skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would like Company of Heroes 2, the units require much less micro and the game is a bit slower paced. If your infantry come under fire, they all dive into cover to protect themselves. Defense is a bit more automated (you can set artillery to automatically return fire on enemy artillery once it's exposed) and you have more options for static emplacements to defend critical areas without needing your attention.

I have the same complaints about SC2 as you - way too fast and intense - and I really enjoy Company of Heroes. The whole game is basically set up to get rid of "nags" so you can just play around with the units and have fun.
Different strokes for different folks. You don't need to convince me about the benefits of a digital nomad lifestyle - I travel extensively and spend 30+ days skiing/riding every year.

At the same time I can also see the appeal of a stable income and family, raising your kids in some nice suburbs, going to their soccer games or whatever. It was the life I had growing up and I'd like to give that to my kids someday.

Your comment seems pretty closed-minded, and also belittles the op for no reason.
Or more. Dicamba is coming onto the market and the amount of pesticides and herbicides has been increasing per field and not decreasing.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5044953/
This is in line with his philosophy to eliminate things that produce little or insignificant value but is a potential source of bugs. In this case variable hoisting.

Of course you don't have to follow all his rules of what are good/bad parts, some of which feel a bit Byzantine at times, but he has a point and usually for a very good reason.

Check out the JsLint Google+ page for his views on more recent additions
Bitcoin price: the case for $5000 Bitcoin
Is it that much computation to simulate an entire game? You obviously don't need to render the graphics or anything, it should just be a list of events that occur, which doesn't seem all that slow to process.
Valve is getting into card games
We used Angular inside Ionic for an iOS app. Performance is OK, but I can't tell you if a different JS framework would be faster, or if it's a device/Ionic limitation. The main problem has been with rendering large sets of data (say 100+ items) in a scrolling list.
On the subject of growing an agency, the Hubspot Podcast offers good food for thought > https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/podcast-episodes-agency-l...
ICOs are probably best understood like companies, not currencies. As you observed, an ICO doesn't create any value since it's just moving ETH around. If the token value increases relative to ETH then you could say value has been created.
I keep hearing that there may be problems with Apple Music, such as replacing local files. Having quite a lot of content which is ripped from vinyl I'm hesitant to try it. Have you had any difficulties with it?
I second Clojurescript. Peter Hunt, the creator or React, was heavily influenced by Clojurescript and David Nolen.
an hour to cache? That's nothing

Days, weeks, or months are more appropriate 99% of the time for 99% of content
It also depends on who in the community actually has this knowledge; in other words, how generally accessible is it? Should the incan layman be expected to have such information, when it likely has little effect on their work?

Its not the community that has this information, but a particular sect of the community, and the question how large is that section.

My expectation is not very, and was probably only known to whatever shaman classes exist (who would actually be observing it).
I use Cryptomator. https://cryptomator.org

I'm not sure of the program's technical specs, but it is multi-platform, available on mobile, and is easy to use. I am able to have a shared set of secured documents with various non-technical family members. I'm not overly worried about the Goverment having my files and I feel it is good enough to keep Dropbox and other hypothetical 3rd parties from my most sensitive documents.
That example might be misleading because I assume the AI has perfect information- I don't know how it could know which zergling was targeted before the tank fire landed without knowledge of the game's internal state.

In any case I saw in the comments above they are planning on limiting the APM. But right now they're not at the stage where they can compete with the in-game rules based AI, so it may be a little while.
We recently integrated npm into Gratipay so companies can pay for their package.json:

https://gratipay.news/integrating-npm-39333109419d
https://gratipay.news/pay-for-your-package-json-cb07341445ca

If you claim your npm packages on Gratipay then you'll be ready as we start bringing companies online to pay:

https://gratipay.com/on/npm/?flow=receive
Labelling an operation -- number of steps of which upper-bounded by 6 -- "effectively constant" is different from considering any real world algorithm with bounded input size.

Calling Scala's immutable vector ops "effectively constant" is not a stretch/hack by any means, considering we also say the same for integer addition and multiplication.
> That said, there it is not difficult to overstay the standard 90-day EU visa and simply pay the fine when leaving / on the next entry.

Don't do this. Customs officials really don't like it when you show a flagrant disregard for their laws. Also, you can create permanent problems for yourself if you ever decided to return.
Your second paragraph is spot on. These tests are not very accurate, and students who see a bunch of remediation rather than progress in front of them often quit or switch majors, rather than gearing up and doing the math that is required!
Having lived in Bucharest for most of my life (and in many other countries as well), I recommend Cluj if you really want to live in Romania. Bucharest has nice areas if you have the patience to look for them, but its traffic, noise, and pollution are unbearable
The issue isn't X, it is the quantity.

Eating a Twinkie won't kill you, eating an entire box every day for 20 years will.
Netlify employee here - this is even funnier when it happens from the inside. There's a moment after working here for a fairly short time when you start typing "net..." into your browser and the autocomplete has turned from netflix into netlify. Somewhat of a rite of passage ;)
Best is subjective. I've been in Helsinki and Berlin, and I find very difficult to rank Helsinki above Berlin. There's more than just work for example.
Well it's more confusing that helpful then! Because as a foreigner when I look up what a 401(k) is and it tells me it's a pension, and then everyone tells me it's not a pension, I don't know what's going on!
Five practical life hacks for minimalists
It can be obtained by "legal" residents, although I don't think legal residents can get passports on the basis of their aadhar number. Aadhar fundamentally solves the problem of illegal residents and nefarious foreign agents getting valid credentials, but I do agree that there are a lot of corner cases where they have been able to obtain one. Another issue is that ration cards and subsidies accounts (including LPG subsidies in urban areas) can be duplicated - meaning that one person can (and do) open multiple accounts. Tying these to Aadhar will definitely reduce the abuse prevalent in the system.
Except those are actually long-term rentals.

What if Google or Apple or Microsoft, for whatever reason, decide to pull the plus on their service?

Now you paid for nothing and don't own whichever movie you "bought" anymore.
+1000

Me too! C# or Common Lisp or Python or whatever, choosing the best choice for the specific project and circumstances.
Many people in Venezuela have turned to Bitcoin mining in a desperate attempt to fend off starvation and keep their families alive.

http://bitcoinist.com/starving-venezuelans-turn-to-bitcoin-m...
> was fired a few months ago for his stance on using gender pronouns.

He wasn't fired. The university sent him two warning letters and then backed down from taking any action. He's still teaching psychology there.
> According to my opinion, a programming language should let a developer use his or her style. A heavy influence on the programmer’s style is okay, but a fanactic, religious-like enforcement is inacceptable.

As someone who has wasted many hours debating which JavaScript style guide to follow I disagree with this. Go have quite frankly put to bed any debates or arguments over "curly brace on same line or below" by setting a style and having it policed by the compiler. When working in a team it's good to have an official style guide that's enforced, in the long run this is a good thing.

I don't think this was done because Go's developers are opinionated, I think they looked at other languages and seen the mess that can happen when you don't set a style guide and thought "we're not doing that"
Oh that'd be a treasure trove for security researchers.

I think we should work on an opensource gem or plugin for cakephp that does this and hope a website uses it. It would be very good data for research into the psychology of choosing passwords.

Just imagine all the potential findings!
Its legal to rent a DVD, what if you could play the physical DVD and broadcast it to whoever has rented it? Like redbox but the DVD player is in the cloud somewhere and you are mirroring the stream at your house? I've been wondering if that's legal and if Netflix could do something like that with their DVD collection
Correction: last I checked, they didn't write the PDF renderer themselves, it is Google's PDFium[1] which was open-sourced a while ago. Before they were using Apple's built in PDF engine, but apparently that had too many bugs for them.

It does not do Postscript, the "PS" in PSPDFKit are the initials of the creator, Peter Steinberger (really nice guy, by the way!). Two/three letter prefixes are common in Objective-C as there are no namespaces (I use MPW).

[1] https://pdfium.googlesource.com
25kb of CSS after compression?

That's a damn lot of CSS
I think he goes by Pete ;)

Edit:
While I'm here, might as well link to the Simple Made Easy talk by Rich Hickey. The other thing (aside from inventing Clojure) that gave him prophet-like status in the community.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
How Mike Cannon-Brookes built $250m Atlassian Marketplace business on a flight
This mainly shows that the author mistakes the prupose of Big-O notations. It's a measure of asymptotic performance, so there need to be an asymptote to reach. If the range of values you're measuring is small (and a non-constant factor that varies between 1 and 6 is small) then it's teh fact that one uses Big-O to characterize an algorithm that is wrong.

It's a classic mistake. There are many pitfall to performace measurements, including: using Big-O when the range is small or ignoring cinstant factor when the constant is big. Both of these has lead people down the wrong path, for example usng a theoretically faster algorithm that is in reality slower because in the typical use case the constant overweigh the complexity factor.

The counter-example to the author argument would be to say that a binary decision is linear over the input range.
> I'm really loving the confines of a "one way to do it" framework like Angular 4. It makes teamwork much easier, speeds up development once you've gotten over the learning curve, and is damned impressive when it comes to app performance.

I found thinking about apps easier in Angular too, being that bit more of a conventional system (for want of a better term) than React. Decomposing everything into a component (as I should in React) is a new skill, and will take some thought for me to get right. I started sketching it out for a personal project and went with VueJS so I could get it done quickly.

mobx fascinates me and I will be trying that - with Angular, with React, with anything it goes with.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14966371 and marked it off-topic.
What about if I sent a proposal with my website to a bunch of investors that I know, and I want to see which ones clicked on it.
Support everything said except for MITM. They do not intercept anything, just gather the metadata on the frequency of use, amount of traffic sent etc. And users install those apps to see traffic stats. I am pretty sure they share this info according to the ToS. Just a plain old "if you're not paying for it, you're the product".

Edit: they also gather this data even if you don't use their VPN service. But I don't think average users care that much if Facebook knows the distribution of time spent on Twitter by all people using that app.
It won't affect the market too much if brokers are taken out of the equation. Most people only use brokers nowadays (at least in the bigger cities) for paperwork.
The download for the fully functional app in the video is ~300K, of which ~100K is bootstrap.js, so no this is not a lot of webasm being talked about to provide .NET support
Wasn't aware of Netlify until now - the product looks great!

I think I'll try it out with some upcoming projects.
context matters...in both the research and way it is reported.

correlation is not too vague, but implying causality from correlation without further tests is

conversely...

assuming that a paper that only reports correlation or reports correlation as well as further evidence of causality (i.e., prior work on causal mechanisms, qualitative evidence, etc.) is faulty simply because it has correlation is equally problematic.

The major problem of the article is that it displays the same flaws as many of the underlying problems in science itself: It makes massive generalizations without nuance or appreciation of context. The problems are paradigmatic (i.e., Kuhnian) and the fact that they appear in the research AND in the critiques of the research are far more problematic than a p of .05.
Personal experience tells me it's a pretty common thing across the US.

> I don't want to be overly semantic or PC on HN

Proceeds to be overly semantic or PC on HN...
I love Nassim Taleb as an academic and philosopher. I think he has a Peter Thiel like quality of being able to thinking differently, but in a very applicable way.

Nassim Taleb the author though I really can't get into, and to be fair he's had so much success that this is probably my fault.

If you want to get the most out of his work then read his medium blog. Most of his pieces are written in easily digestible formats.

https://medium.com/@nntaleb

I've re-started trying to read the Black Swan about 10 times and IMHO if you just read the first 3 chapters then you'll get about 95% of what you would if you had read the entire book.

I think the problem with his books that I have is that he considers himself not just an author but a modern day philosopher, and with that comes a level of rigor in his writing that brings me back to my measure theory and real analysis courses.

If you really want to read his books, then start backwards.

Antifragile is awesome, but still very wordy, and builds on top of all his other works. It almost seems to be the culmination of the idea's he's been writing about since the black Swan.

As a side note, for anyone who wants to learn about options trading with a focus on how a trader would view them, ie from a mathematical perspective, then check out one of his first books...... Dynamic Hedging of Options.

http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471152803...

As a second side note........

His latest concept of “Skin in the game” is the best form of risk control that we've found for reigning in traders. Once traders are required to

1) keep the vast majority of their bonus in the fund for a few years

2) take part of their bonus in the form of non liquid securities if they want to hold more than a certain percentage of their portfolio in non liquid assets

we have found they pay alot more attention to the liquidity of their portfolio and the long term profitability of their portfolio, both of which are good for the long term success of the fund.
There are dozens of such frameworks already... how do you differentiate?
Its fundamental reason for being has been replicated successfully by the market dominant social platform -- that is pretty killer. Snap may figure out a way to pivot to recover its shareholder value but it won't be easy nor is it obvious how they will do this.
It's not a matter of geography. It's a matter of language. In English, a period acts as the radix point and a comma acts as a separator. It's a common error for people who learned English as a second language to use the convention of their native language when writing in English.
I've actually heard the opposite - that people can tend to die within a year of retirement, generally because they don't have anything purposeful left to do.
Well sending a small parcel in the post costs me >£3 GBP, what's the cost of 9GB of CDN. Bet it's trivial in comparison.

http://www.cdncalc.com/ says it's about 34p. Suggesting it's not trivial, but ~10% of the prior cost.

Not a solid analysis but indicative IMO. Bet someone else has done all the [other] costings and probably quite rigorously?
Classifying Marketplace Inventory at Scale with Machine Learning
My brother and parents were quite upset one year when he failed his 6th grade standardized test. 20% -- so low! They were talking about his study habits etc etc and I asked to see the results. Perfect 20% in each topic. How many choices for answers? 5. Hm. Can I see your form? You filled in the B bubble for "test form" and it was an A form.
This is absolutely inconsistent with my personal experience.
Your new products seem to be SaaS applications. How do you guys plan to support the operations on a day to day basis? Will there be rotating rosters for who needs to provide devops support for a given week/month? Because I presume that would require reliable internet wherever you're working from at that time.
Honest question given that Genetically Engineered Babies are awesome but patenting a Genetically Engineered Baby genotype is bad.

In that scenario, how are Genetically Engineered Baby creators incentivized to create more Genetically Engineered Baby genotypes? Sell the first baby for a billion dollars and then the baby can give its germline cells for free upon sexual maturity?

They are selling life. Life forms reproduce. It's a pretty basic assumption and if GMO merchants want to change that then they need to embrace terminator seeds.
Very true. Even more so, fiat money is democratic as long as the government controlling it is. With something like bitcoin, it cements the establishment and removes fiscal policy options.
> and a non-constant factor that varies between 1 and 6 is small

Wouldn't the 6 in O(((n^1000)^n)^6) be a non-constant factor that makes a big difference in asymptotic performance though?
Having read the memo, I disagree. I think the censorious response was warranted, and I think there was little subtlety in his arguments or worth in debating them per se. Obviously, these issues are worth discussing, but why on this one disgruntled software engineer's terms?

There is an equal and opposite danger to the one you're describing, which is that one cranks musings get vested with undue dignity just because the mainstream media does condemn him.
> Typescript will give you compile-time type checking, but the actual runtime (javascript) is weakly typed.

Yes and this sucks. There have been a few bugs I've had (can't remember details) where the types or visibility looked OK in the editor but I was bitten at runtime.

No doubt due to my loose configuration - tightening up the linter would help and getting rid of null/undefined overlaps is my next move.
yeah, for me, I prepared all the staff by myself when trying to buy a property. I just need an agent to make the offer, but I don't think that work worth 3% of the price
You're not great with metaphors, huh?
Until today's release of the headless Linux client, you still had to run the full StarCraft program, which gets expensive fast. And it massively complicates the workflow to have to play through every game serially to recreate the state rather than simply reading random rows of data from a 300GB dataframe on disk.
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Yeah, I have a rough idea of how bitcoin works and I also have a rough idea of how the current banking system works. Enough that I am able to use them both but I certainly am not going to be giving talks on either of them. There are still times when the standard banking system is a blackbox to many people, they just know that it works and are happy to leave it at that.
Awhile. This just isn't like Go or Chess. The gap from perfect information to imperfect information is quite a chasm, and from turn-based to real-time is even more vast.

I play Age of Empires 2 semi-competitively, and I just can't imagine the research progress that would have to be made for a pro to lose to an APM-limited AI agent. So much of the game comes down to intuiting what your opponent is planning without being able to see what they're doing, and more importantly intuiting what your opponent isn't ready for.

The biggest difference, though, is the "RT" in "RTS"-- real time. This isn't turn-based anymore, where at a given moment you have a single choice to make, a single piece to move as in Chess and Go, and can then wait for the singular and visible reaction your opponent makes before making your next choice.

My understanding it that the moves a program like AlphaGo makes are not interconnected-- it picks each move individually as an ideal move for that board state. It could take over halfway through the game for someone else and would make the same move that it would have made at that point if it had been in control the whole time and arrived at that board state on its own.

But that doesn't work in a real-time game, since you and your opponent are now moving simultaneously and the "board" is never static. Your moves must be cohesive and planned and flow continuously without time to ponder, each connected to the last. There is no "one" move for a given state.

Another facet of real-time play is the idea of distraction. It's very important in RTS's to keep your opponent distracted, to disrupt their plans and their focus, by coming from unexpected directions at unexpected times, sometimes concurrently with other operations against them. This can't happen in Chess or Go, where the demands on your focus are far less urgent and two things can't happen at once in a literal sense. Can an AI agent learn to appreciate the power of distraction? Can it learn to intuit what will be most disruptive to a human, and what won't be disruptive at all? How can you teach a computer to learn to be annoying?

I will say, of course, that nobody saw AlphaGo coming. And I hope it's the same with RTS's. That would be so exciting. I would love to see an AI blow us away with previously unthought-of strategies. That would be the coolest thing ever. So I hope it happens. But I'd be astonished. RTS is just such a whole new level of thinking for AIs.
> Most things can be easily copied if you throw enough money and developer hours at it

I would argue everything can be copied from a technical standpoint (excluding patent issues.) Marketing and user adoption may or may not be successfully copied though.
Then why are the programs he's criticizing all about either successfully hiring or retaining women who are already interested in working at Google?

He also explicitly mentions ability: "Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."

(Also, let's be clear, someone who seeks out the support of Stefan Molyneux to advocate his viewpoint cannot be meaningfully distinguished from alt-right folks who supposedly want to distort his viewpoint.)