so: that's 17k requests per second, spread out over 4 dual core Xeon (Haswell) machines, which works out to just over 4000 requests/s per machine. It's still a respectable number, but it's much closer to what one would expect given the task."

"Don't get me wrong, the most interesting part is definitely the implementation and as a Go noob I found it very useful - it's just a bit misleading for the headline to sum your request rate across all parallelized machines."
I disagree. Most people wouldn't flip the switch. And by most I mean 99.9% wouldn't even know what the option does.

I think the real answer is: adding such a switch would be very very hard UX-wise. Also imagine what would happen to users that flipped the switch and then never knew how to turn it back off, or whatever. You get the idea.
I'm arguing less against the fact that the US and USSR drove the nuclear MAD in the Cold War than the fact that you cite the number of important nuclear powers as going from 2 to 9. In terms of modern countries, the US and Russia are the only countries with significant stockpiles. UK and France have reduced their stockpiles from the Cold War (so if they were insignificant then, they're even more so now). The other 5 countries have increased or maintained stockpiles, but only China reaches British/French levels. India, Pakistan, and Israel have even fewer and are only sufficient to effect war on a small scale against specific rivals. North Korea's nukes are incapable of doing anything more than seriously pissing off the entire world (arguably, their ability to shell Seoul is more effective deterrent than their nukes).
The best way of looking at the brain is from within
If calling 911 can automatically send your location based on your mobile phone, you'd be able to save a lot of time for the operators, but I wonder how many lives would be saved from faster responses.

Even better, if they created some app that would speed up the 911 process.
My interpretation is this: Facebook is now going to charge advertisers a lot more money to appear on Newsfeeds.

Eventually the newsfeed will become polluted again, and Facebook will announce sweeping changes to address this and the cycle will continue.
I am also thinking at the people that work in this industry but on the other hand can't we use other materials? I would add a tax though that could be used for other green projects and not make it illegal.
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