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Arguably, Myst has a more unique and deeper setting than Colossal Cave Adventure / ADVENT. Maybe it's Zork with a GUI, then, but I still love text adventure games (and seriously there's some great innovation still happening with the style, so I know I'm not alone). Therefore, I don't see that as a pejorative. Rather, I'd say that Myst accomplished what games like King's/Space/Police Quest couldn't - they split the adventure game genre, showing how to get away from the text parser - if you want to. I like the more personal, serene experience of a classical turn-based adventure game and the puzzle-solving element still excites me. I've only seen a few games that scratch that itch the way Myst did (and still does).
Cool thinking! The linked printer can be seen as optimized for serialized throughput, whereas in the end the total amount of data transferred is what matters.

So parallelize!

Are there FDM printers with multiple nozzles extruding in the same plane? That seems like an obvious incremental step from regular single nozzle printers.
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Las Vegas prices are up 5% YoY [1]. San Francisco prices continue to climb and inventory is low [2]. Some regional Bay Area markets are experiencing a slowdown but most are not.

1. https://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Las_Vegas-Nevada/

2. https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/san-francisco-hom...
FYI, that's not making Google look good, it's making you look bad.
Max Howell was applying for the binary tree reversal team?
America isn't rich?
There are some really curious things there. Interesting!
People like what they like. Stop trying to gatekeep.
It's fairly easy. Give a problem, for the person to work on, they code it, they might need some hints or direction. Interviews are already stressful. Get the person actually coding, doing something. Whiteboard interviews are just plain stupid. Whiteboard is maybe 1 percent of the day to day. Why in the world would you judge a candidate on that over actually testing their abilities and more importantly their ability to interact and adapt

I'll be crude but whiteboard interviews are fucking stupid, obnoxious and wastes time, you will definitely miss out on quality candidates. You might as throw a personality test in for the ultimate combo of "how to fail at hiring"
There is a new game by the creators called 'Obduction' you could try out. I think its equally playable in VR and not-VR

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-brothe...

edit - technolust isn't exactly a myst clone, but if you like the genre its a decent first person adventure game with a killer soundtrack
So, you think all phones and wireless base stations and telecom equipment ever need is just some mobile phone SoC?

This narative is so so similar to Chinese netizens'，I couldn't help but cringe when I saw so uninformed and forced arguments, this myth has to stop.

The US still monopolizes most telecom related chips and components, Huawei does make a few other chips along with some Chinese companies, but they are generally low-end in performance, couldn't compete at high-end market.

And let's be realistic, free of those marketing frills, Huawei's chips are impressive but still modified ARM products, and they buy a lot other licensed IPs for their chips.
> It could have had legal bearing, if Microsoft had not turned it on by default.

How would that happen?

> Before DNT, the way consent basically worked was that companies just assumed you consented, and only if you specifically denied consent, they would have no chance to defend that in court. (...) With Microsoft turning it on by default, there was no way for companies to know, if the user actually wanted privacy, or if they supposedly wanted to be tracked, for whatever reason.

Herein lies the problem. Companies assumed consent. Which is a nice assumption if you want to abuse users and sell their data - though how can users consent if they typically don't even know what's being done to them? In reality, what companies should assume is lack of consent, and I'm very, very happy that at least for some of us, GDPR is fixing that.

> With the GDPR in place, you theoretically now need to get consent every time (including implicit consent, e.g. when the user asks for something to be shipped to their address, that means you can process their address). Most companies don't yet keep to it, though.

No you don't; you only need it for using user's data for things other than fulfilling user's request. It's kind of like with Cookie law - you don't really need a cookie banner, unless you're tracking people.

(Or in other words, amount of UX problems GDPR/cookie law cause are directly proportional to how abusive a website is towards its visitors. It's a useful signal.)
It feels weird to see the ARM1 described as an 'ancestor of the iPhone's processor.' Of course, it is... but that feels like describing the 8086 as the ancestor of the PlayStation 4's processor. ARM was popular in embedded devices prior to the iPhone, after all; I had at least a couple ARM powered devices well prior to the iPhone's launch. Not even obscure: GameBoy Advance is an example.

This is really just a nitpick, though, I definitely find these in-browser gate-level chip emulators to be fascinating. It makes me wonder if we will some day see realtime gate-level emulation of entire machines... It may be too soon to ask given that state-of-the-art cycle-level CPU emulation is already pretty limited by performance, but perhaps for some really old devices, it'll happen. It would just be really cool to be able to do things like play with fault injection on an emulated processor and watch what actually happens.
If you could have a liquid 3D printer below the starting surface and a solid PLA printer above, you could start in the middle of the object and print into two directions, at twice the speed. Of course- the basic question remains, what holds the middle? Retractable titanium bolt?
I had a look at the github of someone we were interviewing. He had azure credentials committed in one of his projects. We have him a pass.
TBH I wish Mozilla were taking a more agressive stance against ads and tracking.

It's nice that they've recently taken a stand, but they're still not taking it very seriously (only blocking "abusive" trackers, IIRC) and it's 5-10 years later than they should have done it.

Why aren't they sponsoring uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger?
I played Myst way too young. I couldn't figure out any of the puzzles and still remember just randomly pressing piano buttons but the atmosphere was so much fun to explore.
This is a very strange argument, and is one that a lot of Americans seem to believe. Is this purely because of the wording of the 10th Amendment? The reason I ask is because there isn't (as far as I know) a legal distinction between being given a freedom and there being a restriction such that "Congress shall make no law abridging $some_freedom". To test this theory, consider if there was a new amendment that completely invalidated the bill of rights. Would you still have the same freedoms you have today? Of course not -- so therefore (regardless of the framing) the bill of rights gives you certain rights.
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If you are a deer, the save zones are obviously the territory borders. You migrate from one voronoi cell of trouble into the next.
Don’t you see the logic of what I’m saying? How can you read my comment history and still think that automation is not a problem? But the answer is the same for automation and super-intelligence: you have to prevent it from existing in the first place. People who advocate for containment of SI usually prefer prevention but think it’s too difficult and go to containment as a last resort, including Elon musk. Fight as hard as you can for prevention.
Yeah I've been meaning to give it a go for a while now. I really like those types of first person puzzlers like Antichamber, The Witness, Talos Principle etc.

Sadly I don't have a VR setup to try Technolust, but thanks for the recommendation!
> If you don't want to be tracked, you do whatever it takes to not be tracked.

That includes asking and voting for regulations that help end this shitshow wholesale.
The planet will be fine. It's humanity—and the rest of the flora and fauna we're used to right now—that are fucked.
Who conducts a study without a bias? Every study is conducted a null hypothesis they seek to disprove. How unfamiliar are you with academia?

You're making the assertion. Do you have evidence to dispute the DDG study? The onus is on you.
Honestly, tech interviews are really simple to conduct. Give a few challenges. See if they stumble hard. See how they interact (quite frankly the most important aspect if they have any technical experience). Give hints if necessary. Interviews are stressful enough, so a small nudge is fine. But you can definitely tell who is capable, and those that don't have the experience pretty quickly.
So China's only choice is to stay as a cheap supplier of the US forever? That sounds fair...
The difference is that one choice of sweetener is inherently bad for those trying to lose weight, while the other choice of sweetener puts the burden of fault for weight gain on a lack of self control.

We're humans. Not wanting to eat bitter food all the time is natural and should not be faulted. Losing weight shouldn't have to be a strenuous ascetic chore, so choosing to consume something sweet isn't the mental failing; the mental failing is choosing to choose something calorically and macro-nutritionally incorrect for one's body recomposition goals.
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It's a nice excuse. Every adtech firm can now say: "But we've been prepared to honor that! Look at us, we tried to play nice, we even wrote the code for it! But then that naughty Microsoft came and ruined it all!".

Like if adtech companies weren't literally the best players at figuring out which browser a visitor uses.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819025
You clearly don't get it. What if facial recognition technology can be replaced with body recognition technology? Do you ban all forms of recognition technology? That would criminalize a lot of legitimate uses for machine learning.
We take America too much for granted. I came as an immigrant child 25 years ago and aside from maybe 4-5 relatively minor incidents, I haven’t faced any major racism. Considering that I have maybe 2 dozen interactions daily and have encountered likely 10,000 people in my life that’s quite extraordinary. A recent survey came out that 60% of millennial believe America is one of the most racist countries in the world.

Have significant immigration to any other country and watch the tribalism rise up. America post 1990s has been the most welcome place for mass immigration in human history.

In regards to China, I think they are great with foreigners. Urban China is quite fantastic. Might get a few dirty stares if with a Chinese woman but all things considered that’s not bad at all. Hopefully soon it’ll get better over the coming decades.
That damn piano... I’m pretty tone deaf and had no idea what to do there.
There's another term for reversing a tree: reversing a tree.

'Reverse' is switching the orientation left to right or front to back. Top to bottom is 'inverting' (except in graph theory where inverting means something entirely... weird).

> other than the interviewer was too proud to admit they made a mistake.
This is awfully similar to when China refused to sell rare-earth element metals, causing the USA to restart production.
That's nonsense.

AWS is a very large business, and much more profitable than selling physical goods online.

But Amazon's overall revenue was $56.6B (Q3 2018[1]) and "only" $6.68B of that was AWS. By comparison, revenue from Amazon's advertising business is $2.5B - and no one is claiming that is their main line of business.

Even the article you point to shows Amazon made a profit of $1.69B on North American ecommerce vs $1.35B profit from AWS.

So yeah - AWS is a high margin business, but no where near their "main business".

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/amazon-earnings-q3-2018.html
Google didn’t respect user wishes before the flag.

DNT by default is the correct behavior because it is desired by most users. When you’re designing software and you have options for a white background or black background and 75% of your users prefer black then that should be the default, everything else remaining equal.

Tracking is definitely an “opt in” behavior, not “opt out.”

This is just Google being dishonest. Although pretty minimal since they track and always say this dumb stuff how people want “personalized ads.” They know it’s not true, but it’s sort of a white lie and we get awesome, usually, functionality.
So, like the hardest thing uber has done, I think? is that they've convinced local governments to not enforce taxi regulations.

I think this was really hard, and I think it might be durable; I mean, I am generally kinda leftish and support a well-regulated market, but I also heavily use ridesharing in a way I never used taxi services.

But, while those things are hard and valuable... they aren't exclusive to uber. I mean, ride sharing services are highly location based; like less than 1% of my uber use is done outside of the bay area (and most of the time, in those cases, I'd be willing to pay taxi rates and deal with taxi inconveniences)

I personally have fantasised about building a ride-sharing federation system, or a ride sharing clearinghouse system; You'd hook up your local ride sharing co-op with my app, which would allow the customer to input source and destination addresses, and then get quotes from all interested providers.

So.. what I'm saying is that while I see a lot of value in what uber built, I don't really see how they can prevent another company from moving in (on a per-market basis) and grabbing up all their customers.

I mean, I already use both uber and lyft with a preference for whichever seemed cheaper last time I checked. That doesn't seem like a business with a lot of room to improve margins.
> It is trivial to prove that anything that a code generator can emit can be translated into something that an interpreter can interpret.

That's not what we are trying to prove, though; we're trying to show that the generated code does not perform certain undesirable operations. this is much harder to do with dynamically generated code than static code.
Based on available public information, the case happened about eight years ago, and Meng was not a top executive at Huawei. At that time there were many companies in China and elsewhere selling US products to Iran. Huawei allegedly sold about 1 million dollar goods for civilian use. The selective law enforcement in this case is rather curious:

Why would the US persecute this particular case so vigorously? Extradition is not very common for crimes of this level of severity.

Why would the US want to have someone physically arrested instead of to punish Huawei with fine and export ban, which are more common for companies violating sanctions?

Why would the US choose to arrest the daughter of Huawei's founder, instead of someone who is more directly involved in the Iran deal?

It is hard to believe this is a case of bad timing. There has been lots of infighting within the Trump administration. Most likely, the hawk fraction intentionally chose to arrest Meng at the time of Trump-Xi meeting in order to undermine a possible trade deal by embarrassing China. Think about what happens if China arrests Tim Cook because Apple didn't pay the right amount of tax in China eight years ago.
This is an important note. Thank you for pointing this out. It seems like a lot of people here are arguing that this study reaffirms prior studies, when in reality I think they were thinking of this study as the one being re-affirmed without realizing it.
My preferred model for describing games is: a simulation of some universe, and a way to interact with it. In such a model, learning a story/plot through interaction (with the simplified simulation) is only natural, and storytelling through direct means in the fashion of books/movies, in a game, is clearly a hack, directly conflicting with the nature of a simulation.

And ofc myst was no innovator in this — environmental/interactive storytelling was well established by interactive fiction (IFs), MUDs, text adventures, etc — but it is the quintessential example for modern video games (but thats not saying much imo, since few modern game developers seem to even believe games actually existed before 1990, let alone learn from them)

And thats not to say that all games fit my described model well (eg asura’s wrath has almost no simulation/interaction at all, but derives decent impact from the qte mechanic) but at the same time, a lot of games that don’t fit the model were doing a job in the wrong medium (the uncharted series has a sufficiently engaging plot [kinda], but it was really just an action/adventure plot told very innefficiently, with a sufficiently engaging but almost totally seperate third-person shooter game interspersed. Both plot/gameplay would have been better served by their own mediums, instead of being composed into an awkward hybrid)
Fair enough. But that doesn't seem to have worked in the US. Maybe in California, I admit. And maybe there's still hope.
Loved myst as a kid. A game I played recently that recreated that sense of wonder and exploration was the Talos Principle. Should definitely try it if you enjoyed the Myst series.
> it's legal for anyone to stalk you - just ask celebrities about their paparazzi stalkers

Yeah, you're talking about human stalkers, but OP's talking about capturing your image with many cameras, logging your presence into databases and sharing that information with other organisations.
If this works for you, good. I think I would be cautious giving this out as advice because you can run into problems this way with regards to different python versions. The activate script uses the python version used to setup the environment.
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Definitely originated from The Simpsons:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg
That is where you get it wrong, because the REPL concept as introduced by Smalltalk and Interlisp-D/Lisp Machines it is exactly what Powershell tries to achieve.

UNIX shells are a poor imitation of it.
Seconding this, I have no idea what this is for.
Agreed, it's comforting to people to think that the universe has order and that everything has a simple explanation. But it does not. The unit of the U.S. government that started this investigation started it long ago.

This is why the seemingly schizophrenic behavior of the government confounds so many people. Various leaders in agencies in the executive branch can't possibly have alternate incentives to the Commander in Chief, therefore it must be a Deep State Conspiracy. The dramatic coincidence of three airplanes crashing into buildings couldn't have been extremely lucky terrorist cells, it had to have been Bush doing 9/11.

People like to consider the U.S. government as a monolith, but this is a poor model. It's more akin to a 1 million core computer, chugging away at parallel tasks, many of which generate race conditions.

It may seems strange to many observers, but the President of the United States has limited power to stop federal prosecutors from doing their job. Just look at the current situation with the attorneys general and the special investigator.
So a couple of Linuxisms not portable across UNIX, which was my point.
> Unfortunately the whole opt-in vs. opt-out is too complicated to be explained in most reporting.

Is it really? Let me try:

You're going down the street while eating some cookies, and suddenly you meet a friend.

Opt-in: A friend sees your cookies, and asks, "Can I have one?"

Opt-out: A friend starts taking and eating your cookies, and says, "Tell me if you want me to stop."
Food diaries are notoriously unreliable as well.
There’s a two part solution-
1) deprecate DNT, add Consent To Track (CTT). Allow users to set to Y. Default is blank or unset.
2) two year testing period to see how sites respect user intent. If sites continue to track when CTT != Y, then enact regulation
It says (aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame potassium, or sucralose).
Using that cursed parody of an interpreter to write an assembler definitely merits extra hero points. :)
I live on a sheep & goat farm. Not sure where your opinion is coming from! We have about 30 of them and they're every one of them very sweet and friendly animals. The sheep are much less likable.
Also crows.
Outdoor cats do okay, the ones I grew up with lived to be 16 and 21. It depends on where you live, what predators they might have to face.
I leave my U2F token in way fewer places than I leave my fingerprints.
Sadly, this is not true. I live in the bay area and most startups here, need you in person for their day of interviews. The industry standard seems to be 1 soft skill/ HR discussion + 1 technical phone screen + 1 day of technical interviews(4-6). And as optimistic as one can be, it's hard to find the right (job + company + people) combo in the first try, since it's hard to judge certain aspects from a HR call and a technical interview which is usually a 45-60min call where most of the time is spent coding. This leads you to interview in-person at places where you might not like the company culture/ team/ leadership/ commute/ etc. It is true that a lot of resources go into interviewing from the company's perspective but it is also pretty much the same for an interviewee.
Not sure how good of a move that is financially, but damn is that a good political move. If he took over the plant in Oshawa, ON he would gain goodwill from all 3 levels of Canadian government.
There's one particular category of question that I've started building up a question set in, in part because the last few coworkers who weren't nearly as useful as you would hope all struggled with it:

Data transformation.

Most of us are at least partly in the business of data transformation. Few of us should be implementing trees (you want coworkers who are informed consumers of data structures, not people who think reimplementing solved problems at work is a reasonable or even sane thing to do).

The simplest one I have is this: Hand them a data structure containing a list of lists, have them generate a list of the grandchildren ordered by some property of the grandchild.

Like take a list of cars or computers grouped by make and model and give me all of the models sorted by price, or by popularity. If that's too simple, filter by another criteria and do a little data cleanup.

I've seen people drop elements, get the order wrong, scope variables too broadly and confuse themselves into grabbing data from a previous iteration, or forget to grab it entirely. And this is exactly the sort of thing that puts your team on the spot for having dumb bugs in production. Not inverting binary trees, or fizzbuzz.
I find the term trade war misleading, its really just countries trying to protect their intellectual property from theft by China. Money made in the skewed trade deals is used to swop debt for equity in failing economies in Africa, South America and Asia. Further, buying of technology companies in developed economies is another way to duplicate the technology in China to achieve global dominance. Don't forget that China has a political objective, its not all trade and fair play
Experiment is a Kickstarter for Science projects ... who knew - that's fascinating.