skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which doesn't disprove the gp. The Fed still has $4.5 trillion in assets on their books, when they had < $1 trillion pre-QE1. The Fed supported $3.5 trillion in risky assets long-term.

The Fed has paid US banks to hold onto currency reserves that were injected into them, effectively subsidizing more risky investments throughout the economy. This includes equity growth, equity distributions, low bond yields, kept the capitalization rate (ignoring Fed injections into banks) low, etc. Without keeping QE on the books, these other current market investments wouldn't have been possible.

QE has allowed risky debt to continue to float around the entire financial system without market forces quickly drowning the riskiest. Effectively the Fed is subsidizing the risk and the average person will pay when inflation finally picks up. Just because we still don't fully understand the new "laws of finance" while we are in this QE bubble doesn't mean the old laws of finance won't still apply when QE dissolves.
> So as it turns out, even in a system that was built to never lose your data, backup is still a critical feature for many of our customers."

Wow, what a surprising insight! /s
True, with one caveat: the engine manufacturer optimized for miles covered under warranty. Some even spec longer intervals between oil changes as a selling point.

Some engines are known to be more finicky to dirt (VW infamous chain tensioner comes to mind), and thus it makes sense, if you plan to keep the engine after the warranty expires, to reduce the oil change interval, as oil tends to be much cheaper than an engine rebuild.

There's a service where you'd send your spent oil to be analyzed for cleanliness, so you could determine the best change interval for your engine and usage. But that cost of that service wasn't much cheaper than just changing the oil a bit more often…
What makes you think I'm trolling? Honestly, I'm tired of all these mediocre devs just pushing their keyboards in some inefficient, unsafe language and are totally unaware of the alternatives. If I'm showing them a greater alternative, am I trolling on this site? Can you show a single reply where I spoke something that doesn't holds true? I accept that there are certain opinions of every individuals that are not ought to match, certain disagreements and other things, but you should respect mine too.
I saw the light last week as well. You can combine this with Quasar to get Erlang style concurrency. I wonder if you can somehow hook up, idk RxJS on the client with RxJava on the server for seamless integration.

The JSON story is also amazing.

This stack is gonna be the biggest deal in the world.

Not to mention that you can run it on Android and soon enough iOS. This is unprecedented.
I understand how Bitcoin works and I understand how the technology itself is useful and valuable + has some interesting use cases.

However, with the exception of a few use cases e.g. countries with high and/or hyperinflation, what I don't understand is why the currency Bitcoin has any value at all. Frankly, if anything, it still looks more like a massive bubble to me.

Unless you already own Bitcoin, why would I ever consider paying for something through Bitcoin? Why would I ever transfer EUR or USD into Bitcoin?

Then again, maybe I'm missing something here, because gold also does not hold the value it generally trades at. I don't see how it makes sense to hold either gold or Bitcoin.
There are a bunch of server side frameworks and web servers for Linux
Yeah I can even imagine a thriving "marketplace" for specialty code that top players would keep secret.

And it doesn't have to just be for micro. For people who are bad at macro, maybe code can be written to consistently maintain X workers at all bases.

The difficult part here would be how to balance the AI-assistance. Is lines of code (or number of characters) a good proxy for complexity? What's the number-of-character to benefit ratio?

I guess that's ultimately determined by the individual player's strengths and weaknesses. If a player sucks at macro, then the macro script is worth the number of characters.
Disclaimer: I'm working on ROBOAMP (an AMP generator)

>AMP, loading megabytes of Javascript, claiming to speed up the web?

Of course this doesn't make sense when your content is only text, but this is quite unfair comment about AMP as a whole.
It's a simulated annealing process that happens live in front of you.

Each artist has a desired distance to each other artist and is trying to get to a position that satisfies all these desired distances as good as possible.
"What is your mother's name?"

"......let me tell you about my mother...."
I agree that this will be terrible. We really need to put more tools in the hands of the users, not the developers. Instead of adding more and more closed off technology, we should be pushing to take away the tools that are currently being abused.

Unfortunately, doing the right thing isn't as profitable, so we've collectively chosen to fuck the users instead.
Yeah this wasn't a post about TOR being faster than i2p, it was about TOR being faster than TOR used to be because people invested in better connections between nodes regionally.
What makes you so sure that it's an "overwhelming majority of employees"?
Netlify is amazing. It is so easy, a pleasure to use for static sites and react apps, continuous deployment is awesome, and open source projects are (for now and hopefully for the long run!) FREE.

Huge, huge fangirl. Keep it up, Netlify!!!
Is Discord the Next Reddit?
I just tried to get the linter (JShint) to break some valid code, but it didn't. So you can actually rely on the linter to insert the semicolons for you. It would be interesting to find out if there are any cases where the linter will insert the semicolon in the wrong place.
Which is still about 350 actions per minute for a professional
SC2 player, roughly 5 to 6 actions per second.
I disagree with that statement.

I have seen the excitement for Bitcoin come about here in Pakistan, mainly from the lower class, to the middle class, I know the founders of one of the Bitcoin exchanges in Pakistan(Urdubit), and the number of people that come from the rural areas to trade or buy bitcoins, would surprise you.

Yes, most people won't read the whitepaper, and many more will read it and won't understand it, but you don't need to understand the inner workings of it fully to take advantage of it.

Yes, right now, creating a paper wallet, or storing your coins in cold storage can be a little bit difficult for most people, and till these things are simplified enough, my mum won't be using it to pay for groceries at the supermarket. But that's with any technology!
Yeah he ist talking about the hypthetical son, but obviously not because of the age but because of the relation. The point was rule through fear. (Siblings don't speak up anymore - coworkers don't speak up anymore)

Also yeah he had to bei in his 30th how else would he have gotten his phd? But like I said the age wasn't the point.
I recently moved to San Diego from the east coast and I really agree with petition. The Trolley here seemed idealistic to be at first, "I can take the train downtown from my apartment in 40 minutes!" I thought. I love driving as much as most people but parking downtown is not fun to find. So I took the train twice, but after being on the train, I won't do it again. There are several people shouting odd things and no police in sight addressing that. Along with an recent armed robbery of 16 year old on the train, I'm thinking that this well designed system totally flopped its daily execution. If California could invest some one time resources (make the platforms gated and require paid fares to ride, maybe some tech to know if people are riding the train with no destination) and recurring resources (heavier police presence on trains) towards the Trolley in San Diego they could pull some cars off the highway.

Public transit options are most beneficial if people feel safe and confident riding them.
Ciricling back to this, cause it's kinda nuts. If you think "the media" and especially CNN has its reputation "destroyed" by Trump you are deep in a bubble. it's the same shitty network with pundits paid to yell at each other that has been since at least jon stewart went on crossfire and pointed out how stupid it all was. Cable news is junk outside of their sunday shows; but trump wasn't the one to point that out
IMO there should also be a precision limit. The timing of actions should include human-typical jitter and the wrong action should sometimes be activated to simulate misclicks/fat-finger keypresses — e.g., messing up a control group by assinging a unit to the wrong number key. The bot must also not be able to act faster than human reaction times (~250ms), this could be enforced by adding a fixed delay to the observations.

I wouldn't be surprised if human Starcraft II play isn't so much limited by decision-making as by the translation of decisions into mechanical actions, which in turn dilutes the attention devoted to actual decision making.
Would be interested as well.

How good is the ecosystem for server side applications on other OS?

I like the syntax of Swift, it would be awesome to be able to use it for iOS apps as well as server apps.
Congrats! Hope they do great things with it. Use them to host a middleman site and love the service.
The browser somehow detects that the missing semicolon wasn't omitted and doesn't add it???
The point is that money _doesn't_ get from VCs to taxes. At least not in the same percentages as normal income.
It's a great AI challenge but the pro/casual scene is very diminished from what it once was. Practically every single streamer who introduced me to the concept of streaming by playing/casting SC2 have either moved onto other games or quit streaming altogether. I can't believe it was only a few years ago, but I used to watch Husky/HD/Day9 everyday.

Unless I'm mistaken, even the top SC2 streamers today receive a fraction of what other streamers who stream games like Hearthstone or Dota2 get. I'm not suggesting it's a 'ded gaem' but to me it's become a little like AoE2 in that it's a niche e-sport, which is certainly nothing to be ashamed about. But I think it's a far from what Blizzard had hoped for, which I think is reflected with their next batch of games in Hearthstone, Overwatch, and HotS, which all have some level of competitive play while still being way more very friendly to casual users than SC2.
As WASM gets higher level constructs like structs and GC, you might be wiser to compile to WASM (assuming the WASM-to-LLVM backend is high quality). WASM is primarily focused on being cross-platform and deterministic. I remember when Rust was being written, the devs complained about platform-specific LLVM IR they had to emit.

The big question is who will make the first WASM stdlib iface so backends can implement it. Otherwise, you might leverage LLVM right now because you have libc.
The Google memo is poorly argued and reaches the wrong conclusion
optimization != scalability
Hmm I think I missed the memo that CockroachDB is no longer a beta:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-1-0-release/

Does anyone have experience with replacing small MySQL / Postgres instances with CockroachDB? I know it's not a target market but I wonder how flexible CockroachDB is.
> As a general rule of thumb, 10-20 story tall buildings are an eye sore.

Just FYI, people saying things like this is definitely a key part of why us New Yorkers think the Bay Area has literally gone insane.
Yes you can.

1. mrmoneymustache.com
2. earlyretirementextreme.com
3. gocurrycracker.com
4. madfientist.com
5. thepowerofthrift.com
(I could go on for a while here)

It's not only perfectly possible, it's not particularly difficult.
Curious here if you think a news network should post 50% positive coverage about something regardless of the story being objectively bad.
Speedtest Global Index
> He conflated group and individual variability, for one thing.

Check out this graph from the paper: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGsHRXlXcAARj6E.jpg

Frankly it is one of the more concise and effective presentations of this point I have seen. It had been removed from what Gizmodo originally published.
As mentioned in the linked announcement, they also added a complementary option to completely prevent gpg from talking to the network. It should address the use case you describe:

* gpg: New option --disable-dirmngr to entirely disable network access for gpg.
Personally, I think focusing on BW would have been more interesting (as long as the APM limit still stands), but I guess SC2 is alright too. The fact that they're even doing this though makes me happy.

The reason I say BW would be especially interesting is simply because the game has remained basically unchanged balance-wise since v1.08 which came out in 2001. Despite that, the pro scene never left, and we're still seeing some shifts in the meta even today. It would be cool to see a strong AI flip the script completely for such an established and "well understood" game. Opportunities like that are kind of rare, at least when it comes to video games.
Thanks. That is an excellent suggestion, we are planning to implement it in our next version, also you can see a list of all the classes without duplicate times on our homepage.
Megan McArdle had a good piece on the social value of shame and how the Internet subverts that:

https://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-17/how-the-in...
It's the MVP philosophy - get the DB out and get users first. Features when users realize they need them.
Intel says it will build a fleet of 100 fully autonomous vehicles
Microsoft hired one of the best scripters (Promi) on the AoE2 AI circuit to write the official AI for AoE2 HD, and it's quite good, although the rules engine doesn't have enough features to beat early harassment. If you let it boom it's pretty scary for new players.

If you play using the UserPatch on Voobly, where the serious custom AIs are written, you can play vs. Barbarian. It is _very_ good, if you're not a semi-competitive player it will certainly beat you.

The upcoming UserPatch 1.5 will add even more features, so Barbarian and other custom AIs will become stronger.

To be clear, AoE2 AIs are all rules-based and written by pro players themselves, which is quite different from what DeepMind is trying to do.
HTTPS on S3 is quite easy, only requiring the addition of CloudFront.
> Before you say that this would be ridiculous to assume on an internet forum

Why would I say this?

Thanks for your contribution
Predicting the price is only an intermediate step to answering the question "How much should I invest in this stock?" In the case of the penny stock with no business activity, you can usually just skip the valuation step and go straight to "invest nothing".

There are exceptions, of course, but all of them involve you having some information not generally available to the public.
This gives me great ideas
I've never understood Netlify.

They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs.

Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests.

See the YSlow report for their blog site below.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg

It receives an "F" rating.

Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?
Why not first allow the AI to have unlimited APM and beat humans, then restrict it later? Because I don't think we're even close to the easier problem.
I agree that Starcraft 2 won't suddenly drop dead. People do play it and FWIW, I liked it! I played all the expansions, online, and even the arcade mode. It was a good game.

But I disagree that Blizzard has faith in Starcraft 2 for America or any other country.

The removal of Starcraft 2 from Starcraft's English-Speaking homepage is one sign of finality. In-universe, Blizzard has also ended the main dramatic arc of Starcraft 2's story, leaving room only for half-hearted spin-offs.

Numbers-wise, we're seeing 50% drop-offs in user activity the last 2 years alone. Even with the release of "Legacy of the Void", the number of daily games played for 1v1 since 2015 have gone from 321,000 to 138,000. The new, much-advertised, much-worked-upon, Archon Mode has gone from 11,000 games a day to a measly 1,000 [1]. Not just because of Korean disinterest, we're seeing players leave across the board in all countries.

In 6 years, Starcraft 2 went from millions of players concurrently to an average of 20k a day.

Compare with the lifespans of League-of-Legends, Dota, Counterstrike, even the original Broodwar, and the reason for remastered becomes more obvious.

Blizzard knows Starcraft 2 won't lead to the resurgence of the RTS genre, so they're trying another route.

[1] http://www.rankedftw.com/stats/population/1v1/#v=2&r=-2&sy=c...
Go has had breaking changes. You had to run a program to fix your source.

https://blog.golang.org/introducing-gofix

Swift 4 had very few changes. Most Swift 4 code “upgrades” without any changes.

I’ve got two dozens Swift examples that were easy to convert to Swift 4.

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.md
The fact that you equate a few studies with "clinical fact" shows you do not understand how science works.

http://retractionwatch.com
Victim of trying it the first week it came out, having to call down into C for anything POSIX, and giving up. If you don't have POSIX bindings, don't call yourself v 1.0.
Oh, derp, you're right.
Somehow hyperloops are better than high speed rail. In actuality they are the same thing except a hyperloop has a pointless tube protecting it. The original hyperloop concept and the 'hyperloops' being worked on are completely different.

Hyperloop is a rebrand. This is a terrible idea, instead of opting for urban sprawl and more roadways, increase density, increase public transit facilities, and actually PLAN development projects.
Not too mention that censorship is getting worse and worse in Singapore. Your internet will not access things you'd expect it to.
No worries, looks like it's all cleared up now!
It sounds insane I know. But I've noticed many people who'd otherwise use Reddit setting up Discord channels instead. Like the guys at Source Gaming and Fusion Gameworks.

Also seen lots of gaming communities focusing less on Reddit and more on Discord here.

Add how it fixes the privacy issues that led to Reddit's free speech crackdown, and I think it's Discord (not Voat or the likes) that's attracting the Reddit audience.
Love love love Netlify! Moved my blog from Tumblr (lol - but it was free!) to Netlify with Hugo as the static site generator. A wonderful experience. With little effort, my blog now has SSL, auto-deploys after I git check-in, and is a million times faster. I wrote a tiny bit about the migration process: https://www.netkow.com/moving-from-tumblr-to-hugo-netlify/
I wonder if we will see any advanced cheese strats come out of this. I'm assuming some implementations will eventually develop micro control that is far beyond any human player's capabilities, which would make things like all-in probe rushing much more viable. Instead of playing the normal meta in a computer-vs-human, I imagine an advanced AI would simply send all of its workers off the mineral line as soon as the game starts, and attempt to out micro the human opponent before they can build an army-producing building.
> because they put a extreme right wing conspiracy theory into a footnote of a manifesto about hiring less minorities.

This is false. Neither the manifesto was "about hiring less minorities", nor the footnote contained the conspiracy theory. The footnote contained facts, which you declared to be Nazi conspiracy theory because Nazi conspirologists mentioned the same facts. It's like saying somebody is a Nazi because Nazis think 2x2=4 and they do too, so they clearly agree with Nazis, so they are Nazis themselves.

> No one asked for their opinion on Marxism

You imply one should express one's opinion only if Powers That Be - of which you undoubtedly see yourself as a prominent member - ask them to? Wouldn't you like that. Fortunately, it's not the case - one can express one's opinion about Marxism whenever one likes to, and that doesn't make one a Nazi.

> No one asked for their opinion on Google hiring practices

Shut up, grunt, and back to the keyboard! We don't pay you to have opinions!

Sure, why not. Google has the right of insist their workers STFU and let the VPs think for them. It's not what it says on the box, but if it's what it is, no problem.

> Which, not coincidentally, is a talking point of those so far right that facist or Nazi is not a slur but a descriptive adjective

No it is not. Nothing expressed in the manifesto has anything to do with Nazism, and the only extremely tenuous connection that you could find is that some Nazi conspirologists also talked about Marxists participating in gender politics. Which would be very easy to observe to anybody who knows anything about current politics.
Your claim that it is not a slur is a bald-faced lie.

> It's the ones that think Google wouldn't hire gay people unless Marxist's wanted them to

If you imply that the author of manifesto thinks something like that, it is again a lie. If you do not, I don't understand why you brought up those imaginary non-existing people.

I also find it disappointing, though not surprising, that the whole discussion of a long and dense text concentrates here on latching on a couple of words in a footnote, misinterpreting them in the most hostile way possible, affixing the most emotional and charged label available and refusing to discuss anything else on the grounds that affixing the label explains everything. It is, unfortunately, what many people on the internet think political discussion is. The same people then lament how bad the politics has gone lately. Maybe they should stop digging.
This. Somehow I was expecting the implementation of mechanics to be the easy bit, compared to high-level strategic planning and tactics. Curious to see whether these will emerge by themselves, or if they will need to provide some heuristics (use drops, harass, all-in, etc. )
From the github (https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor):

> Is this actually .NET in the browser?

> It's not the regular .NET Framework or .NET Core runtime. It's a third-party .NET runtime called DotNetAnywhere, which has been updated and extended in various ways to support being compiled to WebAssembly, to load and run .NET Core assemblies, and with some additional functionality such as basic reflection and so on.

> Can I build a real production app with this?

> No. It's incredibly incomplete. For example, many of the .NET APIs you would expect to be able to use are not implemented.
Yes.

They've evolved and executed repeatedly in the 20 years since they started. DVDs by mail->Streaming Online->Original Content->Global Market. One misstep was to try to separate the legacy DVD business as a stand alone brand and charge separately for streaming. That failed pretty spectacularly, so they quickly bailed on the idea[0], said their mea culpas and went on to triple revenues over the 5 years since.

We can expect Netflix to grow into the Earth's TV station, hyperbole and all...

[0] http://business.time.com/2011/09/19/netflix-admits-it-messed...
We have a GitHub integration that runs on every pull request and push, which triggers an AWS Lambda function that verifies that disables the big green "Merge" button if the branch could not also be fast-forwarded onto its parent.
And as far as I know it's the engine they're using.