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Content Crashes Exclusive Delivery: Game of Thrones vs. HBO Go
New Nintendo 2DS XL review: big portable gaming at a smaller price
> There are some absolutely fantastic games out there, but just don't buy from the top X games. Know the size of your play group and buy to suit them.

I agree to some extent - group size is just one factor. There's also mechanics and play-style to consider. Casual vs. Heavy, party vs. strategic, themed vs. abstract etc.

I wholly agree that monopoly should be avoided though :). Sure, maybe if you play with certain rules it's okay, but even then there are so many better games!
You're in the West, probably the US; you already started high. Being from Eastern Europe, my current (net) salary is 100 times higher than 20 years ago and 2.5 times higher than 5 years ago. I expect things have stabilized for me too though :)
This plasma beam lighter can start a fire without a flame
Metal-free MRI contrast agent could be safer for some patients
This might be Google’s next Pixel XL
Getting independent information consists of going on GlassCeiling or Dice to look at industry salary surveys, googling, etc.... maybe even talking with some recruiters about going rates.

Going out and getting a job offer is a step beyond that.
First ever Earth-orbit teleportation completed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14787849
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Emojis Trend on Facebook
In one single trip you can take an old container and deliver a new one with food. Also, Amazon owns Whole Foods, so I don't see why the warehouse couldn't be local. Finally, recycling plastic and glass usually requires washing the material.
Not really. Deep learning does not give you an Artificial General Intelligence (what the Chinese Room is supposed to be). The author just explains why this is so (admittedly, in a handwavy, not necessarily convincing fashion).
classic statistics is much more interested in the explanatory power of models to describe phenomena.

ML is mainly interested in prediction (correlation instead of causation), typically over some data that just fell in your lap.
AFAIK btc1 produces normal segwit blocks that will be accepted by Core; that's the point of the compromise.
While thinking about this problem in the past, I've ended up using the phrase "participatory meta-content" to describe this kind of content that's built around the audience's participation in the viewing of a show. I agree that the opportunity here is huge, but the garden walls are high.

Twitch is the closest thing to a major player in this space that I'm aware of -- they've even gone to the point of simulating the live-chat experience while you watch an old stream, by replaying chat messages at their correct time-offsets.

Things like this for television do exist specifically for group-watching with a known set of friends, but I think the really interesting part would be stumbling into a community you didn't know about in advance, and making new friends.

Anyway, it's a shame that the licensing regimes built around the media that garners these kinds of audiences are unlikely to permit the sort of experimentation required to find the right experience here! Maybe someone will figure it out.
Former Facebook exec working on a “thinking cap” that could see inside our minds
Wal-Mart actually has pretty good food even under its own brand. It's certainly no worse than any other generic / store-specific brand of food.

Wal-Mart also happens to be among the few grocers in my area that consistently stocks plantains (which are among my favorite foods, especially when fried and served with refried beans and sour cream).
Kind of off topic, but for most of my childhood the mantra was "recycle everything, because plastic and food garbage in landfills takes centuries and centuries to break down"

With the new awareness that atmospheric CO2 is the main environmental problem facing the world (rather than giant landfills, which are un-aesthetic but not really a big deal), I've wondered whether this logic makes sense anymore.

Isn't a giant landfill full of carbon-based food, carbon-based plastic, and carbon-based paper a good form of carbon sequestration? Obviously it just buys us time, because it'll decompose in a few centuries, but hopefully by the time that happens we'll have better methods of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
> undiagnosed Lyme's disease

I dated someone who claimed to have this, and not only was she very involved with ILADS advocacy, she had the Wikipedia page on "Chronic Lyme disease" memorized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease

Six doctors in a row, including an infectious disease research specialist, diagnosed her with fibromyalgia and recommended treatment, but she wasn't having any of it and kept cycling through doctors in between sleeping the entire day.

I was present in the room when she met one of them. He acknowledged her symptoms, expressed that all of them were strongly consistent with fibromyalgia, and offered to work with her to find a treatment protocol that met her very specific needs. She retorted that "[he was] wrong", and that it had to be due to her Lyme disease that she contracted four years ago. The doctor respectfully replied that the tests he had ordered and description of her symptoms did not support that conclusion, though he understood why she would connect the two (and even acknowledged the "community" of folks who feel that medicine is wrong on this -- he was aware). I watched the session descend into a complete lack of productivity and had to restrain myself from trying to mediate, because she got progressively more frustrated with him not playing ball.

Immediately after we left, she called her mom and told her another doctor had accused her of lying and making her disease up. I can see why she would conclude that, honestly, but it was nonetheless a twisting of the actual narrative. I get it, though: it can be difficult to alter your views or interpret normal interactions correctly when you're positively sure of something, despite it being explained to you as incorrect.

I have listened to her stories, and I've even watched the incidents at hand. Though I only observed one visit, I would bet that not a single medical professional has ever accused her of lying or pretending. They just did not accept her own self-diagnosis. There's a significant difference.
Of course not, I'm just saying throwing verifiable data onto a blockchain doesn't solve all cases we use voice data for.
Love that Bitcoin is no longer automatically downvoted on HN but still a lot of hate.
It isn't anthropomorphizing. There are undeniable architectural similarities between ANN's and biological neural networks. We don't understand either very well yet but the parts we do understand have led to a lot of cross pollination. I don't think computational intelligence will ever match biological networks detail by detail due to the different substrates and resource usage tradeoffs, and they don't need to match. Intelligence can develop in different ways and we are learning about the universal aspects of it.
detest them all you want, advocate for companies not to use them but do not justify bad abusive behavior as a means to "call out" the companies.

2 wrongs do not make a right and all that.
Meta Html – How Meta Tags, Meta Description, Meta Titles Effect
Hardly a "made-up" conclusion -- just a teaser for the next post, which deals with how we can achieve "extreme generalization" via abstraction and reasoning, and how we can concretely implement those in machine learning models.
1	206 41.2% git
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Ask HN: Any thoughts on how “The Education System” should be 4 prsnt/future plp?
You can have a sentence or two (or even a para) for each section.
* Elementary :
* Middle/Junior high :
* High School:
* College:
Python 3.6.2
I have to point out that the very name "C++" is a security vulnerability in said language.

I learned to program in C, during the dawn of the Internet. Yes, the "I can do anything on the machine" power was fun.

But when considering all C/C++ code is completely insecure by default, it really shouldn't be used to build anything new that processes untrusted input (which is just about everything). There are a few decades worth of mature alternatives that should be considered first, plus a few newcomers like Rust and golang.
In the last year I've been invited to watch parties for the presidential election, a G.L.O.W. binge, the Game of Thrones season premier, and the first couple of Twin Peaks episodes. FWIW, the physical constraints are big aspects preventing people organizing more. The hosts have to make sure their house is clean, people have to stay up later to travel and/or clean up, they don't get to watch in their boxers. Making it virtual on Facebook would relieve all of those practical constraints, not to mention that lots of people have an itch to check Facebook while they watch anyway (which is not a positive thing, but there it is.)

On the downside, it punishes people who can't start exactly on time and prevents people pausing to grab a drink or go to the bathroom, so it isn't purely a no-brainer. People who "fall out of sync" would need to disconnect to avoid spoilers.
Twitter bot posting UNESCO world heritage sites
In my opinion, the real problem in that case was not the overfitting, but that they extrapolated from that data. They didn't have anything above Magnitude 8. (https://ml.berkeley.edu/blog/assets/tutorials/4/earthquake-f...)

You should never, ever extrapolate. It doesn't matter what your model is, it won't work.

On a side note, it could be that there is a breakpoint at Magnitude 7.25, where the slope of the line really changes, and a segmented linear regression is appropriate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_regression). But we would need more data to be sure, anyway.
Patents cover "use".

Your license to use React is therefor not governed by the BSD license. It governed explicitly by the Facebook Patents+BSD license.
170 different types of core? Sounds like a nightmare for a new customer, conversely a bit of a dream for the mainframe sales team.
Even if most of what you say seems to be completely false, I wouldn't even worry a tiny bit even if it was true, in the same way I don't worry by the fact that many Gnome developers are paid by Red Hat.
They have GitHub commit access. That is what OP should have meant to say. And that, for Bitcoin, is as good as ownership.
You can check an example here where I use `dotenv`.

https://github.com/bukinoshita/npm-donate/blob/master/exampl...
The dabbawallas in India kind of solved it a long time ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkGDXRnR9I any lessons transfer over?
Woman goes in for cataract surgery, has 27 contact lenses removed from her eye
> Just one, I fucking dare you.

This comment doesn't seem to jive the spirit of Hacker News.

If the poster you're replying to has a valid counter-argument you can expect him to provide it; there's no need to...threaten them to reply? Machismo is one of the least beneficial things you could contribute to this site.
8 Tips to Become a Better Front End Developer
It also drives me nuts that you have to be aware of it at all before even realizing that it's their bug tracker. When googling for postgres issues initially, I would just immediately back out of those search results assuming I had stumbled upon some archived exchange.
What do you think would have happened if they had maintained really, really good OpenGL support?
ASLR has been thoroughly broken through cache and memory subsystem timing attacks. It seems reasonable to leave breaking ASLR as an exercise for the reader in order to focus more on the core vulnerabilities being discussed.

> It is worth noting that for the sake of this exploit I assumed the attacker has knowledge of the memory layout of the executed program(3)

This is not the same as saying "this cannot be exploited with ASLR".
Game of Thrones 7 Animation Using Three.js
The bosses do that all the time. And if it wasn't for training delays and costs, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

Besides, that's exactly how they gauge what kind of wages to offer when they hire you -- from what others would accept in your place.
Seconded. There's a pocket edition that comes in a nifty bag
It's a trademark, not a patent. It's for a name.
Congratulations, You've Got a Successful Startup. Now Stay in Your Lane
The "greenest" plastic bag is the one that is never made.
What I would like to see is something like:

var conversation = new dataChannel("Chat") // if 'Chat' is valid then join 'Chat' else create a new connection

if (conversation.init) {

onConversation.receive(fn); // some event model
conversation.send("Hi");

// some receive fn...
}
Then it will be relicened under "Apache 2+Patents" and "GPL 2+Patents"

All licenses to "use" and "distribute" this software are now contingent upon a patent. The copyright license is secondary to an overriding control and use and distribution via patent.
Great observation about how to narrate code snippets. None of our narrators are technical (as far as we know!), but part of our job is to provide a narrator with a script describing the way they should narrate any text (or non-text figure) whose spoken equivalent isn't obvious. One recent example of this, a little different from the code example, involved 64-character hashes. You want to convey the palpable sense of randomness that one experiences looking at a hash string, but you also can't force your audience to listen as all 64 characters are read aloud.

Of course, even if we provide the best narration imaginable, it's not obvious that many articles about code would be valuable in audio form. Some things you just need to stare at for a while.

All this said, we're definitely into doing more tech content. It just has to be very well-written. Unfortunately, just as in any other content vertical, most tech content just... isn't.
ALDI.
Why a website if you don’t mind me asking?
Well, when the company owners share their non-re-invested profits with the employee, we can talk about that...
I'd trust Canonical for Ubuntu images over a random internet citizen that decided to provide them.
You are making the mistake of equating Bitcoin development with other open source projects. It's just not comparable to Gnome, Linux, or any other open source development. If I don't like the gnome developers I just don't run their code, but if I don't like the consensus driven code of Bitcoin my only choice is to sell. The stickiness of the implementation is extremely important to the overall discussion.
In my opinion the reason the Mac marketshare is so small is because up until recently, you simply can not buy a mac with a graphics card capable of running any decent game.
Controlled descent to the next (lowest) floor, at which the properly aligned doors can be manually opened.
is that the exact opposite of a ledger of every transaction? off ledger transactions? it seems like its giving up some of the idealistic poetic beauty, even if it is practical.
> parses unambiguously for both humans and computers

I suspect this is only because there are so few speakers of Lojban. As soon as a language is in common use, it will be extended naturally by the users. I doubt any level of consistency can be enforced over time in that case. Popular slang and idioms generally make it into a language if they persist long enough. Good luck keeping unambiguous parsing in that case.
> Would you not agree that distinguishing between free-market capitalism and crony-capitalism brings important value to the discussion?

As I said,

>> saying that capitalism stops being capitalism as soon as private investment starts controlling governmental decisions is just defining your way out of a very real and substantive critique of capitalism

Money can buy political power, and in a system that incentivizes profiteering, that political power will eventually be used to generate profit.

You call that cronyism. I claim it's the logical conclusion of human nature unfolding within an unabashed free market.

You're more than free to re-define terms, but it doesn't change the reality that free market systems invariably cycle through periods of cronyism.

Playing around with the definition of capitalism is terminally non-responsive to the claim that free markets, given enough time, invariably breed this style of cronyism.

It's like claiming that sugary/fatty foods can't cause coronary artery disease because heart disease is caused by plaque. Technically true, but literally everyone's response is going to be an eye-roll.

> The ability to wield what is essentially a monopoly on force

Ugh. There's no such thing as a "monopoly on force". It's literally the great equalizer among not just humans but all organisms.

You're more than free to go out and build an unbeatable military and take down the evil crony-(not?)-capitalist world order. Who's gonna stop you? If you can't or won't build up the resources and mind share to do so, well, welcome to reality.
There's also another possibility: that media literacy will take off, and children will learn to verify sources. This was the original proposal early blogospherists: that ordinary citizens would learn to do journalism so as to keep microcommunities informed.

This is in fact happening, to everyone's benefit. Only in matters of vague mass policy (do we need giant walls? can markets sell health?) has it been largely corrupted by corporate propaganda. Which is probably not terribly worse than before. That scale has always been a big enough target to make it worth the effort to corrupt.
Then people are assuming Deep Learning can be applied to a Self Driving Car System end-to-end! Can you imagine the outcome?!
Ah, I didn't know it was LGPL. Anyway, that's true, but you have to release the source.
I'm excited to hear about how we bring about abstraction.

I was wondering how a NN would go about discovering F = ma and the laws of motion. As far as I can tell, it has a lot of similarities to how humans would do it. You'd roll balls down slopes like in high school and get a lot of data. And from that you'd find there's a straight line model in there if you do some simple transformations.

But how would you come to hypothesise about what factors matter, and what factors don't? And what about new models of behaviour that weren't in your original set? How would the experimental setup come about in the first place? It doesn't seem likely that people reason simply by jumbling up some models (it's a line / it's inverse distance squared / only mass matters / it matters what color it is / etc), but that may just be education getting in my way.

A machine could of course test these hypotheses, but they'd have to be generated from somewhere, and I suspect there's at least a hint of something aesthetic about it. For instance you have some friction in your ball/slope experiment. The machine finds the model that contains the friction, so it's right in some sense. But the lesson we were trying to learn was a much simpler behaviour, where deviation was something that could be ignored until further study focussed on it.
>Is the medical/insurance industry bad too?

In numerous ways, yes.

>Don't all industries solve some problem?

No, some create one.
Maybe everything is "curve fitting." -- Note: I think it's more hierarchical than that but curve fitting is certainly one of the important capabilities of biological systems.
Is what you do not "just curve fitting"?
There are a few pockets of good markets, I am sure.

But the whole shortage myth is created by companies (often startups) posting "Magician" ads.

Example of a "Magician" ad:

"Looking for a PhD + min 10 years of experience in a very narrow domain we are trying to provide a solution for (Big Data experience in Scala required). The hire will need to do his/her magic to get us out of the s... we are in, because we don't quite know what we are doing. We pay $60K/year in Boston."
interesting! i had no idea that it used to be deductible (until 1986 apparently). i never really agreed with mortgage interest being deductible, but i at least understand the purported reasoning (eg. home ownership, american dream etc). but credit card interest? wow! that seems like a terrible idea all around.
NASA tests astronaut ocean exit process for Orion crew capsule
Those games might run better on Windows on the same hardware.
Mostly silver standard - which suffered the same problems - but yeah, a few did gold. Which... well.. failed dramatically.
>It's up to government to regulate this stuff - a business is supposed to maximise profit.

In an amoralistic, profit driven dystopia, yes.

In actual human societies, businesses are also supposed (whether they are or not is another story) to be ethical and improve society.

And most of them pay lip service to that all the time, in their ads, promotional copy, motivational speeches to employees, etc.
All of the packaging that is used to typical meal kit companies can be easily stored and could easily be returned and is mostly reusable and what isn't is reccylcable; the one time up-front cost of setting up a recovery process probably hasn't been seen as being as valuable as working on scaling out subscriptions, though.

But there's nothing really that needs invented here.
Meet the Thirteenth Doctor – Doctor Who
I know given the thread this is in makes it ironic, but a public blockchain would actually serve as a pretty good place to keep a check sum ;p You would check the official blockchain address for a repository and know that the checksum there has not been modified. As long as the process of creating the transaction is done correctly.
A bunch of us have both a mac and a windows pc for gaming, and would like to just use one computer for gaming. I wonder what the stats are for users that have both, and how much more / less they spend than windows PC only users.
U.S. to create the independent U.S. Cyber Command, split off from NSA
Blizzard has always been pretty good about cross platform (Windows/Mac) support, all the way back to Starcraft 1 and Warcraft.
Ask HN: What kind of help desk do you use for your business?
What are the things you look for in your help desk software?

Do you use:
Online?
On-premise?
Enterprise?
Open source?

I thought that there was a lack of integration between the help desk, knowledge base and customer feedback. I use Helprace (Online).
As well as the title "artificial intelligence".
I created https://www.HireLoop.io because I wanted something to manage my hiring which _always_ closes the loop with my applicants regardless of them being good or bad.
It almost certainly never will replace your credit card. But there are other things it can replace or create. Like paying in cash for less-than-legal products or confirming, beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're not using a stolen card as a transaction can't be revoked or even as something comparable to gold as a store of value (which seems like a terrible idea as of now, but is a possible future use case). It may also provide a distributed, trustless or near-trustless way to control equity in some things, but that's yet to be proven in my opinion.

For just about everything else, cryptocurrencies are crap, just a worse version of something that already exists. They're not a panacea, you can't throw a blockchain at everything and make it better.
It is definitely a bad thing from a risk standpoint, no two ways about it. Simply because that person could get hit by a bus, burn out, etc.