skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, this is price agnostic, and they are the same patterns they've had when the subway/bus price was 2.25. The remainders, while still more than a couple pennies, were definitely smaller than the current setup. It also allows for the MTA to continue price hiking (ugh) without people ending up with even larger remainders: "I have 2.50 on my card but now it's 2.75!"

What they should have done was update these price points alongside the price change that occurred to keep remainders at or under a dollar. A "fill to the next ride" option could also be a great way to even out the remaining cost.
While this still isn't perfect and screws over tourists (particularly when they removed the 1 day unlimited!), I imagine this is non-issue for the majority of New Yorkers (myself included).

I also imagine there's good reason here. Imagine all the trash that gets created because someone will finish up their metro card completely. The extra $1 fee per new card was likely a newer solution to prevent people from throwing them in the streets or in the subway trench, and providing an odd remainder on the card may have been a historical way to do the same. Imagine, if you had an extra dollar sitting around on your card, you probably would reuse it, and not throw it out.

That said, the fact that anyone can get from Sunset Park to the Bronx Botanical Gardens (a 20+ mile drive) for 2.50 isn't so bad of a deal.
Way to scratch your own itch!
My comment was in response to the headline. I don't think either are.
Batteries above a certain capacity are not allowed.

http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/06/travel-tips-tuesday-safely-packi...
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That's not portable, whereas the "volatile" solution is.
I never knew you could carry a cash balance alongside the unlimited use... This will save me from this incredible annoying situation. Thank you!

Now, just to remember to refill the 5 bucks when I run out of that...

Side note: I never really understood why they don't have MC booths _inside_ the station. My assumption is it's too costly between maintenance, and security when the machine needs to be emptied vs. how much they stand to make from it. But, ever since they introduced the credit/debit only machines, it seems like it could save people a bunch of time when they only realize _after_ they've swiped, that they are out of cash.
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In addition to incentivizing the re-use of cards, there's another good reason no one seems to have pointed out: the MTA needs money to keep the fares as low as $2.50.

They have a history of not making enough money, and everyone in NYC gets in a rage whenever the fare has to be hiked up. So if they're able to make some extra money off of tourists, for the benefit of all the regular New Yorkers, that's fine by me.
I mostly work on procedural generation and simulations. I think I could target gamers (esp. indie gamers) or I could target other demographics. Recent events lead me to be more wary of the game scene than others. There is weird stuff everywhere, but I have encountered as lot more weird stuff in my brushes with gamers than in my brushes with other areas.

Some of it is just a matter of what community I want to be part of. I can make something called "a game" and sell it (or give it away) without worrying too much. But do I want to cultivate the game community as my main community, i.e. write blog posts targeted at gamers, participate in gamer events, etc.? One can only do so many things, so it's nice to pick a community in which one feels comfortable. It's possible I can find a niche within gaming where I enjoy the company and don't feel defensive, but recently I haven't, so I haven't engaged much. When I look at what the people I know who are committed to gaming as a community frequently have to deal with (which is what led to my interest in this topic), I wonder if it's worth it. I went to an interactive-art meetup at a hackerspace and found that community quite welcoming, and have not heard of anyone being "doxxed" or virulently harassed in that community. They might exist, but so far things look alright. Some of what I do could also be sold as just regular old (non-game) AI, and I like the AI community as well (even the "fringe" of AI tends to be eccentric in an interesting way). We'll see how it goes; I may change my mind, but for now I'm leaning towards just saving some angst and choosing another community.
Amazon has tubs for cheap.
You don't need to sign up.

http://manning.com/hochhaus/Meteor_MEAP_CH01.pdf
Oh, geez, I love VICE as well but hadn't seen that kid video before and now I really wish I hadn't. I hope VICE takes it down. Incredibly cringe worthy and not worthy of VICE. Or, at least, I wouldn't have thought it was worthy of VICE before... :(
There's a few comments here that say it only applies to tourists, because the problem is only manifest at the card's end of life: lose the card/stop needing it and that's the point you get shafted for the excess balance. Fingers crossed a resident won't see a card EOL, they'll just top it up over and over, and so it seemingly doesn't apply.

But equating long life with infinite life isn't quite right here. Every card will stop being used some day. If the MTA know with certainty that X proportion of cards do EOL with Y USD on them, then they can safely consider X × Y as earnings and spend it immediately, ergo the moment of first top up is the true moment of shafting. I'd bet good money that the MTA's internal figures record earnings from excess balances by counting cards newly registered, not cards recently expired.

I studied econ at a good school, and I can tell you that an economist would 100% equate this with theft. Because it is.

edit:

This - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274314 - is a very good point. Ensuring cards always have a meaningful balance on them is probably the best way to stop people treating them as disposable (I imagine their cost is non-negligible). If they're given out free, it's clever, but if you have to buy them (like London's Oyster cards) it's even more of a scam. To have a totally clear moral conscience the MTA should really let you return the card and cash out.
Because just free()ing them means anyone calling malloc() can get your password.
Was it really necessary to throw in a rape joke?
Your point? IMO it's an intriguing but completely unproven technology. In contrast, GPUs (a newer technology than quantum computers) waltzed out of the gate with 100x to 1,000x speedups over Pentium IV CPUs barely a decade into their existence.

If D-Wave had shown anything like that, it would be a billion dollar company well on its way to disrupting NVIDIA and Intel in HPC. Instead, after nearly 30 years since the concept and 15 years after D-Wave's founding and ~$100M of VC, it's still just an expensive toy.

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/category/physics/page/4/

All that said, hiring its best loyal opposition to fix that is the smartest thing I've seen Google do in a long time.

And just to end on a positive note, here's a great book on the subject that explains the promise of the technology in great detail:

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-Annive...

And here's another reason perhaps why Google is leaning so hard on this technology:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/quantumrbm.pdf
I feel the same way, but I'll probably buy the 360 anyway. Still debating it with myself. Oddly enough my main issue is the size. I don't want to broadcast, "Look at this nerd" by wearing a huge bulky screen on my wrist. I figure Google is really on Wear 1.0 and the next update is going to address a lot of concerns, especially in regards to battery life. This is still early adopter territory.

My concern is that Apple has the ecosystem to do something dramatic that Androidland simply can't catch up to quickly. I know Apple has been down on the Qi charger system, but they never really talk about wireless charging. In my mind wireless charging and wearables go hand-in-hand. Imagine if your next phone had witricity built-in. It would charge your wearables all day. The battery on your wearable would need to be just big enough to handle occasional disconnects from your phone. Now you've solved the battery problem. Sure, your phone will discharge faster but Apple can add a slightly fatter battery to make up for it.

Meanwhile, the Android guys are all trying to figure out how the heck to build things with strong enough batteries.

Just speculation, but I'm afraid that someone with a clever enough gamechanger is going to rule smartwatches. The first iphone's ultra-smooth OS and touch-screen only really made my Treo look like crap. I'm expecting something on this level here. My best guess is that the Apple device will be ultra simplistic like the Pebble with similar battery life while the Android guys are stuck with Google's wearable vision of yet another smartphone-like device on your wrist. The latter might just not be feasible at this generation of technology. It also doesn't help that Motorola chose an older SoC at a process that will use more energy than the latest SoC's.

My gut feeling is that this thing is like buying the G1. Lots of promise, but you're better off waiting until the next attempt.
Much more informative? Really? You consider the gender of the subject to be that crucial in determining your classification of their character?
So what happens if a network partition occurs where both sides can elect a new leader?
Are you using a modern browser with JS enabled?

EDIT: I'm a derp; your JavaScript must have been enabled since it (partially) rendered the menu screen. Check your plugins, see if there's anything that might conflict with the Construct 2 engine.
The license is to a specific work of software and applies to derivative works of it only.

Naming conventions specified in the software license don't apply to 1) non-software works such as a spec or 2) independently derived software works.

There's a great deal else concerning copyright/trademark confusion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8271548
> I had Firefox 32 (~amd64) within minutes of release, no such luck on my Macbook.

On the other hand, stable apparently still is on Firefox 24 even though the next ESR (which I suppose stable would be tracking), 31, was released in July.

http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/firefox
Army’s New Laser Cannon Blasts Drones Out of the Sky, Even in Fog
Hello. Sorry about the offtopic question. How does one become a robotic engineer. What was you career path/education?
I have the exact same question.

I presume this is for some incremental development work. Like testing and seeing the number of gates/pins used for a design but you need to feed the logic with constant placeholders.
You chopped off my next sentence which was the point of my post.

Anyway, I just did a run around the office and with a sample of 12, I'm tentatively concluding that I have average-size adult male hands. The way I hold my MotoX, I can hit the top left if I have to. (Again--I wonder how often people actually have to, assuming they know to left swipe for the most common use case.)

Investigating more--without realizing it until now, the way I hold the phone I actually adjust my grip on it to hit the far bottom left. I even adjust my grip slightly for the back button. It's still a one handed thing. You train yourself, withing limits, to adjust as needed. (I'm left-handed. Perhaps I should start complaining that no one designs a UI for us.) It's still very usuable and it's not a big sacrifice if you appreciate a bigger screen, like most people apparently do. If people didn't like bigger screens, manufacturers wouldn't be steadily bumping sizes up. I assume the market (i.e., actual sales) will correct the error when they go too big.
Looks like some site is taking preorders for 150 GBP? It's not dirt cheap, considering the Oculus DK2 costs 210 GBP.
Many airlines also wont allow shipments of lithium or things containing lithium batteries on passenger flights. Apparently they have a habit of spontaneous combustion. So shipments of iphones have to be specially packaged and sent on cargo flights.
>companies need to replace their switches.

Actually, most Switches are just fine and don't need replacing.
IPv6 is a Layer 3 Protocol, most "Normal" Switches operate on Layer 2 (The Ethernet Level, which stays the same and (in the best case) does neither know nor care what goes on in Layers above).
These can stay and most wouldn't even need to be reconfigured.

As for Layer 3 Switches (The ones that do some amount of Routing, too), most "brand-name" Models purchased in the last 10 Years should support IPv6.
What could possibly go wrong? It's not like the whole internet as we know it depends at some level of tcp/ip and there's (probably) billions of lines of code depending on it.
Yes, and absolutely yes. Here you go: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
I imagine they'll at least have to support other people's 5K monitors on the Mac Pro, and maybe sell one themselves as a high-end display option. (I assume that 5K will appeal to professionals working on 4K video.)
When I've asked, I was told the only options are what is listed on their website. The suggestion is eCheck, as it's cheapest.

Additional fees (including the common "plus tax" at the store) are a scam and should be abolished. If that were the case, the MTA issue in the article wouldn't matter.
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Thanks for the feedback. I actually know much more about programming than about creating conversions and landing pages, so I am happy to make the site more accessible.

tl;dr
Link is now directly at the PDF for chapter 1.
I'm a little skeptical of the arguments made by this article, even though I really enjoy the enthusiasm behind it. I've been using an unlimited for almost always, so I'll have to verify the refill options at the machines, but I know you can refill your cards with an arbitrary amount at the manned booths.

Also, in conjunction with the good counter-points being made by others here, let's not forget his points rest upon free money. Without that bonus, he'd be a dollar short, not 5 cents. In fact, with option 3 (the $39 one), he literally received an extra subsidized ride. $39/2.5 is 15.6 => 15 rides. But with the free bonus he is able to take his 16th ride.

I suspect this has more to do with poor UI, than anything else. Take a look at the Citibike UI if you're not an annual member. You will have less hair after having used it. Makes the MTA one seem glorious.
http://archive.today/xbbhf

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jUqSHE3...
The recent GamerGate demonstrations do touch on all of these, actually. But it's not a centralized or particularly focused effort, at the end of the day. It's really the messy culmination of all the outrage over corruption in gaming journalism that people kept their mouths shut over, and all of it finally exploding. Multiple subcultures intersect in the whole ordeal.

Actually, the Quinn scandal was instrumental in people opening their eyes about one thing. Namely, that it's not only large corporate media behind this. Even independent media isn't safe or trustworthy, and both is corrupted, but in different ways. Independent media is more likely to foster nepotism, cronyism and lying by omission/censorship, whereas the big shots, having major access to publishers and trade shows, can obviously go further.

It has also caused a lot of people to re-analyze these people's intentions and revisit previous incidents, which in light of new information, no longer seem as clear cut. Just because one is an underdog (and that's quite relatively speaking, anyway) does not make them righteous.

Actually, many people already knew that there's lots of corruption going on at major writers. This is why so many gamers went to indie media, but then they realized that nothing is safe. The outrage is that ultimately, all of it is the same: passive clickbait supposed to milk attention. But now there's nepotism, too. It's the outrage from now knowing that there's no one who represents your side in the media, and that people who are only interested in gaming from a surface level are holding major positions.

Finally at the risk of setting a fire, it wasn't a simple matter of a "blogger's personal sex life". The implications were wider reaching into the aforementioned nepotism.
This can't happen. You can't devide a cluster in half and still have a majority. See my other post.
I'm sorry, the unlimited time limit? Can you explain that, please?
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> What would a better alternative be for `var self = this` ?

function foo(){};
setTimeout(foo.bind(this),1000);

That being said, I'm not entirely crazy about that method as well.
I was saying Italy as I'm Italian and by comparison with the parent comment on India. How "close" and what specifically to change is a good question... My requirement as a user would be that I should be inspired by the celebrity that I'm seeing, but I shouldn't feel like I'm copying his style. No idea on how to be more specific, beside doing a test.

Also, by reading other comments, I wouldn't be too strict in finding too cheap matches. Men that like fashion have no problem spending money. (but again, maybe it's just a cultural thing.)
The system being implemented on the commuter trains in Southern Ontario Canada allow for riders to set a "default exit", so when a user doesn't tap-off, the system assumes that's where they got off the system.
The tank treads are sprung, so I think it actually just sucks the sole plate onto the ground rather than the tracks.
> to get the "deposit" back, you need a proof of address,

That's only for registered cards. Which makes perfect sense, because they're registered to an address to prevent people stealing them and returning them for cash
MTA does both. Serious question: what difference does it make? I have a hard time understanding the outrage here.
Isn't this why Pawn Shops exist? In most states, pawn shops can't charge over 4% interest on a loan so the interest doesn't compile nearly as fast as a payday loan place.

The only issue is not having something that gives you enough collateral to get the loan in the first place.
Or intense porpoises:

http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/phocoena-intensus
I won't say what you should or shouldn't do, but I can give you a few reasons to care:

First, to clarify, it's not innguest's moral problem; it's a quandary at the intersection of ethics and politics. If you care about ethical questions at all, this one's meaty: it tugs at the threads of social organization, sanctioned force, individual liberty, international law, and capitalism.

Second, innguest has rationally advocated a position; that's reason enough for me, at least, to pause and consider.

Third, if you're in the US, you have something directly at stake in this argument. Sure, the politics may already be decided on party lines, favors, and lobbying, but as the citizenry we owe it to ourselves to form a coherent political philosophy to serve as the yardstick informing us just how bad the government's decisions are.

Fourth, there should be a huge bar to clear for any party looking to impose invasive rules on someone else using the hand of government. The folks writing the laws are almost uniformly not subject matter experts; they act in self-interested ways that are well known; any proposal will be highly adulterated by the time it passes; any new law becomes a precedent for the next; and unknown consequences are rife, particularly with rights and the economy. I'd be highly critical of anyone willing to advocate this without deeply considering all facets, including innguest's points.

And finally, while morals are of course subjective, they should at least be held to the standards of justifiability and internal consistency; I don't believe this net neutrality push meets those requirements. If government enforces this on cable companies, can it determine which products Walmart carries, and which go on the prized middle shelves? Maybe it's only for monopolies, though...but then, I have no fewer than 4 choices to get Internet to my house, so it's not a monopoly. Unless it's only service of a particular quality. Who sets the quality requirements? And should the provider really not have the ability to charge more for heavier usage of the pipes? You pass something like this, you better have answered all of those and literally hundreds of others, and guaranteed that in every law where that happens, most of the answers are arbitrary.
Meanwhile: https://archive.today/8AvSA
Apartment rental companies in the US don't usually accept wire transfers (which is crazy itself), but they usually accept checks, and fortunately you can write an exact amount on a check.
It's not even that it 'understands' memset, more likely that the memset call is almost immediately inlined into your code making it obvious what's going on.
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Probably--but probably not for the reason you're implying. In both cases, it's likely just how things ended up by reason of the various paths they took to get to where they are today.
Serious question: why are you assuming cards EOL with balance on them more frequently now than when they had rounded amounts?
> I distinctly remember a scenario in GTA which was not sandbox: two men are beating and raping a woman on the side of the road and you can either stop them or watch. There was no connection between this and the game's story

I don't recall that scene, but I haven't played all the GTA games. But it seems very much connected to the feel that GTA series generally sought to convey of the lead character being immersed i, and struggling to make a way through, a world in which the worst elements of society were omnipresent.

Art depicting a world in which misogyny exists is not, ipso facto, misogynistic.
Does anyone have any advice on articles about C compiler optimizations in general (especially gcc)? I'm doing my first serious C work in ten years, and I keep wondering if I should fuss with things like this or let the compiler handle it all:

foo->bar->baz[i].oof = foo->bar->baz[i].durb + meep;

vs

what *tmp = foo->bar->baz[i];
tmp->oof = tmp->durb + meep;

EDIT: I'm not asking for a link to this:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html

I'm asking if there is advice about it. Any overviews with common pitfalls, advice on when to use -O1 vs -O2, specific optimizations to turn on/off, etc.
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Summary for those too lazy to get past the NYT paywall:

>The company said it would add alerts to tell people about activities that could be signs of a break-in.

>Customers will receive push notifications when someone tries to change the password for their iCloud account, upload their backed-up account data to a new device or log into their accounts for the first time from an unknown device, the company said. The notifications will be added in two weeks.

>In the past, Apple customers were receiving emails only when someone changed their account password or logged in from a new device. They received no notification or email when someone loaded an iCloud backup onto another device.