skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SC2 is very balanced when you look at the total game across a range of skill levels. Each unit is balanced around costs, attention, utility, requirements, and other units. Ex queens are awesome early game as they hit air, don't take gas or larva, and have high HP, but late game it's all about healing ultralisks plus anti air.

Roaches take a lot of supply, are armored so take more dammage from tanks and can't hit air which is their counter. They are also ranged so they don't share dammage upgrades with lings or ultralisks. Late game players will sacrifice them for more useful units and they need a larger investment in overlords.

PS: If you watch some high level games units generally have their time to shine as part of individual games progression.
I'm glad that you mentioned hearing problems (ear infections specifically). They have been shown to affect child development in ways that aren't immediately intuitive, like hyperactivity and their ability to pick up phonics [1]. That obviously has an impact on their early learning, and consequently the rest of their lives.

[1] https://www.hslda.org/strugglinglearner/CraftDocs/EarInfect....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40884753
More than 5 doctors confirmed the memo was consistent with science and his text referenced appropriate sources, as common with any paper. It's incredible that non-medical people can override science with their belief. It's Galileo all over again, fired because one shall not contradict [place godly entity here].
Do any of the Ryzen or Threadripper skus have on-board graphics?
Close.io Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer. Work from Anywhere
This lists Saint Martin as requiring a Visa from the US which I found weird because I didn't need one to visit there as a tourist about four so I looked it up and it seems you still don't need one. Which is great because it was one of the best vacation's I've had.
> GGP specifically addressed this, no? Broadwell is ~two releases behind

That's entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if those processors were released last year of in the last century. It's Intel's current and best offer, and the facts speak for themselves: AMD's current offering matches Intel's perfomance while trouncing Intel's in price/performance ratio.

> that doesn't make an awful lot of sense given that their E lines are basically always sky high prices compared to other Intel chips).

That's Intel's problem. It makes no sense to try to downplay AMD's stellar performance just because Intel does some major price gouging.
Looks like a good way of playing around with ideas. Having context between cells would make it way more useful again.

One thing I'm not sure about is the advice to 'Create branches named issue-X where X is the number of the issue'. Doesn't that make it very difficult to, at a glance, realise which branch implements what feature? I understand the rational of including the issue number, but it seems a shame not to give any other description.
One solution, use external pooler like pgbouncer or mysql-proxy running on a small instance(s)
I meant compared to other similar efforts. Since Statoil is a publicly owned company with its main goals being political, not economic.
If it makes you feel better, "naturally occurring" DNA sequences are no longer patentable (AMP v. Myriad) but synthesized cDNA libraries still are.
Benchmark Capital Sues to Kick Kalanick Off Board
Not the same thing at all, but when I used to write a ton of Perl, I had a board on which I mapped the shift-number keys (punctuation) to the F-keys. It was really rather nice.

These days I mostly use keyboards with fully programmable firmware (QMK, when possible) and remap things as needed. Things that stay pretty consistent are swapping caps lock and control (the way dog intended it), adding pipe as layer1-~ (shift-\ is terrible to type with one's right hand, and somehow I haven't trained myself to do that two-handed), and mapping parens to later1-o and -p.

Never played with a Dvorak or Colemak.
do you think a UBI would be a more effective way of helping people in more complex situations?
It's not about Firefox-only vs standard, but about control.

When your extension does not or cannot work anymore due to lockout by browser consortium agreement, the control isn't with the user or the developer -- it's with the browser vendor. It kind of defeats the essence of extensions in the first place, which started out as a technique to give users and developers power over their user agents, and that's being reversed.

If what your user agent can do is dictated entirely by a consensus of a small number of browser vendors, the web becomes less open. Neither users nor developers wanted this.
I mean the implication we exclude the object we are searching for when we say like. If I was looking for a table row "like" the value of row 34, row 34 wouldn't be a match.
> What part of "unrealized" do you not get?

I don't think you understand any part of what "unrealized" means. "unrealized" as it relates to taxation simply means that the asset has not beed sold.

> I value your HN username at $10 billion

What you might personally value my username and what the market values AMZN stock at bear no similarity

Besides 40% percent is a insane amount, most wealth tax systems are well under 2%.
I had the pleasure of camping on the shores of the Ob sea several times, not far from the mentioned village. It is an amazingly beautiful place.
> The japanese committed millions of atrocities in World War II.

Killing combatants in war is different from "torture and murder millions of surrendered civilians and POWs" or "committed millions of atrocities". Please be more specific, accurate and show sources if you want to talk about this kind of large numbers.

>Their government denies virtually every single one.

Wow virtually every single one? So there might be lots of examples. Please show them so that I can check the validity of your claim. I am suspicious that you are exaggerating stuff like the Chinese government.

> the Far East (judges/prosecutors from all of the Allies, including Russia) put Chinese deaths at over 200,000 in that one brief event.

Death is different from raping. You should not mix them up. Killing or raping is bad no matter what.

> They tortured, starved and murdered POWs, the Bataan Death march being just one example. Unit 731 tortured and murdered prisoners with biological and chemical warfare experiments.

Yes torturing is really bad. But isn't US better at this? Both Japan and the US did bad things in the past. One thing to notice is that the US is still bombing and killing not just terrorists but innocent people including kids.

>And you keep saying they were ready to surrender. I agree they wanted a peace deal. But only if they could save face, and retain the territories they had conquered. The Military Facists who ran the government and the Emperor refused to consider unconditional surrender until the bombs were dropped. And even when the Emperor changed his mind, part of the military facists attempted to revolt and stop it.

Yes the Emperor and the Japanese military could have done a better job to surrender earlier. But did the US tell Japan that they will drop atomic bombs to make them surrender? The answer is no. The Japanese government did not even notice that it was an atomic bomb in the first place. US is the one who dropped atomic bombs and killed non-combatants, and no matter what you think it is considered one of the most inhuman actions in human history and this fact will never change.
I'm skeptical "the active MetaFilter community" is actually representative of "the MetaFilter community." It seems like is just the fraction who likes or at least tolerates the way it is now.
How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity
actionherojs.com

I've spent far more than I've made on this... but it's how I think API frameworks should work!
already on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983157
I. Love. This. It's genuine emotional revelations mixed with mundanity mixed with outrageous sexual deviancy.
I have absolutely no clue as to how they yaw the thing. A 1° yaw error with the wind is like 2-3% efficiency penalty, and a penalty on durability.
Yeah, I really used the first questions as a way to give importance to how big the "Are we alone?" question is on the scale of humanity.

That is to say, that arguably "Why are we here" is the only question of more significance than "Are we alone?"

If this telescope can answer the second most important question to humanity, that's pretty good.
My side gig is a small business. We advertise heavily on Facebook. I also have no clue how to approach Snapchat ads. How do I target our demographic on there? What data do they even have on users?
What a small-minded view. Our entire runs on fraud of one degree or another--sometimes it's just more than people are willing to bear.
You are right, naming branches this way is not really important and I will probably remove that part. I do not want to add friction to people who want to contribute since I know how painful it is to contribute on certain projects.
There are so many ways of solving this, and some of them have been suggested to Amazon. They do have some very competent engineers able to implement it in a way that would make everybody happy.
I can't speak for the middle management, but as I scientist I am very uninterested in AI based on neural nets because of the lack of explication. Success at prediction without a commensurate advancement in theory is pretty useless for me, because I haven't learned anything new about the world. And while Google et al are good at stacking ML models, those models are nowhere near as elegant and composable as scientific advancements.
Thanks for the clarification. Next: are you asserting Statoil's public ownership by itself is evidence that costs will be higher, or do you have other evidence to support the claim?
Make no mistake. Snap's (relatively early) IPO wasn't to raise capital for further expansion, it was to ensure founders had easy access to liquidity in a service they knew wouldn't thrive over the next 5-10 years.
Can someone explain how he ever hoped to win this? The law seems pretty clear. In California, the public owns beaches up to the high tide line. Is there some exception that the lawyers were betting on?
> A fund policing the habits of an investment is literally the people who own the business policing the actions of their employees

this seems to be equivocating on "policing".

> That has nothing to do with indemnifying someone from the financial consequences of their actions

you stated "criminal actions". if kalanick committed a crime, it is the state that pursues this in court. afaik all that is occurring is that benchmark is pursuing a civil case.

> Are there no prior cases where board actions to create board seats were reverse because of fraud?

are you referring to criminal or civil wrongdoing?

> I'm actually unsure how you think any of this should work based on your objections

it just seemed to me that you were suggesting private entities pursue criminals and "fight crime", perhaps as some form of vigilantism. ...perhaps like batman?
Let's see if there's anything different about this loss than the last ones. So far he's ignored judgements against him and the gates have remained locked. Wonder why a judge hasn't sent a sheriff out to cut the locks off yet?
For the curious the question starts at around 54:00 with the laughing at 56:45
https://gigalixir.com After falling in love with Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, etc I built this to help increase Elixir adoption by solving the biggest pain point I saw: deploying.
> Employees must follow the “instructions of Travis Kalanick,” according to the buyback agreement, “with respect to any and all matters” that are submitted to a shareholder vote.

Wow. I knew about the super-shares, but giving Travis (not even Uber's CEO but Travis personally!) control over the voting rights of any employee who sells any of their stock back to the company seems pretty fucked up. Is this done at any other company?
I guess it depends which State we're talking about, but yes.
Slides and materials from Google’s diversity and bias training
In China, Surveillance Feeds Become Reality TV
That only works with immature small networks. A counter example would be Bitcoin Cash.
That is not the reason he was cited to have been fired. Someone having different interests than you seems like a bad reason to fire them in any case. He certainly made no effort to force you, or anyone at google, to read the document.
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
I don't think he was ever technically fighting that law, it was the access to that public beach through his property that he blocked off. So basically - "Look, that beach is public, you just can't walk on my property to get to it. Oh, and my property is the only way to get to it. Sorry!"
Nobody's expecting Eritrea to put a satellite in orbit.

Worth pointing out that Ghana just did.

If we waited until we "solve all our problems here at home," as the GP suggests, we'd still be calling to each other from neighboring trees in a jungle somewhere.
I appreciate the last section's perspective: that giving to the causes best supported by evidence, though very helpful, does not guarantee 10x (social) returns since measurement is imperfect and some big returns are likely from things that aren't fully studied yet. Besides how that makes sense in its own right, it sort of pushes folks to recognize that that the many useful strategies the effective altruism community has come up with still aren't a silver bullet for aid effectiveness.

Recognizing there's no silver bullet seems especially relevant to me because there's a folk interpretation of "most social programs don't work" that's more like "we spend tens of billions of dollars trying to alleviate poverty; why isn't it gone now?". And _that_ question only seems to make sense because people misjudge the size of the challenge relative to the amount spent on it and the returns you can expect from that money.

The U.S.'s yearly global health budget, if spent entirely on sub-Saharan Africa, would be under $20/person, and you don't, say, raise average income $10k with $20, no matter how wisely or creatively you invest it. Demanding that kind of return from charity is like expecting every investment to perform like early money in Google, except, perhaps, that the impact of your demand is less on the investor and more on the global poor.

Separately, it seems like a shame to me that in fields where we do have strong signs of a high multiplier, like bednets or deworming, the opportunities haven't already been fully exploited by governments and billionaires. Some of it is that large spenders are making their choices through a process much different from someone like GiveWell's, but some is also that governments, for example, spend a lot less of their budgets on non-strategic global-health aid than most think (<1% for the US). More about aid spending here: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/02/10/38387558...
I'm all in favor of science funding, especially projects that drive and give back technology capabilities to society. But I would like to see more balance and preference to solve hunger and poverty around the world.

To me that question is high on the list as well. And preferably more so.
I work at Google Seattle and that seems very high to me but I could just be getting paid less than others. I was an industry hire though
https://inwhy.net Means "Inside the question 'why?'" still working on my idea...
Explain "superseded" to me. In the world of crypto there is no such thing.
Not sure if someone has mentioned this already, but you should contact AWS support and ask if they will forgive the bill given it was an error which led to the high costs. I’ve had bills forgiven this way in the past (e.g. forgot to disable an instance that wasn’t really doing anything).
Identity Verification Over the Phone Is a Mess – LinkLocker Blog
Ask HN: Tools and technology choices to wrap machine-learning offerings as API?
any tools & techs that you found especially useful (or bad) in building enterprise-grade apis, especially w.r.t AI/ML (with gpus involved)
It literally says that in the article. This is in no way a death knell.

>The next-generation Microsoft HoloLens will be different compared to the existing augmented reality platform, Microsoft revealed recently. While the device will run Windows 10 and will be equipped with an HPU, it will also feature an AI co-processor integrated into the latter that will use neural networks to enable object and voice recognition skills without the need for an Internet connection. The HPU 2.0 with the programmable AI co-processor will be a self-sufficient device that will run on battery power of the next HoloLens (hence, its power consumption will not be too high). The HPU 2.0 and the AI co-processor were designed entirely in-house and therefore are tailored for usage model of the HoloLens.
> If a male employee is gay, Zoroastrian, or a little person, does he look at all the male CEOs and say, "Hey, all those males are just like me! I can do it too!"

It's possible that they don't, which may explain why we don't see a lot of openly gay executives, for example. Remember when Tim Cook came out? He was the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO. It was fairly recent, so I can't imagine a significant change has happened yet, but it's possible that more closeted gay executives may come out, which in turn may encourage younger people to pursue leadership roles like these.

I'm not saying it's an absolute thing — I mean, Tim Cook was able to get where he is without having a gay CEO to look up to. But having that representation may help those who are slightly less determined (but still qualified). You see what I mean?
Oh sure. That's why I posed it as a question. Service degrading or going offline could be disastrous and cause losses of thousands of dollars or more, depending on what the service is. But there's also plenty of services where it's cheaper to have the service go down than it is to get an outsized AWS bill. This is just something you need to be aware of when deciding if serverless is the way to go.
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I always thought the big deal of finding life on other planets would be to deal a major blow to creationism.
Hexamegagigabyte son.
I love using GitHub, but there is an established process and home for the kernel that works and I see no reason to change it.
Money. As I understand it, he can just continue to pay the fine. So, in practice, the law (at least this one) is not for him.

There are things we can do - if you are in SV, let this be known in your circles. If you are in CA - let your representative know that this is of concern to you
It makes it difficult to calculate one's protein intake.
It is very civil. But that's because it's an echo chamber where everyone must have the same views.

The parent is dead right. MeFi was interesting was then was civil disagreement.

Everyone piling on and 'favouriting' how bad Conservatives | Trump | Business | Capitalism | Libertarians | Rupert Murdoch are is very dull.

It's still good for some funny cat pictures and stuff though.

Oh, and just for HN readers, MeFi these days seems to think Silicon Valley is full of Libertarian Brogrammers. There are comments saying how terrible HN is. Perhaps because there is more diversity of opinion here.
Thanks for the link, the analysis by Geoffrey Miller is quite remarkable.
Thanks for the reference, I picked one up to play with :) I used to hack on a grotty old cisco router for my home network but it's been ~15 years since that was relevant.
Is NoScript expected to be ported over to the WebExtension API? I know there were numerous bugzilla tickets tracking its feasibility, but not sure what's the final verdict and expectation?
Definitely unreasonable reading. Could you explain how you got from the two quoted propositions to your interpretation?

The first bullet point exemplified: Let's say there's a job that requires trait openness / empathy to a certain degree (e.g. early education). Now, some given statistics show that e.g. 40% of the female population and 20% of the male population have this manifestation of the trait to the required degree. Would you still expect a 50/50 male/female representation in the field? The author makes the argument that, if the statistics he found are correct, he wouldn't expect a 50/50 split.

The second bullet point just says that discrimination for the sole sake of said equal representation is bad for business, because given the above it would have to be necessarily unmeritocratic. I would contest this point in a sense that individual merit is not the sole factor at which to look, because it is only a single factor in group success, where the availability of diverse ways of thinking and social compatibility also play major roles.
That's a good kidism! :D
Would you be open to sharing why this was cut from Amazon's affiliate program? Seems to be a pretty cool tool that they would want placement on.
Because money?

He made a long convoluted argument that the property was part of a Mexican land grant that pre-dated the California law and thus was not covered. I gave it high marks for creativity, I half expected him to declare he was genetically part native american and he was going to claim the beach as part of his ancestral birthright.

He is running out of options though, the only one left that I can think of is that the law says you have to provide access but it doesn't have to be easy access. I could imagine some pretty complex access mechanisms.
Not actually 100% pseudo-science anymore. The first peer-reviewed paper is out.

https://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-revie...
This is not a security question, but a performance and safety question.

Many of the major performance improvements in Chrome were possible because the extensions were decoupled from the browser itself. If Firefox ever wants to improve its performance, it can not keep running XUL extensions anymore.
But isn't that going away eventually?

> We will continue to honor this
preference in Nightly builds and in unbranded builds, but when 57 (and
later versions) go to beta and eventually to release, that preference will
be ignored.

Unless I'm mis-understanding that?

Additionally, aren't they are removing access to a lot of the internals even for legacy addons as well?
Introducing (n+1)sec for secure group messaging: protocol, library, review
My biggest problem with keyboard input is not the positioning of the keys - most of the time it's either weird default shortcuts(like Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Insert) or the lack of a numpad - It's remarkable how good of an idea it was to have the plus sign under one, pretty large key.

Also smaller keyboards(think 13,3" laptop) are to me plain bad, because everything is so crammed.
Not to defend his actions, but to consider his possible mindset in doing them: His actions could be explained as pushing hard to build a defensive moat against a world allied against Uber as quickly as possible. If regardless of what you do you lose a bit of PR here and there, you get kicked out of cities here and there, and you have to pay a few hundred million in settlements here and there, you might as well throw caution to the winds so that you still have plenty of market share left when you lose those things, right? It would seem that's the Uber way. Of course, breaking laws and conventional morality to do so is a slippery slope, and he severely underestimated how much those extremes would splash back on him personally. I hope that other excessive CEOs treat this as a wake-up call - limits and laws are there for a reason.