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At present if you get the direct download you have to write to an EPROM, install into your AMIGA and then write out and use the Kickstart floppy. Actually having the kit to do the programming, the correct EPROM chips and doing it right is a little more involved, from what I've read; I haven't touched an Amiga in some time myself.

The news post on Hyperion's website states that you'll be able to buy ROMs and floppy disks that have already had the updated code written to them "shortly".
I don’t think that would do anything. It would be immediately noticed and corrected, and people’s lesson would be that the system works.
Makes sense just from privacy standpoint. Don’t need everyone to see I’m reading a juicy Harry Potter fanfic erotica or whatever website I had up in the Kindle browser.
Many design decisions are based on keeping the language simple in syntax and semantics.
The metric is meaningful; I think you’re misinterpreting it. To your point, 100% coverage doesn’t mean you’ve eliminated all bugs, but it does mean that your code base almost certainly has a lower bug yield that the code base with 50% coverage (assuming no one has games the metric).

If you really think that the metric is meaningless and useless for deriving confidence, then you are necessarily asserting that code bases with 100% coverage have indistinguishable bug yields compared to those with 50%, 5%, or even 0% coverage. A claim like this is too extraordinary to be believed without considerable evidence.
Apparently there is a report from Defcon that describes in more detail what the vulnerabilities are [1]. I have not yet had a chance to make a more detailed review.

[1] https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF%20CON%2026%20voting%...
Weird, works fine here. Google something like “credit card chargeback collections” for more like it.
I agree that this practice is pretty insecure but this is pretty common. I've paid for pizza delivery like this before because a lot of local places won't give their drivers a card reader.
By a single point! You're really stretching the meaning of the numbers. Compare to "Residence"; now there's a meaningful difference (Cities/Suburbs/Country.)
the game's quality acts like a force multiplier for word of mouth, essentially you're more likely to promote or talk about a game you enjoyed. But you need some critical mass for that to have any real impact. What good is it if each player refers 1.5 others on average, but you only get to 5000 before the game becomes old news? Most games don't continue to sell forever and the hype will die out eventually, so you want that hype to reach a large audience quickly.
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Now they do because it’s a huge business. But as the foundations of our system were being setup I don’t think that was really the case. With the possible exception of the AMA fighting nationalized healthcare.

There doesn’t seem to have been a large investigation into the consequences of allowing healthcare coverage to be given to employees without counting as salary. That was one of the core sins.
Maybe it's a cultural thing?

I've never come across a situation where anyone would give their CC number for a free service. That gives a really shady impression.

Or expose myself to that risk.
Given that you'll never see a lone quark (they're physically forbidden - a naked quark is so energetically-unfavorable that attempting to create one would inherently require enough energy to create a second quark to go along with it), and two-quark mesons are both incredibly short-lived (a few nanoseconds at the longest) and act more like force carriers than anything else, then the three-quark baryons - of which protons and neutrons are the only ones that last long enough to care about from an engineering perspective - are the smallest (quark-based) units that could really be called "matter."
...and people call the web a success, when basic, or even advanced document processing is so wanting that questions like this need to be asked.

(please forgive the snipe, but the poster making the above point exactly illustrates some of the functional weaknesses of the extant browser model.)
The answer to why would news paper would run a bad story usually is just selling ADs.

Usually you see more of this on non-mainstream topics or stories that don't get much traction because there will be no backlash.
Thanks, makes sense. That's how it should be. Also a testament to functioning public transportation system.
The bigger question is -- how do you know?

Compare results to statistical polls?
> including many of underage children

This makes him sound like a pedophile, but given that he created it at 14, he could watch "children" older than himself.
How do you know what work they've done in creating these laws? Show me recent evidence to back up your claim.

All Americans are capable of getting whatever ID they need to get. There are no recent instances of someone being barred from getting a driver's license or other form of ID due to race. The notion that it's racist to require a certain form of ID when it's eminently possible for all groups to aquire such ID is ridiculous.
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I sleep from 1am - 4am and then take 2 x 30 minute naps at 11am and 6pm. I've done this for a very long time. As a child and teenager I was often forced to try and sleep so I just lay awake. Once it was realized that I just couldn't sleep I was allowed to do quiet tasks like read or after I learned to code, code :-)
It didn't work; that's why Bitcoin has steadily become more centralized until it became non-decentralized enough to be practical.
It's worth noting that this article is not about e-voting in the sense that the video seems to be presenting [1]. This is about the machines that tabulate the results, often from paper ballots manually filled in by voters.

The report itself [2] goes into more detail on the exact nature of the vulnerabilities.

[1] I admit I didn't watch the whole video; I find video to be an extremely tedious medium for transmitting information like this, but from skimming bits of it it seems that the speaker is more focused on distributed systems for voting and online voting systems, which are both horrifying ideas; although Oregon and Washington have made a good go at absentee-only voting.

[2] https://defcon.org/images/defcon-26/DEF%20CON%2026%20voting%... (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112172)
That last part is true, and should be fixed before implementing voter ID laws.
I grew up with Turing, which was nice later in life because it resembled pseudo code pretty closely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language)

I think the best teaching language is one that can have a ball bouncing across the screen with as little ceremony as possible.
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The trailer of "Papers, Please" was what sold it to me. Really catchy music and a weirdly freaky premise. ("A game about denying immigrants from entering your country? That's such a weird premise it just has to be good, and the visuals are super well done").
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BOOX ereader has significant delay when it is used as computer display (according to reviews on http://goodereader.com). Dasung display is much smoother.
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Well... it was easy to learn. It really isn't easy to fully learn it as it used to be.

I think there's a fundamental gulf between "easy language" and one that you'd want to do work in long term, and the history of Python is a great case study in that. If there aren't any "easy, real languages", well, if you want to fix that you'd better carefully study the reasons why all the easy languages have stopped being easy on their way to becoming real languages or you'll just repeat the mistakes of the past.
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
Less skimming and more following hyperlinks leads from this news coverage to the actual report, where details can be found.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112172
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They should use user agent to change the style of the fake browser. You can maybe get access to the chrome theme assets also.
"Do humans cause climate change?" is a question of fact. "What type of gun control should we have?" is not a question of fact, so you shouldn't expect that simply stating some facts relevant to the issue would automatically change someone's opinion.
I can't tell if this is in the article as it's paywalled, but a company in York recently put up an advert for £20k/year for Cobol programmers with no programming experience required, doubling at the end of the training period.
Depending on what you mean by "geometric", maybe - there's been attempts at constructing theories where the electromagnetic field is also, like gravity, a product of spacetime geometry; these generally involve adding extra dimensions to give spacetime enough freedom to hold those behaviors, and then curling up the extra dimensions small enough to explain why we hadn't noticed them yet.

(String theory is one of the distant descendants of these attempts.)
I agree. I have not listed many cool companies. It is a long and IMHO impressive list.

TargetProcess, PandaDoc, FriendlyData, Eightydays.me, Maps.me (was acquired by Mail.Ru Group), SplitMetrics etc. Plus the biggest company is Epam (Market Cap, 7.406B).
Well, the problem to optimise it is that sort will often not be the trivial bubble sort, but something like quicksort, that starts by sorting parts of the sequence. The fact that the first element of the result is the smallest element is therefore hidden to usual compilers. You would need a theorem prover, and even with them, it's not entirely trivial to prove.

So even for lazy programming language such as Haskell it may be impossible to transform the first sort into a selection of the extremum.

ON THE OTHER HAND!

If you used Common Lisp, and take the pain of shadowing the functions from the CL package, you could write a compiler macro on FIRST to perform this optimisation yourself.

However, this would be delicate, since in CL, the SORT function mutates the sequence, and both the predicate and the optional key function argument may have side effects. Not performing the SORT in those conditions would be a wrong optimisation.

But if your compiler-macro can determine that no side effect occurs, then you will be able to substitute the (first (sort ...)) call to a call to select the wanted extremum element.
Nearly every service provider complies with legally issued requests. The ones that don't are either lying to you or fly by night operations that I wouldn't trust my business with.
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But even Python requires installing the dev environment etc.
I can see the use for this, for throwing people with no experience into "coding right away".
> Living on cash only is not doable.

Why not? My last apartment, where I lived a year ago, included utilities. Although I wrote them a check for my rent, I could have used cash and gotten a money order. Groceries, eating out, etc. I always use cash. Once I got a car, I started using a card for gas, since it saved me a trip inside and I did not need to worry about if I was a bit over $20.
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Here in Italy you can only vote in the commune you're registered at (main residency), once you have the required age you're automatically on the list, if you go voting you will get an entry in the list, no other voting is possible (there are always 3 people + two law enforcement helper. One of the three election helpers have one job only, write exactly down what happens, who came in, who got an voting form and ensure that the voter handed it back after coming from the voting cabinet (located in the same room).

You can only have one main residency, you cannot possibly be on two lists.

If you register for voting per snail mail you get pulled from your community list, if you come to vote the will know you mail voted and will be questioned by law enforcement.

If you want to show up twice law enforcement will get you out, if needed.

This is in a commune with ~1000 people, so it may be a bit different in bigger ones (but AFAIK, there's a certain limit to voter count at any voting point).

You effectively would need to corrupt >= 8 people (three election helpers are working any time, but they work in shifts, in total there 5 to 6 election helpers), as often outside law enforcement comes in this is particular hard to do. Also you get a fixed number of voting forms and all protocols are checked against by other gov. parts, so to pull this off without any notice would be close to impossible, IMO.

At least way easier to do this on proprietary, known error prone, voting machines... Get them open source, let them be verified and looked close upon by the public and some good pen-testers/security researches and you'd would have a really good system going....
Compatibility with what? Do people do UI automation with the control panel?
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An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Carroll & Ostlie is the Bible, but it is quite large physically and in scope and better serves as a reference for most people.

For various topics, I would look at:

Introduction to Cosmology by Ryden for cosmology at the undergraduate level.

Cosmology by Weinberg.

The Exoplanet Handbook by Perryman.

An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics by Carroll & Ostlie.

Particle Astrophysics by Perkins.

Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy by Feigelson.

Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy by Ivezic.

I can post more in other topics if anyone is interested.
This part made me thing OP was focusing on the wrong things:

> I’m not a dumb guy—I got good SAT scores. I’m disciplined, I have a good work ethic

None of that matters to the end result. You might be someone that is not very bright and that never went to college, etc, and still make a very creative and fun game.

Saying that he's smart and whatever makes him sound entitled. Like if he deserved to sell well.
So are we arguing semantics now and the exact definition of the word "decentralized"? Well alright, let's agree about this for the sake of argument.

What stops this proposed project from working in the same "decentralized" way that Bitcoin and other PoW schemes are "decentralized" right now, and are working practically? Why wouldn't it work in torrents?
I was just about to remark that we should have tartans for programming languages.
What is weird about them?
The DX doesn't have ads. The newer ones you can pay like $15 to not have ads but they still have screensavers.
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Probably not true. You can see from the leaked shadow brokers tools that they had to develop exploits to get on the devices, they didn't just have free access.
I do something similar to you, except I differntiate what I find useful for myself VS what others might find useful

- I keep everything on a blog. I limit it to 6-10 total viewable areas at most, b/c anything more is too overbearing. One home page, 4-6 page links to toolboxes, inspiration, etc. Example http://vincentmtang.com/toolbox/

- For constant updated docs, I use wordpress pages. Its very fast and easy for me to edit. Things like portfolio pages, etc that would change on an ongoing basis

- Standard operating procedures, I commited to memory already. Haven't bothered posting any of that, if I did I would opt with youtube videos

- Social media links → dump on blog

- Diary -> I use workflowy / dynalist, I keep it private b/c I write some profanity in there sometimes

- Bookmarks → I use pinboard, but for things commonly accessed I use chrome toolbar

- Git repositories → just star it and search for it. Fork it if I'm going to use that repo in next month

For me, a tool is a tool. Wikis are tools. They help out, if you use it properly. But it only goes so far - you can spend all day investing in your toolbox, and have an amazing garage workshop. But if there's no functionally useful DIY projects to back it, then the toolbox doesn't serve a function. That's why I shy away from wikis. My rule of thumb - spend 80-90% of time actually building things or knowledge to build it, 10-20% reflecting and building that toolshed.
Designing Enterprise chatbots: what kind of queries should it answer?
For advanced Set Theory:

- The Higher Infinite by Kanamori

It's probably more of a monograph than a text book, but it's among the best written monographs I've come across.

For Complex Analysis:

- Visual Complex Analysis by Needham.

It brings a lot of (needed) geometric intuition to a field that is often very easily misunderstood.
It's also a sign of of a "bad faith" argument typical with conservative trolling. None of these trolls will point to actual news reporting, they simply highlight editorial CNN/MSNBC content, completely ignoring actual, real news like convictions and guilty pleas.

The news to conservatives seems biased, but only because conservatives are breaking so many laws, and conventions.
It saves a ton of time in the maintenance phase. Also the compile time type checks are very useful when working with more junior developers (though they save me time too occasionally). Coupled with a good IDE intellisense makes later code extensions a breeze.
This was the link that got me back into reading long form journalism regularly again, it’s more movie than article.
> How about "why don't facts change people's minds about global warming"?

I have always thought it was either the lack of the ability to understand the facts, or the shear unwillingness to actually look at the facts.
The takeaway for me is to not overcomplicate things when developing software. The reason all these shortcuts work is because they use weird esoteric rules for when you can hit a checkpoint. All of this could have been prevented by simply making it so that you can only hit a key shortcut if the last key shortcut was the one before it. I'm sure they had reasons to make the choices they did at the time, but they are inscrutable to me now.
- Can you duck it for me?
- Go duck yourself!
Quality is subjective but marketing is not. Every person has a different taste, I've played some "good" indie games that bored the socks off me. F you have enough people coming through the marketing funnel then only a truly awful game will fail to find admirers.
JavaScript still can be easy if you ignore the rest of the ecosystem.

Thing is, sooner or later, at the very least you find yourself wanting something like lodash or jQuery[1]. Ironically, the latter also came into existence to make programming across different browsers simpler back in the bad old days (of not that long ago), and did an admirable job of that.

Unfortunately jQuery, and similar libraries of the mid-noughties era, provided the breach in the dam that's seen us swamped in a torrent of new, sometimes baffling, and on occasion arguably unnecessary platforms, libraries, and tools, which have made the process of developing for the client a much more intimidating process for those starting out.

[1] Although these days you'd be surprised by how much of what jQuery offered is now built into the browser APIs and works consistently across them.
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Cool sci-fi idea would be to try doing this and suddenly discover that there is already some "other" information there.
You seem to think "marketing" only means putting ads on the subway or TV commercial or something like that.

These 3 games did a lot of marketing. It was just not the millionaire kind of marketing that EA does.
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Fun fact, the majority of the "tourist trap" shops you see dotted up and down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh are actually owned by the same family. Who are originally from India, I think. The whole thing's pretty hilarious.
Fair enough, but TRON created $14B out of thin air.
Actually I don't think you're that wrong to be honest :)
What I heard third hand from game developers has been that it’s fairly hard to get games to perform well on Linux, and that most of the complaints come because of performance reasons outside the developers’ control.
I would love to read this Sci-Fi story -- If anyone knows -- could you share the title (and author)?
> activation of retro viruses during embryonic development.

Citation on this? As far as I know (am writing a phd thesis on development++),
there's nothing like "virus activation". Viral elements (mostly transposons) are big evolutionary players
but are usually actively repressed by DNA methylation (in eucaryots).

> Which might be why many cancers, seem, to me, to look like distinct entities, like the tissue has suddenly switched to a different functional mode.

I don't 100% understand your comments about viruses here, but related to this, we don't need to imagine some virus orchestrating such a thing (besides, as far as I know they are way too simple to drive complex eucaryot gene regulation), but rather gene regulatory networks which if they get unbalanced can lead to significant changes in morphology.

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Uh, usually it's hastily reprinted press releases and journalists with a tight deadline.

In this case it's almost too obvious whom the press release was sent out on behalf of ("Cobol Cowboys").
You would just be labeled a conspiracy theorist for pointing out such a coincidence.
About your number one: I see lots of programmers putting too much thought (and time) into code. As if the code was the important part of anything.

I am a programmer, and I have this PSA for others: Your code is just a necessary evil, not something to be praised and cherished. No customer sees your code, no customer cares about the code.
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Are you sure this is as uncommon as you suggest?
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I really dislike slotting things down to a language. If you are proficient in the underlying programming concepts, the language simply does not matter with the right amount of motivation.
Why have laws at all. Why not just let a "jury of experts" punish anyone in anyway they please. /s
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I don’t follow. In most cases, you still have to develop exploits to “exploit” vulnerabilities. Very few of them just offer you a login prompt over the internet.
I agree, but there are facts about gun issues that make that gun control question harder to answer. People who believe strongly that guns make a country much safer. People who don't understand what assault rifles are, or that you can shoot up a school 99% as well with a `regular` rifle, people who think lack of guns will make a country MUCH safer. There are plenty of empirical evidence to refuse those kinds of beliefs but people hold on to them pretty strongly.
Does anyone know why Amazon stopped selling the DX?
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I feel like software reverse engineering should be done in more curriculums so developers can see just how easy it is to find backdoors as a relatively unskilled attacker.