skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Programming the Atari 2600 VCS: Coming Soon"

I've been trying to work through "Making Games For The Atari 2600" by Steven Hugg over the past year and I'm just now starting to grok some of the key concepts, not only in 6502 assembler, but VCS programming specifically, which involves a lot of timing around the CRT beam. I don't expect to make a final product ever but it's really a lot of fun to play with. There's a companion site for the book that lets you play with Atari programming online [1].

I also just bought a physical 2600 last week when I got a bit nostalgic for the paddle based games like Warlords, there's really no equivalent controller for modern systems. I've been hoping they would make a comeback at some point.

[1] http://8bitworkshop.com
> Venmo is a free service to transfer dollars, and bitcoin transfers are not free

Venmo is not free. There's a cost, it's just hiding.

> Blockchain-based trustworthiness falls apart in practice...

The particular brand of trustworthiness the author is arguing against is indeed a myth, but that doesn't mean blockchain is "crappy technology" or "a bad vision for the future"

Blockchain adds a new thing to the world: digital property that cannot be reproduced for free.

Smart contracts add another new thing to the world: the ability to build immutable software that interacts directly with the financial system.

Both of these ideas are very powerful, and almost all of the interesting blockchain projects are still in the R&D phase.

The hype around blockchain is ridiculous and absurd, but that doesn't mean the technology isn't exciting or potentially transformative.

edit: I actually wrote an article about the "trustlessness" thing:
http://cowpig.github.io/bitcoin/ethereum/poker/cryptocurrenc...
It sounds like this person wanted the public to maintain a resource (trail and green space) but also maintain near-private access.

It's possible that improvements to this public good are capitalism in action, destroying something beautiful and wonderful. But, some might see this scenario as someone attempting to capture public resources (the trail and its maintenance) for their own gain, which is one of the worst expressions of capitalism.

It's perhaps less easy to empathize with that.
I mean I don't disbelieve the figures that they reduce traffic accidents in vehicles that are using auto-pilot. It greatly reduces trivial human error. But it doesn't change the fact that it sucks when people die from beta testing a software update they didn't ask for.
As a petrolhead and passionate driver, it makes me cringe whenever people push for self-driving cars, because I know that enough voices lobbying would wind up making it illegal to have a mass of meat behind the wheel.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a criticism, and it's not directed at anyone in particular. I know human drivers make mistakes. We have limits. We miss cues, underestimate distances, are regularly overconfident in our abilities, and innocent people like Mike Rawson die because of it. And yes, it is a supreme tragedy when a life is ended in an entirely preventable way.

The author's pain is very evident, almost wanting to be held to blame for the accident. Because it has been deemed an accident - he was not at fault, there were no circumstances that lay the blame entirely at his feet. It was a simple, freak accident, with a completely non-simple fatal outcome. I guess I am lucky (and I know it is luck, nothing more) that I do not have family or friends I have lost in a car crash.

But like the author, I love to drive. I love to be in control of a fast-moving machine, but only because I trust myself to drive without significant risk to myself, my passengers or pedestrians. I enjoy the challenge of reading the road ahead in search of hazards, I am always careful to use appropriate speed where there may be people on foot. It will be my greatest achievement if my entire time behind the wheel, I never come close to harming anyone else.

I won't go into huge detail about the Uber accident - yes, the technology failed just like the human in this situation, and the conclusion is yet to be reached, but I am willing to accept that autonomous vehicles will achieve their goals of being safer than a human driver. As I mentioned earlier, humans are very fallible. We build machines to compensate for our weaknesses. We built the car to compensate for our lack of speed and stamina. We built computers to compensate for our lack of logical reasoning and swift decision-making. It's only logical the two would go together, but as the accident proved, technology isn't perfect, because it's built by imperfect hands. I have no doubt autonomous cars will be safer than humans, but I think they will never reach a 100% perfect record. They're built by humans, and to be human is to make mistakes. Frequently avoidably, regularly through ignorance, seldom through malice, but nonetheless mistakes are made.

I just hope that as the technology spreads wider it doesn't force those of us who drive for the pleasure of it off the road. Car crashes are a huge statistical cause of unnecessary death, that cannot be denied, but let's not forget - there's a lot of humans on this planet, and there's a lot of different (and often quite creative) ways of mistakenly causing avoidable deaths. Because wherever humans are involved, accidents will inevitably follow.

And sometimes, just like this, there's really no-one to blame except homo sapiens.
Many of those items changed forms and exist today. If this was 10 years ago you can add 3d printing or solar panels. Some technologies take time to develop.
I think outright falsehoods will always be more dangerous than "lies by omission."

Though leaving out certain facts may make the remaining facts more persuasive one way or another, the remaining facts are still, by their nature, true and open to interpretation by the viewer.
It supposed to be used as proof that you have physical control of the card, which is why it is on the card and not supposed to be stored.

It's not used “like a PIN” as a second factor with the physical card as the first factor, it is used to make online and certain other uses of a card equivalent to card-present transactions with no substantive second factor.
Resistance to change in SF from old-timers always surprises me too! SF has been constantly, radically, changing since it's founding - gold rush, the fire, WWII military port, the 60's cultural shift, then the more recent things we all are aware of. If there's any place in the country where resisting change is out-of-place it's here. So, ironically, it's the people who want it like it was that are most at odds with the longest-standing character trait of the city. smh
That's very naive and narrow.

The power of monopolies is actually inversely proportional to the "supply" of such entities.
You reply with an accusation of falling prey to a supposed vast group of profiteering researchers and support it with one anecdote?

The body is sufficiently complex that some people smoke cigarettes for 40+ years and still manage to die of something that isn't respiratory related first.
Lots of common formats exist for scene data just very few of them are actually used by game engines in a manner that would make them somewhat interoperable.

Probably most the most commonly shared is something like the Tiled TMX format for tilemaps.
The JavaScript office API looks like a good solution for integrating your UI within the app. It’s still quite limited in terms of heavier capabilities, eg data processing etc. That’s probably because right now MS is focused more on a shared plugin API for all office products than on deep integration of any one specific product.
That's probably true; downvotes are inappropriate. On the other hand, there is also a lot of work that would be done if the economy gets more aggregate demand from low-wage workers.
People sometimes argue that the second amendment doesn't or shouldn't apply to certain weapons, because the founders of the US didn't anticipate those weapons.
I'm not OP, but it seems to be an apt (and well written) analogy to the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution, which grants:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The 2nd amendment was written when muskets were state of the art and assaukt weapons like AR-15s were almost beyond belief.
Could I ask what she uses, what you showed her, what she loves about it? I haven't had any success myself and would love to hear more about yours
Android Studio switching to D8 dexer
> I basically think there's no solution.

Which is unfortunate given that Democracy works a whole lot better with a (correctly) informed public.
That seems like a silly idea; the pitch change is not nearly as drastic as during braking. Cars decelerate faster than they accelerate. I don't know of any car that can go 0-60 in 100 feet, but there are plenty of cars that can go 60-0 in that distance:

http://www.motortrend.com/news/20-best-60-to-0-distances-rec...

Advice I've seen is to brake as hard as you can to shed energy, then release the brake to correct the pitch as close to collision as you can time it. No acceleration involved.
FWIW, my position in the world is protecting vulnerable seniors and people with special needs from fraud. So part of my view that this isn't a better recipe for trust is coming from that perspective - just imagine telling a person with alzheimer's that their life savings are gone and it's their own fault for downloading a virus…
I feel comfortable saying, without evidence, that LinkedIn is unlikely to be useful for workers living at the border of the minimum wage, or in general workers who would be likely to be affected directly by a change in the minimum wage.
>What is the difference between economics and power relations?

In an ideal world, economics would study power relations as they relate to money -- that's what the old economists (19th century and so) called "political economy".

In the present world, economics are a shallow ideology around the "free market", with naive abstractions and axioms. Usually these are mostly peddled by the media and "popularizer" economists at the masses, but what actual academic economists sell is not that much better.
Certainly, but I adore the stylized (if you can call any kind of anime stylized) pastel coloring, the deliberate rough edges. Delicious :)
The typical reasons why people moved to cities in 1980 are way different than the reasons why people are flocking to cities in 2018.

What Austin is experiencing is a severe case of what's happening to cities all over the country. For many this is uniformly good thing but for a place like Austin, with a strong identity and cultural history (and, since the 60s, a liberal enclave in a deeply conservative state), it has very specific costs.
> Poof of Stake

Is that what happens when you accidentally lock yourself out of your crypto wallet forever?
> There have been many societies that felt the oppression of a minority was justified

"have been"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
I don't think that many users would store their tokens locally. I believe the trust aspect is that YOU have a choice where as currently you may not (if you think globally).
You could think of it like hosting your own email server.
Somehow, the National Enquirer existed for decades alongside the newspapers of record in every town of the United States, and we didn't degenerate into a know-nothing lawless society. Tastes changed, and though correlation is not causation, the slippage of America's educational performance comparative to other countries' can't be flat out ignored.
How I Almost Became Tomi Lahren
"The IRS will not impose a penalty for the failure to file the delinquent FBARs if income from the foreign financial accounts reported on the delinquent FBARs is properly reported and taxes are paid on your U.S. tax return, and you have not previously been contacted regarding an income tax examination or a request for delinquent returns for the years for which the delinquent FBARs are submitted."
Yea, reading his description of the Excel data problems his girlfriend had hit very close to home. A large swath of my current job responsibilities often involve automating these type of data aggregations so that non-technical users can do them. Often, this leads me to coding the entire task in VBA so that they can do it with the push of a button within the workbook they are using. At this point I have entire libraries that I have made which I routinely use to accomplish this, but it always feels so dirty and inefficient (see: VBA).

In my experience, non-technical users don't want an outside application. They don't want to set up a database. They just want to open Excel, the program they are comfortable with, hit a button, and have their data aggregated. This tool is really cool.
there really is something like slideshare through linkedin? rofl
Discussing HTML:

> Just look at this video. It shows me pulling chunks out of the Amazon homepage as I browse it, while the page continues to run. Jut [sic] how… INCREDIBLE is that? Can you imagine pulling random chunks of code out of the memory of your iPhone or Windows laptop, and still expecting it to work? Of course not! But with HTML, it’s a given.

Yeah, because HTML isn't a programming language, and it's not related to whether or not the browser can render some site. It has nothing to do with the code in the browser's sanity or the server serving content. The more accurate analogy would be "Could you imagine pulling random chunks out of a string that was passed to a string manipulation function, and the function still completing?!" And the answer is yes, I can imagine that. Especially considering it is a mundane fact of life for most web developers. It's almost like the author doesn't fully comprehend the difference between a markup language and a programming language.
'Hear' words you say in your head
Their adoption comes as a consequence of their temporarily uncensorable ability to facilitate open speculation and gambling, so the adoption curve is merely following the well worn grooves laid by ancient vices.
For my last two jobs, I've created a new SO account for that job. I'm a pretty experienced user with decent reputation on my main account. I think I'm a pretty good question writer. I do my research beforehand, pay attention to niceties like formatting and grammar, and try to provide the right amount of context.

My first couple questions almost immediately get downvoted without explanation. Comparable questions from my main account rarely if ever face this prejudice. If I sign in on my main account and reverse the mystery downvotes, I'm usually good from that point on.

I feel a little dirty doing it. Other the hand, WTF is wrong with some of these SO users?

I work with few young developers and students who have reported similar issues. On my teams, I often encourage devs to share their questions once their posted just so we can counter this kind of crap and, if they're new, they can actually scrounge enough reputation to do basic stuff like upvote questions and answers.

That said, I'm a huge fan of the site and all the thought that has gone into the interface. And it looks like admins are doing they're best to deal with this issue. It seems like one of those eternal struggles against human nature.
Sounds like quantum mechanics at work here.
Money will continue on the path of virtualization and unversalization.

It was cows and jugs of honey at first. Then it was seashells. Then it was gold. Then it was printed paper. Then it was records in a database, but living isolated as local records.

It will become even more abstract and even more open, eventually. Whether that's the blockchain or something else, remains to be seen.
Any idea what she used to do this?
this is actually way more clear than the arch install "guide", which seem to have become hostile toward the idea of actually helping people in recent years.
HTML is just a datastructure, we just happen to use it more heavily than most.

I think she makes a lot of very valid points, Web 3.0 is abandoning its foundational robustness for ... whatever the hell js dev is nowadays.
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Hi, Mijndert here, the author of the article.
What you're saying is completely true, it's not factually accurate. What I was trying to achieve was come up with an analogy that's understandable for people coming from more traditional infrastructure. So while I agree this would cause some confusion for people who already know something about AWS, the intended audience will (hopefully) feel comfortable with this analogy.
This was my thought as well. Doesn't the system have the equivalent of reflexes that override the approved plan?

I've been skeptical of autonomous driving since it started to become a possibility. I spend a fair amount of time making corrections while driving that have nothing to do with what's happening in my immediate vicinity. If it can't handle an obstruction in the road, how will it handle sensing a collision down the road, or a deer that was sensed by the side of the road, or even just backing away from an aggressive driver in a large grouping of vehicles in front of you? I've had to slow down and/or move off on to the shoulder on two lane country roads because someone mistimed it when passing a vehicle. I don't have much faith in how this system would handle that. Not to mention handling an actual emergency failure like a tire blowing out.

I'm sure they will get there eventually, but it looks like they have conquered all the low-hanging fruit and somehow think that's enough. I'm now officially adding "staying away from vehicles studded with cameras and sensors" to my list of driving rules.
>It's not quite that simple.. Firstly, it is surprisingly costly and it's getting more so because of several factors

Well, in these parts of Europe it's like €50 or so.
I guess Blender Python scripts come kind of close to this, but that's not really a markup language. (And 3D Modeling not a game scene file)
I actually just checked the class slack channel and he posted the article in there right after class :)
I think a lot of people agree with the sentiment. Most of the points here are ones that have been hashed and rehashed countless times in various blog posts and whatnot. People just tend to write code first, and only worry about optimization if it becomes an explicit issue.
Honestly I had no idea he was still alive. I had always assumed he died a few decades ago.
I agree with you about the current iteration of LinkedIn. But that doesn't mean a different kind of product, focused on professional development, career management and networking couldn't be useful for folks.

I imagine that many people simply leverage Facebook, Twitter and other social networks for this today, in the absence of something for purpose-built.
Well, I've been developing software for more decades that I'd like to admit, so I've engaged all the issues you mention (and many more).

However, the fact that these problems exist doesn't mean this agile fluency model has anything to do with solving them.

Generally, my problem with this model is that it's arbitrary, vague and subjective. You, your team, and other stakeholders will need to take the time to learn the model, restate your issues in terms of the model and then... what? Even then, what steps or anything else actionable could result?

In fact, the agile fluency model itself is pretty daunting, what with all the new terminology (all based on terms that are already massively overload, of course).

We'd probably need an Agile Fluency Model Fluency Model, so we can label and discuss the stages of learning and applying the agile fluency model itself.
AFAIK, we are unable to see the center of the galaxy with visible-spectrum sensors due to the immense amount of dust and gas. We can see the center with IR sensors, however.
Microsoft Pledges to Let Joint Venture Partners Keep the Patents
Via MS Query? ADO? OLAP cubes? Care to elaborate for the newbs?
I may be in the minority on HN but I for one would gladly pay Facebook say $10/month for added privacy if all my friends were still there.

And if there is a free (subsidized by ads) version for people who don't want to pay I bet you a lot of people will stay.
> Saying that "bitcoin is a commodity" means what exactly?

It means that the government does not legally consider it any kind of currency, fiat or otherwise. It's taxed like a commodity when you buy and sell it. It's not legal tender.
They also provide 1.0.0.1, easy enough to set that up as your client's backup.
>instead

While I generally agree, I don't think it's a universal prescription. There are biological defects that inhibit nutrient processing and can require you to take considerably more of said nutrient than you could feasibly acquire from diet.
I mean, there's a long precedent of restricting free speech in the public interest. The classic example of shouting fire in a public theater comes to mind: the speech causes imminent danger to the theater occupants, and the courts have ruled that the rights of the public to safety outweigh the rights of the individual to say whatever they'd like.

The question with fake news becomes: what is the damage that this type of speech causes to the public? This is a really difficult question to answer, especially since we're only starting to notice the effects on our political system. If this damage is too great, there would be justification to restrict it in the public interest.

Of course, the people who end up making these determinations may also have conflicting political incentives, which makes this a very delicate situation to tackle in as broken of a political environment as we have in the US.
Facebook plans to let everyone retract delivery after Zuckerberg used feature
My favorite Tom Lehrer song is probably New Math.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

With its clever lyrics and rapid fire delivery it sounds like it could have come out last year and not fifty years ago.
How sad!

I saw him give a talk on parallel languages in scientific computing; he talked about ZPL and what would become Cray's Chapel language in time. This was about the time the X-1 && MTA-2 came out, the latter a successor to the original Tera Inc. system.

There's a section of the UW ZPL page that has his and Dottie's crab fettucine on it as well:

http://research.cs.washington.edu/zpl/pasta/crab-fettucine.h...