skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you define a 'not very good' strategy as losing at a maximum of 0, then sure. Playing optimally means the worst case scenario against any opponent would be breaking even. It doesn't have to be trained on individual playing styles, it is simply playing each spot theoretically correctly.

An example, say the humans are getting to a river situation with too many bluffs for a given betsize, an exploit for the AI would be to always call. The opposite is also true, if they are bluffing too little it should always fold. The players notice that the AI has adjusted, and adjust their frequencies - now exploiting the AI. By taking an exploitative approach the AI leaves itself open to be exploited, this is not the goal.

If this were rock paper scissors, the AI is doing the equivalent of always throwing each at 1/3 - even when it's opponent throws rock every time. It could switch to paper, but a thinking opponent will now switch to scissors, this will continue until we are back at equilibrium. The AI aims to play poker in this same fashion, having the correct frequencies of actions for a given range in every spot.
> Boo on Obama for not even bothering to try for Universal Healthcare...

You must have missed the entirety of 2009 that extensively debated the topic with Obama very much gunning for universal coverage and the GOP very much trying that no one got covered. The public option would solve much of the current issues, but was shot down by the Tea Party. Same for expanded Medicaid to cover the poor, Republican governors refused to expand.

The ACA is far from perfect, but not because Obama wanted it to cover less.
I love uber. When we were snowed in and my wife needed to get to the airport, an uber driver in a Tahoe got the job done.

However, all the financial news I read about is how much money uber is losing.

My question is, where does it go? Insurance? Legal municipal wrangling? Embezzlement?

Also, looks like a startup opportunity for providing Uber drivers a safe place to spend the night (self storage style).
Yeah, good luck with that! The Grand Tour recently entertained the madness of prepping and survivalists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trdXpQ0HUE
I am wrong then! 56 years? That's the sixties. Yes, https://www.cnet.com/news/irs-trudges-on-with-aging-computer... it's from 1962 according to this 2008 article and the S/370 was introduced in 1970. It's actually an IBM 7074. God above. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J3hXqKq...

This is a PDF from 2016 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/scap-pia.pdf

> Standard CFOL Access Protocol (SCAP) is written in COBOL/Customer Information Control
System (CICS). SCAP downloads Corporate Files On-Line (CFOL) data from the IBM mainframe at
the Enterprise Computing Center, Martinsburg. The CFOL data resides in a variety of formats
(packed decimal, 7074, DB2, etc.)

7074 format. weeps
Aetna hoped to forego smaller profits from these exchanges to access larger profits with the acquisition of Humana. By withdrawing from those markets where Humana was competing with Aetna, Aetna could then claim that the merger would not reduce competition between insurance providers. Also, article claims that participation in ACA exchanges was privately used as a bargaining chip to pressure the DOJ into allowing the merger.

From article:
"Aetna tried to leverage its participation in the exchanges for favorable treatment from DOJ regarding the proposed merger." — U.S. District Judge John D. Bates
Totally agree. But I never used FB messenger, so it was probably easier for me to break off completely.

On the subject of getting off FB, here's another piece (not by me) that handles the privacy issues very well: http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/
Strongly agree about the ninjas. What a generic non-threat for a character like this. "Oh, look, another roomfull of ninjas. Bet this will be some riveting action. eyeroll"

And their half-assed effort to have that one Special ninja, but that never went anywhere. So strange.

The portrayal of Kingpin was the only reason I didn't stop watching Season 1 about half way through.

S2 had much better work on the action scenes (except The Hallway Fight near the beginning of S1, which remains the best in either season and had to be the work of someone they only brought in for that one episode) until the very end when S1's filmed-by-enthusiastic-amateurs-with-a-love-for-flat-medium-shots-and-one-camcorder-in-a-warehouse aesthetic came back with a vengeance.

Agreed about Foggy. Side characters and villains save the show, really.
TPP didn't look like a dead letter like a year ago though.
and then this piece lands: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...
>Essentially, PDFs force a certain page size on you. ...

Not necessarily. Sony's early readers had automatic reflowing of text if you chose a larger font size. It worked really well for fiction or any other type of text without pictures/diagrams.

For modern e-readers, converters like the free Calibre software (https://calibre-ebook.com), will allow resizing & reflow of text in PDFs to a size more usable for any device.

>Sony used to make 9" readers ...

There are refurbished Sony PRS-900 units available (e.g. eBay) for around $50 and, unlike most e-readers, they have user-replaceable batteries.
Beginner's guide to landing top-notch tech jobs and internships
Android's screen pattern lock can be easily cracked
Show HN: Offshoot – Minimalistic but powerful plugin system for Python 3
> only a certain type of person (in the case of SF, typically wealthy, male, and childless) can live there.

You should note that young women in cities earn more than young men:
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274...
Be sure to read Paul Bakaus's response, "Why AMP caches exist", to hear both sides of the issue. https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/why-amp-caches-exis...

(Though, actually, it's only a response in spirit; Bakaus's article was posted about a week earlier than Miessler's.)

I think the problem with the AMP cache model is that, because you need to link directly to the cached URL, you commit to exactly one cache provider. If Bing were to also implement their own validated AMP cache for Bing search results, you can't have one link point to both; you're either AMPed in Google results or in Bing results, and, by being marginally bigger, Google wins all of the pie. That's no good.

How might we change the AMP standard, or the trust model around AMP caches, to get the same performance wins while still enabling competition?
> We already had the first press conference

The first two, though no questions were permitted at the first one (which itself is something of a signal.)
If I’m hiring for a candidate that has expressed a need to work remotely, I interview them very differently. First, I give extra importance to the communication with the candidate over email/LinkedIn to set up the phone screen, and also the phone screen itself. I know that I will be interacting with the person primarily this way. It’s extremely helpful to obtain referrals from people who have worked with the person remotely before, so they can provide feedback about how frequently and engaged that person has been with the on-site team in the past. I also look for and ask questions probing the persons communication skills more than my usually technically-focused interviews.

The reason for this is that I’ve experienced different results working with the same people from remote than when they are on-site. For that reason I don’t think it’s enough to assume that because a developer is a good remote worker they will work well in an office setting or that if they are a productive office worker they will function highly from remote.

Basically, people are hired into specific roles. If you’ve hired someone for an open space agile environment and the role/work dramatically changes (going remote, acquired by “waterfall method inc”, etc) the hiring decision very well may no longer be informative.
The TPP was about something other then money and trade. It was about soft power. It was about containing China. It was about influence.

By cancelling it, Trump has handed 1/3 of the worlds GDP to China. Because I suspect China will step in and seal the deal.

I know Trump railed about the TPP. But I'm sad no one stood up to defend it. Clinton just flipped flopped. I suppose it's easier for the average American to understand "China is taking you job away" (and that's not the whole truth anyway) then to explain the nuances of soft power.

With TPP gone. We now really only have one form of leverage over China. The military. And I damn glad I'm retired from the Army.
IMO this is a bunch of BS by companies that want to control and centralize computing.

Years ago we had products like Dragon naturally speaking that could do full voice dictation reasonably accurately. They had limited digital assistants too (which is a subset of full dictation, much less valid inputs), though not much more limited than today. These ran on Pentium 1's.

The downside to this was the training time, but in practice I found this to be a strength. It was trained to my voice, not whatever generic profile Google stocks me into. I got better results nearly two decades ago (got a Dragon demo in a carnival bag) than I get with Google voice today.
I haven't, I don't really agree with it: there's whistle-blowing, and then there's WikiLeaks, with its absurd scale.

I certainly don't subscribe to "I pay my taxes; I've a right to know ...!" which is incorrect, silly, and less secure for all of us.
How Runtastic markets their apps
That Chrome extension is clbuttic.
I am well qualified to comment.
Didn't something similar happen with American banks? I don't remember them being fined this much.

/s
I've never heard of Meta, so, like any normal human being I went on their website. [1]

TLDR: From a glance, this entire organization's existence is centered around the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. There's no indication of anything useful they've done for real. I'm sure I could find that information if I bothered to look more, but for an organization that describes themselves as "mission-driven", and one that is "working on problems that matter," I fail to see any of those problems, or how this organization has contributed to the solution. I mean, not even a link to "Solutions" or "Mission" or "About". Nada. I'm very curious to how this page looked [yesterday].

Organizations that actually do stuff don't hesitate to put it front and center of their website, for example:

- https://www.change.org/

- https://www.planet.com/

This is literally a sentence by sentence breakdown of everything on Meta.com at the time of this posting.

> "Most scientific breakthroughs have been preceded by the invention of new tools that help us see and experiment in new ways."

Great! Oh, this is just a quote from Mark Zuckerberg, linking to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. OK. Moving along.

> Meta is joining the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

OK, got it. There's a bunch of corporate speak that you'll see if you click it. I won't click it because I want to know what Meta does outside of the whole CZI thing.

> Reserve a free account

> Meta is a tool that helps researchers understand what is happening globally in science and shows them where science is headed. Pending shareholder and court approval, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is acquiring Meta to help bring its technologies to the entire scientific community.

Sign up now to reserve your free account.

Neat! If you go to https://meta.science/reserve, where you actually can reserve you'll see more CZI stuff. Again, there's no indication of what these people do, in practice.

> Join a mission-driven organization working on problems that matter

Awesome! Oh, wait, this is just a link to their hiring page.

What exactly do these people do, specifically? Sure they "help researchers understand what is happening globally", but that's so vague. Google and Wikipedia technically do that too in a way.

[1] http://meta.com/
Maybe Donald Trump is the sick joke of a time traveller.
Not sure if you mean any specific problems, but yes, vehicle with electronic power system would work on Mars.

Good example of that are Mars exploration rovers (e.g. Curiosity, Spirit), which are exploring Mars since 2003 and use battery power (with solar panels for charging).
Why does it seem absurd as a negotiation tactic? They use what leverage they have against the government.
If you associate your phone number with an iMessage account, and then deactivate iMessage, Apple will just silently stop delivering group iMessages to you. You won't notice and your friends won't notice, they'll just stop coming.
I thought docker just ran a Linux VM if it wasn't already on Linux? I am going by what a colleague explained to me, so please correct me if I'm wrong!
After lung disease, the second largest consequence of tobacco smoking is heart disease, which is due to the nicotine itself.
Do you happen to have a link, or remember the title?
I wonder if this could be related https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/155/8/732/65654/Parkins...
So now you have a cheap Chinese-made car with no service network. I suppose Walmart could effectively become a dealer/service network for this manufacturer as people will also want to test drive, get financing, and trade-in vehicles. Hard to imagine Walmart wanting to get into that business assuming any Chinese manufacturer even has a viable product for the US market.
That's not true. Everyone in the thread has to delete the thread and create a new one before new messages will go to an iMessage-deactivated number.
I've said it before, we need a single payer system.

Insurance companies and Pharmaceutical companies can more or less dictate the prices they'll charge because if you're chronically ill, you can't just choose not to be treated (unless you're ok with dying.)

This behavior should not be surprising. Until the American people get pissed off enough, we'll continue to have these shenanigans.
This is true of most domain. The jargon often gives the impression things are really complicated, but often time it's just that you don't know the domain language. Even with math, 60% of the challenge is remembering the notation and substituting it in your head with the real construct.

Now, as you get into advanced topics of any field, you'll start to find difficult concepts, but 90% of the time, the foundation just appears hard because of the language you don't know.

Also, keep in mind Machine Learning is not "Machine Figuring out an equation to solve a specific problem based on some example data”. Machine Learning is a subset of AI which focuses on teaching the computer how to perform a task without explicitly programming the task execution logic. Currently, the known practical technique of doing so can be described as "Machine Figuring out an equation to solve a specific problem based on some example data”. This might not be true in the future, as better ML techniques are researched and discovered.

Also, it's good to keep in mind ML is a software engineer discipline, and data scientist just benefit from modern software, the same way Excel created jobs, this technique of ML created jobs. In the future, different ML techniques might create more jobs or replace the current ones. This puts the data science field at the mercy of ML research. Already I think it's been hard to keep up as a data scientist, since ML research is being financed greatly and advanced quickly.
Hell, at this point I would settle for some closure on "what the hell did you mean by 'more wood behind fewer arrows' in 2011 when you began the process of mass project shutdown?!... that's not really how arrows work :/".
That's true, but if one of the people in an existing thread deactivates iMessage it will stay as an iMessage group chat and silently fail to deliver to that person.
No. It's not popular at all since you can't get enterprise support for it.

With Cassandra you can goto DataStax and if you are using HBase often you are using Hadoop therefore you can get support from Hortonworks or Cloudera.
That's what I usually do (although I pin minor, because you never know). I should also be better about following semver, but it just feels wrong to have your library be at version 5.43.55 :/
Because the traditional media has been completely unbias and fair in their coverage so far?

Edit:

There are numerous examples of media bias and actual evidence of media collusion with Clinton and the DMC against Trump. What sort of bizarro world do we live in that people would rather make the truth disappear than acknowledge it?

http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/nbc-fact-check-trump-clinton-a...
You're being an engineer :-) Yes, I am aware of those things but those sorts of numbers do not correspond to day-to-day usage and intuition of most people (as I said).
> the prepper movement among tech-made billionaires is largely inspired by fear that artificial intelligence will one day displace so many jobs that there will be a revolt against those behind the technology.

Something something worker ownership of the means of production something something.

Seriously though, workers should be the first to benefit from automating their own jobs out of existence. It's been over a hundred years since marxists talked about what they perceived as the inherent contradictions of a capitalist system. Automation and the struggle for a livelihood in the face of falling wages and growing profits isn't new. Technology has changed but the fundamental conflicts remain unsolved. So while we can all debate here about the effectiveness of bunkers, we're glossing over the systemic problems that necessitate the capitalist class to hide in bunkers in the first place. At least we've moved on to the point where most recognize that there could be an existential problem accelerating toward us.

One thing I'm sure of, the class of YC 2035 will have great uber-for-bunker-security apps.
The same applies to office buildings
Testing does not automatically imply automated tests.

I do break down problems and follow the same kind of process, yet my goal is less automated testing than it is raw flexibility, ability to recombine pieces of code at will and move fast.

Chasing automated tests, even if it supposedly yields this kind of composite constructs is in my opinion taking an interesting side-effect of good craft for an end in itself.

Then of course, saying the code can be tested in isolation doesn't imply coding is driven by tests.

TDD, in my opinion, like all idols in the history of cults is, as an end, the dawn of critical thinking and progress.
Relevant SSC post on the topic: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smokin....
It literally means: "a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways."

You are right that restart survivable persistence has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Mcdonalds claims to sell 2.5M cups of coffee per day - ten years of sales at that rate would be 9.1 billion cups. 700 reports works out to a 0.000007671232876712329 percent chance.

Even with generous fudge factors for daily cups sold, 700 incidents over 9.1 billon servings is nothing. It's a 1 in 13 million chance. To put that into perspective, your lifetime chance of being struck by lightning twice is 1 in 9 million.

So yes, I'm still going with user error. People can be dumb.
- In practice, we as a society value stopping fraud and terrorist funding quite a bit more than rooting out every last Jeffrey Dahmer

- Looking through financial metadata is a couple orders of magnitude less invasive than physically searching everyone's closet every week

All I'm saying here is there is actually a tradeoff between privacy and law-enforcement effectiveness. Of course we should think of ways to have both, but it is not always possible in every case. As engineers, that should be easy to understand.

If we're being honest with ourselves, we should admit that we're willing to pay a cost (perhaps even a substantial one) for greater privacy. We should then have a discussion about which costs we're willing to pay, for which particular forms of privacy, and how to get the most bang for our buck.

We should not simply pretend that the cost of upholding our liberal values is zero, as tempting as that might be rhetorically.
GV could never make calls. It is primarily a call forwarding service (with tacked on free SMS and now MMS) which allows you to make calls to numbers in other states with no additional cost and make international calls for a low rate. You still need to go through your phone service; as far as your service is aware, these calls are going to a local number (the area code of your google voice number).
"Forgoing" profit now, in pursuit of greater profit when there's less competition after the merger. Always follow the money.
Well, if you bothered to click on the second link that you for some reason didn't want to because of "corporate speak" - the associated Facebook post explains pretty clearly what Meta does.

> "Meta’s tools can dramatically accelerate scientific progress and move us closer to our goal: to support science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century. Meta will help scientists learn from others’ discoveries in real time, find key papers that may have gone unnoticed, or even predict where their field is headed.

The potential for this kind of platform is virtually limitless: a researcher could use Meta to help identify emerging techniques for understanding coronary artery disease; a graduate student could see that two different diseases activate the same immune defense pathway; and clinicians could find scientists working on the most promising Zika treatments sooner. In the long run, it could be extended to other areas of knowledge: for example, it could help educators stay up to date on developmental science to better understand how children learn."
He should have a bit of say in that, yeah. But if he didn't use any of that influence, then it wouldn't happen.
Why PC companies are making big bets on gamers
I did the same. No need to haggle since the internet sales w as straight up lower than any other dealer through conventional means. I has a loan pre-approved so the purchase was quick too.
Clarifying: Nicotine harms everyone. Net harm to a schizophrenic may be negative, but they are still harmed.

"Self-medication hypotheses" exist for many abused substances. Rather than accusing the addicted of poor education, self control, or intelligence it argues (with mounting evidence) that there is a structural or genetic issue that contributes for some addictions.

Ideally we would figure out the mechanism of action and design something with less negative life altering side-effects.

There's always an opportunity to examine freedom of choice/free will for the more philosophic among us :)
Go back to Breitbart.
I don't. Been running a Mac laptop since 2003.
The company I worked for ended up not doing it (and regretting it).

It ends up not being that many people, but extremely high paid consultants (200 to 400 dollars an hour), and extremely high licensing costs. Some projects can go on for years, should be 1 to 2 years.

It's extremely profitable and very well paid, one such company, Guidewire, is one of the top 10 best paying employers in the U.S.

http://www.cio.com/article/3064769/careers-staffing/10-best-...
Hrm. Good question. I'd say when you sort of 'boil off' all the other stuff yeah. I've tried just sheer willpower before and would always fall back, but combined with taking stock of what made me want to smoke and tracking the progress I was making made the goal to quit smoking a little less hectic because I was actively paying attention to my addiction and what fed into it.
Can you support the viewpoint that such preferences are abnormal for a presidential administration?