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> I don't actually agree with this. Unlike Go, StarCraft is not only a game of strategy; "micro" (micro-managed tactics, basically) also plays a big role. An AI is going to be able to issue a LOT more commands per second than even the most skilled humans, giving them a natural tactical advantage.

Seems like they should probably tackle a game that involves strategy without micro as a stepping stone to StarCraft. Are there any games with good AIs like that already?
de minimis. I'd add that a MacBook Pro should be configurable for pros. This is really an expensive MacBook Air.
Fancy dryers dry faster only because the fancy washer is spinning the clothes faster at the end of the cycle. The technology inside clothes dryers hasn't changed in 30 years, even in the fanciest models. Look up the parts, they still use all the parts and design from models 30 years ago. It's actually comical. Source: I repair dryers.

They haven't found a better way to convert electricity into heat, or a faster way to use a flame to dry the clothes. Even old dryers had moisture sensors to turn the machine off once it sensed the clothes were dry.
I mean I think even techniques from animation pre-computer may be hard to do today.
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If you want worldwide support and a ton of software that just works, Raspberry Pi is for you. Want to mess around with a single board computer, then buy one of the 100's of boards out there. I'm a make computers do things for me, so the $28 difference is dust compared to what I think my time is worth, and what my blood pressure meds cost.

Love seeing all these boards, all the innovation, but none of them bring what a Pi does. Good hardware, pretty clean hardware, lots of community for a very low price.

Really don't like the ripoff of the name. Orange pi zero has little in common with Raspberry Pi Zero. Other than coat tail jumping, what's the point of confusing people?
It's just shiny. Cosmetic only. All the parts and design elements haven't changed in decades for dryers.
I was involved in an LGBT club for a bit, doing activism and such. Every person involved who wasn't LGBT was called an ally.

Some people saw allies in a positive light while other saw them as being merely neutral -- "it's the least they can do after oppressing us for so long!"

The "allies are merely neutral" attitude was painful to deal with since it 1.) implied that straight people are bad by default and must prove otherwise and 2.) that straight people can never do enough to gain equal moral footing with LGBT people.

I can see how allies who dealt with that sort of attitude might have felt used.
As far as I remember, they are both Sony cameras. I don't know if Google uses Foxconn.
FWIW I come to HN for the comments, not really for the articles. I think maybe half of us use HN this way.

This is to say that the platform approach has the advantage of allowing actually informed/skeptical/intelligent people to do the talking. They can discuss subjects they know, at their own pace. Contrast with traditional journalism, where even when things go right you're still dealing with someone who's reporting on things outside their profession, probably on a deadline, and beset by an industry (public relations) basically devoted to deceiving them.

This is to say I'm actually fairly sure the platform approach, at least from first principals, beats the traditional approach in terms of quality.

(On a side note, I just had an awful thought: are there PR people reaching out to the top HN authors?)
So in other words you're complimenting their efforts.

http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...
It's crazy to me that a company with so many designers in positions of leadership could miss something so obvious. I mean I know they were aware of the problem, but why wasn't there anyone with enough perspective and influence that could step back and call out how stupid it was?
"Extremely" insecure is a bit of an exaggeration. It's not as though the password is "password" on all the databases.

We do support certificate-based logins and firewalls with IP whitelists. They're just not on by default. Frankly, the reason is because almost all customers don't care about having a very high level of security if that implies doing more work (setting up certificates, whitelisting IPs.) Moreover, they actively prefer to have "simpler and less secure" over "more complex and more secure."

We've done experiments with certificates and firewall IP whitelists and so on. Almost all customers and potential customers reject these things. They say they want a simple password that just works from anywhere.

We had to choose between being slightly less secure and having customers, versus being highly secure and having no customers. Since the business can't survive without any customers, that choice was easy.

That said, if you do want any of those things turned on for your database, just write support@databaselabs.io.
I don't think I have but possibly only if there was no one around.
Full disclosure: I'm the contractor that designed the USB version of the Peachy Printer, but have nothing to do with the YXE3D other than being a mentor of sorts to their electronics lead.

http://www.yxe3d.com

Last I heard, they're on the cusp of shipping what is essentially the Peachy in a better form factor with all of the rough edges worked out (eg successfully going through a laser safety classification). The Peachy was legitimately close to being a success, and had the other founder (who I've never met) not stolen the money, I'm pretty sure it would have shipped.

Still a bit grouchy about all that. I put a pile of creative engineering into the electronics and firmware, only to have the project scuttled by the finance fuck up. And while that team probably started out having insufficient experience building and shipping a product, they did a pile of learning and were on the cusp.

I'm very glad that yxe3d is keeping the design alive, it's just unfortunate that the Kickstarter backers won't be made whole.
It saddened me to see Rolling Stone engage in such flawed journalism. I just hope the mend their ways and get past it.
This makes sense. I hope they reinvest in the pro community this year, however; any advantage that macs give disappear as devices are split. If I don't need to develop for iOS or the mac itself, I can get along fine with a thinkpad/bsd for Dev and an iPad for music and notifications.

I don't want to reinvest all my USB cables and chuck away my touch typing just to get a small power bump. I can't even upgrade my memory!
> I'm not sure how familiar people are with StarCraft II, but at the highest levels of the game, where player have mastered the mechanics, it's a mind game fueled by deceit, sophisticated and malleable planning, detecting subtle patterns (having a good gut feeling on what's going on) and on the pro scene knowledge of your opponent's style.

I wouldn't be surprised if an AI comes along that shows this human perception of what it takes to win isn't required at all. I'm sure similar things were said about Go and Chess.
100% uptime is a financial guarantee: if it's up for less than 100% of the time (other than scheduled maintenance), we refund 30x that amount, up to 1 months' fees.

We used to have a more engineery 99.95% uptime guarantee, but customers empirically prefer the financial guarantee over that.
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Viewing the theme screenshots looks a bit blurry to me on a retina display (13" @ default scaling).
Chinese need content to feed their 560M avid gamers (~$24.4bn market)
This isn't "admitting defeat". This is sacrificing profit to help "transition" people to where Apple wants them to go.

An admission of "defeat" would be shipping an iPhone that has a headphone jack again. This is why I don't expect that ever to happen.
The next iteration of the book will have a much more cut-down version of this; this chapter is _so_ thorough, but also gives you the impression that it's more complex than it has to be due to said thouroughness.
Yes. Standard size of a jury in a civil case in Federal court is 8-10 jurors, depending on how long the trial is scheduled to last. They used to seat 2 people as alternate jurors but later got rid of alternates in Federal court, so now you just seat enough people that you can afford to lose a couple over the duration of a long trial and still have at least 6 remaining. Otherwise, civil juries can be as few as 6 jurors or as many as 12 + however many alternates. A rough rule of thumb would be something like minimum number of jurors required + 1 juror for each week of trial.

Criminal juries are always 12 jurors.

(I'm a jury consultant)
In Oakland, that's on the other side of the Bay, there's sudoroom and Ace Monster Toys:

https://sudoroom.org/

https://www.acemonstertoys.org/
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And how do you exploit it to make money?
Am I the only programmer that uses tmux and vim with old fashioned makefile? I still need a serial port to talk with hardware but a simple usb dongle works. I remember people complain almost 15 years ago that apple didn't have a serial port on their laptops. Its funny that windows itself became the biggest problem for serial.
"Fan-fiction" level of writing. Everything so obvious with tired tropes. A critique to social media that could be done by an imaginative high school kid.

Funny: that's exactly what I think about the whole series. I have (guiltily) watched all three seasons with anticipation, and I still don't really see what the big deal is.

But then de gustibus non est disputandum, so that's just me.
1. A 32-bit hash isn't enough no matter what (birthday paradox), 64-bit might be if you don't have adversaries choosing {SLUG} strings and it's the truncation of a cryptographic hash. (compare with 32-bit public key IDs in PGP)

2. Are you going to really enforce {SLUG} being unique for the lifetime of your system?
Can we please, please, please get a follow-up titled: "Bash in Production: A History of Failure"? With a comedic yet tragic theme of course.
Ever since the iPod Steve Jobs's vision for products always put an emphasis on seamless integration between different offerings. Carrying around a set of adapters for these same-gen Apple products seems pretty contradictory to his original vision.
SublimeText is not open-source. But there are probably other good editors on Ubuntu – Why not reusing them.
I love this little article by Douglas Adams. This reminds me of it.

http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html
I agree - this is better than most sites for browsing themes. However, I still find it hard to get a feel for a theme's style when a giant cover image makes up 90% of a screenshot for a theme. I understand that most modern themes are image-heavy (especially on the home page), and full-page thumbnails are a good way to see the high-level layout characteristics of a theme, but I'm often more on the lookout for good typography, navigational elements, icons, etc.

Not sure about the best solution for that, but it makes me think there's probably a better way to highlight both the high-level and low-level details of a theme at a glance.
depends on the goal, right? considering they want to limit APM in the SCII model- we can assume that goal is something like "beat a human under human conditions". in that case yes, communication needs some limitation. but this seems uninspiring. "assuming" a no-limitations AI can beat a human in RTS, the question seems more like "how many inefficiencies must we introduce before the AI is 'fair' game".

but, there is a different use case where you have an AI team try to beat another AI team under optimal conditions, which i think is more interesting, as it has the chance to completely change the metagame (like what Deep Blue and DeepMind can do for Chess/Go respectively).
Yep, Sunday afternoon in Venice was one of my peak traffic moments.
Isn't it also possible that the strategies employed by top human players (e.g. deceit, having a gut feeling of what the opponent will do) could be less effective or even useless against an AI that doesn't think or act like a human player? Given how human-influenced the meta seems to be (at least, to my understanding), it seems plausible to me that this could be the case
Apple is at risk of losing their pros.

Mac Pro is a failure. The old-fashioned "cheese grater" Mac Pros are holding their price nicely on eBay because many people don't want anything to do with the "trash can" Mac Pro. And the new Mac Pro hasn't even been updated in 3 years.

And if you do buy a Mac Pro, you'll have to buy an ugly third-party monitor since Apple no longer provides any displays.

The latest MacBook Pro is a great looking ultra-portable, but is not a pro computer by most measures. It's a MacBook Air.

I feel like Apple can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They're focusing so much on the iPhone and Apple Watch, their actual computer company is atrophying.
Both Go and Chess are perfect information games with a (mind bogglingly huge but) vanishingly small number of states/permutations compared to Starcraft. It's an entirely different beast, altogether.
> But don't think for a moment that the burden is now equal.

I didn't say that. But the medical and social burden though real, are not things that should be tackled with policies to prevent.

Medical burden is a law of nature. Neither of those are factors that should be neutralized.(Think surgical castration of women at puberty.. bad idea.)

Social burden is there for a reason and society(and culture) will evolve if the reasons die out.

So overall, complaining about burden of reproductive control is simply whining and reinforces the "women are whiners" cliche.
It's encouraging to see some of these bad actors like Gawker and Rolling Stone face consequences for their egregious missteps. Sensational and malicious writing is not journalism.
It is though.

I don't know about 'main goal' but rust is fun to write. Far more than c++ for me.

Compile times. Traits. Generics that aren't templates. A package manager. Functional constructs. Cross platform. It's got all the shiny toys.

The state of the art in C++ is what? One file drop in headers, no package management and STL hell? Have you read the UE4 engine code base? What are horrific mess.

There are certainly problems with rust (imo tooling and libraries), but I don't think for a moment how enjoyable to write it is, is one of them...

C++ is a bloated language and I hate writing code in it. I hate that the mix of C++14/11/?? You get is different is every project. I despise that my C++ code from QT, UE, win32 is virtually incompatible, and the header/code legacy divide (or not if you happen to be in a system that allows it).

I guess your milage may vary, but I've not talked to many people who didn't like programming in rust... Mostly just people who found it hard, or didn't know why they would bother vs. their current 'good enough' language (eg. C#).
The aim is to prove that the pattern of mutations in the tumour (which typically contains several hundred mutations in coding regions, more in the whole genome) are caused by smoking.
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705546
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Over the course of the years I've tried to like Docker. I've found the benefits to be not worth the stress and aggravation for the associated "magic" that it takes to provide the kind of user (developer?) experience they're after but have thus far failed to achieve. It's like the uncanny valley of sysadmin tools.

The concept of getting away from snowflake machines and making your infrastructure more code-like with deployment scripts is the way to go, but you certainly don't have to use docker for that. At the end of the day, it's more about forcing your team to be regimented in their processes and having a working CI system for your systems related stuff. You should be able to start from nothing and with a single command have a developer's environment up, all the way to a fully scaled prod system.

Docker is just a tool to try and get to that point of evolution (albeit a poor one).
3. do you ever need to change {SLUG} but keep old references? e.g., to track a headline/title change as a story develops? {ID}-{OLDSLUG} redirects to {ID}-{NEWSLUG} is the same as {OLDSLUG} redirects to {NEWSLUG} though I guess.
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What's the second, is that a picture of some other person?
I'm in the beta program for macOS Sierra and the last 2 updates have tried rebooting my computer without any warning whatsoever. The only thing that "saved" me was having iTerm up and running and it won't close with active terminals open. In the past, OS X was really good about asking for permission to update. Now it just assumes that I'm ready whenever it is. Maybe there is a setting to turn that behaviour off, if so I don't know what it is and it's really starting to make me doubt Apple's commitment to professional tools in a whole other fashion.
Good point. You can click on the screenshot again for full resolution and back.
Java is the most 'popular' language in the world in 2016 (TIOBE), so maybe the hype was well placed.
Clarification: Yes, I meant the choice of DE with each distro, not the underlying Linux kernel per se.
> The usual marriage age for a girl in premodern western European culture (and many other cultures worldwide) was "the onset of menses," or about 12 to 14 years old.

The wikipedia article [1] doesn't agree with you. It suggests marriage in the mid twenties was most common, although there was regional variation. Noblewomen, such as the fictional Juliet, married younger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
Similar things weren't really said about Go or Chess. Both are perfect information games so, by definition, they can't involve deceit There's no need to try to detect subtle patterns in your opponents behavior because you have the entire game in front of you. That's not to say it's impossible but they do very much have their work cut out for them. It's an entirely different type of game that is much more difficult than Go and Chess.
I'm glad you haven't dealt with it personally, but there are definitely people in tech who view white and asian men as being guilty until proven innocent.
> Earlier Macbook models already did away with ethernet ports and the CD/DVD drive - a move which seemed absurd at the time, but I’d argue Apple was ultimately exonerated. When was the last time you put a CD into your computer?

My PC, I put a DVD in almost every week, and has an ethernet cable running to it. If my mac had an ethernet port, there would be one plugged into it. I find it very annoying that it doesn't. Rather than exonerated, they are just things I need to put up with to get my work done (because everyone at work uses a mac).
I don't know about that. NExT was pretty revolutionary and it worked really, really well. If they could have gotten the hardware price down to something a college student could afford I might be typing this on a completely different stack.

Sometimes a radical shift is what's needed. Apple is the new Microsoft and might just be ripe for a disturbance.
Sorry, I was speaking in agreement with the article, and in opposition to the idea expressed in the comments that material progress plus Netflix ought to satisfy and fulfil the human heart.

I heartily agree that dissonance is a formidable force in the world with devastating consequences -- I like your name for the concept. I'm saying we can't afford to ignore the painful realities of those who feel disenfranchised. Also, let's be more aware of subtle ways in which technological advances may augment internal dissonance.
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No the same thing very much could not be said about Go.
Go is a perfect information game so by definition it can't involve deception. It's a completely different problem for AIs.
Wow serverless ..:
I saw it!
A tiny, shiny speck under the microscope, and the thrill of seeing a form of matter which, it can be argued, has never existed anywhere in the universe. Ever.
> it's a mind game fueled by deceit, sophisticated and malleable planning, detecting subtle patterns (having a good gut feeling on what's going on) and on the pro scene knowledge of your opponent's style.

The same is true of Go.
GCP is awesome, I love the work you folk are doing.
The trackpads are what do it for me. I like using a trackpad for a mouse. It's not that their trackpads are the best, it's that every other trackpad in existence is unusably bad.
It's quite possible that AIs will reveal completely new and different types of strategies. It's very unlikely that a concept as broad as deceit is going to be disproven though. I mean just thinking about what that would look like that would mean an AI discovered that it's actually better to show your opponent what you're doing rather than trying to mislead them. I have a hard time believing that could possible be the case.
Thread from 6 Hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875092
Borda could be thought of as a ballot-restricted version of score voting, but so could plurality; you can’t expect ballot-restricted versions of reasonable systems to remain reasonable. Generally, there’s no reason for voters to cast Borda-type ballots unless you force them to.
You might enjoy it, but many people dislike retirement and return to work.
That article says, "[in western Europe], about half of all women aged 15 to 50 years of age were married at any given time, while the other half were widows or spinsters" which is entirely consistent with what I wrote: over half of women aged 15 were, or had been, married.
Welcome books and songs, our parents' technology that's been stable for a while and is always built to fit users' particular needs. Spend all your money on working less and enjoying these sensibilities; wind down to give them your full undivided mind. Imagination needs cultivation and the more you use (i.e. restrict it) the sharper it gets.
That would make me turn down their offer, I don't appreciate anti-competitive business practices. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Or mutants: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/07/us/clue-to-why-cystic-fibr...
Consistency. Most large DEs have their own text editors (Kate, mousepad, Geany?) why not one for Partheon ?
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