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Canon has stopped selling the EOS-1V, it's last film camera [1] at the end of May 2018.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/canon-just-stopped-selling-its-las...
I can't stand it, I know you planned it... gotta set straight this Watergate.
I gave up after 30s. I thought loading screens for more than 3s without progress bars where a thing of the past.
They addressed the instants, far too difficult to direct flow of the game online like that. Look at MTG online, it flows like a pig. The game is constantly interrupted for each phase. Their answer was secrets basically.
Have you checked your rating lately? Maybe it’s getting harder to find drivers willing to pick you up.
Any idea what terms the b compiler is licensed under?
> Games console manufacturers and media player vendors often maintained exclusive services software and content distribution right[?]

That must not be true. Atari had to patent a mechanical mechanism that its cartridges used in order to prevent others from developing for their system.
For what it's worth "Gaming" is broad enough to capture pretty much any 'non-chemical' activity that can be addicting.

There's a somewhat grey area between "Gaming" and "Gambling", but I think it's fair to consider "Gambling" a subset of "Gaming" where the games actually pay out money (or something of monetary value). This probably doesn't match the WHO definition though.
Outliers: The Story of Success (Book Review)
Apple's HyperCard was inspired by an acid trip
Ok. so we have:

- (s)he's from Pakistan

- they stupidly mistyped an email address, and haven't checked it since

Aside from that, what have they done to warrant them being spied upon by the CIA (something which you yourself initiated and put into motion). I guess we're all missing some context here, and you do mention some "excitement" in your initial post.

Whats that alluding to? If there is no indication of any illegal activity, then in your opinion is being Pakistani a sufficient crime, in and of itself, to warrant being spied upon and potentially harassed by the CIA or other nefarious arms of the US government.

(should I remind you that the CIA are an organisation which ACTIVELY pursues foreign nationals, including Pakistanis, kidnaps them, and holds them in numerous off shore dungeons where torture is routinely and systematically conducted)

So, with all this in mind, I have to interrupt your mini Oscar acceptance speech with a simple question ...

why?
That’s not whataboutism - I’m saying it’s the job of elected government to make exactly these determinations even when actual lives hang in the balance, and in fact many thousands of regulations make these sorts of risk/reward trade offs in all sorts of ways in our daily lives. Most of them are in fact significantly more risky than allowing self-driving cars on the road in return for significantly less potential reward.

My point is primarily that the claim like “I didn’t consent to share the road with this nascent technology” — as if that means the technology should not be allowed — is not actually how our society functions. We don’t actually get to veto technology that minutely increases our risk of injury when we venture out in the world.

I’m surprised to see your ad hominem attacks and accusation of shilling. You’re relatively new here so please allow me point out that kind of response is against HN guidelines.
As soon as one attaches themselves to the way things should be, it can be easy to lose sight of the way things are.

But honestly, it takes a very creative and devoted mind to be able to do that constantly for things like coding. You can appreciate the bugs for what they are (problems to solve and validate skill), but that doesn't mean lose awareness of the problems they can cause in the future.

Appreciating a broken bridge in an artsy way is one thing, letting people drive over it because 'death is a natural part of life' is entirely another story.
> unethical use

Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?
Have had MAJOR issues with this internationally (specifically Hong Kong). Wait time fluctuated by 15 minutes at times! Almost caused us to miss our flight.
I had heard from a third party vendor on the site that Profibus issues (for communication to drives) was one of the major issues at site. I wonder if that was accurate or still true if so.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329396

Additionally, was there a need to submit the same thing twice? Article here and the paper here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17342635
Norway seems to have a particularly enlightened approach to antibiotics.

In particular not using antibiotics as a growth stimulant (common on farms), reserving certain antibiotics for human use, and training doctors and vets on their use.

More info at: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/norways-battle-against...

Same site mentioned Germany users 50x more antibiotics in their meat preparation than Norway.

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/norway-takes-the-lead-...

Related article on fighting "super bugs" like MSRA:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jan/03/norways-mrsa-so...
I used to wonder why Buddhist monks seemed to do so little productive work despite all the productivity their meditation was supposed to bring. Why aren't they generating awesome works of science or philosophy or literature or something with all that clear-headedness? This might explain it.
when engaging in this sort of meditation, is it not the goal to not focus on any such thoughts or any thoughts at all and just become an observer of your mental state?.

I cannot see how too much introspection can be a bad thing and lead to unhappiness when the alternative means you are just fooling yourself into being happy.
Ditto. I tried to write a .pud editor in QBasic in about the summer of '98 or '99, and built a WarCraft fan site for my Kali/Engage gaming clan with entirely hand-coded HTML and some random and probably terribly-insecure cgi-bin Perl scripts for guestbooks and whatnot. I probably learned more from that than any single other time period in my tech career.
TEDx – Pedophilia is a natural sexual orientation
Loads fast and runs fine for me.

It's pretty amazing what can be done on a browser these days.
I use your "choose a random password" trick for every site now. If I want to "like" or reply to anything then it's a real effort - so I have to be very motivated to do it, or have something actually useful to contribute.

It's refreshing to get rid of that "must give my 2 cents on everything" urge.

Except, you know, in this case. The "Me too!" urge was too strong so I reset my HN password ;)
How Anna Delvey Tricked New York
> Is arresting criminals based on photographic evidence "unethical" now?

IMO creating a police state is unethical - the proliferation of cheap surveillance technology helps do that.
Some of the pros

- good pay

- exciting time to be alive

- work often spans broad business departments, involves genuinely interesting engineering trade-off problems between accuracy, scale, budget, and interpretability

Some of the cons:

- You have to be wary to avoid companies in which machine learning is just a name for data engineering / devops / business analytics, or where it is hype or aspiration and no substance

- No matter what your job will mostly be the unsexy stuff to get a system working. Only maybe 10-20% is going to be the actual model development or experimental side

- Companies not yet well versed in machine learning can have huge sticker shock at what a competitive compensation package is like, and waste a lot of your time on interviews and end up way off the mark on compensation.
> How the initramfs /init pivots into running your real system's init daemon on your real system's root filesystem is beyond the scope of this entry. The commands may be simple (systemd just runs 'systemctl switch-root'), but how they work is complicated.

Darn, I was actually hoping this would be elaborated on. Does anyone know of other (just as understandable) sources?
It is a starmap for a game that will never be released.
Back in the day, I seem to recall having to binary patch LILO every time I installed a new kernel to tell it what partition to boot. I suppose that dates me...
It seemed pretty slick/responsive to me, I've never played the Star Citizen game however so I can't tell how useful it is.
The game is probably more "responsive" now. Instants and Interrupts were a mess. Batching and determining which had to be resolved LIFO and which FIFO and the various corner cases were an unnecessary labyrinth to navigate.

The stack is much better and I'd say more nuanced. Now you can target things on the stack specifically. There's more bluffing and playing with the fact that there is incomplete information.
We've done it. We've cracked the code.

This thread is complaining about the fully automated process used by Google to check for copyright violations, and how infeasible it is to hire someone to check each video.

You're talking about how CAPTCHAs are now being used to get free labour.

> Prove you're human: Does the following video contain Beat It by Michael Jackson?
So basically you're against clinical psychology?
While plausible, it kind of sounds like a "Blame it on the Rain" situation. https://youtu.be/BI5IA8assfk
Yes. That’s the objective behind the term “virtue signaling” - to call into question the motives of anyone and everyone who claims to care about something so that it becomes deeply uncool to care about things so that they’ll stop trying to make the world a better place.

Even if you presented a 100-step well funded plan for changing the status quo, prepare to have it leveled by the sneer of “you’re just virtue signaling.” You can never prove your sincerity to anyone who uses this term, because it will never be enough.
Maybe that's the case now, with GCC 8, but historically that hasn't been true.

In the past the effects of using both -g and -O* flags could interact each other because they can both affect how registers are allocated, how call stacks are setup, how functions are inlined, etc. In other words, adding -g by itself made the build non-reproducible.

If that's no longer true in GCC 8 it's great news.
Spark+AI Summit – Implementing AutoML Techniques at Salesforce Scale
How precisely do you define "nerd-like" personalities and what is it about them that is susceptible to having a "gaming disorder"?

I feel like there's not much that would separate a gaming disorder from addictive behavior in general. So much so, actually, that to grant a special term for a video game related illness comes off as a little ridiculous.
As a retail customer, I love this device. Ritual Coffee uses one in their Valencia St store. It’s fast for both NFC and chip card purchases. The card slot for the chip reader is a little too low key. The NFC reader is very forgiving as to location.
Apple Australia fined $9M for misleading customers with faulty iPhones and iPads
What you need is a rack which fits an android tablet inside an iPad case. Branding and low cost, all in one.
you can only better understand yourself through meditation, its not a divine state where the secrets of the universe are revealed to you.
Well met!

Let me say that, while I have huge respect for science and the Scientific Method, my faith in science is weakened as one departs from physics.

To be specific, before I could credit (believe in) a scientific paper purporting to show no appreciable difference between "organic" and "conventional" produce there are a lot of boxes I'd have to check off. For example, how long after they were picked were the vegetables tested?
This seems like it is approaching the problem from the wrong angle. This should be addressed at the government law level.

The problem is where do you draw the line? Any technology can be used for evil. Do you next ask companies that sell cameras not to sell to the government? Then ban computers?

Laws that concern themselves with targeting and surveilling people encompass any technology.

Facial recognition is not a hard problem and this is just a matter of convenience. Government can just go around and implement it themselves if nobody provides it to them. At least through Amazon there is some level of non-government control to shut it off if they end up doing anything nefarious.
according to CNC? The machines are aliiive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control
Evaluation of sentence embeddings in downstream and linguistic probing tasks
Good, sitting there and refreshing the view during random spikes in small surge periods is not a great experience.
She is also a quack, and hardly one of the "leading autism experts" in the United States.

http://sethmnookin.com/2011/04/20/researcher-who-does-not-me...

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2016/10/1730-martha-herber...
Horse and cart never worked all that well, to the point that long distance travel by land was extremely rare. Deep ruts would form in the dirt roadways and mud would cause constant obstruction. It was easier sail around South America than to travel by land between San Francisco and New York City.

It wasn't until the railroad that travel by land was possible at scale. For the USA and Canada the railroad was seen as the only way to keep the vast land together as a single nation which is largely why it was subsidized. Further much of the subdisdy was land grants to land which would otherwise be economically useless without the railroad to allow transport of goods.

While self driving vehicles may improve efficiency of our roadways it is unlikely to be anywhere near the same scale of improvement that railroads brought, and the need to connect the country for political reasons is not there.
> I've certainly experienced this but I would also posit, don't most men?

Thanks for pointing that out. When I read the article, I succumbed to my annoyance with the neologism "microaggression" that I essentially glossed over the statement.

This is actually the root of my annoyance, which is that if an aggression is so "micro", then it's actually unremarkable, so having a word for it is downright paradoxical.

I'm sure men experience such borderline-hostile indifference from others, as well, especially, as you say, in the technical fields. I'm also sure it's a highly subjective experience, for both participants, which makes it so hard to measure, let alone discuss.
> The last thing you want to incentivize is a 737 worth of people all driving their own cars from LA to SF for the weekend instead of taking the flight.

This is totally bogus. The amount of time people spend traveling has been relatively constant since 1950 [1]. Generally speaking, people will simply travel shorter distances by slower methods (car, train) if travel by air is unavailable, having roughly the same available time budget to work with.

The introduction of commercial air travel has substantially amplified the impact of time spent traveling. People travel further and using more fuel in the same unit of time than before. The emergence of air travel has not conserved fuel, and to imply such a thing is to be a shill for the air industry. It created a new class of travel that is a bulk consumer of fossil fuels enabling travel to farther distances than ever with the time available, period.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_(travel)
Messenger is nearing 1.5B active users. That’s not an acquired product.
He actually wanted to decrease the consistency a bit. If the games are too consistent, you run into the problem of there just being a "best deck". Especially if you can count on your mana like in Hearthstone or with the suggestion of the "mana deck".

As it stands, it's something you have to consider and something you have to realize affects your opponents just as much as you. You can mitigate mana issues by playing a deck with low casting cost cards or by playing more land than normal, etc. There are also cards to search out land or can be used in a similar manner to land.

Yes, there is some variance, but poker has a ton of variance and no one would say that it detracts from the game.
Their visibility is as well.
Why doesn't Uber/Lyft support actual carpooling so that if I know I need to go somewhere I can offers other people a ride to/from nearby locations. Given the traffic in large cities and the number of single cars going the same direction at rush hour it would make a lot of sense. Adding the option for a longer wait like this would make it easier to manage for the commuting driver. I guess the issue is it'll annoy the more professional drivers but for users it would be good.
FDA is not omniscient. No regulator is. It’s hard to catch someone intelligent and cunning in a lie every time. The industry relies on a combination of individual integrity (i.e. not wanting to hurt people, which works fine in 80% of cases) and regulation being a deterrent against fraud (for the minority that would release snake oil to make a quick buck).

I am glad Holmes and Balwani are facing the music. I would have preferred to see more than just Holmes and Balwani face charges though. There’s no way you pass an inspection from CMS and FDA when you have a “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” part of the building without others being in on it.
Yu Pan, 1 of the original 6 people who started PayPal, joins blockchain startup
You've clearly never had somebody forward your email on you. All digital communication is effectively public by virtue of fast, easy copying.
Madden is fascinating to me because despite widespread user dissatisfaction with the game year-in, year-out, its users treat it like a necessity. I guess that's a monopoly in action.

There is space for a competitive product, but it would need to be completely unlicensed. Without licensing, you'd need a simple way to customize rules, teams, players, etc. EAs NCAA series got around player issues in a similar way.

If that customization were fostered, you could have a football game that with a few clicks was a better Madden and/or NCAA series. You'd just need to trade your licensing budget for a legal one.
Thank you! That’s very informative.
NFL 2K was the last big step change in football video games. You could put me on a desert island and I wouldn't miss Madden '18 one bit.

Actually I bought Madden '18 which is the first time I've bought a football game in a long time. Madden Ultimate Team is pushed so hard in that game. It's terrible. And people who dump a ton of money into it...you can't even take it into the next season with you.

One genre I'll really miss which will never come back are the NCAA Football and Basketball games. Understandably so.
That's for a 52 card deck. The numbers would be different for decks of smaller and larger sizes.
Thanks! Very informative.
These are very weak results. High p-values, and no mention of correction for multiple sampling. There is no reason to trust this paper's conclusions.
This can be broken, make a customizable game. Players can name their teams, name the players, name the city, load custom jerseys, load different faces/skin. Let the underground and players build their own player. Make the game player much better.
I’m an actual employment-based immigrant. I have literally never heard of any other employment-based immigrant (and I know plenty, safe to assume more than you do) who was randomly arrested by ICE.
Overfitting is a quantifiable problem. If you're not doing robust data segregation and CV you're not even engaging in elementary ML practices.
One small day for man, one giant leap for losing the power of local computers to an inflexible proprietary limited web interface blank wall of profitability.
Fifteen years ago Echelon, NSA's email surveillance program, was considered a wild conspiracy on par with chemtrails. I think this kind of 'paranoia' is absolutely justified in today's world.
Public transit companies don't really have the option of scaling up just by adding another city to a dropdown.
I'm not sure. When I look at video game addicts including myself in my late teens, I see someone who is addicted to credentializing in a virtual world. Maybe because everything is measurable unlike real life.

Doesn't seem like "addiction" alone communicates what's happening there.
dracut does the work. The reason it is complicated is because it supports booting from btrfs, DM RAID, MD RAID, LVM2, device mapper multipath I/O, dm-crypt, cifs, FCoE, iSCSI, NBD and NFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracut_(software)
As if Indonesia ever needed tourism to throw garbages out, even in untouristy areas in Asia it's moutains of garbages everwhere. About the tourists being too many, that's a country's authority to regulate tourism, by enforcing Visa laws for example, Balinese corruption is to blame for what the place has become, not the tourists.
I think it may be a bit of column a and a bit of column b.

Be "mindful" of how things are, accept that they are the way they are, realize that whatever is "now" is just temporary so it doesn't make sense to excessively worry over it.
People on this site aren't especially "readers".
How's legitimacy relevant here? I'm not trying to place doubt, trying to make an honest observation that a result needs the majority of the board to vote for the measure.
>Rightist conspiracy theories notwithstanding, there is no "police state" or "deep state" here and our government is the guarantor of our freedoms.

I suggest you learn something about history. Especially US history, since you are a US citizen and you clearly know very little, if anything, about the history of our own country.

>In a democratic society, the government is an expression of the will of the people, thus to turn its people against their own government is to weaken the very concept of self-rule and open the door to Putin-esque authoritarian autocracy.

Which is why we should end our support of dictatorships around the world, and our constant subversion of democracy around the world. We have absolutely no moral authority to point the finger at bad actors when we are, and have been, the worst global actor for decades.

>So, what is your solution?

My "solution" would be for us to stop our amoral, counterproductive pursuit of global hegemony, both military and economic. My solution would be for us to end our illegal invasions, dismantle our police-state, and start solving our own problems, that are many, instead of focusing on telling the rest of the world how to live at the point of a gun. We rank near the bottom of every developed country (and many "third world" countries) on virtually every global metric, from education, to healthcare, to life expectancy, to wealth disparity. People like yourself who think that any of our serious problems are caused by foreign actors are truly delusional and the reason that our country is in such bad shape. Its long past time we put our own house in order.