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> "I worked 60 hours this week and lost five grand" downswings.

That's nowhere near the worst downswing that even most midstakes cash game players have had.

> the long run can be distressingly long.

Especially in live cash games. It can go six months. It can make actually-winning players believe they aren't, and drive them out of the game.

Poker swings were the most emotional time of my life--I played HUSNGs for a few years professionally and had very mild downswings, all things considered.

I once lost 14 games in a row against one of the top-10 worst players I'd ever played with. I'm quite certain my winrate was about 70% against this player (exceedingly high for HUSNGs, almost the theoretical edge)
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I'm only saying why I haven't learned Lisp, which seems perfectly well due to misunderstandings. So cut it with the shitty attitude.
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> I think you can put this more generally as "syntax is not semantics." Go takes some syntactic cues from python (but who doesn't these days?) but its semantics can be pretty different.

Except the difference is not in similar syntax with different semantics; since it's the application of the & operator, which has no close parallel in Python, that is the source of the surprise.
It seemed like it would be better if there were clear rules and guidelines that governed when and how data would be turned over. Then users and companies would be more aware of their rights and risks, and there would be an above-board and verifiable process for accessing data.
I think this comments section is enough. It's more fun to go into the story without knowing that it's fake.
I would find it mind blowing that whilst sitting on the toilet, I have all of the worlds knowledge, and the ability to communicate with people anywhere in the world, in the palm of my hand.
How do you monetize?
Supposedly someone bought $720 at 10 cents and then it went back up making him $2 million.
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Overlooked in a lot of discussion of the CO2 impact of Tesla vs ICE is the effect of the added weight of the batteries on the amount of road damage a car will cause. A study in the 1950's showed that road damage is proportional to the third power of the axle weight of the car. If the Tesla weights 1/3 more that a similar ICE vehicle it will cause (4/3)^3 or about 3 times as much damage to the road a similar ICE. Replacing the fleet of ICE cars with Tesla type cars would lead to the road being replaced 3 times as often. Note concrete production is large CO2 emitter.
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I don't know. Say medical journals - in case of a war, where fiber cables are cut; it'd be nice to still know how to treat people.

Consider that in the 80s, Iraq would've been considered a US ally - how might storing most of financial and municipal data in US datacenters have affected the later invasions?

We like to think about the current "post globalisation"-world as a peaceful one - but it's only true until it isn't. And there are still areas where national interests remain important.
You say "used to be". How long ago was that?
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Isn't this the problem that Blockstack is solving?
The interview process at many software companies is weighted towards fresh grads who display a "genius factor", i.e. are quick to answer typical engineering problems with the best possible academic solution. Simple as that.
Yeah, that's their reason https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/229498668-...
That was a really good read. I love Victorian writing. this article does a good job of highlighting its expressive power while also being frank about its occasional bloat.
While C has no for-in loop, the natural translation of that to a C style for loop and the C address-of operator would work the same way; the key thing is that student is a variable defined outside the loop whose value is modified each iteration, not a fresh variable allocated with each loop iteration.
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That's interesting to me, as I don't consider the choice to gamble or not a moral decision.

I consider it a financial decision. Akin to buying something I want.
I bet it would actually end up stimulating the economy like a war does. Not to say I think this scenario would be good.
I've watched the video, this afternoon, and I'm wondering if these build pipelines are trying to service the same space as Spinnaker does?
I don't see anywhere in this article or in the Google search claiming that the EPA made a statement that mercury is no longer harmful or that it's safe for children.
Like nailing jello to a tree.
All part of the carefully crafted ambiance, my friend
I personally don't really intend to buy any cars with a wireless network connection. I don't know how much longer that will be possible. But at least requiring physical access will help a lot. (And prevent a true horror: Someone figuring out how to make malware spread from car to car.)

Regarding "IoT": There's no reason your light switches should talk to the Internet, even for home automation purposes.
> Generally, reading MSDN docs is a much nicer experience than reading most OSS sources, or specs, not to mention collecting workarounds from the ocean of issue tracker comments.

This is a big part of what helped PHP take off in my mind. The documentation was fantastic! In the early 2000's reading php docs online was going to give you tons of clues and hints if you bothered to look at them.

EDIT: just for laughs I went and looked at the PHP manual. It still has some of the 13 year old references in there. That might be good or bad. I haven't spent much time with PHP in the last 3 years so YMMV.

No one values good documentation as much as they should.
Good release, but... I'm getting frustrated of inconsistencies in UI (example -- issue filtering was re-designed in 9.x, but merge requests are still old; search for issues in multiple projects -- old). Unexpected changes, which break existing workflows (un-announced), and so on...

They pushing for new features, but forget to fix old bugs. There are couple of bugs open for months, even with existing merge request to fix -- nobody from engineers take a look until pushed by someone of paying customers.

I hope, Gitlab can pull "Snow Leopard" and do bug-fix only release, and repeat it couple times a year.
Yeah, at the very least - there were 1K people paying back in November 2014 (https://stratechery.com/2014/update-stratechery-membership-p...) and it's almost surely grown exponentially since.
They have 12,000 employees, apparently. Diversity numbers they released earlier this year bucketed those employees into tech, non-tech, and customer support.

Their fixed costs probably include R&D (tech) and SG&A (non-tech). Customer support depends on how they do their accounting.
> the US has been actively propping up the USD higher

What does that mean?
It's the Texan flag that looks like the Chilean one. Chile got its flag in 1817 and Texas – in 1839, 22 years later.

Not only iPhones, even groceries are cheaper and more diverse than in Argentina.

Yes, education costs are a problem but not for immigrants who work remotely (or don't have kids at all).
> Do compilers really make use of the profile timings to decide to spend more time optimising 'hot' parts of the code with more involved/expensive transformations?

Clang does not AFAIK.
Comcast customer service is terrible and will always remain terrible until they bring ALL of their customer service and technicians in house and pay them handsomely.

Until then they will always remain at the bottom of the barrel and as the most hated company in the country due to horrid customer service.

I worked at Comcast for too many years answering their phones and getting yelled out because 80% of the time due to the contracted technicians and the companies they work for.
>tools

that's a funny way of spelling "subsidies"
I think what you are claiming here is misleading.

Some pre-processing SNARK constructions (particularly ones used by some ZCash scientists) are based on multi-round interactive proof systems which reduce to one round (depending on how you count) when you relax some requirements. Such relaxations include weakening the adversary from being computationally unbounded to polynomial time bounded, forcing the prover and verifier to use a specific set of functions, or restricting what kinds of statements can be proven. Oded's work on efficient interactive proofs contributed to this effort. It is partially this efficiency that helps SNARKs actually be "succinct" and quick to verify.

You should check out some of the citations to Oded's work in https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/718.pdf (which is co-authored by Alessandro Chiesa of ZCash) and see for yourself.
Which is why everyone should still be running a firewall on their machines and stop relying completely on the router. It seems way to many people (and companies) rely on a single point of defense. This is especially true of any machines that may be connecting to public networks and home networks where you might let you're friends use wifi.
How do you Design a cryptocurrency like ethereum/BTC to have stable value?
how would you Design a cryptocurrency to have stable value, not speculative-asset value?

are crypto currency doomed to have crazy swings up and down in value like ethereum and bitcoin ?
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Have you seen the Live Free or Die Hard [1] fire sale? Also, the original Deus Ex has the New Dark Age [2] ending. Both are similar to what you've described.

1: http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Sale

2: http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Deus_Ex_endings
This is quite common with torrent site donations too, where you are directed to a webstore selling 'merch' that is actually your donation to the site in question.
I don't think the attitude that it's "a few days worth of work or oh I guess maybe a few more if they don't have everything automated yet..." is very helpful. It diminishes the problem and is incredibly unrealistic. While I don't have experience running an ISP, it's huge infrastructure, which is inevitably incredibly complex and it is almost certainly expensive, time consuming, and extremely risky to roll out major changes. But I don't disagree with you! This is even more of a reason that we need help from regulators on this front. Things that are prohibitively costly for private entities to do but must be done for society to function the way we want it to are the sweet spot for regulation.

I keep hearing that the government is taking cyber security seriously, but I see no evidence. Where is the DHS funded formal verification tool or subsidized penetration testing for critical infrastructure? I'm not saying these are the right ideas, but I don't see anything at all. Perhaps I just don't know of the programs that already exist though - looking forward to being educated here!
You know I read an article a long time ago about two guys who drove truck and took turns coding (team drivers so the person not driving would write code) and wrote shareware this way - it might have been a game published by Epic or Apogee in the early 90's or I might be imagining the whole thing
The non-trivial part is that most optimization are contextual and not "one function at a time". Re-optimizing only a single function may not even be possible/useful with things like partial inlining/outlining, etc.
Anybody knows how/if the camera/player pair support 6-dof?
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I agree with some parts of your answer but I have always wondered do u really evaluate the capabilities solely on an ability to solve these mind bending problems, there are lot of folks who might not know how to get an exact solution for a crazy hard dp problem but are very good devs and vice versa is also true a good cs interview might not necessarily translate to a great dev in a real world scenario.
>Why people run any systems on windows is beyond me

Windows gets hacked because it is the most used desktop OS. If everybody started using Linux, it would get hacked as often as Windows. Quoting your comment again:

>because perfect security is impossible
comcast probably has a secret nazi division which will gas you
The best similar tool looks like http://brackets.io/, but it only works for HTML/CSS.
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CareerCup is good, but it has so much content with no structure, so you feel overwhelmed obviously.

Try leetcode if you haven't already, start with topic wise easy questions, then medium and then difficult, participate in the message boards discussions about problems, you need time and discipline, that's all.
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Doesn't that make the assumption that there is a hard and fast distinction between compiler and language?

That the compiler isn't fundamentally part of the language or integrated into the language itself?

I don't think that has to hold for all possible language designs...
It's a misnomer to call video VR.
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I love Gitlab: both the product and the company. I really do.

With that said, I was really kinda upset that they enabled "Delete Merged Branch" by default in the last major release (9.2): it really caused a few days of headaches of reverting development/staging branches that developers and merge approvers approved.

I ended up writing a small Chrome plugin to uncheck the box, and distributed it to the developers that I work with before going in and learning enough angular to disable the box from being checked by default.

Sid; I have nothing but respect for you and the rest of gitlab, but, please don't change the behavior of how gitlab works (and yes, I understand convention over configuration) without giving either project or site administrators the ability to disable those changes.
I can vouch for this. Not only are the contracted techs horrible, the internal billing system is this byzantine fuckfest of terse codes and multiple, poorly-documented applications.

I spent 6 months putting up with angry phone calls from a small ISP that Comcast absorbed before I had to quit for my own mental health.
oh, I was assuming that the time for the rotations was dependent on the size of the models, presumably in number of verts. This memoization would change the runtime.

E.g. if it was linear in that, then you would be going from O(mn) to O(m+n)
It would take a global effort. An ISP level DDoS mitigation doesn't help me access my servers in the UK from Australia while they are being attacked from a wordlwide botnet.

It also raises concerns about traffic control. What if my entirely legitimate but small service in Australia is blocked by US DDoS mitigation? They have no reason to care and I may have no legal or monetarily reasonable recourse.
This is certainly a serious issue, but a few aspects of this article are very strange.

> Worse, the assault, which has never been reported before, was not spotted by some of the nation’s leading cybersecurity products, the top security engineers at its biggest tech companies, government intelligence analysts or the F.B.I., which remains consumed with the WannaCry attack.

> “The world is burning about WannaCry, but this is a nuclear bomb compared to WannaCry,” Mr. Ben-Oni said. “This is different. It’s a lot worse. It steals credentials. You can’t catch it, and it’s happening right under our noses.”

This attack and WannaCry use the same exploitation vector (EternalBlue). It seems that his company was targeted with a custom payload, which is definitely unfortunate, but that is not related to the exploit itself, it is just another form of custom code being used to perform further actions (Instead of simply encrypting files as WannaCry was doing). This is probably even easier for an attacker since there is now even a Metasploit module for MS17-010.

> The attack on IDT went a step further with another stolen N.S.A. cyberweapon, called DoublePulsar. The N.S.A. used DoublePulsar to penetrate computer systems without tripping security alarms. It allowed N.S.A. spies to inject their tools into the nerve center of a target’s computer system, called the kernel, which manages communications between a computer’s hardware and its software.

This is not a "step further" though. DoublePulsar is the implant injected EternalBlue and was certainly used in WannaCry. I am not sure why they had not even taken the time to try to verify this, even the WannaCry Wikipedia page states this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack). Again, this is the same exploitation vector and same implant, but with a modified payload to specifically target IDT it seems.

> For his part, Mr. Ben-Oni said he had rolled out Microsoft’s patches as soon as they became available, but attackers still managed to get in through the IDT contractor’s home modem.

This tells me:
1. Even though machines internally were patched, a contractor was allowed to connect to the network with an unpatched machine.
2. If machines were internally patched, how would an infected contractor be able to do damage? I am not clear on this. They might be saying the network itself was not attacked, but rather the attacker was able to login with the legitimate employee's credentials and cause damage that way (In which case, something is very wrong internally if this was possible).

I know it is not nice to victim-shame regarding security issues, and I am trying not to do so, but it seems like the story here is phrased in a slightly disingenuous manner. It is essentially this: An IDT contractor with an unpatched machine and privileged network access was targeted using EternalBlue to steal their credentials with a custom payload. It worked. After this, it is unclear if the stated network intrusion occurred because EternalBlue spread (Would not make sense if patched) or the contractor credentials were used "legitimately" (Indicates poor access control and monitoring).
Worker Productivity in the United States is at an all time high while Wages have stagnated and the Labor Force Participation rate is at a 39 year low.

This is a genuine choke-point problem of upward mobility intentionally designed and executed by interested parties and it needs some forceful unwinding. See Also: Robber Barons.
I wonder if enough important people lost money that they will do another hard fork of the block chain?
After nuclear weapons were first invented, the big powers spent a lot of effort in non-proliferation, to stop smaller countries building them.

Cyber weapons are not as dangerous as nukes, but much easier to copy, and much harder to know who attacked you.

The NSA/CIA has been very lax in allowing their weapons to be copied.
The fact that you didn't know that the Clinton campaign did no such thing contributed to our current situation.
We like Hololens, but it's a harder sell to doctors. We had 75% of anaesthetists happy to use Glass, I don't think we'd get that with Hololens.

One of the fun things we found was that less experienced doctors were more likely to be happy to use Glass. Why? We're pretty sure this was actual confounded by age - these less experienced doctors were generally younger!
A realpolitik view of tech only holds under the assumption that any new technology is good technology. It allows nothing to balance or sustainability, and I believe the trajectory of the Web is unsustainable and therefore fundamentally doomed despite its near-term wonders.

The SV camp has said nothing to convince me otherwise.
I agree is seems super sad, and Hoefler comes across as a real jerk. If both your names are on the door (as they were then), then you're partners.

I really love Exchange. The medium italic is calling out to me to use on a project I'm thinking about.
I can't tell if it's the headband to slip a phone into, the tools for content creation, or the dual channel cameras. Perhaps it's all three.

kind of a shame they used up the 180 name though. it's not a wide view of vr. it's not really a 180 from the cardboard either.

From the few words about it, i have a generally positive vibe about whatever vaguely defined thing they made. Neat. Not neat enough for me act on. I'm probably not in the targeted demographic. But good luck with whatever that winds up being.
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I didn't mean to imply that I solely evaluate capabilities based on a mind numbing problem. I think it's important to balance questions: CS coding questions that they should know (based on education or previous projects), and questions that they probably haven't encountered before. This way you get a good assessment of the level and quality of their existing knowledge, and then get to assess how well they can think and solve new challenges.
I believe most of these 'professional' slot players operate around the multi-machine jackpots which can sometimes get large enough to offer a positive EV on the games. They work in teams though admittedly is been a long time since I've read about it. There was also another guy I read about who worked on finding flaws in the prngs and pay tables but those would only last a matter of months before corrected.
We're simply not prepared for a well-coordinated attack.

Aren't we? We handle natural disasters, large-scale power grid failures, etc. If WannaCry bricked everything it touched, the results would have been much worse and more tragic but would they be worse than an earthquake or hurricane in a major metropolitan area?
Hostage here doesn't have to mean held by force. One can be a hostage of hopes and desires.
I would think it's a sensible default, but you're right, you should have the option to change it. I actually assumed the option was there, but I just checked in 9.3, and it's not.
Thanks, amazing. The entire ecosystem is basically broken. May take a look at other ecosystems like NuGet, etc.?
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In the US most vehicles are already recycled for scrap before they are 20 years old.

Average age has just ticked up to 11.6 years: http://www.autonews.com/article/20161122/RETAIL05/161129973/...
The value swings represent changing ideas in the minds of human beings about the value of the underlying currency.

If you want the value of a currency to be stable, you need to be in a position to economically support the stable price - if lots of people want to sell, the stabilizer must be prepared to buy a lot of the currency at the stable price. If a lot of people want to buy, the stabilizer must be prepared to sell a lot of the currency at the stable price. This is potentially a very, very expensive - and perhaps impossible - undertaking.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy for more.

Ultimately, value isn't something that's designed, it's the overall effect of a lot of individuals' preferences and guesses about the future.