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> overnment was behind the fake coup.

Has this been proven yet? I'm under the impression that we're still in the stages of better not believing any side of the arguments because any secrets - if they exist - will be fresh and well hidden for the moment. If you ask me, I would be very careful claiming to know who orchestrated what.
This is a common misconception in my line of understanding of Buddhism. From how I see it, there's not even a "me" or "you", maybe there's a "I am you; you are me", or "nothing at all", depending on the line you may follow.

For me, Buddhism teaches about selflessness, not stuff like carpe diem or find meaning of live or whatever; also teaches about the dangers of dying and being reborn/transmigrate in a much worse state, so we should quickly get out of this cycle of suffering. If you are sharp (in terms of Budddhism) you will want to fix this ASAP. If you are not so sharp, they will have to use expedients to slowly show you whats the proper path to happiness - for example showing that clinging to stuff doesn't bring lasting happiness.

Getting out ot our own ignorance requires real effort, not just reading and making assumptions from the comfort of our views.
What? Can you explain your metaphors
The point is that the problem is likely more general.
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Truth but unlike other professions, throughout the rise of the internet, github, what-have-you, we, programmers have been able to counter the boringness and move to other opportunities in the industry.

For example, someone who wrote test hardware code in embedded C, can move towards full software iOS development which is at two ends of the tech industry. The opportunity produces excitement and the further attainment of knowledge.

On the other side of the spectrum, a pilot who flies a Boeing 777 will not be able to easily switch to flying an Airbus 330.

Simply said, programming is boring, if you make it so.
While I generally agree with your points, the statement "* i.e. the fact that there's no real possibility for gain or winning outcomes, with nuclear weapons*" assumes facts that are simply not available.

Some day, nuclear weapons will again be used in anger, and there most certainly will be survivors (it's actually not very hard to survive one unless and until you run out of food), and who knows what they'll conclude about "winning" vs. losing outcomes.
I don't know why people downvotes you. It's not an obvious thing.

To convince you, I gently ask you to see this ted.com video: "What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness"

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness
Who’s stealing the spotlight?
Does anyone know of any resources for someone looking to learn more about Game AI for real time strategy games?
This is easy to fix: get rid of the keyboards altogether, and just use on-screen touch keyboards. Give employees screen wipes to use.

I can't imagine why office workers wouldn't mind typing in lengthy documents using an on-screen keyboard. /s
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If programming is boring, then you haven't abstracted enough things away or haven't automated enough things. Things become boring if you are doing the same thing over and over and if you are repeating yourself, then you are doing it wrong. Most of the time.
Is it harder to make an AI that is mediocre at playing the game vs one that is good? That is the main issue with making good AIs for games now. We want AIs (if you can call them that) that play kinda like humans but worse then the player as the player wants to win.

Making an AI for game isn't about making a good AI. It is about making an AI that loses in a convincing manner. This is especially try for games like Starcraft (RTS and strategy games in general. For FPS games it really isn't so important as you can just increase or decrease the accuracy and hp of the enemies)
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I would prefer a "none of the above" option that is not actually implicitly choosing a specific person.

If "none of the above" wins, then the sensible thing to do would be to re-start the elections process from the primaries, wherein any person who was a candidate in the previous iteration(s) is ineligible to run again. Mid-November to January is more than enough time to re-do the entire election cycle.
What exactly do you mean by "container get corrupted"? One should always use the read-flag to run Docker containers and use explicit volumes for persistent data. With this setup a container can only get corrupted if a read-only bind mount gets corrupted, and this will be a bug in kernel, not Docker.
I still have problems with the second one, as I assume I'm unworthy of reading the code of programmers Much Better Than Me, for fear I'd try something tricky and mess everything up.

I'm also mostly a .Net guy right now in a very .Net area, and they generally frown on that sort of thing until very recently. Not an excuse I know, but just for background.
Please stop posting this bullshit.
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Amazon and Alibaba are not placed under Marketplaces.. What is the difference between Marketplaces and E-Commerce, if someone could explain?
Are you serious? This class is intended for students with deep knowledge of CS theory who want to learn more about recent data structures research. 6.006 and 6.046 are much more suitable if you aren't formally trained in computer science.
This is really good news!
Lets hope DeepMind can improve even further on their Differentiable neural computers (DNC) which seems like an requirement for this kind of AI to work (exploiting long-term dependencies).
I also hope that other research/industry teams will join on the competition to create competing AIs. Very exciting!
As a counter to hate I recommend anything by Jiddu Krishnamurti, especially Think on These Things and The First and Last Freedom.
"Severe anxiety" was probably not the best choice of words.

I believe from a Buddhist perspective, anxiety is a pretty basic thing, i.e. it is considered the normal state of the not-yet-enlightened person.
But the comment you were replying to was implying that nobody is going to get sympathy because they are in the top 1% and feel like they must be in the top 0.5%.
Think about how many more humans there are, and how unlikely one is to be a special snowflake. We can be special and needed by others - not to society. I don't think society will give us a role that we can emotionally engage with anymore and take pride in. The only way we can belong is to our relationships.
I love building CRUD apps! I guess I'm fascinated by learning different business models and mapping them to code.
Well, if ultrasound was able to produce significant energy input to the cochlear hairs (stereocilia), it would invoke motion in these hairs and thus the perception of sound. So if that was the case, one would be able to hear ultrasound (which one cannot).

Actually, the inability of the human ear to hear ultrasound is because the impedance matching function (mechanical gain) of the bones in the middle ear rolls off at high frequencies. So the energy in ultrasound is dissipated before it reaches the inner ear.

That being said, exposure to >120 dB ultrasound can damage your hearing (I believe this is because response functions of the ear start becoming nonlinear). According to Wikipedia, above 150 dB ultrasound can even start heating your flesh, and above 180 dB it can be fatal.
I didn't make myself clear. I don't deny that decanting and/or aerating will improve many (perhaps even most) reds. But in my experience, for my own personal tastes, any wine that requires this very rarely ends up tasting as good as one that doesn't.

> Reading those two comments of yours makes me seriously doubt your ability to make observations that generalize to other people.

Two responses:

1. What I've said here is not based just on my own experience, but also on the firsthand observations of other people who have participated in blind tastings along with me. And...

2. The general impossibility of generalizing one's own subjective experience to other people when it comes to wine is kind of my whole point.
the real question of course would be how to train the AI to have varying levels of "expertise" (ie: penalize if score is too high)
I wonder if rendering expensive emergency aid rather than harvesting organs is significantly more profitable in the short term?
takes a special kind of person to conduct such a study
Is there anything you can do to help your odds of not dying from lung cancer once you have stopped smoking?

Any yearly tests to perform?

I was a 10cigs a day smoker for 15 years(quit some years ago) and it really weights heavy on my mind that there is nothing I can do about my past mistakes.
I always wonder: how could we improve humans? (including me).

How to detect bullshit. Make logical choices. Be respectful, etc.
> all the time, even while they’re running in the background

This is FUD. iOS does not give an app this ability without it being obvious (a banner across the top of the screen).
I can't wait to see the first team of 5 separate AI learn to insult each other. It'll be a watershed moment in history when the first vote to kick another AI occurs.
Yes, but the entire HR department is out sick, so good luck getting a hold of anyone.
In South Africa, our family troll past-time at parties was to re-label wine we brought. We used the same wine everytime (our personal favourite) and disguised it with some fake fancy label.
So you're pissed with people who made money elsewhere then went to NZ to buy property. And you're pissed because it messes with your plan of earning money in London and then using it to buy property in NZ.

The same international market that employs you in London priced that house in Aukland.

Also, do you imagine your presence in London increases or decreases property prices there?
For someone like say an LGBT person, western society/culture is objectively less harmful now than ever. Many more examples
It's amazing how the narrative of paradise, sin, and the need to repent before the world goes to hell is so hard wired into the human psyche. Almost everyone seems to believe it in some form or another.
"No kidney for you, little girl. It might have gone to an old person."
Is (React) Fiber ready yet?
With a database, the data itself is the important part- using something like Kubernetes combined with persistent volumes (GCE or EBS) lets you easily move a running database between VMs with minimal effort. You run the program however you want, and let the orchestration layer bring the persistent data to wherever that program is running.
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What is a "Islamic party"? Turkey is something like 96% Muslim population, so chances are, any particular cross section of society might just be called "Islamic" something, including the government.
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It would be interesting to see what percentage of a pro player's APM is actually useful. Like you said, most of the time they are spamming buttons to keep their momentum up.
In civil cases, where both parties often have a significant budget for hiring experts, the experts often actually are top people from their fields but who are retired.

I watched a patent trial, and an important part of one of the claims was that certain data from a hard disk was cached in a RAM cache.

The side that wanted to see the patent invalidated brought up some earlier patent that involved caching some data on a hard disk, and claimed it was prior art that should have been considered. Their expert said that "RAM" stands for "random access memory", and a disk is random access and it is memory, so that any programmer or engineer who read the patent that called for using a RAM cache would understand that caching that data on a hard disk would count.

That, of course, was one of the most ridiculous things I'd ever heard. However, the expert certainly was a real expert. He was a professor emeritus and former head of the computer science department of a top CS school. In fact, he had been the one who started the CS program there and brought it to its position as a top program. He was a fellow of the IEEE, and his published papers back from when he was an active researcher were some of the seminal papers from the beginning of the modern semiconductor and VLSI era.

So how the hell did this guy think that "RAM cache" is commonly understood to include a cache stored on a hard disk?

I asked the lawyers for the side that was defending the patent, and their expert (another retired professor emeritus, IEEE fellow, yadda yadda...) about that. They explained to me that experts in a trial like this will get paid $50-100k or more to testify in this kind of trial. They basically have to just spend a few hours reading a patent, and then come up with an argument for the side that is paying them that will sound good to a jury and that is not provably a lie. Then they have to come and spend maybe a week at the trial location, being there to help the lawyers out and to spend maybe an hour on the stand. So basically $100k for a couple of weeks of not too strenuous work, two plane trips, and a week in a hotel.

They don't have to worry that colleagues will find out about the dumb things they said at trial and hold it against them or that it might tarnish their legacy or reputation, because everyone in the field knows about these expert witness gigs. When they hear that Professor Soandso said something really stupid about RAM cache at a trial, they just think, "Oh...I guess Professor Soandso wanted a new RV" or "Professor Soandso wanted a new boat". (In the case of the expert for the patent owner, it was to be one of the earliest to own a Tesla).
Every day, I become more and more convinced that I'm living in a dystopian "mirror" universe like the one on Star Trek where the humans are all evil, and somewhere out there, there's a "prime" universe where humans are generally good and things are generally improving.
Not Hillary Clinton's emails. Podesta's emails.
Do you have details on the encoding? I'm a bit suspicious of it being actually ultrasonic (device microphones often filter at 20khz or below) - seems more likely it would be audible spectrum noise with a ton of FEC.
Just "bought" one from the indiegogo campaign.

Does anyone know when will they be shipping? No hurry, just want to know when to shedule in my agenda to check whether it's shipping or not.
Having checkpoints along the way as you train your model could be a good way to allow fine-grained level selection. I guess :)
Unfortunate. I personally would love play against an AI with strong game sense as well as insane micro a la https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
Unlikely. Typically these rules are for the little people.
There has never been a better time to be a human being

Very myopic, first world, privileged view of the world.
Ask HN: What license did Ty Coon use before GPL existed?
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You are entirely missing the point. His purpose isn't to give the reader a rigorous mathematical understanding. It is to convey a concept. It is an analogy, not a proof. And his analogy is perfectly good. Just do it: say "HHHHHHHHHH" and say "ten tosses, all heads" and get back to me which one transmits the info to another human in more compact form.

"To another human" is the key phrase, and sometimes I wonder if HN is populated with humans or androids. No offense intended to androids with feelings.
Except this person appears to be innocent.
I dunno, I can often code faster if I'm writing unit tests along with my feature, I spend less time being confused about whether things are doing what I expect
I'll consider APM "not high" when it gets down to 12. Two actions per second is comfortably "high".
People who say programming is boring belong to one or more of the following groups

- people who haven't explored the concept enough, which may be a symptom of a larger issue possibly and most likely the one below

- people who are just in for the money and are trying to convince themselves otherwise

- people who don't know how to use atomic concepts to make more interesting concepts because they lack creativity and imagination (whatever these terms in comp sci domain)
They may actually be doing the employees a favour, since it's a false sense of security to think otherwise.
I watched 2 or 3 episodes in this latest season, and they were solid, but a little predictable. Significantly better than the 1st season, which beyond the shock factor of the first episode, was pretty much blah.
Everything is boring in a repetitive job. Ask the baker if putting the same kind of bread in the oven every morning is any fun.

That's why you do personal project.

For the baker it could be baking a complicated recipe.

For the programmer it's learning something new and solving new problems... well, for the programmer it's also baking a complicated recipe.
Hedge funcs, i.e. betting against the herd, has a moderating influence, not a destabilizing one.
Atlassian's funding wasn't typical VC growth money either. The first round was taken off the table by the founders and was primarily a mechanism to get board members in preparation for a US based IPO. They also took a second round, 100% of which which went to early employees in the form of a secondary market sale for stock options.
Jigsaw puzzles are not boring, nor is mundane programming IMO. Challenging stuff is super fun of course but there is something satisfying and meditative about just doing a really meticulous job even if you are doing routine stuff. Just me?
I couldn't find "Forward" in that book, what exactly is it?
You can't whip out such insults against an entire country here. It's neither civil nor substantive, which is the kind of discussion we're trying to have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Probably not, to be honest. For a game like chess, the challenge is that there are so few things you can actually do. Inefficiencies aren't really a thing, every single move has a semi-discrete value.

Starcraft however has all kinds of minor inefficiencies you can build in. You could inconsistently build workers, you could occasionally supply cap, your army comps can vary in sophistication level, etc.
Let me guess: your parents were WASPs.
I would love to see how thin are these "so-called thin desks".
The first episode of the new season seems like it's literally a "serious" hour-long version of the Community MeowMeowBeenz episode.
Given that this is UBS, I think this is, more than any other factor, a way for the company to prevent any way of employees establishing any kind of paper trail.

They seem to be getting caught up in scandal after scandal every time some news about something shady going on in the financial industry, the first thing I look for in the article is the letters 'UBS'.

Maybe I'm being too negative/tin-foil-hat here.
You start to run into issues if you don't allow the same candidates to run again. Issues being that you are suppressing the right to run for office. Now, if the party made the candidate ineligible then that's a different story. Also no clue why I was downvoted without a reason.
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But there are some who do.

Not that they host it with their own computers, but they rent some space online and host it there.
So the "you don't inhale it" part of that has absolutely nothing to do with the properties of the pipe/cigar. You can easily inhale on both and you can also choose not to inhale with a cigarette.
Programming is fascinating and endlessly fun.
John Kabat-Zinn books, and he even has an app.

FWIW, the headspace narrator really wanted me to get somewhere, and that bugged me.
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I mostly agree with your view, but I wonder how you can reconcile it with the unfolding environmental disaster and loss of biodiversity across the globe.
Media coverage for a recall is often at least in part a public service, especially for a popular consumer product. The angle which it is reported on is where there's opportunity for bias and exploitation, but there are millions of people that need to know they bought a product from a trusted brand which could be dangerous.
Writing something new and cool gets me out of bed in the morning. Writing tests for my code lets me sleep peacefully at night. Can't have one without the other.
As they say in finance, the only emotion more powerful than greed is fear.
I can't wait to see how far DeepMind can go in this area. I was initially skeptical that AlphaGo could defeat top human players, but then it happened. Who knows, perhaps one day AI can compete against progamers in GSL!
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Many Linux users in particular are pretty well aware of the shortcomings of Linux's filesystem scenario, as well as the fact we never had features like DTrace. (I still think the over-proliferation of Linux tracing tools that fit 10,000 different case is a bit ridiculous.) As someone who worked on a distro, I've been acutely aware of many of these things, for example, as have our users (because they inevitably come to us for advice, suggestions, or bug reports).

I'm not sure what reality you live in where Linux users like, actively deny things like lacking an appropriate COW filesystem with low latency, or things like the fact it took us a decade to get only close to DTrace. Your own mind? 6 month Ubuntu users? Internet forums where you talk to other BSD users and nobody else?

> Let the down votes begin.

Don't worry, I'm sure people will oblige.
That would be funny. The difficulty slider changes to "How many hours of playtime" instead of easy, medium, hard. Actually it could even just scale it automatically based on a metric like steam hours played. that would be awesome.
In the book this is the same office that timed how long employees spent reading emails. Too short and you are penalized for skimming, too long and you are a slacker.

I wouldn't be surprised if offices are doing that now too.
Ok, so we are good for all websites written in PHP (?)
A warning, though: don't try to use FreeBSD with SCSI tape drives, in my truncated experience because of what I found experience a few months ago, the driver is capable of writing without error data it then can't read back (but can be read back by Linux).

Maybe not so important in the container context, but sooner or later, somewhere you need persistence, and tape offers certain persistence features you pretty much can't get elsewhere, especially at its media price points.

(Plus, if they got this wrong, when it's really not that hard to get right (I've done SCSI at this level before), I wonder what else they have.)
But a good proxy for VCs, where most non-IPO exists are basically considered a failure. 1.5-3x returns from a "successful" sale to a larger company is a failed investment for most VC firms.
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It's never been a better time to be a human. It's never been a worse time to be any other species on earth.
Yes. No kidney for her, but flu shots for 10,000 ... saving many hundreds. The reality is that saving lives is now a matter of resource allocation. Procedures such as organ transplantation take resources from far more efficient treatments that can save many more lives.

I wish I had recorded something I saw at the gym years ago. An old and obviously ill man was bragging about how his firm could hire young interns, pay them nothing, and fire them at the drop of a hat. A young man overheard, walked over to him and said "I;ll never have your money or power, I cannot stop you from being a jerk, but when your liver starts failing you aren't getting even a piece of mine." He then ripped up his organ donation card.
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