skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can restrain the bot by emulating human limitations if the goal is to use bots to figure out the game balance.

Add latency. Limit its actions per minute including camera movements and maybe even inertial limitations of input methods.

And even if the bot is not a perfect imitation of a human it still might figure out surprising things that would take human players years of real time to figure out by chance since they can only spend so much time on playing and experimenting.
Manipulation in the crypto-world is rampant, it happens all the time in ALL the exchanges. But it's not a bug, it's a feature of unregulated markets.

I've posted this before:

Go to "shenanigans section": http://parasec.net/transmission/order-book-visualisation/

Code is available here: https://github.com/phil8192/ob-analytics, just in case someone decides to grab a good chunk of tick-by-tick data (orderbook) and wants to go down the rabbit hole...
AFAICT, the relevant provision of the DMCA here is "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title".

Is there any elaboration on what "effectively controls access" means (e.g. in case law or in the statute that I missed)? Does a system that fails open (the only thing listed in the EasyList commit was the domain name, so a network error would replicate the same situation) fall within the scope of the provision?
Hopefully the age discrimination lawsuit against google will change that.
> I didn't "compare Damore to Rosa Parks"

> someone argued that Damore shouldn't have voiced his opinion for fear of not being hireable, I compared this to Rosa Parks being told she'd have difficulty catching a bus

Same thing.
ok true, I've only seen his other interview with Stefan and stopped halfway because it was pretty long
Nope, you must be thinking about hotdogs. Hotdogs are a loss leader for Costco. Memberships make them money.

"The most important factor about membership fees is that they go straight to the company's bottom lines. Costco operates its warehouses on essentially a breakeven basis, making its profits on memberships instead of merchandise. "

https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/18/what-do-membership...
very arrogant. Major case of inferiority and superior complex balled into one. We get it, she's smart.
> many projects outright ban US citizen from working on these, while living in the US

Do you know of any projects that don't allow US citizens to contribute?
Maybe, but actually a masculine avatar is fine here. The whole thing would have worked just as well if, instead of "sweetheart", he'd used the term "nice-guy" as in the claim "nice-guys finish last."
This was generally my interpretation as well. MMORPGs like World of Warcraft already struggle to balance classes with high skill ceilings for use by both the casual players and the hardcore players while keeping those classes enjoyable for both groups. In some ways you could call that the dev-meta, making a competitively balanced meta game while still offering an appealing level of fun for the various subgroups of the player-base.
Could you expand on the "it's known" part? Any research? This sounds as a very general statement. Social hierarchies can be dynamic.
Your comment strikes me as circular.
Pretty sure you are.

Do you have no understanding of what discrimination is? Discrimination is perpetuated by those who hold power - it is completely and directly proportional to dominance - those who do not hold power cannot discriminate.

You know why? Because if you don't have power, your ideas do not come into implementation (you don't have resources!).

Therefore, a dominant group i.e. men or white people, cannot be discriminated against because they are the centre of power - they are the arbiters.

This BS of reverse sexism that you are perpetuating is complete nonsense with absolutely zero sociological backing. Therefore, the men you reference were not "discriminated" against.

In fact, your reference to "normal people" shows how un-nuanced you are in your understanding of discrimination and society in general.

Also, the fact that you expect a diversity of ideas from a homogenous group of people is absurd - unique ideas come through because people have unique backgrounds and experiences - as these in turn act as frameworks for their intellectual products.

Has it ever occurred to you that having people with "diverse" "skin" and "sexual orientation" could actually contribute to your goal of having diverse ideas?

Don't cite one conference as proof for why men are discriminated against. Do you know who was part of the blind review process? and more importantly, does that selection reflect on the quality of scholarship put forth by female candidates or is it the product of the experiences of the people sitting on the panel?
I live in Houston. My commute home (from up on North Loop West, to near Gessner/Westheimer) takes a minimum of 30 minutes even if I leave at 6-6:30pm. Total distance? ~11 miles.

Here's the data from my Automatic Pro GPS OBD2 dongle, on a "good day":

Trip started August 10, 2017 at 06:20PM

Trip ended August 10, 2017 at 06:58PM
I am failing to find it, but this same basic story was posted in recent weeks. Perhaps just as well. A tldr of my comments there: Eh, some inmates might feel "You are going to reduce my sentence AND give me free birth control? What's the catch?"

As this article says, he may be going about it the wrong way, but he probably is trying to do something good. The Deep South (where I was born and raised) seems to generally be even worse than the rest of America about certain things. I can see him being willing to take the blame so some young woman can stop being a baby factory and blame it on him, thereby getting relatives and church members off her back.
"I do agree that they should at least make a search option to filter them out"

They have a filter "Free Shipping by Amazon" under "Eligible for Free Shipping". It should filter out most if not all items not serviced by Amazon.
Right, it's not difficult if all you want to do is buy BTC or ETH and then sell it later at some point. Gemini is probably the best option for that. Bitfinex offered KYC/AML for US citizens that wished to interface with fiat (USD), but had trouble maintaining their relations with US banks.

But if you want to do much more than that, things get pretty difficult if you're trying to be 100% compliant with known regulations and laws. Especially if you are crazy enough to consider the way things are supposed to be taxed when dealing with many cryptocurrencies, tokens, microtransactions, chain splits, air drops, and many other unconventional new mechanisms.
Have you met Vinod? He's..... intense.
Computers don't lie, code doesn't lie. The idea of smart contacts is literally that code is law. If the code is flawed, that flaw is law. As soon as you try to wrap intent, disposition, and other legalities into the equation, how is a "smart contract" anything unique?
> I don't really know anything bad about NZ.

https://e2nz.org
I'm really not understanding how someone could manipulate index futures (or options on futures, which, in the US, are subject to stock-type settlement). The "Final Settlement" on an index future is determined by the settled value of the underlying index. Any discrepency between the index future and the underlying index near expiration would result in an easy arbitrage opportunity.

Are you implying that, close to expiration, a large player would move the index, in order to move their option position in the money? In the case of ES, that would imply buying an impossibly large of amount of SP500 assets---which they would have to liquidate at some point after the ES settlement or liquidation...

Also not understanding your point on pin risk, pinning is the result of maintaining a delta neutral hedge, which is a well known strategy...
In the case of drug crimes, I agree with you. Appeal of the logic starts to break down when you scale it out for violent offenders. In fact, I find the lax sentencing in Scandanavian countries appalling.
I remember reading an impressive statistic where the implant actually has a higher real world success rate due to more botched/healed ligations.

Edit: http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/implant/ -0.05% failure rate on implants, 0.5% on sterilisation. Impressive.
And employee evaluations? Everyone takes part in those.
I don't think it will matter at all. Literally, zero impact.

Chess computers crush the world's best humans, yet here we are in meatspace, still vying to win the human world chess championship.

Also, 99.99999% of players realize they'll never ever be close to being the best in the world, yet they still play the game because it is inherently fun.
I doubt failing to contact a server would circumvent DRM. Blocking their servers would only make their DRM scheme fail and prevent access to said copyright material.

Using the DMCA to protect company's defective and flawed DRM scheme does not constitute circumvention. As such, I do not believe that DMCA's anti-circumvention laws are relevant.
'pão' descends from the Latin word 'panis', with a 'n'. So it's possible the Korean form reflects the nasalisation that was occurring at the time of contact in the 1500s, while the Japanese doesn't.

Galician and Spanish retain the non-nasal form 'pan'.
In case World War III happens, could BitCoin's value be affected drastically?
After Bitfinex was hacked in 2016[1] to the tune of 120,000+ bitcoins, I wouldn't trust them with a penny of my money. There's no way they've secured their infrastructure and process to be anywhere near even basic PCI-DSS, let alone institutional banking standards. Big surprise they couldn't comply with USA KYC/AML laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitfinex_hack
Whether or not this is in dispute, what you're doing here is injecting Trump and an inevitable culture war about him into a thread that's already likely to be contentious.

Unless Trump has specific relevance to this dispute, which I don't think he does, bringing him up is going to just add heat and fuel, not understanding. I think the mods would rather you didn't.

Just a thought. :)
From what I heard, the old bridge was pretty much falling apart (it had temporary girder braces and such), so it seemed like it needed to be replaced. Oregon in general has lots of aged bridges in need of repair or replacement.

Regarding Sellwood, I have heard that the new bike lanes on the bridge are an improvement. That is just second hand information though -- I don't ride on it.
> In fact, I find the lax sentencing in Scandanavian countries appalling.

Do you find their low recidivism rates similarly appalling?
Smart contracts enforce themselves, there's no need for the law to recognize them.
So it seems that as a buyer, if you receive the wrong item, or the item is delivered to the wrong address, Amazon will do nothing. I'm not sure why the seller went to the trouble of sending to a different address, but didn't bother to bulk up the mass.
> They get a report about a missing shipment, check their process, and it says it was received. Case closed.

How about checking the actual address and checking the weight of the item on the package.
To be fair, the whole point of "code is law" is that there is no intent beyond the code. The developer may not intend to write bugs in their code but that does not change the fact that they wrote it that way. This is much in the same way that by not catching a bug, both the developer and the person accepting the contract are equally at fault.

Now is it ethical to exploit a bug in a contract? In almost all cases the answer is no, however that is besides the point as smart contracts are devoid of any ethics or intent.

The whole problem with smart contracts is the mindset behind the community. Tech circles far to often follow the mantra "move fast and break things" and this is the issue. If smart contracts were treated like real contracts, then this issue would be largely avoided. Who do you blame for writing a shitty contract? The lawyer. The same should apply for smart contracts. Smart Contracts should be written or at least reviewed by "lawyers" specializing in smart contracts. They should be trained to be able to write contracts that are bulletproof. If the smart contract is defective, they should be responsible just like with normal contract lawyers. If there is a flaw in a contract, there should be a migration strategy for addressing it.

Smart Contracts are a developing technology and an extremely powerful one at that and as such they should be used with extreme caution but that does not mean they are a bad idea. The whole problem is that they are being used haphazardly and often for purposes which are far better served by a more benign and low risk solution.
How much of this is actually being used to pay down SolarCity debt?
No, this is a simple case of over-regulation in a budding market way too early. Coinbase pulled out of Hawaii due to burdensome state regulations. I had to open a new account from address in another state.

"Although we strive to provide continuous access to Coinbase services, we regret to inform you that Coinbase is indefinitely suspending services in Hawaii. The Hawaii Division of Financial Institutions has recently communicated regulatory policies which will render continued Coinbase operations in Hawaii impractical. We understand this suspension will inconvenience our Hawaii customers and we apologize that we cannot currently project if or when our services may be restored.”

http://www.hawaiiweblog.com/2017/02/27/coinbase-pulls-out-of...
To be fair, there are different types of aggression - some desirable (i.e. a strategic thinker who isn't afraid of /blitzkrieg/ as a valid strategy in business ventures) and others undesirable (e.g. prone to outbursts physical anger) which can only be described as a liability in polite, organised society.
My recollection is that arrays are zero indexed because time shared compilers were too slow to do the arithmetic shift in the compilation phase. I can't find a good citation offhand though.
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I suggest reading about http://www.projectprevention.org for a less coercive version of the same concept.
I find their population bares little resemblence to Chicago's.
Ok, so what ability is worthy of "AI" name?
Are you dense? Matt Taibbi is possibly the most informed and important financial journalist of the last several decades.
i did read that person's comment. Nobody else mentioned rape until you did.
Stunningly gorgeous gradients
Even with a lot of restrictions, I can't imagine how much variables this bot has to take into account; and then generate the output within a sub-millisecond time period. The most interesting part was aggressive positioning of the bot, and faking the spells to scare the shit out of Dendi (the pro player competing against it). Will definitely follow the progress of this project.
So no then. And not in this case either.
We're not talking about Chicago, are we?

You said "In fact, I find the lax sentencing in Scandanavian countries appalling." I'm asking if you're appalled by the low recidivism rates their apparently-appalling justice system produces.
I literally linked one. For quite a while, OpenBSD banned US citizen from contributing to any cryptography code.

Other projects that do stuff that would be illegal under US patent law (including some of my own) do the same today.

Even other projects that use the EU law that allows decompilation, but which would be illegal in the US, do the same.

But OpenBSD's hackathons are the only project that I want to specifically name. See the footnote 1 in my original comment.
But that's Hawaii's state regulation. Take it up with their state legislature. Coinbase operates just fine in most USA states.
I would even bring that to one more level of difficulty. There are so many choices can be made in-game to gain advantages over enemy: item build, gank/farm distribution, resource sharing, vision fight, choose to defense or let go/trade of tower/objectives...

If we can have AI that beat Pro at 5v5 in Dota, it would very likely be an AGI.
This was exactly my (the author) point.
did Vimeo's core crowd also leave the platform?
I think you misunderstood the question.

In all the rail cities I've been in, the distance/duration equation does not change based on when you leave.

Travel time is effectively constant.

This article was about what constitutes rush hour and how it mutates travel time.

For rail, it looks like the answer is "there isn't really a rush hour and it doesn't change things".

Or does it? I've certainly had to pass on an overpacked train on the London Underground and on SF Bart. Also in Barcelona the path to leave some stations can be circuitous and get congested at times. I haven't been to Tokyo yet but I've heard stories...
In Cambodia those steamed buns are called "num bao" whereas regular bread roles are called "num pang", so apparently Khmer has both loanwords.
I can't ever recall using the pre-installed OS on any computer I've ever purchased (not counting smartphones).
Yes, you've successfully identified an important difference between single-use birth control and permanent sterilization.
Icefrog also balances the game for fun, not just for the theoretical limit of what's equally fair.
>There's no way they've secured their infrastructure and process to be anywhere near even basic PCI-DSS

This simply couldn't be further from the truth.
You can't pay debt with debt. They may be getting better interest rates on the bond market to refinance their existing loans but total liabilities are going up, not down.
This is new debt not stock. These are bonds @5.3% which is close to the rate SolarCity was raising money.
Black's law dictionary is online and worthy of consultation
(http://thelawdictionary.org/coercion/). I think it's applicable. It's not coercion if you are free to refuse, and these criminals can refuse without worsening their situation.
Sure we are.

"Socialism works so well there! We should do it here."

"They have such low recidivism there! We should use their sentencing as a standard!"

I think violent offenses are more than something that requires reform for the perpetrator. It requires justice for the victim. Rape and murder? Fuck you, you're going away FOREVER.
Balance for humans and robots is different. Different play skills are easy or hard and those skills matter different amounts on different heroes . Effectively instead of balancing for fair heroes, you'd be balancing for maximizing the performance of heroes with the small human-robot gaps. It would be very easy to make the game boring because in some sense you're making the easy to play heroes the best ones and I think many games aim to be biased slightly in the opposite direction.
It's heartening to see financial markets helping a company with such potential for positive externalities. Sometimes maybe the system does work!
even in English.

'impossible' and 'improper' is 'in-' modified by the 'p'.
This approach seems like it would be more useful for bug discovery than game balancing. Actively collecting a slew of performance metrics, similar to how companies like Blizzard already do, would give you a better idea of how to proceed with balance changes because you can review the data as it applies to your actual playerbase and even organize it based on ranking categories to get an idea of how your decisions would affect players at different skill levels.
> It's not Github's job to stand up to DMCA notices.

I want to make it clear that I'm not arguing for the legal grounds here. I'm not a lawyer, so I will leave that to them. I'm arguing from a more moral/ethical stance.

I'd like to disagree with you. By allowing you to run under their umbrella, I feel that Github has a responsibility to take care of you, and the data that you put on their site. I feel that it is quite insincere for them to say "Sure, put your code on our site!" but then kick you to the curb as soon as there's any trouble. There's definitely a level of extremity that I don't expect from them: I think that after a certain amount of legal argument, they should pass it to the uploader, but I feel like their default attitude should be "no, you can't just attack the uploader because you feel like it."

It sends a clear message to the FOSS community that they don't care about taking care of their own, which is bad for Github, and bad for the committers.

I'd be curious though: Why do you think that "The law requires them to forward them to the account publishing the content without any consideration of the merits"? It's my understanding that they do have some grounds here as it is their site.

EDIT: I reworded my post as the original was rude, and accusatory.
What, exactly is the socialist/capitalist dividing line when it comes to sentencing length? At what point does a short murder sentence become a sign of socialism?
Id love to live in a world where the intent behind a piece of code and the actual functioning of a piece of code were invariably the same. Unfortunately we're not there yet.
Promoting the low fat diet (or just demonizing saturated fat) is incredibly misguided, there simply isn't (and never was) any evidence for it. It's not surprising the AHA et. all hasn't changed course, they made a terrible error and admitting that is embarrassing and stains their legacy (but their legacy is already stained by any right-thinking person).

I believe the low fat diet will be seen as almost equal to the promotion of radium water for health is seen now. At least radium water only affected small quantities of people. The human suffering caused by the low fat diet is unquantifiable. It's a relic of the Cold War that is unfortunately still alive and kicking.
I actually randomly looked this guy up months ago after thinking about him and wondering whatever became of his experiment. Sad to see how it ended.

Side note: the Atlantic's shit-tastic anti-ad blocker wouldn't let me in even though I'm a paying subscriber, AND I whitelisted them, so here's the AMP link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
Trying to land during a thunderstorm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we had two bumpy go-arounds like that. Then the pilot said something like "well folks I'm sorry but we need top up a bit before giving this another try."

The plane then flew directly across Lake Michigan to Chicago Midway, made a hard left turn in sight of the runway, and about 30 seconds later we were on the ground. Not your normal approach pattern! ATC must have cleared the other planes out for us. Maybe our pilot declared an emergency, I don't know.

We stretched our legs for about half an hour in the terminal while they fueled the plane, then headed back to Grand Rapids. By that time the storm had moved on and we landed in smooth clear air.
The best post I've ever read on HN.