skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Poker is solved using a very large game tree

You mean Libratus' strategy used a very large game tree. That is not the only strategy. Take a look at research from the University of Alberta [0]. Also, I'm not certain Libratus' strategy can be simplified to "very large game tree" as I haven't seen the paper, yet.

While finding a Nash equilibrium means no other player can beat you, it doesn't mean you're going to make the most money in a big ring game. A different strategy might lose money to an equilibrium player, but exploit a different, weak player so much that it's worth the loss.

[0] http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/publications.html
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> They just cannot order a cake for a gay wedding -- nor can any straight customer.

That's like saying you didn't steal my money, you've just enforced a rule that I can only spend my money on you.
Because end-users don't care about open source, and developers like to make money instead of getting trivially cloned.
I don't have many peripherals, but traveling frequently I've acquired the habit of not carrying extra USB chargers, but charging iPhone and Apple Watch via the laptop overnight. Can't do that on the "cheap" (non-touchbar) model (while also charging) without extra hub. Worse now with the AirPods.
I was a free market libertarian until about last week, when I finally got sick of being lectured and called names by tech billionaires. Now I'm for anything that helps me financially, and hurts these people.

If the H1B program were abolished entirely, my compensation would shoot up there with doctors' and lawyers', and the tech billionaires would be slightly less rich.

This measure doesn't go that far, but it's a step in that direction.
I think the gamification or making it something addictive is a good idea. If the crowd is actually people already doing it, I would be curious to know what that TAM is and if it's something that is growable.

Essentially you are making a cognitively heavier Reddit/facebook feed/digg etc... that also assumes each side has equivalently quality content.

Good luck, I think this is something needed but it's probably in the hardest camp, with toughest monetization.
Cosma Shalizi deals very well with Cockshott's arguments on his blog: http://bactra.org/weblog/919.html
that justification is very weak re the border wall. we can argue that it is a dumb way to do things. but if that was the case then everything the gov does needs an ACLU lawsuit.

the constitution does not guarantee open-borders and the entire immigration system is there to act as a virtual wall in the first place. So I fail to understand the ACLU's position on the wall. It definitely has nothing to do with constitutional issues
They interpret 2A as a collective right for the purposes of explaining why they (and note that this specifically refers to the national ACLU organization!) do not step in to defend it.

However, they never argue in court against 2A. Nor do they prohibit their member state organizations from taking a different position - and many do.

Yes, ACLU is a broad "civil liberties" organization. But there's no definitive list of civil liberties, and different people have different opinions on this. The fact that SCOTUS ruled on it doesn't change matters - SCOTUS rules on whether something is a constitutional right or not, not on whether something is a civil right or not. The latter is inherently a subjective assessment.
The FISA Act replaced previous warrantless actions, so bad as it is it was still an improvement on the status quo.
> The demand curve is left unchanged by this bill

Globally, sure, but the global supply of labor in any field isn't changed, only the US supply. In many cases, H-1B work isn't extremely location-sensitive, and foreign suppliers are acceptable substitutes to local suppliers.

To the extent this is true in any field, the effect of restricting visa supply is to offshore more work.
I had to disable sleep on my macbook + 5k monitor to prevent it from having a kernel panic every time I wanted to use my computer first thing in the morning. Seems to be fine for now, but of course that also means I'm running nonstop.
> >So if you ordered something of dubious legality, and your top corporate lawyer suggested it was unlikely to pass a trial, you would just sack them and ask the next one the same thing again?

> At no point have I said I take a view that is often taken in HN, that is, if you can play the game and win, it doesn't matter how you do it. I actually don't think that.

But you literally wrote this in your original post:

> If I was President/General/CEO and someone doesn't do the thing I have ordered, i'm going to fire them as well.

How else are we meant to interpret that?

On the last part I only have this to say: I don't have pro-trump bias. I am very anti-trump, but not as a premise, but rather as an end result of my rationality.
>People who hunt-and-peck and haven't memorized keyboard shortcuts (basically everyone) are going to love the touch bar.

How many Macbook Pro users fit that profile?
> Association certainly breeds empathy, but what if that association is forced by a third party?

Its not like everyone feels 'forced', its only a few people (just like I don't feel forced to drive within lanes or not kill people - these don't register for me). But the impact of their attitudes is potentially much greater.

Lets say there are 3 groups of people - (M)inority group, (P)rejudiced people who have businesses, and (E)veryone else.

In this instance, the forced interaction is only forced on P, which is a small number.

P's actions would have broader impact though. The M's would find themselves less welcome in certain areas, and over time (justifiably) choose to go elsewhere. Less M's mean E's would have less interaction with M's.

P's unchecked actions would also begin to normalize P's behavior, and embolden their stance. Normalization would potentially increase the number of E's becoming P's.

Over a long time, this could create an environment where M's choose to leave entirely, E's simply lose out on the opportunity to interact with M's, and increase the likelihood E's turn in to P's through osmosis of P's normalized behavior, and because of lack of personal experience with M's. The P/E community get segregated from the M community, and whenever there are struggles between those communities (which always happen between communities, e.g. resources, culture, etc), empathy is not there to keep things civil. All due to a few Prejudiced individuals not liking being 'forced' to interact with others during the course of their personal choice to engage in (government regulated) economic activity.

Basically, a few rotten apples spoils the lot.
CropScape
Things are much better these days with proprietors, HR folks and lawyers of these firms getting jail sentences.
It's not holding back the web, settle down! It can still render websites perfectly fine and will continue to do so.

Seriously, what horse are you backing where iOS Safari is compared to IE6?!? What oh-so important feature you simply must-have, that would even begin to signify that iOS Safari is "holding back the web"?

The web dev world is absolutely mental at the moment...
I love my iPhone 7. I've had it for a little over a month and I've already taken some of the best photos of the last ten years, including dslr photos I've taken.
Not sure what happened, but it looks like the attorney was recently disbarred for "professional misconduct".
http://www.txcourts.gov/media/825977/149249.pdf
It's actually "universal" now, for the first time in history. You can run anything through it, including power and your 4/5K displays. It's far less "serial" than it used to be, though.
Here's a simple hack. Anonymously lease N inexpensive VPS. Archive your stuff (perhaps a VM) with tar, encrypt with gpg, and use split to get N pieces. Use bbcp to put distinct subsets of pieces on each VPS, such that any M of the N VPS will give your stuff back.
> Or technical people who obsess over details that most people don't actually care about?

But most people care about money, so when a consumer needs to overspend on a piece of hardware that is less competitive than previous generations it matters. So the geeks need to inform the people that don't know enough to know they might be wasting their money.
I posted this later[1]. I think overall voter turnout was slightly down. Also, I am not blaming Hillary's loss on specific demographics. Just let's not start fighting with each other. We all need to step up and get in the game for all.

black voter turnout 2016
http://www.phillytrib.com/news/black-voter-turnout-a-look-at...

wide look
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/12/raw-data-turno...
Every time I hear criticism of an Apple product that I agree with, I think of this: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
How do you know you're nailing most of your interviews? How do you know that you're getting these specific scores -- are the companies that reject you giving you a score afterwards? Which field are you in? Which companies do you consider "prestigious" (or if you can't name them specifically, what makes them so)? The answers to these questions could give us insight on your situation and help us help you better.
Not sure if people remember but Stanford in collaboration with Sebastian Thrun offered one of the first online educational course in Machine Learning. This piqued my interest in ML and I enrolled & completed the course from one of the most rural parts of India (I had to create an extension antenna for my 3g phone to get better reception).

Udacity was born due to the popularity of this course.

Can't thank Sebastian and Stanford enough for this free course.
Two hundred years ago if you stood up and told a pack of lies, someone would challenge you, and you would either have to back down or face them in a duel. Nowadays you just repeat your lies.
The Department of Justice's job is not to "support the chief executive". In fact, Yate's was asked directly by then Senator, and current Attorney General nominee, Sessions at her confirmation hearing whether she thought "the attorney general has the responsibility to say no to the President if he asks for something that's improper?"

She did exactly what she said she would and what Congress asked her to do. In this case, I'm going to go with someone who has been in the job for years over the self-serving justifications of an administration that hasn't been in office for two weeks.
Cables? Yes, except where the logo is on both sides. Sockets? Seems to depend entirely on what's convenient for the hardware/PCB layout. From the last 48h: one of my chargers, my car, and two different model monitors all have "upside down" USB sockets...
I like this comment. We are guilty of letting this happen. I doubt stating that will change the average person's willingness to go out and vote and get involved with politics, but it is important to acknowledge our part of the blame. We can't be Halocaust-deniers, and we can't pretend we didn't have some part in this surveillance overreach. We let our fear play into their hands - and their hands have stayed busy since 2001.

~ don't give in to apathy, no matter how depressing we must stay involved in politics ~
Love this feature! I wish there was a way to browse topics and see which ones are used more. It would help you tag your repos to topics that exist already instead of creating a new topic with only yourself.
Yes. That's the point of an H-1B visa - to recruit highly-skilled workers when American workers are not available.
I don't assume that people blog only. I do HPC for a living and pay for resources on demand. Not everyone can manage but more of you could if you wanted.
What makes you think I support Trump? My criticism comes from the left, not the right. The difference between Hillary and Trump has always been one of style and in some areas depth, not substance. Suddenly Hillary's supporters decide to protest and support anti-Trump action, when the entire Democratic establishment supported the very things that have set Trump up for years without a peep. I'm deeply skeptical and do not trust them. Period.
Yup. Url changed from https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/31/google-open-sources-chrome..., which points to this.
- Out with flat org structure based purely on meritocracy, in with supervisors and middle managers. This has ticked off many people in the old guard.

- Its once famous remote-employee culture has been rolled back. Senior managers are no longer allowed to live afar and must report to the office. This was one reason why some senior execs departed or were asked to leave, one person close to the company told us.

- GitHub has hit "hypergrowth," growing from about 300 to nearly 500 employees in less than a year, with over 70 people joining last quarter alone.

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-...
Hahaha! Ok I can dig that, "learn the SuperHi way" is actually pretty clever. Thanks for explaining your reasoning.
I consider myself pretty adept at typing but I am not able to reliably hit the fn keys without looking down save for maybe f1 and f5. Though, I am on a full size keyboard so the distance to travel to the top row is further.
s/.*/Because it's sexy and trendy above anything else/g
Lots of people seem to like it, but same experience here -- I don't recall an instance of the machine being "saved" by MagSafe, but oh boy do I recall plugging it back in all the time when something moved a bit.
I don't understand why these questions are being down-voted; I think they are pretty legit:

Is meditation just a shortcut to the flow state?

I'm also suspicious of guided meditations; I listen to audio books, how is a guided meditation different? Is a movie provably different?

I'm not dissing meditation; I do a breathe focused meditation nearly daily and I occasionally do guided meditations (I'll try these tonight), but there's a large number of practices that loosely fall into the category of meditation and also a large number of possibly worthwhile activities that are booted out. Most people (including me) never seem to question the why of this separation.
There are a lot of quirks with Safari that are similar to the way IE6 eventually stopped following standards.

That fact that localstorage doesnt work in private mode is 1 example.
> What greedy, heartless, unpatriotic company do you work for?

Just the kind that almost every American works for and little better than the owned by out President. If you know any unselfish, living, patriotic company that is also profitable that pays well please refer me I will join there!

> Republicans could explore the possibility of imposing surcharges on fees paid to offshore development shops, to encourage a more "America First" mindset in greedy companies who lay off American workers and offshore the work.

We think that as a real possibility and intend to bypass it too.

I know you have been sarcastic.
It's still universal, that's why you can get a USB A to USB C cable that doesn't need any kind of chip in it.

You're crazy if you think that 4-conductor rectangular non-reversible connector was going to be the end-all be-all for USB forever. We had to upgrade eventually. Be thankful that this change is being relatively swift and reasonably future-proof. USB C should be good for quite a few more years.
> the FISA Act was passed, which is what eventually led to all this secret surveillance.

That's like saying speed limits led to to the problem of people driving fast. FISA was a set of limits put in place because the surveillance was already happening. Oversight where there was none prior.
I think Atlassian is the reference for this. Next to no salespeople, prices up front. Seems to work for them.
Turnkey employment backup / subsidiarisation in Vancouver
That's why they switched to high resolution displays, so they could fit all the zeros in their bank account on the screen without scrolling.
I never said this government was not a democracy, but that this administration's MO is inconsistent with the limitations set forth by our democratic government. For example, being elected does not give you carte-blanche to ignore federal court orders.
If you think there won't be people that would try to start businesses in America, you are sadly mistaken.
Yes, the 130k figure does nothing in practice.
Yeah, that's the downside of carrying stuff that you can't decrypt. They won't believe you, and won't stop until you decrypt it. Better is not to have anything sensitive with you.
It's worth noting that opening a file can have much longer latency than the disk read number in this table on consumer machines due to two factors:
a) power policy causes hard drive to power off. Spin up time is on the order of seconds.
b) user installed virus scanner hooks your process' file open or read to perform scan. This can typically take time on the order of hundreds of milliseconds.

These numbers are also important when writing software that runs on consumer PCs where real-time performance is a feature (e.g. most PC games).
Aren't we already compensating by virtue of tax deductions at federal level and allowing certain states to not tax income?
if the number of prejudiced people in business is small (and therefore avoidable), why would the minority group choose to leave the environment entirely? After all, we're talking about the prejudiced group simply not wanting to have to associate with the minority group, not necessarily hating them or wishing harm upon them. We all have people who don't like us, often unjustifiably, but we just avoid interacting with those individuals rather than abstaining from interaction with anyone in their community.

In cases where the number of prejudiced is higher and thus the minority group is unlikely to be able to avoid dealing with a prejudiced business owner, it's unlikely that the two groups would have ever gotten along in the first place.
I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican, and don't view it through that lense. I'm viewing this (support for the ACLU) with a skeptical eye, the same way I'd view a Trump protest started by Hillary campaign staffers.
>...yet they were. That's a problem.

Yep, it's a problem, but what's Hong Kong gonna do? Hong Kong has no army. So what can it do?

China will just do as China pleases, because China have the military forces to back up it back.
They soldered my ram and ssd to the motherboard. I don't mind if its made by a particular company as long as I don't give them money.
If you think about it, banking is pretty crazy.

According to mainstream econ theory: Money is a: (1) medium of exchange; (2) unit of measure; (3) store of value

If there's any lessons I learned in undergrad econ that I wish the world would wrap its head around, it's two things:

1 - There's nothing scientific about money and banking which makes it a good idea for banks to gamble with other people's money. Paul Krugman was very passionate about this years back--saying he wished banks were run like utility companies and let hedge funds and ibanks go gamble with their own money--but he stopped talking about that--though I'm positive he'd still support fractional reserve banking and low-risk gambling (which are traditional bank lending services).

2 - though macro- and financial-econ does does use quite a bit of mental gymnastics, pseudo science, quantitative analysis, and hand waving to attempt to convince you that central banks and monetary policy are good ideas, the fact is they're institutions based on the principle of financial alchemy. Couple that with a history of corruption, secret lending programs and questionable authority... I have no idea why people tolerate this.

Unfortunately, as crazy as it sounds, these ideas would make me a total heretic within the field of economics if that were my profession.

Long-winded way of saying that every time I see a banking scandal it doesn't surprise me: the whole thing is built on an empire of

I mean if you were a benevolent creator of a nation's economy (sim city type of scenario) you'd want banking to be as efficient (read:small) as possible while still effectively accomplishing what limited role it does play. On the other hand, VCs, private investors, hedge funds. etc should be permitted to go invest their money on their own accord. That might sound like common sense but it's not what our legislation provides.
> The drawback there however is the persistent notification.

Well, the actual drawback is that you end up with over a dozen such notifications, your entire UI is full with them, and there’s no way to get rid of them, even if you developed the apps yourself.
This is cognate to the "Black people can get married, just not to members of a different race" argument, which has long been recognized as specious.
> If an astronaut dies a drawn-out, agonizing, painful death due to space cancer, without surgery or medication, it would be a PR disaster for NASA.

For the worst case, supply them with euthanasia drugs. Sounds inhuman, but in my opinion far more human than letting them suffer a brutal death.
Yes, as a small business owner, it's a tougher concept to come to terms with. You can try looking at it from different perspectives though.

For one, I'm sure a 12th century monarch or a lord would have a host of reasons why you're damn right it's my regime. Or a modern-day King Saud for that matter I guess. After all, it's his father who built his kingdom, and he has all the risks and responsibilities of a monarch. But for most Western observers, that is no longer defensible and most would elect to live somewhere with a democratic government.

Same goes to modern day dictatorships like North Korea. If not for international borders and internal controls, most North Koreans would probably prefer to leave their country. So, to continue the analogy, one could imagine a day in the future where as a small business owner, you are no longer able to attract any employees on the terms you're used to now -- not unless they are not employees, but co-workers with all equal rights and votes. And just as it's unimaginable and laughable in modern America for someone to start claiming that he's now a lord of XYZ county, and all those living within it are his peasants, it's not too hard to imagine a similar reaction to your proposal of employment for wages.

You can also look at it from another angle.

Why exactly is it that you want to have your own totalitarian regime within the organization you started? Is it just because you enjoy the power over people? Most people wouldn't say so. Besides, if you are the founder and know the business better than anyone, and have good leadership qualities, why wouldn't you be constantly re-elected as CEO?

And if your coworkers indeed approve of you as CEO, you would still get your greater earnings potential, although without being able to exploit your workers as much.
How do you figure? Right now, consulting companies spam the lottery with shitty jobs. With the new system favoring quality $130k+ jobs there will be a bigger supply of good H1Bs to compete with.

I'm very unsure about this, but thinking maybe I should hurry and buy a house if this passes.
Czech Cyber-Attack: Russia Suspected of Hacking Diplomats’ Emails