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Zelda games force you to think critically. I wouldn't consider it directly educational, but it's not mindless either.
Ask HN: Are there any mobile games that are good rather than purely addictive?
The talk about how previous generations of games were so much better has gotten me wondering. I have never gotten into mobile games because they all seem to be a variation of clicking bubbles or jewels with no way to truly win. Are there any mobile games that actually have strategy, accomplishment, etc that you remember from games you played 10-20 years ago?
Does anyone know how this interacts with 17 U.S. Code § 117 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117

IANAL, but to me it would seem you're already allowed to copy and modify e.g. tractor firmware to make repairs, eh?
https://www.mustakbil.com/people/profile/e07492f85c7041b4922...
This is in part why I plan to raise my kids on open source, ethical software. I'm not going to force them, but libre software will be the normal in my house. These black box proprietary systems are predatory and hamper creativity.
This is disappointing. I really enjoyed this service for watching old samurai and yakuza films.

I also appreciated that they highlighted films that were leaving the service soon, so I could prioritize any that were on my watch list.
Fun story: once, while using Apple Maps to navigate to a hotel in Chicago, it got confused and directed me on to Lower Wacker. It kept giving me directions as if I was on Upper Wacker. “Turn right here”, it said, as if there wasn’t a brick wall there.

GPS is great in two dimensions, less great in three dimensions.
I think it's still disabled on beta for Mac laptops, but it could just be that I have an older (2014) MBP than you do.
Similar post/discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298802
Speaking of the devil [1]:

The Riksbank's e-krona project proposes in its most recent report that the Riksbank should:

+ Begin to design a technical solution for an e-krona in order to test which solutions are practicable and possible to realise

+ Draw up proposals for legislative amendments needed to clarify the Riksbank's mandate and an e-krona's legal standing

+ Continue investigating the financial aspects of an e-krona

[1] https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/e-krona/
The new new gmail is flawed in many ways.
In particular, the new gmail removed the the method to hover over an email in list and quickly find all emails from a sender. Am I the only user of that feature? Also, the number of times I've had load errors on the newest version already exceeds the number of load errors I've had in the last year for the previous version. Back to old school html gmail is the solution.
That's just false. Just because it's open source doesn't mean Automattic doesn't want to turn into a SqaureSpace model. There is no doubt in my mind that the pivot and ramming through of Gutenberg is because they are scared of things like SquareSpace and feel they need to evolve fast. They do need to evolve, but they also need to stop cutting corners and listen to the community...It won't be long (it might already be true) that the "Classic Editor" plugin will have more active installs than any other plugin in the repo. That's a LOUD message from the community that "this is not ready!" I have sites that are Gutenberg compatible but I still have the classic editor on, because it's a giant mess.

Gutenberg from my experience is a server hog compared to the classical Wordpress. It's harder on database servers and on memory. Yet they won't even change their PHP practices to make it 7+ requirement.
Have they controlled for sleep? This year I've made so many gains by sleeping well, that everything looks like a sleep problem to me.
Those lawyers have a different concept of equity, justice, fairness, etc. from yours. It doesn't mean they don't embrace those concepts.

An AI simply doesn't have any of those concepts, and moreover, is incapable of understanding those concepts. We can barely get AI to understand natural language--squishy abstracts like these are several developmental revolutions away.
Video: Richard Blais Wants to Make a Drone Delivery Service for Donuts
If you had the source and enough developer time...sure, it would be possible. :)
Yes, go to opthamologist. The doctors I had been to (both ER and GP) were not familiar with my condition and just referred me.
at the end of the day, what matters is the supply of jobs vs the supply of places to live. And if there's already too many jobs to residential areas, then I think it's quite responsible of them to say no to more jobs. It's better to put those jobs in areas that have enough housing. the bay area was not so smart and look where it got us.
Sure the math works out so long as each newer and more expensive project/product is well received by the marketplace. That being said, how many times can you bet the company before the coin comes up tails?

If the coin never comes up tails, then TSLA is worth an infinite amount of money. If the coin eventually comes up tails and each project is bigger than the previous one, ruin awaits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin
How Halloween Has Traveled the Globe
If you admit you do not know this, then why say it?

I've had opportunities to review papers from people I have co-authored with before and declined the opportunity. I've reviewed a paper, then got an invitation from another journal to review the same paper. I declined, but sent the editor my former review. I thing there are strong social mores in the scientific community.
Okay; But in that case i'm not really sure how you rip your DVDs. H.264 for DVD and that low resolution doesn't need 2-3 Gig at all.

Sure audio is always an issue, can't do much there.
I think the point of life is to love each other, and that means interacting with each other. And the best way to do that is face to face. When screens get in the way of this, that's when they go bad.

I remember back in high school when I wanted to play Diablo 2 LoD more than anything else. I had a great time, and don't actually regret it, but I think if I had not been able to break free of that at the proper time, it could have had bad consequences on my life. "All things in moderation" as they say.
I'm not a data scientist nor a psychologist nor an addiction expert nor ...

But I've played some games. I am 137% confident that some form of "level up" (roguelikes, MMOs, MOBAs, FTL) is an extremely strong addiction factor. League of Legends, that free game whose net worth is among the highest of all time.

In real life, you study->grades->job->promote->takeoverworld. Or liftweights->liftmoreweights->liftmoreweights. Or climbmountain->climbhighermountain...

In games, you do that in 1/100 the time and effort. Tap a few buttons and "you win!!!!"

A sweeping statement to the effect of "people don't understand addiction" is basically malicious and I accuse you of being the inventor of gamification or one of their PR folk.
> the meaning of a symbol is highly dependent on its containing context

That being a problem is pretty much solved by not writing 1000 line top-level expressions with thirty nesting levels.

People who actually write Lisp are engaging their imagination for the program itself. Thus their imagination is too busy to come up with scary reasons how things could go wrong that would spook them out of continuing.
I can confirm this. Something similar happened to an acquaintance, although the amount was even higher. They immediately called the police, and the transaction was reversed. When the thieves tried to withdraw cash, they were able to catch them. This happened in China, although the transaction was international.
Sacramento, after 1861-2 floods.
Talkyard looks like Disqus, is open source self hosted. Plus serverless hosting no ads no tracking:

Demo: https://www.kajmagnus.blog/new-embedded-comments/

More info: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments

There're Discourse + Hacker News discussion forum features too, if later on you want to start a forum / community around your blog. Email notifications. Sign in with Gmail / Facebook / GitHub / email+password. I'm developing Talkyard.
What would be the benefit of such a thing? It would be a disaster from a security standpoint in the short term.
You can literally say this for every profession in existence.
This seems like it's essentially confessing to something we already knew. Back at the turn of the century Microsoft liked to claim that Windows Server and the ordinary client NT were different in some important way beyond just the branding and price. People would even try to argue that Linux couldn't be a "real" desktop OS because it lacked some kind of secret sauce not found in a server OS... Hackers eventually found out how to tell a client NT kernel to behave exactly like Server, because of course they are the same kernel, duh.

Microsoft's reaction was to stop selling the two next to each other. There is no Windows 10 Server and Windows Server 2019 doesn't have a client version. So the exact same thing continues, but now there IS no equivalent product to prove the point that they're identical bar branding and price.
> my client received an email from "abicde@mydomain.com" stating that there is a change in invoice and revised invoice is again sent which had bank account details of a UK bank account.

Emails sent from your domain usually constitute valid contracts. If you're letting other people send emails from your domain because you don't have SPF configured then there's a good chance a court would either rule that you've allowed them to enter into a legally binding contract on your behalf, or else that you were negligent and owe the $10,000 back in damages.

That's why you need to take away the email addresses of people who no longer work for your company, so that they can't enter into contracts on your behalf.

That said no one should ever wire money based on anything they receive via email. So if the sender email had SPF but the recipient just didn't see it flagged because it was in SOFTFAIL mode or whatever, then it's probably the client's fault at that point.
Not function composition, but higher-order functions.
If this single transaction is key to the survival of his business this may be one of few, if not the only client they have. In that case it may make longer term sense to "negotiate" a settlement. That could either be a payment plan or percentage of the 10k obligation.
I totally relate to this; when I am multitasking I start getting irritable and frustrated. I do it a lot because I am trying to be ultra-productive, but I am starting to realize it would be better for my relationships and my work if I just take time to focus on one thing at a time; including the context that when I am not working, I don't think about working.
Waldorf is all about fostering imagination, so they try to limit anything that comes with a pre-defined set of ideas that tell you how to interact with it. A plastic firetruck already has an identity; an unfinished wood truck can be anything.
This thread, once I reddit, seemed vaguely familiar.
Well history proves you wrong. The last British monarch that ignored the will of Parliament had their head cut off in front of a crowd. There is no divine right of Kings anywhere in the Commonwealth.

Ever since the restoration in 1660 the deal has been that the monarch has to follow the will of the people as expressed through Parliament. For example Charles 2nd wanted to convert to Catholicism but couldn't for political reasons.

That was further strengthened by the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights 1689 and the Act of Settlement 1701.

Your assertion that Canadians are somehow more likely to fall to corporatocracy because they live in constitutional monarchy is just naive ignorance.
I haven't done it more recently for a variety of reasons but in a former job I took month-long vacations every couple of years. I definitely knew co-workers who thought this was just shocking and had trouble wrapping their heads around just taking extended time off like that. (I still take my full vacation; I just haven't taken it in such a large chunk recently.)
The other correlation - that appeared strong was with women being vastly more likely to eat organic. Using similar logic to the headline, eating organic food makes you a woman.
Well it is an exciting concept but it isn't as you point out unique.

It was fairly clear in the 80's and 90's there were two 'streams' of systems programmers, those who started at mainframes and mini-computers and were making things work on smaller and smaller versions of those machines, and those who started at the ROM monitor or DOS level type machine and made things work on larger and larger versions of those machines.

It was stark how differently the two 'types' of people approached operating system problems.

Windows "crossed over" from being more of a monitor type interface to being an executive interface with Windows NT at the hands of a former VAX software architect (which was firmly in the mainframe getting smaller path), and that cross over happened for the masses when Microsoft merged the NT kernel with the Window "old tech" kernel in Windows XP as I recall. By the time Windows 7 came around it was pretty much unified for life and has evolved since then.

If all you knew were Microsoft OSes, then yes it is an amazing journey. If however you had already been experiencing systems like UNIX that ran on everything from mainframes to PDP-11/70's you would not have been quite so surprised.
In the context of conversations and the reasons people have them, "just" pointing out a fact (i.e. identifying an objective untruth for no other reason than to eliminate untruths from the domain of conversation) is vanishingly rare. In this case, the GP was offering another perspective an a subjective event by way of criticising the curt nature of the GGP's description - he was not just correcting an untruth.

As for the subject of the conversation, I think (not without years of pains of consideration for the two-sided complexities of the problem) that the officer's behavior, whether a result only of his personal decisions or of standard training, and the lack of repercussions for that behavior, is outside the boundaries of scenarios that are excusable by the danger of the profession, and is emblematic of one of the most devastating humiliations of human rights that the citizens of the United States continue to suffer.
That's simply the most well known example. Blizzard had a real money auction house in DIII which they got a cut of profits from virtual item sales so they clearly understand items have value. PLEX in eve online directly links real world money with their in world currency etc.

I could go on, but saying it's virtual is not necessarily enough to protect these companies.
I bet 40, 50 years ago you could see the same sort of article about Television
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I'm already trying to think of ways to make use of hooks with React-Redux. We've been working on React-Redux v6, and have a couple WIP PRs that we've been comparing. Yesterday, I took my PR at https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/pull/995, and updated it locally to use hooks instead of class components. Looks great so far, and I hope to push that up in the next day or two.

Based on that, I'm also starting to think about how we might have a `useRedux` hook as part of v6. Tim already filed an issue at https://github.com/reduxjs/react-redux/issues/1063 for discussion.

However, in v6, we're switching from putting the _store_ into legacy context, to putting the _store state_ into new context. This actually brings up an issue with hooks - see the thread at https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1055694323847651335 for discussion with the React team. So, hopefully we'll be able to do that performantly by the time that React 16.7 comes out.
As others have pointed out, it's the client's fault if they have been duped. Although for sure, they'll try to put the onus on the seller, and will claim the seller has been hacked etc..
Thanks! I'll try it :-)

It's not only Finland, I think MANY other countries do the same, unfortunately I can't read Finnish so...
Great answer! Thank you!
Hey Andrew, appreciate your perspective here.

I agree bootstrapping itself wasn't the problem. The problem was that I felt my focus on building a business on the side of my day job limiting to what I could do next. At the start of the year I decided the healthiest thing for me to do was to start from a clean slate and bed down somewhere. I wasn't sure where, but London is where I ended up.

I realise there are much more sane ways to live our lives than a startup, bootstrapped or funded. I agree it takes a lot of personal sacrifice too, mentally more than anything.

I realise my path looks strange, going from "I need more time to focus on things outside of work" to "I'm starting a startup", and it was never my plan when I came back. It was only 4 months after returning that the opportunity came up and it was the best fit for me at the time.

I may be too naive, but both myself and my co-founder believe that working excessive hours isn't a necessity to make a startup succeed. Sure there are times when you need to work longer in short periods to get something over the line, but the idea that being on the brink of burnout gives the best odds of success goes against what I've read about how the human mind works, and my experience too.

Maybe in a year or two I'll do a follow up post.
I must have written my text poorly, that's what I intended to convey; that in my experience the term's popularity started in the embedded/sysadmin/dba communities and then spread to the wider tech communities. Sorry! :)
It's not without precedent!

With .NET Core [0], and ChakraCore[1] (Edge's JS engine) both being open sourced. And them having thrown the entirety of MS-DOS [2] up under the MIT license, and making a bunch of new tools and stuff under open licenses (VSCode, TypeScript, msbuild, etc...). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they started making a push to open up many parts of Windows.

Already some devs on the Edge team have said publicly that they are working on open sourcing the whole rendering engine from Edge, and seeing that they are moving toward having Windows be more of a "platform" and less of "software you buy", it makes sense that it could eventually become an open source (or at least "open core") product.

I don't think it will happen this year, but I do think that if MS keeps going in this direction, it's more likely than not to happen eventually.

[0] https://github.com/dotnet/core
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS
And every person that has ever used GitHub ever, that wants things to improve instead of remaining static. Just in the past few months Github has released a lot of cool stuff, before this was even completed. Github has changed a lot over the years, and that's a good thing. No one wants something that never improves.
One, ten, one hundred
I have to wonder - is anyone working on using generative AI to create 3d models for games? Presumably they are but I'm surprised I've not seen more about it because that's a huge use case for this sort of tech. I only tinker with game development for fun but I can see the value in, e.g., having an app that can generate various kinds of models using these feature sliders. Combine that with style transfer to copy an aesthetic from one model to another and that could cut down on the asset creation time for video games considerably.
There's also a book version, which is also quite good.
weak argument, very little article to even go on.. sounds about right for medium
Bingo (anecdata)... a few years ago I spent the last 15min of a flight into SFO talking to a lady (who had been playing Bejeweled for 4 hours straight) about using touchscreens so long (it's my job). She mentioned how shaky she gets when she has to stop playing...

I asked what she did... a game designer at Zynga.
Do you have evidence that increasing taxes on people earning more than, say, $1M per year "discourages working?"

I also support taxing land value, but I don't think it's a replacement for graduated income tax. I mentioned tobacco, and alcohol is obviously similar. But with gas, there are poorer people who simply cannot opt out of using gas. Maybe we should apply more tax to companies that produce or sell gas instead?
An example of good separation of model/view/control is Markdown.

Markdown is ubiquitous because it's easy to learn and does one thing well. It's a very Unix-y idea. Markdown is a document markup language, not a Model-View-Controller framework. It's not trying to be the front end for your SPA, it's trying to allow you to type Reddit comments and blog posts.

That comes with advantages, the big one being that here's the entire documentation you need to look at if you want to start using Markdown[0] and here's one section of LaTeX's documentation[1]. I could have an entire office (programmers and non-programmers) using Markdown in about a week to a month, I couldn't do the same with LaTeX.

Of course LaTeX is more powerful that Markdown. Markdown isn't really a tool for typesetting tbh. But the point is that because extra functionality nearly always comes at the cost of extra complexity, you always need to take a step back and ask how important that extra functionality is. If someone says, "Okay, but I really need to meta-program my blog post", even at that stage I'm not sure that I push them towards LaTeX or its equivalents, because maybe it's better at that point to just jump to a full featured language like Python or Javascript.

That separation of concerns also means that I can have different people handling different things. If my office is all writing Markdown, maybe I only have one or two people who are handling the CSS for how it renders. Nobody else in the office needs to know about the CSS side of things.

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

[1]: https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/fntguide.pd...
>> your claim that the QM description is not correct

> That's not my claim. My claim is that the change in the mathematical description of Bob's particles (from mixed states to pure states) when Alice measures her particles does not correspond to any actual physical change in Bob's particles.

Well, according to quantum mechanics there is a physical change when Alice measures her particles because:

before Alice's measurement => the pair "A/B" is entangled

after Alice's measurement => the pair "A/B" is not entangled

According to you alternative description, is the pair A/B entangled or not after Alice's measurement? Or is entanglement not an actual physical property of the pair?

I am (or used to be, for a brief time many years ago) a physicist. We had the opportunity to discuss in person last week. I enjoyed that (and this) discussion, thanks. By the way, I said I would send you a comment from David Mermin about the recent paper from Frauchiger and Renner. Actually I was thinking about this article from Jeffrey Bub: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03267
I typically use Solarized Dark, with a bit of customization. That’s easy on my eyes throughout the day.
Thanks! I totally get what you mean. I'd love to get started with this. Will dig around on their website.
Interaction tracing with React
Well you may be able to get their contact details by contacting InMotion Hosting, who runs the web server they sent the mail out of. If you take 'res203.servconfig.com' and stick it in here: https://www.ultratools.com/tools/ipWhoisLookup , you should be able to get their abuse team email. Although this won't get the money back... it will just help you punish the spoofer a bit.
Have you considered automating this? Something like a "previous discussions" link?
Make sure you have set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Also use email certificate.
They're not empty terms. They're appropriate qualifiers. And they're not even close to being ad hominem. Don't invoke logical fallacies if you don't understand their usage.