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At this point, after having been a gamer (though I've never really been fanatical about it) ever since childhood in the 1980s... I just don't care if my Mac plays big-budget AAA games at this point.

Like most software professionals, I work a lot of hours, and my time is limited.

So when it comes to leisure-time, I generally want my games to "just work."

I don't want to see a game on the Mac App Store and then spend a bunch of time Googling forums and stuff to see if the port's any good and if it will actually run decently on my Mac hardware, and then do some more experimentation with settings and everything to actually get it to run acceptably.

A little bit of console hacking can be fun; sometimes I enjoy tinkering with old consoles to get better video output or whatever. But that stuff is 100% optional.

Besides, these days, I'm more into indie-style 2D games than 60-hour immersive "epics" that cost $40mil to make but still have the same basic game mechanics as Daikatana. And a lot of those Unity-based 2D-ish games run pretty well on MacOS.

Plus, I don't know. I think I actually like having my Mac be my "dedicated work machine." It's hard enough to get work done with the Internet beckoning; it'd probably be even harder if all my favorite games were just a click away too. Then again, maybe that's just the Stockholm syndrome talking.
Check out my project, it should solve the problem you mentioned. The goal would be to stabilize the price of Ether on the blockchain so the Ether can be sold off slowly without moving the market.

Its essentially a cryptocurrency risk management system where one user takes on all the profit/loss of cryptocurrencies price change so that other user (fund) pegges their wealth to USD

https://medium.com/@mnaei/are-you-selling-50-of-your-cryptoc...
>The little bottles/jars are also reusable, though I've yet to actually find a use for them.

I find they're handy for travel, picnics, etc. although admittedly if I used Blue Apron repeatedly I'd probably end up drowning in them.
I was thinking more of a minimum reasonable (or perhaps plausible) configuration of actual Z system hardware.
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Yeah totally. It's probably one of the most profitable jokes created if he cashes out.
This is exactly my point - the danger of "anthropomorphization" lies in taking the brain analogy too far. That is, there shouldn't necessarily be a link between research in neuroscience and advances that make deep learning models more accurate. The tasks are completely different (human learning vs. minimizing a loss function), and it's important for researchers in both fields - neuroscience and AI - to keep that in mind.
You can self train, like AlphaGo or that pong playing thing. As for the aesthetics part, there are theories on what aesthetics is, and part of it has to do with parsimony. Machines can certain constrain themselves on that.
> How does that enrich your life?

I don't know, that's kind of a heavy question for what feels like minutia to me. I don't really ask myself if every single thing I enjoy explicitly enriches my life.
New Seasons is great, there has been one in the progress of opening across from my office in Emeryville (East Bay - SF Bay Area) for the past year.
Yeah I was refering to air bags.
uMatrix has been a blessing for me. Block everything until you need it. I'd rather have the web broken than let them do whatever they want.
I find Apple's lack of commitment to Vulkan incredibly short-sighted on their part and downright offensive to developers. At a higher level, both Metal and Vulkan address the same technical issues in previous APIs. The sheer waste of effort and squandered opportunities resulting from this type of fragmentation sometimes make me wonder if we need a regulatory agency to step in when big players show such obvious disregard for interoperability.
> That is an opinionated message about a language.

No. It's a rude, factually incorrect, and just plain obnoxious comment with nothing to recommend it. Are you shocked it was met with ridicule and hostility?

> you seem to mistook it to be "All" professional developers.

That's because you're a bad writer who speaks in (incorrect) absolutes.

> Look, there is no denying this fact.

He said while lots of people deny it.

> A great number of really good developers intensely hate javascript, there's a reason why.

I've never found a really good developer to hate any language. Good developers tend to appreciate languages for their strengths - even if they prefer not to use them or don't like their idioms.

It's often a sign of a very poor developer to get into the kind of crazy language war stuff you're talking about.
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I got lucky, i was denied all these things. Sure at that age i was ashamed to say i dropped out of school cause i could no longer pay out of pocket. My school mates were uncomfortable when i talked about taking the bus. And when i couldn't buy food with at lunch with a credit card, i simply didn't eat.

Today i can pay $400 for an emergency, most my friends can't.
There are several efforts including VexCL [0] expression templates, OpenACC [1] preprocessor, Kokkos [2] template metaprogramming, SYCL [3], and many other similar projects. Parallel programming for non-trivial parallelism is still...non-trivial.

[0] https://github.com/ddemidov/vexcl

[1] https://www.openacc.org/

[2] https://github.com/kokkos/kokkos

[3] https://www.khronos.org/sycl
Personally, I wouldn't call it a new paradigm. It's quite similar to what already exists. With one improvement (which comes with trade-offs).
I was repeating myself as a rhetorical device. If we're talking about rude you should talk to the parent poster.
My guess is that a split of any initial ratio (even 50-50) will quickly converge to 90%+ of all users on one side. Quickly, as in minutes to hours.

Also, by "users", I don't mean holders. I mean entities that actually transact bitcoin on a daily basis. Exchanges and merchants. They can't afford to lose any time (money) on waiting for their favorite chain to win. They have to use the longest chain (and they are the only ones that matter).

Seeing that there is no way in hell the initial split will be anything worse than 75-25 (against Core), I predict that the price will quickly stabilize on the markets after the initial panic (which is already underway, IMHO).

The value of "bitcoin" (the winning side) after the split (and recovery from panic) will have lost an amount equivalent to what "minority coin" is worth at the time (if anything).
I don't have ML or deep learning background, but I second what you said base on my experience with backtesting trading systems. We will collect market data and design algorithms that seem to produce the kind of outcomes we want. Then test on some other data sets which the algorithms have never been applied on. Many iterations later, you can get a decent profitable algorithm. And if the 'holy grail' algo is run in market long enough, eventually there will be severe drawdown and going bust. The quality of the algo and I assume the deep learning model lies in the quality (breadth and depth) of the data, and how honest with himself the person choose to model it. There will be time and again new 'black swan' or edge events happening (remember LTCM), because using machine learning is like using the past to predict the future.

I guess as long as the users' expectations are correct it can be useful in some very specific areas. Referencing the AlphaGo game last year, I was a Go player for more than a decade. But yet AlphaGo's weird move inspires new insights that break the conventional structure / thinking-framework of a Go player. From that angle, I do think that even though DL is somewhat a blackbox, humans can pick up new insights because it explores areas which are normally ridiculous to a human with 'common sense' to explore.
Hey all, Matt from Bonsai (YC W16) here. We provide contracts, proposals, invoices, and other tools to freelancers, mostly developers and designers.

We used our anonymized data to break out what freelancers earn with different experience levels, skill sets, locations, etc: https://www.hellobonsai.com/rates
Yes, you can still get hobbyist licenses from HP for OpenVMS: https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548

Note that some fields that are not marked mandatory should be treated as mandatory, esp. the one about the intended use.

Besides VAX emulators, there are also Alpha emulators you can run OpenVMS on; of interest to hobbyists are FreeAXP - free as in free beer, not open source, and Windows only - (www.freeaxp.com), and for those who want to be able to change it, the open source ES40 Emulator (www.es40.org) (disclaimer - I am the author of both of these emulators)
When searching for an apartment in Switzerland a few years ago I found no good listing aggregator. So I built https://www.immomapper.ch/map which crawls the largest providers and currently shows over 100'000 listings on a big map with filtering, email alerts etc
If the licensing fees on x86_64 aren't ridiculous, I will be tempted to make a serious evaluation of it at work.
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People doing empirical experiments cannot claim to know the limits of their experimental apparatus.

While the design process of deep networks remains founded in trial and error, and there are no convergence theorems and approximation guarantees, no one can be sure what deep learning can do, and what it could never do.
From 120-180k over the last 5 years or so, typically doing prototypes and MVPs for startups across platforms.

Almost every project involves web servers, web clients and mobile clients.

Mostly self taught but also studied cognitive engineering which has helped a lot in understanding how to create systems and work with AI.
From a technical analysis perspective (yeah i also do palm reading and seances), Bitcoin's chart looks like a perfect triangle continuation pattern.
Even if they are accepting of you earning more, their own boss and/or Human Resources may well have a different opinion. Woe unto those whose supervisors are also underpaid.
This kind of emotional management is precisely why people quit to advance their careers.
Yep

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evd5je/an-ethereu...
I make $7 US dollars an hour designing and developing apps as a full-time employee. I’m paying off a new car, pay rent, and live quite a good life compared to others in my country (third-world country).

Compared to other countries salaries, mine is awful. Compared to local salaries, it’s actually about 4x the minimum wage. The cost of living here is quite low (I pay 150$ per month for a single bedroom with bathroom).
Where this kind of salary hurts is when:

- traveling

- buying online

- saving for the future (maybe I will want to move overseas, and I also need savings for emergencies)

- paying for study (courses, uni overseas)

- buying work computers or phones

- buying software or services (e.g. Photoshop, Sketch)
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> Why do you lack confidence in the SegWit2X developers?

I think the fact that they're pushing a hardfork 3 months after SegWit activates says a lot. We're talking about making all existing clients on a 40 billion dollar network obsolete and open to abuse. Giving only 3 months time to upgrade is absurd. Also, I believe SegWit2X was spawned some time in May? Being generous, that's only been 3 months of development so far.

When it comes to software like Bitcoin, where the slightest bug can result in catastrophe, I want the most conservative developers imaginable.

The development of btc1 (the SegWit2X client), AFAIK, has not been open. Most of it has occurred behind closed doors, with only the merges to the public repo being visible.

Another notable concern is there was a pull request submitted recently against the SegWit2X client (btc1). It changes the "seed nodes" list; adding in nodes that will run SegWit2X software. That's fine, except one of the nodes belongs to a company who's goal is to monitor and de-anonymize the Bitcoin network. For those not familar, seed nodes are the nodes the Bitcoin client initially connects to, from which they can learn about other nodes on the network. Giving a company that is actively trying to make Bitcoin unfungible is ... concerning to say the least.

> It seems the miners would be the last ones wanting a potentially fatal bug. Do they have less to lose if an exploit/honest bug burns the blockchain?

Just because you have a massive mining farm under your belt, doesn't mean you know the first thing about the ins-and-outs of Bitcoin. Mining is such a small part of what is otherwise a massive ocean of domain knowledge needed to understand Bitcoin. The people who contribute to Bitcoin Core have been doing it for 8+ years! And they're a band of cutthroats who aggressively review each other's code. The developers working on SegWit2X have no of those advantages.
In a sense Data Science is like the Cult of the MBA. MBAs believe a trained manager can manage anything because management skills are generic. A data scientist believes they can analyse anything because analysis is generic. Both fail in the real world because they discount domain knowledge.
> but if I don't like the consensus driven code of Bitcoin my only choice is to sell

Wrong. What's the choice you have when you disagree with what the maintainers of an opensource project do? You can fork. You're welcome to fork at any time. And in fact this is what we're seeing these days: an attempt of a fork. I believe that, as with the majority of the forks in the opensource world, the fork will not succeed, because the alternative developers are less capable.
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I work a full time iOS gig and do freelancing on the side. Typically I bring in an extra 10-20k per year at around $100 per hour depending on the job.
Ask HN: Who works on AI simplifier for logics bruteforcing a math problem?
Could you name people, who work on AI simplifiers for logical schemes, which "brute-force" over all (im)possible solutions of a given engineering or mathematical problem? Thanks!

I.e. you can make a "brute-force" algorithm, which theoretically finds a solution to any engineering problem and then you can use an AI agent to make that algorithm more sophisticated and easier to compute, by simplifying unnecessary computation steps, input variables, etc.
Quite a large number of people use C++.

C++ is 3rd place on the latest (July 2017) TIOBE index, behind Java and C.

C++ sits in a niche wherein its competitors have mostly died out with the notable exception of D and few modern languages threaten to replace it other than Rust. It's a low-level language that provides expressitivity that's a step above C but fits in a similar role in environments that are unable to use garbage collection or as the base on which larger systems are built.

After all, you need your fancy virtual machines and modern runtimes to be written in something and there are few choices other than C/C++.
If you really are concerned about the crush, just walk back to Powell and you get yourself at worst a nice aisle or wall spot, the mistake is trying to get on at Embarcadero. Also, in general it's nothing compared to the human density London Tube commuters have to face even with 4-5 times the number of trains.

Comparing to Palo Alto where you either have to take Caltrain and take what feels like a double digit risk of a multi-hour delay, or else a hour plus drive, compared to the 15 minutes it takes to get from FiDi to downtown Oakland is just ridiculous on its face. I've lived in both Oakland and Palo Alto, and anyone complaining about SF <-> Oakland commute has no sense of Bay Area commute perspective.
That's a weird cognitive jump.

On the one hand, to answer your direct charge - I absolutely don't mind seeking out and accessing some ads (I've gone to some brands' website or YouTube channel - such as Old Spice -
just to watch their ads before, and I've sought out Superbowl ads to rewatch because they're funny).

On the other hand, as a dialectic note, I find your reasoning to be strange and fallacious (specifically, a fallacy of excluded middle or false dilemma). I don't see any reason why someone must be compelled to seek out things they enjoy instead of enjoying them passively. Phrased another way, it is possible to enjoy things as a passive exercise when they would become tedious or unenjoyable as an active exercise. You don't seem to acknowledge this possibility.
What percentage of developers ever have to debug assembly or do low level performance optimizations? I am 10 years into my career and I have only professionally seen assembly code once. We have abstracted most of these low level things out of the normal life of most developers. That isn't to say it isn't important for some, but there are a lot more developers who would benefit more from a class on design principles than a class on assembly.
The taking a little while to adapt is because their is less hash power, which means it takes longer to find blocks which means the remaining hash power will have less blocks for many many weeks. This means their expected return is lower, not higher, they aren't getting a larger percentage of found blocks, and those blocks occur farther apart.

Then when the difficulty has fallen enough to make mining profitable and have a consistent 10 minute block time the larger hash power chain will be able to mine at a significantly faster rate on the lower hash power chain and that will make it susceptible to a %51 attack.

The only way to avoid that scenario will be for them to switch the proof-of-work or manage to get a lot more hash power back on their chain. Being on the minority chain in that situation is frankly dangerous, the value should be discounted appropriately.
If the legacy chain has too little hashpower then it can be easily attacked.
In addition to many of the games listed here, also consider:

* Deep Sea Adventure — A tiny push-your-luck game that blends theme and mechanics perfectly, is easy to explain, and is a ton of fun without being too thinky. It also scales perfectly from 2 to 6 people. Expensive if you're just counting components, but the value of the game and the fun it brings makes it worthwhile.

* Celestia — Also push-your-luck style, but with a bit more production (and, oddly, cheaper than Deep Sea Adventure).

* Patchwork — A great little two-player game where you're making a quilt. That sounds silly, but it's like Tetris that's powering a small economical engine. Really fun.

* For Sale — Good for 3-6 players, a really simple little card game where you get properties in the first round and auction them off in the second. Plays in 15 minutes, fits in a small box. (I think they even make a travel version.)

* Santorini — the retail version is a big production, but if you get it, you could easily make a smaller version of it. Takes 30 seconds to learn and is hard to really master. Comes with a ton of God power cards that make a bunch of replayability.

* Smash Up — the base set comes with 8 factions. Each player takes two factions (of their choice, at random, etc.) and smashed them into a deck. You then compete against others to topple bases and score points. A lot of fun with the right crowd. I think they've released about 50 factions total so far, with 8 new ones released each year currently. All totally optional.

* Star Realms — great little two-player deck builder. It's space themed, if you want another theme, they have other versions that work similarly. It's just one deck of cards, plus expansions if you like it.

* Dixit — I love Dixit. I've never played it with anyone that didn't have fun. The box really spreads things out, and is mostly holding the scoring track, but you could replace that with something smaller easily. A deck of amazing art cards, a couple of voting tokens, and a way to keep score. Could fit into a sandwich bag if you create a smaller scoring system.
Ah! I read the references to pirates as referring to the person sharing the file online from an original source. But someone just torrenting it or something makes a lot more sense as the target here.
I would emphasize "do not deviate" concerning (4.) from

"Build strict processes for potentially political issues and do not deviate—Certain activities attract political behavior. These activities include: Performance evaluation and compensation [...]"

https://a16z.com/2010/08/24/how-to-minimize-politics-in-your...
May I offer an unsolicited tip?

Multiple bank account with automatic payroll deposits are your best friend as weird as it sounds.
Cheers, I was pretty proud of that one.

The thing is I see both sides: I am in favor of private property, and I don't like the idea of e.g. home owners' associations that try to limit what color you can paint your own house. But I also grew up in San Francisco, and I really do not think this city will be more livable with ~100,000 or more people trying to live here.

But then how do we decide who does get to live here? And who gets to build what?

It's not easy, but standing around yelling "You NIMBY!" at your neighbors isn't productive.

My mother lives in a rent-controller home in SF. In effect, her landlord is donating ~$1500 to her every month (comparing what she pays with what a new tenant could expect to pay.) On the same token, does ownership of a building really confer on you the right to make as much money as you can, or are you just the temporary steward of a physical artifact the primary purpose of which is to provide a good life for its residents and the neighborhood? What is the purpose of real estate? What is the purpose of a city?
> companies actively testing SegWit2x

Testing is very different from actually running it in production. Companies test out a lot of different things. I think with consensus code companies will be very careful and if they plan to do something regarding that, they will announce it clearly, not in some half-assed wiki site or medium post.
How is it going to have value if the client people download at bitcoin.org don't support the chain with massive hashing power you speak of? Not to mention PoW change.

So, no, hashing power is not "all you need" to take over Bitcoin. For many people, Bitcoin is whatever their wallet supports.
I have actually, but I understand that it's rare.

Please note that I do encourage doing "research" - it doesn't have to go all the way to an offer, but what I mean is to build confidence that you can indeed get one at the given salary. This is your BATNA, but because you're not giving an ultimatum, you don't have to walk away to a new job immediately - you can just start looking.
It would take years for the difficulty to adapt to a 10 minute block time if the hash power dropped that much, there is a limit per two week adjustment period. More than likely the code would have to be modified to accommodate a rapidly dropping difficulty. See my other post, but that essentially destroys the security of the minority chain.

BTC rich people are on both sides of the debate, expect to see some dumping all around as they make their positions known.
"No Merci" / "No Mercy" / "Gershanks" is a fantastic game that's little more than a deck of cards.

"Paperback" is about the size of a small speaker, and is sort of but not really Scrabble as a deck builder.

"Captain Sonar" is regular size and utterly fantastic, but for best experience you really want 8 players; every player down is noticeable. It's cooperative / competitive and real-time.
Python also has a similar concept: https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html

Sphinx also has additional doc testing methods that let you test the code examples in your actual docs: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/doctest.html