skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes you can but hard copy games, but guess what? Those games still have to be approved by the console maker and won’t run unless they have a digital signature from the console manufacturer. It’s been that way since the 80s.
I'm mostly joking.

However, I've been observing Microsoft since the Windows 2.0 era, and I can't completely discard the possibility that Microsoft actually would use 8.3 domain names. Using 8.3 names "for legacy compatibility" in unusual places is something they've done before.
How Cheap Labor Drives China's A.I. Ambitions
If you are not ready and still somehow do it, you can pretty much know the results immediately.
There will a turmoil within generally due to heartburn leading to sleeplessness and fever.

For this reason, it's really better to find a guru who will guide the practitioner.
They did, it was something else before
That would be a serious problem in the PDF they published.
Wouldn't it make sense that somebody committing armed robbery on a train quite possibly doesn't need no stinkin' permit to carry a gun.
The more likely it is for criminals to be fatally shot by everyone around them if they try to do anything, the less likely they're going to try --- even if they themselves have a gun, they're going to be outnumbered.
We are talking about the justice system here.
That depends on the context. There is a criminal culture in every country, city, etc. In some parts if you delay or are trying to negotiate you'll be killed.
The Lightning Network is in many ways worse, rather than better, for privacy than on-chain Bitcoin transactions, simply because node holders have to at least know all of the route forward, and because of the forced address reuse.
Is this just an American thing? Healthcare funding, or something?

I've never been to SF, but I've visited NYC, and the subway there feels like stepping in to a horror movie.

During a two week visit I saw people passing out and being ignored (I was the only one attempting to help), individuals swinging around bricks in socks, and various other obvious examples of severely mentally ill individuals.

In London I've never seen anything like it.

It genuinely felt like stepping in to some sort of twilight zone. Compounded by the fact that other commuters seemed jaded, as if it was normal to be regularly surrounded by individuals who act more like rogue AIs than human beings.
Sure, there are better systems in privacy terms. However, the bigger story is that the world is changing fast: a huge percentage of the world's population - in China - now lives a reality of instant mobile payment. If you accept that the general population will always gravitate toward functional, reliable, cheap, centralized payment systems unless they have specific needs such as anonymity/illegality, and that those systems are improving rapidly in features and distribution, then the real challenge to future decentralized currency is getting anyone to give a damn.
Having police with drug dogs, posted at train stations to catch random people with personal quantities of drugs is straight up fascist in my opinion.

Drug use crosses socioeconomic lines, yet drug dogs at train stations (targeted in the poorer suburbs too) ends up unfairly targeting poor people (who are often minorities), especially as wealthier people tend to drive rather than take public transport. Send some drug dogs through the bank offices on a Friday evening and see how much coke you find. Instead they're busting poor people for having a gram of weed on them.

Personally, I'd rather that they didn't have drug dogs at all, they tend to victimise users rather than actually stop the root cause of the "problem" (I'm not a fan of drug prohibition at all), i.e. the dealers and the traffickers. Drug traffickers aren't going to be transporting commercial quantities of drugs on the train, they're going to be driving cars. Drug dogs are also generally ineffective and respond more to their handlers signals than actually detecting drugs by scent and are therefore susceptible to their handlers biases, further victimising minorities.
> IMO App prices now are lower than they were when the app store first opened in iPhoneOS 2

This provides no basis for comparison because the App Store has been the only way to install apps on iOS that whole time, so that changing can't have been the difference.

Moreover, the market they're monopolizing isn't the market for apps, it's the market for app distribution. So the relevant price isn't the price of apps, it's Apple's 30%. Which is obviously higher than in markets where there isn't a single-party distribution monopoly, e.g. payment processing is typically ~3%, various packaging systems like apt are free (or user can download binary from website as on Windows), and the binary hosting cost per user is negligible.

There is also a tying argument. App Store ties payment processing, distribution and curation together when the buyer might want different providers for each.
n1256.pdf, Section 6.3.2.3 Pointers, says "constant expression with the value 0".

An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void *, is called a null pointer constant.

I don't think this definition excludes platforms that use non-zero bit patterns. A constant 0 in C code should get converted to the appropriate (possibly non-zero) bit-pattern for the platform.

Also, my understanding is that whether the platform has useful things at address 0 falls in the category of "implementation defined".
It doesn't seem quite that bad in St. Louis, but the Metrolink has a lot of similar characteristics.

Just the fact that all the platforms are open (there are no turnstiles, so you don't even need to pay a cent to board a train or lurk on a platform, any time of day) seems like a major contributing factor.

And in my recent rides, maybe 1/5 times would there ever be a person checking tickets.

It's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem here—nobody wants the lines expanded if their only experiences are dodgy and slow at best. And it doesn't help that the local news seems to highlight all the public transit crimes on a weekly basis (especially on slower news weeks).
Aren't those free for open source?
On the other hand, carefully watching the maze generation helps while trying to solve it. SO I'd actually leave that, it's part of the game
This is a question of comparative specialisation. Why learn how to grow an amazing garden, invest hundreds of hours in working that garden, to save a few hundred dollars (and losing the opportunity to earn tens of thousands of dollars) if you can just go to supermarket and buy food?

Why hire a strategic analyst with executive experience for 5 years if all they are going to tell you is 5% more than a Gartner consultant can offer you for 1/10th the annual salary?

To use your analogy, why should this hypothetical retailer hire an in-house team if they can get everything they need from another party for cheaper, with a small opportunity cost? And why is knowing which detergent to purchase making you any less reliant on the comparative specialisation of the supermarket?
Wait, I was told here so many times that SV is the best place to live if you want to get anywhere in life, and that people who do not take public transit are mean evil nature-hating bourgeois pigs. /s

Interesting that a couple comments that deal with the problem have already been downvoted to death.
if there's a GoFundMe page for this I've got $1 to help send him on his way
Wow. Thats great to hear. I am starting that degree in a 1 week. so pumped.
The HN demographic skews male, and I suspect a lot of the men who are big fans of public transport here fail to appreciate how unsafe many women feel on those systems.
silly easter eggs?
If only keywords had a standardised set of keys that are used to express direction, something like up-down-left-right.
It's the fact that drug dogs at train stations unfairly target poor people and minorities for possession of personal quantities of drugs (traffickers don't take the train), despite rates of drug use being fairly consistent across socio-economic borders. Drug dogs are also generally also inaccurate and respond heavily to their handlers signals, and are therefore susceptible to their handlers biases. They're basically a tool for creating probable cause for a search (although in New South Wales, apparently refusal to consent to a search is also probable cause, go figure).

So yes, it's the dogs that make them fascist.
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There’s no political group supporting these robbers
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Sure there are. I know how to easily identify them, too.

If, perchance, one of the robbers is shot and killed while committing an armed robbery, look to see which groups are more concerned about punishing the shooter than blaming the criminal. Insofar as this is California, it will be a substantial list.
If it was "free software prophet" I would be fully on board: I think RMS was way ahead of the curve in foreseeing many of our future dilemmas around privacy, software patents, DRM, the open source movement, and many others.
Where do you run the server?
(2016)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22open_nsfw%22&sort=byPopular...
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/80rno0/fatal_school...
This ideology of inaction, or "nothing" we can do about it, is a phenomenon unique to the bay area. I used to live there, and it is one of the reasons I left. Criminal activity is not pursued, bad behavior is not penalized. I'm sure there are many reasons, but I suspect a big factor is that police and politicians are afraid of cracking down due to the political fallout and backlash. There is a palpable disdain for police officers there.

The ironic thing is the people who are mostly likely voters and taxpayers are the ones who are fed up with the crime and leaving.
Wonder how it compares with other systems like these in Europe or say Japan. Do police patrol there. Wonder if there is another way to fix this. Say figure out why does crime even become an option at all. Lack of jobs, opportunities, etc.
I've developed homebrew games on multiple platforms. I know that NES, GBA, PSP, and DS have little to no restrictions. The Wii has a few restrictions, but not many.
Ohio will let businesses pay their taxes with Bitcoin
In today's world successful business often requires online presence

online presence requires app

to have an app my business "has to be approved by Apple"

That's a freaking monopoly.
Many of those are just looking for free advertising really as well - in particular if they are a retail front or real estate for sale or let. Just enter in this information you want to give to customers to get a free advertising? Any sane business says yes please.
Google settled racism case from contractor 'treated like a terrorist'
The person I replied to didn't provide any arguments or sources. I encourage him to do his own research before making ignorant, incorrect comments.
Why does an online presence require an app? Most "online presences" still don't have them and do just fine.
> While I definitely think there are some problems with the App Store, the fact is that it is so easy and streamlined for people buying apps that it’s worth the 30% for the vast majority of developers.

If people would still choose it even if there were competitors, then why is competition prohibited?

The answer is that the App Store would still exist, but might have to charge less or lose business to lower cost competitors. So you would get everything you want and with lower costs.
I don't understand what you mean by "arbitrary offset", but the way people usually implement both "crash on null dereference" and stack guards is the same: they not only don't map anything at those addresses but they map reservations at those addresses that are neither readable nor writable (and so usually never commit to backing memory). On 32-bit macOS Mach-O executables you can even see the reservation as it is so explicit: there is literally just a "segment" defined in the executable, with no contents, mapped to the pages at address 0 that can't be accessed. If you leave it out of the executable, the page might get used (such as by mmap, maybe due to malloc): it is entirely optional, but happens to be a default from the C compiler/linker. As we almost always want this, often operating systems now do this for you by default without requiring the programmer to instruct it, but that is just a different programmer instructing the computer, still using the same virtual memory paging system: there is no magic property of the computer that is making low addresses inaccessible, they are just using the mechanism for mapping virtual address space with different permissions (and again: this same mechanism is used to prevent null dereferences and protect against stack overflows, both of which are semi-arbitrary flaws in C that the computer has no business hardcoding).
Thanks. With that added context it doesn't sound harsh after all. :)
Not 2 years ago, I saw an entire Joomla schema converted to Microsoft Excel tables which we should use to port the website. Our team just ignored the effort.
What if that layman isn't trying to be a hero. What if they are just exercising their right to protect themselves or their family?

When the police in a municipality have the monopoly right to posess and use force to protect citizens, then citizens should expect them to actually keep them safe. If they fail in this duty, citizens should have recourse.

Oakland in particular has a very difficult problem prosecuting criminals. The "stop snitching" culture that is prevalent in urban, black communities, combined with historical mistrust of police, translates to no cooperation and no arrests. Criminals aren't being deterred, and are acting with impunity. Probability is on b your side in keeping you safe, until one day you're the unlucky target. You won't be able to defend yourself, the other riders will not help and will pretend to not see you, and you will feel the helplessness that I once felt when I was savagely beaten by several laughing teens in DC next to a metro station. None of them were caught, but the police were sure helpful in telling me that the station I went to was a bad place for white people to go and I shouldn't go there anymore.

Layman with weapons isn't ideal, but neither is the delusion that the police can keep you safe in an area rife with cultural dysfunction and the young, borderline psyco men who target anyone that looks like they are productive for predation.
Couldn't it be that the measurement device (or any other interacting object) "falls" into all of the possible states of the measured system, therefore we see the measurement device itself as a quantum object when we don't interact with it, but every possible "outcome" of the measurement device sees the system as classical. At a higher scale, a human being itself is an object interacting with the measurement device, and every possible "outcome" of the human being sees the device as a classical system, showing a classical system.
At least this explanation does not involve "quantum brains" nor enthropocentrism.
Large price fluctuations*, you know what I meant.
There's a difference with scientific publishing for most disciplines. I work for a non-profit scientific publisher. Much of the research today that is coming out is extremely specialized. Thus there aren't many people in the world that have the expertise to referee a paper. So the review is anonymous in order to get a more frank and honest review (we hope).

I am also a developer. There are far more people that can give feedback on most code, and also it doesn't take a lot of apparatus or money to get good at coding. Also CS/OSS is relatively young when compared to other disciplines. We've almost always done things with honest and sometimes brutal feedback. Even academic research is usually announced/shared at conferences. Look at what happened when Nature tried to make an AI journal.... [1] I think there is still value in someone getting paid to manage research and referees and ensure a high quality product. Open peer review is just going to be a lot harder for some of these disciplines with limited experts.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/why-are-ai-researche...
> A billion lines of code??? Incredible!!!
>Imho, curiosity is something fundamentally different than

So what's it all about then? Go on, I'm curious...
> What if that layman isn't trying to be a hero.

Stray bullets don't care about the shooter's intentions.
A minority/majority distinction is unnecessary. If the market share is significant and can be shown to harm enough consumers (and especially if the behavior can be shown to harm even users of competitors' systems), then there still could be a decision in favor of consumers.
> I know this sounds crazy, but I'd be willing to tolerate a modest number of bystander deaths if it meant a dramatic uptick in the number of criminal deaths.

I'm of the opinion that it's better for a criminal to walk free than for an innocent person to be punished or killed for something they have nothing to do with.
I've had cross-talk happen while on a cellphone. It cut over to another voice saying "... three months!..."- it sounded like an ad. But it wasn't audible on the other end and the conversation wasn't interrupted.

Never did work out what happened there.
Probably the most important part of that effort was to keep the project managers and analysts busy fighting over that nonsense, providing aircover for the devs to actually do the work.
Or maybe "saint".
So exactly how did you get those games on actual hardware or did you run them on an emulator?

You definitely didn’t get games distributed on unmodifurd PlayStations, Nintendos, or XBoxes.

Nintendo has had a lockout system since the SNES days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Games_Corp._v._Nintendo_....
> It is up to the market.

Insofar as Apple is a US Company, the US Government also gets a say.

Profit is a privilege. The US has a mixed economy, not a 'free market'.
it is sort of "expected". People want a native experience.

To me, the entire concept seems wrong. It's like having to submit your website to chrome, and safari, and mozila, and be approved by them, for them to display your site... Don't you think it's wrong? Who are they to decide what I can or can not install on my device?
I'm sure that some other people have run into this scam on BART but I had it happen a few years ago.

Right before the doors close at the SFO BART stop headed to Milbrae, a guy runs on all out of breath yelling and pleading for money to get a ticket for his sick daughter. He's a war vet and needs to get her to the hospital in Travis but they won't let her on the plane for some reason etc...Does this till the Milbrae stop and I assume gets on going back and does it again.

When I told him I'd help him if he could just produce his mil-ID or VA-ID he came over and flashed a wad of 50's and 100's and threateningly said "I don't need to show you shit." Then went back to his histrionics.

Obviously this wasn't an attack, or illegal but it was pretty brazen, as it was in front of everyone and he didn't even seem to care that everyone saw his huge wad of cash. Most of the people I see doing illegal stuff on BART (and even on WMATA here in DC) don't really seem to think anyone is going to stop them and they seem to be right most of the time.
VivaGraph might be what I've been looking for! Thanks! http://www.yasiv.com/amazon#/Search?q=graph%20drawing&catego... https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS

Cryptoscape looks really awesome but i'm having trouble locating the source code of the demos like this one http://js.cytoscape.org/demos/images-breadthfirst-layout/ actually figured out how to open dev tools without a mouse and its simple too.

How hard is it to teach either of these libs about Clojure data structures? (Without copying them into plain js objects)

Cryptoscape - unclear how to use actual dom to style nodes, not just css classes (or if this is possible at all)
There was the notorious incident in 2016 when the San Jose Police stood down and allowed rioters to violently assault Trump campaign supporters.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/27/appeals-court-trump-s...
Even simple codebases that do

if (!p)

Anywhere would immediately cause problems.
If your using Office 365, telemetry in Windows is the least of your concern.
If BART wants its ridership to feel safe they need two things: increase officer presence (and prosecute vigorously) and two add cameras all over their properties. No fake pretend cameras. Deter and prosecute violators. Looking the other way when things happen, slaps on the wrists, etc., don’t work.

I think BART is shy because at least there is one incident of manslaughter by one of their officers. On the other hand not having officers also leads to death and assuaults of passengers and loss of ridership.

Have a strict code of conduct, enforce it vigorously, train officers properly and educate riders via station and in car infation systems.

Otherwise it risks going into a service death spiral.
I don't know how good the English translations are but I would look at "the Trial" or "Metamorphosis". This is a good short story: https://genius.com/Franz-kafka-before-the-law-annotated
> where is the modern 'IDE' for the Software Architect?

I have had success with http://staruml.io/
The original Bay Bridge was built in 3 years, with 1930s technology. We used to not be a bunch of incompetent idiots when it came to building infrastructure, but now we clearly are. I understand why people don’t want to pay large amounts of tax money to pay incompetent idiots to take a long time building tiny amounts of infrastructure.
> things that don't really matter

If they really don't matter, why forbid them at all?

For things that are worth forbidding, scaling is surely necessary to create a meaningful disincentive for the rich, without destroying the poor by setting very high flat fines.
It has nothing to do with efficiency. Insofar as Bassman9000's example indicates a real problem (and there are a couple of ways it might do so, ultimately leading back to the poor use of abstraction and separation-of-concerns), stuffing the arguments (or any other weakly-related collection of variables) into an ad-hoc struct (or object) having no real cohesion is simply sweeping the dust under the rug, and is just as indicative of a likely design problem as are long argument lists of nominally unrelated data.
Woah! Two years of education changes someone's life!

...if only community colleges and branch campuses of state universities had VC marketing cash, we would hear these uplifting stories on the daily.
The Cat Headbutt: What Does It Mean, and Why Do Cats Do It? – Catster
I often read and post on a personal finance forum. I'm always surprised by how many posts go something like this:

"Just finished university, $100k to invest, what should I do?"

Wait, how does someone who just finished university have $100,000 in the bank? That's a milestone I proudly hit after several years in the workforce with a good job and living very frugally.

Of course, it's people whose parents paid 100% of their expenses (tuition and living) through university, so every penny they earned from internships, co-ops or scholarships went straight into the bank.

Now ask yourself how much easier it is to start a risky company when the first thing greeting you after finishing school is a 6-figure bank balance not $1000+/month of loan repayments.
i think we all agree that AI/computer based surveillance and law enforcement systems are more flexible and powerful (in a scalability/omniscience sense) than a human-based police force

the disagreement is whether or not we want a more powerful distributed system monitoring and enforcing the law

cops aren't perfect and often have biases but you can't just push some code to a server and make them do whatever you want them to, as you could potentially do with an AI-based system.

if bad people got control of the system they would be able to more effectively impose their will on the population
Never mind, it works flawlessly. A Chrome addon was causing the problems.
Relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/538/
Why Amazon Wants to Buy 22 Regional Sports Networks