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Here's the text for 23 U.S. Code §101: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/23/101 . I see nothing concerning pedestrians on highways.

What I do see is an expansive definition of "highway": "(11) The term “highway” includes— (A)a road, street, and parkway; (B)a right-of-way, bridge, railroad-highway crossing, tunnel, drainage structure including public roads on dams, sign, guardrail, and protective structure, in connection with a highway; and (C)a portion of any interstate or international bridge or tunnel and the approaches thereto, the cost of which is assumed by a State transportation department, including such facilities as may be required by the United States Customs and Immigration Services in connection with the operation of an international bridge or tunnel."

Given all the evidence I've given which shows that people do walk on a highway, and that it's legal, I would appreciate a stronger counter-argument than what you made.

Since "highway" includes parkways, here are some people who walked/biked on the Blue Ridge Parkway: http://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/hiking/ten-years... .

And here are people walking the Natchez Trace Parkway: https://natchez-trace.thefuntimesguide.com/road_walking_natc... .
> Voice UI Is the Future.

No it isn't.
A bit like what happened to the web?
That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> No, this also shows that Apple has successfully yanked users out of Spotify. Not surprising in the least.

Not quite sure about this. Spotify is still growing and adding more users than ever. If Apple were seriously making a dent in Spotify's user base, we would've seen it affect their growth rate. Not everyone is in the Apple ecosystem--an overwhelming majority aren't. In the end, who makes the better product here? Spotify has way more clients, a better product, completely focused on being a music platform, and still carries the coolness factor between the two. There is a lot of incentive for a consumer who is deep within the Apple ecosystem to sign up for Apple music. On the contrary, in the free market, I'd argue Spotify wins out hands down.

> Music also suffers from the same problem as other older media - competition for ears and for time. Video games are hurting music just as much as it's hurting film. Music consumption has become cheapened over the years as technology left it in the dust, preferring to adapt video to our current media-heavy lives. Audio mediums have been traditionally not as paid attention to. Our culture is simply moving on from this kind of media, in a sense.

Music is typically a passive form of media (often playing in the background while work is done) therefore there are not very many mediums that can compete on that; movies, video games require you to be actively engaged with them. You can listen to music while playing games! Music is here to stay.
It's simulating a randomly distributed set of acoustic reflectors. Well, ish. Makes it sound more like a room with stuff in it rather than being in a box.
Hmm - cool project. Don't want to be a buzzkill, but copyright?

Should probably remove the assets to avoid a takedown.
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interesting indeed.. but any persons can repent and change their ways, so let's see where this is going :)
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I believe you, but the comment itself contains one commonplace criticism ("data practices"—an important issue, but not so relevant in this context and very widely discussed elsewhere) followed by two cheap insinuations. That's not good enough. That combo of shallow and inflammatory is exactly what takes threads into hot mediocrity.

That's a bit harsh and I definitely don't mean to pick on you. It's a systemic problem. I'm hoping we can gradually persuade the community to be more conscious of it.
It depends on the complexity and dangers of the command. Git actually seems like a very poor candidate for natural language.

Consider: Legal documents initially began as natural language evaluated by very effective natural language processors (other people). Over time, as the edge cases and ambiguities built up, the language of law diverged to the point that legalese is hardly considered "natural" today.
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> It would be awesome if I could talk to git and tell it to do exactly what I want in English.

Considering that even high-IQ native English speakers have huge, huge problems "just doing what you want", even after explicit and unambiguous instructions -- don't hold your breath. (Maybe after the flying moon car.)
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> Includes assets and graphics extracted from the original SimCity 2000 Special Edition CD. These assets are NOT covered by the GNU General Public License used by this project and are copyright EA / Maxis. I'm including these assets in the hope that because the game has been made freely available at various points in time by EA, and because it's 24 years old as of publishing this project that no action will be taken. Long story short, please don't sue me! Long term, I plan to add functionality to extract assets from the original game files within this project.
Interesting approach, looks like a map renderer for the moment.

There's a cool dosbox emulated version here, payable in the browser: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/simcity-2000-1nf/play-1nf
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Do you need 'sport' to achieve those goals, though? Or would exercise enough be sufficient? I know several very fit people who don't play team-sports, but just take themselves for a long run or swim.

The article was rather flimsy and didn't actually answer its headline. It would have been more interesting had it addressed why people keep watching sport without participating.
Relevant thread wrt rng in smartcontracts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281347
Is this the beginning of the end or just natural stabilisation? I would guess the former; the platform is simply boring now.
Voice UI without general AI is not the future. Forget about it.

Even for long form text entry it's tiresome (ever tried speaking for 1 hour?) -- never mind the noise (e.g. in an office), privacy issues, discoverability of options, and all that.
It depends. You may be able to find better features from a company that specializes but the integration a company can provide with its feature may make it better. For instance, Apple can seamlessly combine a person's iTunes library of bought music dating back to 2003, with thier ripped music and their subscription music.
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Except it's not fiat. It's on the gold standard, and you can exchange for gold.

It being stored in the Mint's vault might even be a feature in this case.
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that is a tiny bit easy.. read their problem statement and tell me if you don't see these things in your everyday life :)

if not, are you living off-grid? (which is also interesting, but a different topic altogether)
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I had a paypal donate button on a piece of software I created and gave away for free. Over 5 years, I could count on my hands the number of people who donated. If I had a dollar for every time it was downloaded I would have been making a comfortable developer salary over that time, but hardly anyone donated despite the value it brought them.

Then I changed it from a donate button next to the download button to a 'pay what you want' button (including $0) that you have to click before downloading.

It was the exact same link to PayPal, but I made more in the first month of having that up than I did in the preceding 5 years.

It's all about friction. A dollar or not, a PayPal payment is high friction.

> If half of the 40k page views one piece of mine got kicked in a dollar, even after PayPal took it's cut, I would have had $13,400.

You don't realise it, but you're essentially advocating for brave's payment system right there

Imagine every visitor to your site paid you a small amount based on how much they visited, and it was all automated and frictionless so that the user didn't have to click anything - they'd just visit read an article and you'd just get paid. That's what brave is trying to build. If you're getting 40k views for your articles, check out their docs for publishers: https://brave.com/publishers/
If you need to make money, work backwards from "monetize" rather than starting from "content I think is meaningful".
I don't think it'll ever be the dominant UI. It works brilliantly in some situations (your house, your car) but there are more situations where it doesn't (everywhere else).
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There is no "correct" pronunciation. There are different books in different countries (with different levels of authority) documenting different pronunciations, but that's about it. The fact that it bothers you is odd. Pronouncing it as "daymon" is a way of signaling that you're talking about something very computer-related and therefore adds clarity to the language. And on the flip-side if you consider daemon and demon the same word (as it has historically been; see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16304452 ), then why is it that the spelling "daemon" (and not "demon") is used so consistently in computing? It's quite clear that within computing, the words demon and daemon are _different_ and the fact that they are often pronounced differently reflects that.

Language evolves. Get over it.
Would love to see ultra precise and reliable eye tracking that positions the cursor on screen. Left and right clicking could be implemented with hand gestures.

This would eliminate the bandwidth and privacy issues a voice UI has while allowing to keep the hands on the keyboard for working the cli.
That's not what the guideline is asking for. If it were, it would be a no-op, since that would be asking for one's first interpretation, and we get that anyway.
Let me guess, you can't redeem tokens for physical gold, and you can't use physical gold to purchase the tokens?
I think google agrees with you, you can type or speak to its assistant. I really only use Google's assistant to set alarms, it's a lot easier to say, wake me up in 20 minutes (or just typing the same query if someone else is sleeping), than looking for the "Clock" app, then clicking the add button in the "alarms" tab, then thinking what time should I set my alarm in order to sleep 20 mins.

My point is that there are a lot of really good use cases for Voice or Type commands, but a lot of them are really inconsistent or unpolished, I love how I can say "Play HipHop" and magically it will look for my Spotify's HipHop playlist and play it, but it's unpolished because it'll play the songs in a different order than how it would be played by opening the playlist manually, and it's inconsistent because if I ask the same command in the search bar it will look on google's "Play Music" instead of Spotify. It feels like they are working really hard in the backend, but too little in the frontend (if we can call it like that).
I don't think that natural language is a useful interface for tools like Git. Natural language is inherently verbose and ambiguous. That's precisely what you don't want when using tools like that.

Natural language has a low signal to noise ratio compared to explicit verbs and keywords.

Git just has less than stellar usability when it comes to performing common actions. Most of that probably is intentional because on the other hand it affords you a great deal of flexibility. If you want to improve the usability of Git standard UI patterns like providing better keywords and shortcuts to frequently used features will suffice. It's just a matter of the design philosophy behind the tool.
If there aren't farmers, restaurants, grocery stores, and all the vast amounts of work done to put food on our tables, we're all going hungry. That's the point I was trying to make, it didn't quite make it to coherent words like your reaction indicates. People go into McDonald's hungry and walk out full, and the owner gets their money for doing that useful work for society.
This is very true, and is a phenomenon that one can observe on 280. Traffic flows with >70mph usually but can come to a sudden stop, which forces experienced drivers to take safe stop at shoulders. Or if you had a brief moment of attention slip, to the rear end of the car in front.

Driving is usually about the flow, and anything that causes change to it (especially sudden ones) are dangerous.
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That was a killer feature for discovering people with similar interests and it worked best for niche / specialist content, where only a few others had also "saved" it. I've found https://refind.com to be a partial substitute but not entirely. It would be hard to imagine committing the time and attention I did to delicious to any other 3rd party service again
Bitrate of voice UI is miserable.
Title makes it sound like someone was actually robbed- a security researcher found a flaw and demonstrated it. No victims yet.
SMTP is quite robust in the light of adversary conditions, it is not that easy to lose mail down a black hole. If you misconfigure the mail will be retried for about 4 days after which it is returned to sender. Once the mail has been delivered there are no safeguards anymore but by then it is just data on your server, open to backup. From MTA (Exim, Postfix, Sendmail...) via MDA (Dovecot, Cyrus, etc.) to MUA (mutt, Thunderbird, claws) the path is quite well-trodden so there are not that many surprises waiting.

The only real gotcha is how strict to tune the spam filter, get that wrong and you can actually lose mail. Assuming you'd use SpamAssassin the risk of getting false positives at the default setting is low, as far as I know it has not happened to me yet. If you regularly exchange important messages with people who speak Marketeese that might be different though...
Thank you for that great start of my day, still laughing !
Fair reasoning from the archival master standpoint. I share a lot of what I rip with other DJ friends. If I sent them a FLAC or ALAC file, they would respond "what the hell is this? how do i listen to this?". mp3 is ubiquitous and 320 kbps does the trick for me. I hope I don't feel that sting of regret you mention, but my gut feeling is that I will not. I still have the records themselves on the shelf which should last longer than the harddrives :)
The advertising system is really bad on all three sides. For users it’s obviously spammy and scammy.

For content creators there is absolutely no incentive to be accurate and sell on performance if you are writing your own content (most content ads just don’t perform that well), and even worse so - the way you write content and the content you choose to write is heavily influenced by google keywords and algorithms, instead of usefulness. Even if you take the time to do quality content the algorithms flush you down as soon as automatically generated bad content looks more recent.

For ad networks the volume of fake clicks and redirects flushes any decency left - they make money when advertisers see this as a casino with variable rewards based on your luck or presumed skill more than a store where you buy results. Advertisers are left to swim in this and experiment while paying for their assumptions. They don’t know what actually works, overpay for fake clicks, and have a constant toll on their business because even if they perform better for customers, those who play the casino games still get the top placement.

Google and facebook and anyone who is upstream in the user attention game (Apple and Android for example)can collect rent on anyone who has a business in a competitive industry or has a consumer reach not viral enough to be used and remembered daily.

The system is not going to change on its own.

The change will come from a better system for consumers that doesn’t monetize attention and doesn’t charge per use and one is coming. Facebook and Google are too dependent on advertising and will not be able to switch fast enough to keep their investors. Their increasingly worsening experience will eventually be overthrown by a much better one for users.

I have been iterating and digging deep into alternatives. Ping me if you are working on this problem.
And even then it depends, not all countries require paying for universities as undergrad.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, digital adtech seems to have gone too far with intrusive tracking, micro targeting, shitty user experience etc.

On the other hand, users have revealed their preference again and again in favor of ad-supported free services (see relative unpopularity of Patreon, Youtube Red etc). Users benefit a lot from free search, emails, messaging, video communication, maps and other services. How many would be willing to pay for these services? Based on my industry experience, a very small slice of the global internet population (though I'd be very happy to be proven wrong).

Finally, I am hesitant to root for government intervention. While regulations are great in some cases (eg. EPA, CDC etc), I just fear regulations for internet companies would end up hurting small players and would entrench oligopolies of Google, Facebook et al (eg. German regulations about online news ended up benefiting Google News and hurting smaller players, or "right to be forgotten" in EU, while good in intentions, has just set up another barrier to entry for a new search engine).
Thanks for helping me start my monday spilling coffee all over my keyboard!!
I am speaking from firsthand experience here. And your reply is the same tired argument I hear every single time this comes up that boils down to "You need to either stop writing or accept that you have to do it for free."

On the one hand, I am reluctant to tell you my reasons for my choices because it winds up being an opportunity for people to just make this about me and ignore the wider issue that is under discussion. It makes it all too easy for people to act like "it is just one dumb writer making stupid choices" and then pick apart everything I say to justify their existing position. On the other hand, perhaps it will be illuminating, though a single comment here can't do justice to years of me trying to find a good answer.

I have considered other options, like trying to do an e-book or a subscription or something. I don't think that works.

One of my sites has information for homeless people. They can't afford to pay me. Another has information on alternative health approaches. Ads in that space are notoriously terrible in terms of touting unproven cures that can be downright dangerous. That site has no ads, in part because I have no desire to be inadvertently hawking colloidal silver.

These are problems I feel I have good solutions for. Everyone acts like they can't be solved. I think they can.

People are endlessly critical of the fact that you can't trust a person telling you do X for your health if they are selling X or you can't trust your doctor when he is in the pocket of big pharmacy, etc. But if you try to just put out information and that's it, you can't monetize it.

So we have this situation where serious problems are growing worse because you can't monetize an effective approach. People keep doing stuff that is making the problem worse because that is all the system supports.

And maybe someday I will cave and throw in the towel and stop doing something I believe in and go do something that pays better, thou it makes me feel I am selling my soul. But so far I am not there yet. I would still like to try to make a difference putting out independent information about things that work. But I also would like to stop living hand to mouth.
This is sometimes caused by older people because reflexes detoriate over time.
Right lane also has significant amount of merge/exits which also causes slowdown.
> the big advantage of Spotify is I don't always need to think about what I want to listen to

This is huge when I'm trying to stay in the flow while programming. Spotify is like a personal DJ that really groks how I work, especially now that it silently continues playing matching tracks when a playlist ends.

With Apple Music, I ended up switching back to iTunes at least once an hour. I really hope they won't be able to crush Spotify.
As worrying as it is, the simple fact is that someone is still much more likely to throw a brick through that glass door and manually unlock it than tamper with the electronic lock.
Unfortunately, doesn't mention Shadow DOM.
If you watch for more than 4 minutes, this 9 minute video explains how Bell proved that the particles can't have been given opposite "ball colors" at the time they became entangled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c

It's quite clever how he proved it, and that it's actually possible to rule out "information that we're just not aware of".
One of the most important rule we tend to forget.

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Fully agree. People who work in this space, need to spend time with Deaf or hard-of-hearing users to fully understand the day to day issues. Otherwise there is a plethora of 'cool' highly controlled demonstrated use cases that haven't scaled.
The motive seems pretty clear - cover up, accuse, and be a hypocrite.
Right, the submitted title ("Amazon Key Hacked. Attacker gains unauthorized access to customer's home") broke the site guidelines by being misleading.

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> Some specialist secondary VC firms exist

Do you have any names or links?
More like "software is eating the world" - everything seems to be SW-related, drowning out content that's directly relevant to programming. OTOH, I've read many programming articles linked from HN in the past few days alone, so from my POV, there's only more other content, not less programming content.
Warcraft 3 had a similar bug in its scripting engine for a while -- a lack of type checking on return values made it possible to cast between incompatible types, allowing some of the complex types exposed to the scripting engine to be manipulated in unexpected and useful ways.

Much like the EUD bug, this was used by mapmakers, but was patched by Blizzard after it was exploited to run arbitrary code. A workaround for one of the more common use cases (hash tables) was later re-added, but the maps that made use of this bug were permanently broken.

http://jass.sourceforge.net/doc/retbug.shtml
I am not ready to sell my soul for money. I would vastly prefer to be a sex worker instead of putting out shite because it pays. That is the crux of a lot of social problems we have currently.

I'm not ready to cave and become a sex worker either. But I would consider that to be 10 million times more respectable than shilling bs info because that pays.
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Indeed, privacy! My doctor called the other day needing some private information while I was in the office with other people nearby, about to start a meeting. I couldn't leave the room to answer her and with my umming and ahhing she cleverly surmised I was unable to talk. Wanting the information quickly she turned to yes/no questions and got the info she needed. There's simply no way I'm gonna talk into my phone "Hey Google, renew my prescription for highly sensitive medication on the bus or anywhere outside the privacy of my own home.