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Computers and the internet have changed chess in several ways:

(1) Online game databases have made it easier for players to track developments in opening theory and prepare to play specific opponents

(2) Chess engines add to this be used to search for antidotes to complicated opening systems

(3) Young players have greater access to high-quality sparring partners - either engines or fellow humans on online servers.

This has lead to the best players becoming younger, and players playing more varied and less 'sharp' openings.
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I thought this was pretty well known
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
They didn't claim CFAA on us (PadMapper), and there was definitely no ruling on it (all parties settled). Just for the record.
But $5/year is so cheap you can easily get one-man-shops to buy into it and you might even get people that don't use the product but want to follow the project to subscribe.
I know this is a semi-joke, but it's worth discussing. While such people are less smart than average or have a deficiency in their education or both, unless you're talking about mentally handicapped people with a medical diagnosis, all normal humans have a conscience, are capable of reasoning, can understand complex symbols, can entertain complex thought, are very good pattern matching machines, can speak natural language and can learn and acquire new skills, which makes them intelligent.

I know the kind of people you're talking about. I have a family member like that. She's not that smart, she failed her baccalaureate, she's semi-illiterate and she probably suffers from ADHD, though a lot has to do with her upbringing. But getting answers like that from such a person means that you're not asking the right questions or the incentive to answer is not there. Give a cash reward to a cash-strapped person and you will never get an answer like "im so bored this test sux".
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I've been using Tor to read HN.

Each time I open Tor HN asks me to prove I'm legit by solving a CAPTCHA. No biggie, that's a small price to pay to read your favorite website.

Once you start clicking on stuff to read on HN though, you get more CAPTCHAs. Not from HN but probably from Cloudflare, like CAPTCHAs from medium.com. You even get them from jobsites under /jobs.

The irony of it all is the CAPTCHA asks you to check a box that reads "I'm not a robot."

What's the way forward? Does permanently having privacy equal permanently acting like a robot?
I've never used Slack before, but I'm surprised only 25% of people see it as a distraction. I understand its appeal versus email (Paul Graham wrote about reinventing email in his "Frighteningly Ambitious Startups" essay) but does it really increase productivity? What about for engineering teams?
Is passive investing hurting the economy?
I think I've decided to take a different approach...

I want to know what I can do to be inline with the rest of the industry. I think it makes sense to propose this as a question to my boss(es) after highlighting my accomplishments, etc.

At least, if they respond: "You'll never make that much money" - then I know where I stand. And this way, they know that I'm currently sizing myself up to the rest of the averages out there.
This really sounds like a "theoretical" best. Practically this sounds like a huge burden on developers.
Yeah, those scores/features are huge. There are lots of great detail around schools that many people just don't know about.

If you can showcase that, your website could be a really powerful resource!
That's the dream of liberal economics, but it hasn't panned out over hundreds of years. If there are incentive structures that automatically align with "the right thing" (whatever that messy concept is), they aren't what we have today.
Does it feel to anyone else like they are procrastinating on modules? C++ has been thinking about it for a very long time. Yet the actual result is a generic "soon."
I was going to say something similar but I gave up. Just adding, anecdotally, I've never met a company that won't let you expense less than the receipt amount so haven't needed to do the refund thing. But I'm sure they exist.
The enforcement focus for the FAA seems to be changing, though. The new FAA administrator has stated that they will move from the punishment-focused enforcement to a "standards compliance" focus, where education and training can be a more effective tool than just enforcement. Seems like a promising change.

See e.g. http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/201...
That's why the situation with computer-driven cars right now is so strange to me. Even if they're not free of flaws yet, they seem demonstrably much better drivers than humans already, because humans are so bad at it. But everything seems to be proceeding very slowly and cautiously, even though the number casualties from accidents warrants the opposite.
Pat, thanks. I was just hoping maybe there was something out there. The theme I am using is horrible in terms of performance. It serves up 1.8MB on desktop and 1.8MB on mobile. There are a ton of optimizations I could make with media queries and compression. For now, I have been just slicing it up into standard html/template pieces.
Note that this approach isn't just useful for microservices - it's a great way to monitor any complex system, even if it's a monolith.
And there is "DataDag" once :)
I agree with what you say, but disagree with what I think you mean.

Weaker players are more inconsistent. Someone else says Lee-plus-two stones beats Ke. I don't think me-plus-two-stones dominates someone who beats me 8:2.

So with weaker players, 8:2 is consistent with a wider range of skill gaps (measured in handicap stones). It's consistent with one player being only a little better, and it's consistent with one player being a lot better.

With two of the best players in the world, 8:2 isn't consistent with more than two stones difference between them.

So in this case, 8:2 rules out a lot of possible skill gaps, which does say a lot; in the same way that "beats me 8:2" says a lot more than "beats me 10:0".

(Alternatively we can measure skill gaps in points. Games between weak players will often be decided by tens of points. Games between strong players will be decided by a handful. 8:2 between Lee and Ke suggests their points gap is smaller than between two amateurs who get 8:2.)
The tool which is used in reality to find performance problems, unlike BigO, which is used in theory to find performance problems.

Sorry, but this is just wrong.

I can guarantee you that BigO is very often used not "in theory", but in practice, to find real-world performance problems. And not having "situational awareness" of certain commonly occurring complexity profiles can be a significant source for performance headaches and technical debt.

One trivial-seeming, but frequently occurring example: not knowing when to use hash maps.

In fact, many people solve performance problems (including both those where order-of-magnitude performance really is the most important factor, and various other kinds) not by using a profiler but by, you know, understanding the code and thinking about it. Being as profilers, while they can tell you a lot about certain kinds of performance issues, are still generally quite limited in what they can tell you.

Is it the silver bullet people seem to think it is? No.

Of course not, and I've never heard anyone saying that it was, either.
I've heard something similar with safety products on cars. Alert systems that warn you about things in your blind spot or potentially rear-ending someone causes people to be less aware/more relaxed than they should be.
Awesome. It'd be a huge value if you can really help parents understand the scores and how to interpret them instead of giving a flat result with no explanation.
Using a novel index, which combines hashes with linked-list, it is possible to gain the same complexity O(n) when traversing the whole graph.

Index-free adjacency is an implementation detail - with drawbacks:

If you store the vertices at each node as list of direct pointers, then traversing all neighbors has complexity O(k), if a vertex has k edges. Note that this is the best possible complexity because O(k) is the size of the answer. Deleting a single edge also has the same complexity of O(k) (assuming a doubly linked list), which is much worse.

Furthermore, usually one will want to be able to traverse edges in both directions, which makes it necessary to store direct pointers on both vertices that are incident with an edge. A consequence of this is that deleting a supernode is even worse: To remove all incident edges one has to visit every adjacent vertex – and perform a potentially expensive removal operation for each of them.

In general, a graph database is “a database that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges and properties to represent and store data” (Wikipedia) – independent of the way the data is stored internally.
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The Unreconstructed M, by Philip K. Dick: https://books.google.com/books?id=R7rALwfN6pYC&pg=PA117&lpg=...
Pretty sure that the post you're responding to meant "vitamin supplements."
Ok, we'll s/Java/Oracle JDK/ above.
A readme that explains your project would go a long way.
This seems so obvious, but then I was surprised when I inherited a team that this wasn't happening on.

As companies grow, they need to provide regular cadences for communicating. Some of it is group meetings or emails. Some of it is one on one. This is especially true for coaching.
Or if you like the idea of using a graph database developed by a secretive organisation full of geniuses dedicated to collecting and organising the world's information, but would rather it was public-sector, there's Gaffer:

https://github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/Gaff...
In other news, there is now a stable Microsoft operating system I could use on my computer.

If they ported Windows to it, they could probably make a solid Wayland/KDE competitor.
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Even given all that MSFT has been more antagonistic to Linux in the past. Ballmer was not even CEO when the halloween docs we released, I find it difficult to believe, that Ballmer is the sole cause of MSFTs anti OSS positions.

TBH I agree with you on most points, but calling linux users who have mac hardware hypocrites is a stretch given MSFT's track record.
Moving past the nerve gas or explosive payloads, it would be rather easy to equip tasers or other non-violent riot measures on a swarm of micro drones.

Like a swarm of wasps that can be targeted and controlled.
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Weather forecasts generated using sensors in smartphones.

We use both crowdsourced reports of the current weather conditions and barometric pressure data from iPhones to create more accurate and local weather forecasts.
I've found digit to be quite useful :)
You have those two links backwards...
If you're giving copies to other people, that's distribution, which is dicey, but if you're making copies for your own use, that's reproduction, which is fine.
What the author specifies in the article all makes sense. There's one important thing missing, however- any evidence to support his argument.

I didn't see a single data point that indicates that commercial aircraft are less safe than they were at any previous point in time. With more flights taking off now than 40 years ago and avoidable crashes occurring due to pilot error being few and far between, this seems like nothing more than a guy with an opinion pontificating on a blog as he gazes out his window.
I've had really good bosses, but every time a one-on-one comes up, I get nervous. I've been laid off in one-on-one meetings in the past. I've also had to make split decisions without properly evalutating it, like tell my manager who to lay off, before.

I'm also not perfect, so every time one of those meetings comes up I start wondering if something I did that wasn't perfect is going to come up and I'm about to get a stern talking to, even though more often than not the one-on-ones go well.

If I really had a problem that I wanted a resolution on, I'd knock on my managers door and talk to him when I was ready to talk to him about it. I usually don't bring those things up in one-on-ones, so they haven't been terribly useful to me.

So generally, I get really nervous before the meeting, and relax again afterwards. I don't know if I'd get rid of them entirely, but I wish they were less frequent.
Before you become honest, make sure you understand the politics of your team. I worked with a 40 something obese, single, just plain miserable neckbeard who got off on hazing new employees. I mentioned this in the one on one to our manager and the day after, both manager and neckbeard conspired to make my life hell. And they won, I resigned.
Paper tissues? Copious amounts of water? I just peel them with my hands and quickly rinse my fingers with a couple teaspoons of water... How do you peel oranges?
I dropped a glass bottle of something restricted. Dr prescribed another one for me, but the insurance company told the pharmacy, "no" and the pharmacy wouldn't dispense after that. Even with me paying the full price.

I'm still a little steamed to think about it. They received both prescriptions from my doctor and made made a medical decision to withhold based upon the word of the insurance company which should not have been a party to the second purchase. I couldn't get the prescription back either, since it was sent directly to the pharmacy.

I have always had a chuckle thinking about what would happen if the government called the medical marijuana supporters claims out and legalized it. I think it would become a pill with none of the high and turn into something quite boring.
Explanation: this is a follow up on Keith Cirkel's series of articles about using just NPM as a build system, and I decided to take this madness to an absolute level.

Start with a single package.json and end up with a ready single-post web page in less than 2 minutes... of course, if you already have a post formatted in Markdown. :)

Surge.sh deployment included.
Please read the court document and evaluate PCRM's position on its own merit. Frankly, I find AHA and others' behavior outlined there to be morally abhorrent and worthy of discussion.

I definitely understand your skepticism, but in this case, your doctor may also be poorly informed - see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430660/
> I know it does sound a bit bad, but Python 3 is only now catching up.

Catching up as in PyPy's support for it or as in adoption of the language?
I knew what crash he was referring to and even so, his statement made no sense to me because he didn't really explain what he was saying at all.
If anyone's curious about Network Science/Graph Theory in general here's a free online textbook used by a grad student friend of mine

http://barabasilab.neu.edu/networksciencebook/downlPDF.html
How big are those results actually ?? Looks big to me !
The Syrian Airlift Project, which used drones to send aid to refugees and besieged civilians in Syria, added a "self-destruct mechanism that destroys the autopilot if a crash is imminent in Syria, reducing the risk of later weaponization by bad actors" and the potential leak of sensitive information.
I know about the landing on the Hudson (my apartment faces the Hudson and I saw it happen), but this paragraph still didn't make sense to me. What solution did the pilots push? Sullenberger, the pilot on that flight is both a glider pilot and a GA flight instructor, so he seems to be the perfect argument that GA skills lend themselves to better problem resolution in unexpected flight situations: he was essentially landing a glider when both engines went.
And some of Spotify's experiences with Google Cloud:

https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/10/spotifys-event-delivery-...
He's refined (?) that concept in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)
I work on the game. Really happy to hear you like what we have done, and sorry to disappoint. We have moved from WebGL to Unity and are currently porting our demo.

Send us an email at hello@corsair-game.net if you want to help test our Linux releases!
>Well, best case scenario is that both of you are impartial.

This is exceeding the best case scale and entering into fantasy scale. Both entities would only operate impartially if both were independently wealthy and only did the job as a form of private amusement to which they felt no real connection. If that's not the case, and it almost never is, both entities have a strong bias toward self-preservation, even if they say they don't.
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I think the idea is that AlphaGo decided that the "strong" moves, while it may have increased its lead, would have been more risky than moves that just fortified its current lead.
Given that Python 3 is nearing a decade old, it is always astonishing that people are still on 2.
Can you please show a demo/screenshots without me having to sign up? I'm interested but I have no idea how it works (do I need a microphone? iphone? etc), and I won't sign up until I know I can actually use it.
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This is a solid argument from the premises, but one of the unspoken premises is that people should live independently or in small nuclear families. Disabled people have fewer accessibility issues when they are integrated into larger social units. Most ableist discrimination is ultimately exclusion from the social participation that is the mechanism of human mutuality. Handicapped people are excluded from reaping the benefits of human cooperation at the local level: trying to fix that with commodities and government stipends soothes some symptoms without solving the root problem: our society implicitly excludes people who need it most.

My opinion is that everyone would be better off in larger living groups where everyone contributes labor for others. To each according to their need, from each according to their ability' and all that nonsense. I understand that this idea is considered ridiculous and naive by prevailing wisdom, but whatever /shrug
Your diligence was not unwarranted. Before anybody runs out to get their wings, realize that general aviation is quite dangerous. Here are two links that use similar math to arrive at the same 20x-more-dangerous-than-driving figure:

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/198/how-dangerou...

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety
Healthcare (obligatory but subsidized for lower incomes) will cost you an additional 95 euro/month (with an "own risk" of about 375 euros). I always thought the entire US paid a lot less taxes to be honest...
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Yep, that's cool!
AFAIK that's on a huge or infinite field. The Twitch Plays one is built around small minefields and its voting based.
I mean it isn't hard to be immature. You can go to 4chan and see people being immature all the time. Not that impressive honestly.
Interesting, I've used it a bunch over the years and never encountered a non-black car. Which is actually kind of silly when you think about it -- a silver Mercedes is just as classy as a black one, if that's what you're concerned with (I'm actually more interested in getting a livery driver who knows what they're doing).
http://formconstantdance.org/

It's not a startup, but I work on the performances like they are.
I find it hard to believe that thousands of engineers work in secret to build weapons that can maim and kill hundreds/thousands/millions of people at the flip of switch.
As DannoHung said, a lot of the nazis genuinely believed they were the good guys. Obviously what they did was horrible, but the point is that you have to assess the actions of a group like that keeping in mind that it's just composed of a bunch of individual people. And people can be persuadable, stupid, and not very far along in their ethical development (especially the very young people who are enlisted to fight).

When you consider how malleable the human mind is it's hard to take terms like "good guys" and "bad guys" seriously. Everyone grows up in their own environment, with their own perspective and traumatizing experiences. There are many people around the world who see the US as the bad guys, even though I think our intentions are noble and we obviously don't go around systematically murdering millions of people as efficiently as possible because of what they look like.

If you just mean "bad guys" to describe a group of people doing unethical things, then I agree with you but I disagree with the phrase. It just makes me think of little boys playing cowboys and indians. It's not a very thoughtful phrase.
The HN guidelines make no attempt to list every form of incivility. If we did, people would assume that anything not on the list was ok.

I have, though, posted a ton about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20shill&sort=byDat...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20astroturf&sort=b...

Late edit: we did eventually add this to the guidelines.
Digit takes advantage of FDIC pass through insurance. Your money is separate from Digit's money. If Digit goes bankrupt, your money still belongs to you, not to Digit's investors.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Digit, but have been doing a lot of research in this area.
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> F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot [of the radar] in flight
We (PyPy release manager here) adopted a release policy where we update the major version about every three months. Bug fixes, if needed, will be 5.0.1, and 5.1 should be released in a month or so
Rddt.tv - http://rddt.tv

Reddit.tv was an app to watch videos posted to reddit but shut down back in January. Haven't been able to find a replacement that I liked, so I built my own. Made the videos full-screen by default and added extra stuff like support for Soundcloud embeds (so you could listen to music subreddits), a directory of video-posting subreddits, multireddits, keyboard shortcuts.
One reason employees don't want these conversations is that they have a shitty manager.

But it can also be that they're a shitty employee. The chance of "saying the wrong thing" is much bigger if you are in fact the wrong person for the job and/or team.
Can you explain how this works a little more than the main page & FAQ? I'm not familiar with the companies in the FAQ.
Friday US time, yes. ;)
I didn't realize that. So what's the best URL?
I always wanted to learn to play Go and one of the reasons was because it was the only game where computers hadn't defeated human - well, it is no longer the case and I kind of lost motivation to learn it.

I wonder what would be interesting games (intellectual sports) where computers have yet to defeat humans that you would probably be interested in learning?