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> Racklog is not really Prolog - like the title says it's "Prolog-style" logic programming.

You can write Racklog with the Prolog syntax as well though.[0]

> So, with Prolog/Racklog, you get a database, plus an inference engine with all the power of the first-order predicate calculus. With SQL, you get a database.

That might be true for most Prolog implementations, but Racklog doesn't have a database (and that was what I was whinging about).

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/Racklog_Module_Language...
I don't think you're appreciating the penetration that Fortnite has. PUBG may have come first, but Fortnite has 10x the players.
Other cities offer one way tickets to CA cities to get rid of their homeless.
It's encountered daily. Maybe if you live in one part that lacks it and stay there, then maybe, but quite unlikely especially if you take transit.
Compared to Fortnite, 50 million isn't that much.
A Minecraft mod seems to get credit for being the first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game
Popper and the paradox of tolerance have nothing to do with it because we aren't talking about fascists angling to march on Washington DC to burn down the Library of Congress. We're talking about people who may have made a careless remark, or have quirky ideas, or disagree with the overall bent of the arc of history.

Neo-fascism is a real phenomenon that kills real people and Patreon doesn't want to be associated with people who have that stink on them.
There is a big push to pursue your passion, which could become a trap.

Mike Rowe has a different angle: "Don't Pursue Your Passion. Chase Opportunity."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NT1i26RbrhM

Not sure I fully agree, but I appreciate the different perspective
Fire Fight! That's a blast from the past. I remember being amazed by how cool it looked and felt to play when I was 12 or 13.
The one that got me was trying to pair an ODBII dongle with a the default Ubuntu bluetooth stack. It's one of the kinds with a fixed PIN you have to use to pair (1234), but the Bluetooth stack insisted on generating a 6 digit code and have me somehow punch it in on a device with zero buttons/switches.

It was annoying, but I figured there must be some commandline utility where I can force the other behavior right? If there is I still have no idea where or what it is. I found some utilities, but they have among the worst documentation I've ever seen for a Linux utility. Just a list of the commands that require options, with no description of the options that I can find no an explanation of what they do. It was kind of surprising because I've become accustomed to stuff just kind of working these days. To have something so broken is a bit shocking.
> Nobody cares how long it takes to train a model.

This isn't true. It depends on your priorities and goals. Machine learning that spends most of its time unable to learn is not real AI. Some of us are interested in sample and energy efficient learning capable of on-line incremental updates immune to catastrophic forgetting. Not just because this is truer to actual learning but because it moves away from being dependent on a handful of companies to do the actual training.

Anticipating some replies: no, transfer learning or meta-learning methods don't really avoid this. In the case of transfer learning, you still have that high coupling between a handful of sources. The down-sides of this is its own discussion. In addition, there are times where the ability to extract local relations can be dulled by the dominant wikipedia and common-crawl representations. Meta-learning gets you fast updates but you still cannot stray too far away from the domains that were met at training time.

> What matters is prediction speeds

I'm not a fan of bag of words models either but a simple dot product is always going to be faster than many matrix multiplies and or convolutions. The implementor should always try these as a base-line and decide if the performance accuracy trade-off is worth it for them.
Oh, sure. That thing would have to be a tank to survive gigging.
Growing tech companies are valued at 20x revenue. Mature companies aren't. Epic was in trouble and managed one hit, that revenue isn't guaranteed to last, hence the conservative valuation.
There is zero reason for whaling in Japan beyond the governments desire to protect a dying industry and a political need to look strong to conservative / right wing / nationalist voters. I have spent a considerable amount of time in Japan (collectively nearly 3 years) and visit once a month for work. None of my Japanese friends or colleagues will eat whale. They find the whole thing silly and feel the industry should just end. Their collective ages are between 30 to 70 and they represent a good cross section of backgrounds. This is a nitch right wing issue.
If anyone is in Norway and is good with Java or C# I might be able to get you an interview somewhere that has good managers. Email should be in my profile.
> Of course it is problematic that land owners are actually rewarded for their wealth

No, they are rewarded for playing along with whatever scheme's currently running. Stop trying to demonize them.
I always saw it as inspired by the Hunger Games, which in turn captured the zeitgeist of the post-2001 and post-2008 society.
See: substratism
I think Brendan’s mod came out ~2015 and Sa-Matras came out around 2013 which, itself is an adaptation of another mod. Please correct me if I am wrong. Not to say any of this is really new or original. As I recall there is an Arma 2 wasteland mod that came out before Arma 3:
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/134450-arma2ru-waste...
In my experience, the tradition argument doesn’t carry too much weight in Norway - local sentiment (I live within spitting distance of three whaling vessels’ home port) is more that whale meat is tasty (and, historically, much more accessible than other meats, as dairy farming is somewhat of an extreme sport on these small islands we call home) and also, whaling is more profitable than most other forms of marine harvesting, never (to the best of my knowledge) having received subsidies &c - it is commercially viable.
Creating hot water is much easier and much cheaper. You run a copper or stainless steel pipe with water, paint it matte black, and put it in an enclosure with a transparent side. The sun will hear it up. It's quite popular in Greece and Italy.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D24NWW/solar-hot-water-glass-tube-...
Hem no, it's about sharing multimedia contents... But since the OP cite many cloud services... That's at least decentralized and essentially FOSS.
Legalization means non-leo intervention such as medical intervention and crises counseling. LEOs aren't interested in drug users because all they can do is arrest them which fixes nothing.

The issue with the legalization approach is lack of intervention infrastructure to help them.
Do you have any interest in how we structure our societal laws and standards? Or do you prefer the laissez fairy approach to morality?

Edit: meant to say laissez-faire but I prefer fairy
I don't agree.

If my password for <random_consumer_service> gets compromised, the attacker can not login at <random_consumer_service> due to the 2FA. To 'defeat' the 2FA, the attacker must also know my email address, and password, and have access to the 2FA of my email account.

Your email inbox is a SPOF to most services you use, if it's compromised, you are fubar anyway. That cannot be the responsibility of the creator of <random_consumer_service>.
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I use https://lyfepedia.com, which I am developing.
> the obviously correct thing to do is for the computer to disable MCAS and put up a warning light.

The only problem with that is that problems rarely happen isolation, and you have to consider whether the pilots are going to notice the warning in the midst of several others and if they are going to give it the appropriate priority and consideration while flying.

> Think of how a human would react

That's exactly it, though.. look at Air France 447. The system automatically disabled itself and put the plane into an "alternative law." All automatically. The pilots did _not_ notice this, and still flew the plane into the ocean even though they had several minutes to work the problem.

It's not that simple.

> Even applying the stick shaker is confusing to the pilots and dangerous.

All evidence to the contrary. The stick shaker is an amazing safety device because it demands priority of consideration. It's not going to get lost in the noise of a degrading cockpit. Seriously, go listen to some cockpit voice recorders of a disaster.. it's never what you would expect.
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Let's call it for what it is: poor planning and management by both the state and local government and some of the world's biggest companies which have absolutely failed at anything resembling civic duty.

There needs to be proper leadership that understands how people live and work to build a city that can cater to everyone outside of the upper/middle class at major companies.
Using this in a disaster recovery situation is one possibility I've considered, since these are increasingly parts that people have on hand or that are much easier to get distributed.
Is anybody else bummed how Fortnite's success has drawn development away from the new Unreal Tournament? I don't care about Fortnite, I just want UT to continue to be updated. I don't think it's had an update since June.
Because after Brexit there won't be any medicine.
"Gamers deserve better"? What is that supposed to mean?
Sci-fi

- Ready Player One

- Pattern Recognition

- Burning Chrome

- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

- Hyperion

- A Fire Upon The Deep

Technical (backend development + security)

- HTTP: The Definitive Guide

- RESTful Web Services

- Designing Data Intensive Applications

- Web Scalability for Startup Engineers

- The Art of Software Security Assessment

- The Web Application Hacker's Handbook

- A Philosophy of Software Design

- Clean Architecture

- The Go Programming Language

- Refactoring (new 2nd edition)

- Algorithm Design Manual

- Cracking The Coding Interview

I'll definitely be able to get through all the sci-fi novels, but not the technical stuff. At minimum I need to go through the technical interview prep books, refactoring, and designing scalable applications.
In a sense, they did, but:

1) The new project was massively less interesting to me than the one I was solving (a completely different field with skills I didn’t possess - think moving from hardcore low level system scalability to designing a new type of UI widget, for example), and I tried to make that as clear as possible without undermining management or jeopardizing my job safety.

2) The project was just 80% completed, whereas I like bringing things to production myself, and handle all the maintenance and support. Especially the things that I design and lead from scratch.
It’s strictly cultural. Every grocery store in Switzerland sells horse cold-cuts.
Well my hope is that something can be learned about this difference. As I said I don't want to take away from the fact it's a problem in all cities no matter how large. Rather, I want to understand what is causing differences in perception and is there a difference in regulation or response that causes this.

Seems that I've seen shelter rates brought quite a bit in the last 5 minutes, and I'm currently investigating these differences. I hope homelessness gets solved for every city of course.
> hard to imagine lots of new OSes springing up, they take a lot of care and feeding

I imagine the OS inside the Tamagotchi toy would be the prime example.
Yes, we should legalize drugs like meth. We need to bring "hard" drug use "into the light". That's the whole idea behind safe injection sites - doctors can monitor the opioid user for respiratory depression, and have an opportunity to convince them to enroll in some sort of program. (disclaimer: I'm not GP)
Quite interesting to see (single) Westerners moving to Asia to find happiness, all the while here I'm born in India but had moved to the West to find independence and opportunities. Right now I'm looking towards achieving a balance: get dual passport and live 1/4th of the year in India and the rest in Canada (including other countries).

Works well for me as I prefer, and am happy, to be single.
Finally reading Goedel Escher Bach.
CORS is not a tool to turn resources private, but to protect the browser (not the server's content) from cross domain requests.
I remember using netbeans around 15 years ago as a java IDE. Since then I changed it to eclipse which I also changed to Intellij Idea.

I wasn't aware that netbeans was still developed! Is anybody using it as his primary java (or other lang) IDE? How is it compared with Intellij Idea and friends? How resource hungry is it?
Can you elaborate on what this means? I'm not too familiar with authentication flows. Why would someone make a request over port 80? Why is that bad?
copies not dollars
50 million copies, not $50 million. Assuming an average selling price of $30 and a 30% storefront cut, that’s about $1 billion in revenue.
Typical IBM marketing > reality
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Would love to know your current org-mode setup and workflow.
Money’s short, times are hard, here’s your Brexit Christmas card
I agree with your point but a funny thing about this list is that I can think of earlier games in the genre for both FPS and RTS off the top of my head. Dune 2 is the earliest RTS that I'm aware of and Wolfenstein is probably the earliest example of an FPS. I'd say this probably strengthens your point rather than weakening it.
That's an interesting point. Has taxing IP ever been investigated and/or implemented? What were the conclusions?
I think you're really reaching here in describing this as a lie. Their products are unique. They designed them themselves and no one else is manufacturing and selling exactly the same thing. They even have a completely unique feature set (folding + triwheels), which is more than you can say for most products.
Huh? LoL is blatantly P2W, they sell two kinds of in-game advantages.
Also worth pointing out that PUBG uses unreal, so Epic Games makes money off the royalties AND gets visibility into the PUBG sales data. It's very likely that seeing those numbers made Epic Games shift focus.
IME this is not typical (on supported hardware) but even on supported-but-not-ootb hardware, a couple of hours for 2-3 years of service does not seem unreasonable to me.

It's more than Windows (sometimes) but not outrageous.
It's changing rapidly, though. In 1997, 29% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, it's less than 9%. Stunning, but true.

Or to put it another way... 50 years ago, people lived like that in Scotland. They don't anymore. Who's to say that places in the world that live like that today won't be as successful as Scotland has been in putting poverty behind them?
I'm using a selfmade system atm as as excuse to learn the subject for a MEAN app, but I would use OKTA or some similar service if I was 'playing for keeps.' Just boring client side sessions using Mozilla's client-sessions library with bcrypt for passwords.

I'm finding it hard to get information above the 'follow these steps to use this library' level, yet beneath 'here's how to make a cryptosystem from scratch'. I'm about to read some RFCs unless I find a better intro resource.
1.	Bad Blood, John Careyou

2.	Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

3.	The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

4.	Zero to one Peter Thiel

5.	The republic – Plato

6.	The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz

7.	The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd Kindle Edition

8.	Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

9.	Never split the difference

10.	The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Hardcover

11.	The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

12. Economy course: https://www.core-econ.org/
The failure on overflow is weird.

Since it starts at a random point and can't overflow, even if you generate a small number of IDs per millisecond you have a constant 1/2^79 chance of failing. The chance is small but reachable for a large network. (bitcoin does 2^88 hashes a day)

It could have just wrapped with no problem, because there's no possible node that could generate 2^80 IDs by itself. And if you have multiple nodes it doesn't help there either.
> However, SF brands itself as the city of the future, innovation, and progress. Because it is the epicenter of the worlds technology startup scene.

I think what you describe are mostly business-related things. As an outsider, SF’s brand is about [mostly young] people claiming their opportunity to make a lot of money. None of the branding I see is about improving wellbeing.

If something is wrong, I think it must be more general, perhaps that money and wellbeing aren’t so coupled. But unless SF is totally misrepresenting its brand to me, I’m not seeing any contradiction in its brand.
I can change my PIN through online banking site, just requires SMS password as confirmation. In fact that's how I set initial PIN when activating a new card. Never tried doing that in ATM.
> “scandel”

Is this a reference that I’m not picking up on?
Sorry you're right, but 50 million copies is not much either, when compared to Fortnite.
social. 3 out of 7 pre nominated contacts.

you have to do some diligence to ensure the contacts aren’t all the same person, decide if they (or some minimum) have to also be 2FA, prompt the user from time to time to confirm the list, etc.

ps. this is called the recovery problem and is indeed the hardest part of 2fa. if you can punt entirely, eg like github, you can save yourself 95% of the grief of supporting 2FA
In some Bay Area counties, college grads have higher unemployment
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yes UHT milk has not preserves the good natural taste, but ESL technology has and it also has 21-28 day life time.
> ... could have been owed to depression, instead of the cause of it?

It's a viscous cycle, absolutely. For me it was DEFINITELY lack of sleep as one of the primary instigators of my depressive episodes. Lack of sleep was both a symptom and a cause of my depression. But, I know this: Getting more sleep and living well would have solved a LOT of my problems. LACK OF SLEEP was the thing to conquer, not this vague ennui I was dragging around like Christ on the cross.

I went to school at night and worked 40 hours a week through college. I would stay up late so I could have SOME AMOUNT of free time that was not occupied by work or school. This would lead me to getting really behind on my sleep, leading to poor performance at work and at school, and on and on. Graduating and finally going to bed at a decent time is what REALLY helped me get on the right track.

The research is very clear here: Sleep is absolutely an essential part of your life, and you forgo it at your own peril. I know it's "cool" in the hacker world to stay up super late and work on code all night, but in my personal experience: The code they write at 2am will have to be rewritten by your college who got enough sleep that night. And going into work worthless the next day is not an equal trade-off.
The article referenced there is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18762665
The order in video games, as far as I can make it was:

Minecraft (hunger game mod) > DayZ/H1Z1 > PUBG > Fortnite

At each step, the genre grew by 1 or 2 orders or magnitude. So while Fortnite is by far the largest BR game now, if you look at the log-graph, they each had an almost equal impact on getting to where we are today and are an important part of the genre's history.
I was into Vipassana meditation.

I warn anyone getting into meditation. It leads to dissociation (an extreme form of everyday withdrawal from emotions) which creates the illusion that one is "happy" or "not bored".

PM me if you'd like discuss more but can't be bothered to do it publicly for fear of opprobrium from other meditators. :-P
I understood it as "people who like this genre deserve a game that is not crap"
How does first strike become possible even with hypersonic ballistic weapons? I thought the US had enough sub launched ballistic missiles to provide the retaliation needed.

And, while it might be a problem with the current START treaty, wouldn't we negotiate a new one with those new capabilities in mind? New START is up for renewal in the 2020s.

Finally, in light of MAD, isn't the optimal solution for Russia, faced with decades of US work "to develop, test and prepare for deployment of a missile defense system", to have enough weapons systems to keep the US from doing a first strike, while not having enough for the US to worry about Russia doing a first strike? That is, why should they want the system to "become widely deployed"?
Not just drawn development away, but they are no longer developing it.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/development-stopped-unr...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Especially the flamebait kind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770963 also breaks the site guidelines. If you could please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
It's almost certainly the other way around since Battle Royale was published in 1999 and the Battle Royale film came out in 2000. Both probably take some inspiration from Lord of the Flies
Study: marketers question effectiveness of retargeting ads
Replace Gamers with "Customers", and better with "a competitive marketplace, instead of a monopoly".
CenturyLink outages nation wide, may last 48 hours
I assume it's also easier to live in a car in LA than SF or NY
This release doc looks like it was written by a cheap tech magazine in the early nineties... which i think is fitting, but oh well.

E.g. I do not care much if I can mount/umount drivers with a right click, but i do care about filesystem supports etc.
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I'm assuming the opposite: bag-of-words is the go-to baseline, but as another commenter pointed out, just separating instances based on vocabulary is not sufficient in today's sophisticated text classification problems.
I think it's hard for gamers to really appreciate what Fortnite is. It's a whole new thing, that's never happened before. It's bigger than Pacman, Pokemon, Mario, Tetris, Angry Birds, etc.

My brother, a college football player, plays it. My sister, an Instagram addict and high schooler, plays it on her phone while shopping at, I dunno, Forever 21 I guess.

This is new, and worth paying attention to.
I'd say on average anyone who is concerned enough about their security to turn on an optional 2FA feature is also going to have 2FA enabled on their email as well. If I were only allowed to have 2FA enabled on a single account, it would be a very difficult decision between my password manager and my email. As you point out, email access is the key to the kingdom. Also, the only password that I do not put in my password manager is my email account password.
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I'm surprised it made so much money. The game is free. Do people really pay much for the skins/characters?
MS released the source code for version 1.1a of this application:

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-word-for-wind...

(You can find copies scattered around GitHub and elsewhere too.)
Requests sent to port 80 will (usually) be unencrypted HTTP traffic, hence revealing the secret token to anybody listening in between the client and the server. Someone may accidentally send an HTTP request either by typo or lack of knowledge.