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The opening book was removed from Stockfish ages ago. Do you mean tablebases?
Andy Brice has two successful desktop app products, Perfect Table Plan and HyperPlan [1], and both are written using C++ and Qt, IIRC; I read that on his blog [2], which I have been following for some time now. Lots of good info about product development and marketing there.

[1] At least, Perfect Table Plan is quite successful, he has been selling it for a long time now. HyperPlan is newer, but IIRC he had some sales for it too.

[2] https://successfulsoftware.net/
Yes. The cognitive dissonance around this in the cryptocurrency community is worrying.
At the expense of turning cities into 1970’s-era concrete hellscapes where you need to drive to get anywhere.
Bitcoin is under perpetual innovation:

Here it is yesterday performing a lightning transaction on mainnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73Gz3Tvx3k

Here's an implementation of Ethereum smart contracts running as a bitcoin sidechain on mainnet: https://www.rsk.co/

Here's Greg Maxwell discussing scaling while keeping the network decentralized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIuuKCm53o

Bitcoin has been taken as a joke for 9 years by anyone unwilling to actually learn about it. It's come a long ways since Mt Gox and is arguably the freest market in existence. There are online exchanges in every major country that run 24/7. You can trade without an exchange at all using localbitcoins.com. Anyone is allowed to participate and no one can manipulate the fundamental rules of the currency.

Keep living in denial.
The Netherlands.
Ideally eventually it will be truly universal (at least on a global scale). In the short term, the question of "citizens only?" is a pretty big complication. It means countries that start UBI sooner will be incentivized either to discourage or restrict immigration, or to limit it to citizens.
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In the US, the army is the social welfare.

Your argument about McD's fails because they are automating away their workforce with their self checkout systems.
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is it worth $300?
tell me your woes or home-run stories. thanks!
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I can't do it at will but few times I was waken up by the "sound" of it vibrating, quite a scary experience!
Or possibly, service jobs are harder to automate than it appears? What evidence do you have that it's easy to automate?

In theory, you could replace a McDonalds with a vending machine, but it's not the same thing.
>You're literally taking someone else's money, and giving it to someone else.

You just decribed taxation in general. Should people be taxed at all? If so, should they have a say in how the money is spent?
When has there ever been something that everyone thought was a bubble but wasn't?
people thinking "Oh I just get out when the price starts falling" are utterly mistaken:

Transactions now taking several hours might then take several days.

Already getting Error 520 on Kraken
Yes, anti-gouging laws are well-known for preventing supply increasing to meet the demand.

https://hbr.org/2013/07/the-problem-with-price-gouging-laws

"A well-known gouging case involves the invisible hand actions of John Shepperson. After the Hurricane Katrina disaster, John bought 19 generators, rented a U-Haul truck, and drove 600 miles from Kentucky to Mississippi. In return for his efforts and risk, he hoped to sell the generators at double his purchase price. Instead, he was arrested for price gouging, spent 4 days in jail, and the generators were confiscated. It’s a tricky issue: while Mr. Shepperson’s morality can be debated, his initiative would have unequivocally added supply and made some people better off. We all are charitable, of course, but how many of you would have rented a truck and driven twelve hundred miles round trip to sell generators for the price you purchased them?"
Here's a good FAQ on Basic Income:

http://www.scottsantens.com/basic-income-faq
> The work done for the bitcoin network has utility, that much we can agree on?

No, I do not agree, there is no intrinsic value in wasted compute. The only value that wasted compute can have would be a measure of the amount of entropy spent generating that "value." Entropy has no value. It's just energy that cannot be spent again.
He's saying Bitcoin is shit by using example another cryptocurrency as his example. This is simply disingenuous.
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The only service that could be considered safe is Ads (which is the only thing that gives Goole money). All the others are only channels to deliver those Ads.

There is a huge graveyard of good products that were or could have been .
https://www.lifewire.com/google-graveyard-products-1616198
It doesn't prevent trade just as effectively. Trips to Seoul don't pay for themselves. What do I care if my BTC might be worth more later? In the long run, we're all dead. I want to go on a vacation NOW.
Depends on the startup and their product.

If you are generally interested in the domain and want to get your hands dirty:

Being able to do 'Hello World`'s in the following techs:

* A simple contract on https://blockstream.com/2017/10/30/simplicity.html

* A simple contract on https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/

* A simple merchant app using one of the 3 implementations of http://lightning.network/

* A simple permissioned blochain on https://www.hyperledger.org/
I always believed that one of the core issues with Starcraft is considered to be that it is not a perfect information game (in addition to inherent complexity). Having to deal with learning how the opponent plays, and basically guess and make inferences about what they are doing, is somewhat new territory.
No, no he isn't. There is a difference between paying taxes so that the government can provide services and an A-B transfer.

For example, the government can, in some situations, seize land. The government is not generally allowed to then give that land to other citizens. There have been a couple of cases that came close to that, and if you read the majority opinions on them you'll see the logical foundations.
I do wonder how future employers will view working at a lot of these companies in the future once the hype is gone and they're out of business (not just confined to blockchain/cryptocurrency stuff). Right now it's easy to find work because there's a lot of easy money propping up companies of dubious worth, but at some point that's got to stop.
You seem to be suggesting the only two options are

1. No one uses the nice thing.

2. Only thing richer people use the nice thing.

There are plenty of other ways of allocating resources besides giving it to the richest people. E.g., there could be a lottery so that everyone gets to use the nice thing sometimes.
No. I just think life is intrinsically good and think there are philosophical consequences as ideas deviate from that axiom.

Besides, even if I were a troll (I am not) and Benatar were appalled (I presume he would be), neither fact addresses my point.
> especially procedurally generated games

mmm, this gives me a idea. Do anybody know of a procedurally generated rts.

Something like Starcraft 2; multiplayer action-rts, massive army coordination, with mikro, makro and meta game mechanics. On a randomly generated map?
What a dystopian future. So then, 99% of the population will be powerless, barely subsisting, as if they were rabbits in a cage in the pet store, while the remaining 1% own the entire world.
And seeing a few comments about toolkits being cross-platform, reminded me: his apps work on at least both Windows and Mac (not sure about Linux, but I do remember the Qt version I tried earlier works on Linux too).
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What advice do you have on building something that generates good passive income?

What works, what doesn't work? Obviously, if it was easy, everyone would do it. But as a software engineer, I would love to create a side project that generates something.
no the price can't stabilize. Its hyper-deflationary by Design. it will either go way up or completely down.
Consider a formula made up of only conjunctions and disjunctions and true/false. The first player tries to prove the formula and gets to move at every disjunction and is allowed to select which side of the disjunction to prove. The second player tries to prevent the first player from finding a proof and gets to move at every conjunction, selecting a side of the conjunction to descend to. The final state here is an atomic proposition which is either true or false and determines which player won. You derive a value function from that in the same way as you do for Go or Chess.

You can extend this idea to full first-order intuitionistic logic and probably also to higher-order logics, as well as many different modal logics. There are also formulations of classical logic as a single player game, but that doesn't seem to be very useful here.
That's assuming the people getting taxed are spending less on the same things (in the CPI) that people that are getting a surplus benefit are spending more on.

Otherwise the rich are investing less and the poor are spending more on consumption. asset prices go down cpi goes up.
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> Well then that is something you might want to do something about if you're an app developer. There's no reason arguing if you are unable to discern the big difference between the UX of a (both properly built) native app and an Electron app.

I'm able to tell the difference thanks. I'm saying that with native apps the UX can be better but for a large cost and a lot of the time that cost is not worth it. I'd also argue that most coders fixate on bad examples of non-native apps because when non-native apps are done well they don't notice. For example, Visual Studio Code is based on Electron and there's always lots of comments from people being surprised how performant it is. People also use lots of web apps day-to-day that they're happy with.
In SC there are time constraints in that you're getting resources at a certain rate. You have to grow your capacity to pull resources and at the same time be building units to defend yourself. If you allocate resources poorly, you'll find yourself losing. AlphaGo can't ignore that, but...

I think AI does have an advantage once it starts to be competent, especially if it's interacting through APIs exclusively and not the interface, which means that it's actions per minute could be astronomically higher than a human player, with unheard of levels of micro. At the same time, I think machine learning is almost an idea solution to figuring out build orders. It's gonna be fast and smart. Question just is how long?
1) Can you perhaps schedule a brief 10 minute meeting with a client at, say, 9.00am each day to get the ball rolling? It seems like once you get started you are OK.

2) Another option - get a business/life coach - you can afford it. He might give you a call at 9.00am each day for say fifteen minutes to get your 'state' activated.

3) Try starting the day with a workout. Good thing to do anyway.

4) Another thought ....

I'm curious how much of that 10K a month are you saving?

Let's say you save 8K - that's 96K a year savings. Do it for a couple of years and you have 192K - a tidy sum with which to perhaps take a year or two out, doing something that gets you more pumped.
I didn't see any valuable information here besides "Use unique_ptr instead of raw pointers". The rest is noise, and a contrived example. It seems like a profile post written to impress recruiters.
(in the context of first world countries with functional welfare states)

I'm deeply skeptical of the idea that we're going to get some sort of new deal where the rich are suddenly happy with increased subsidy of the poor, in return for increased social cohesion or whatever. The rich generally resent paying taxes and avoid it where possible. Why are they suddenly going to be happy to pay more tax, to subsidize people who have no specific need for the subsidy? Supposing the US replaces its welfare system with basic income, surely the next thing that happens is that the rich buy a government that guts or kills basic income (which is, by definition, not needed). I suspect if you want the rich to pay for this you're going to have to be prepared to go full French revolution.

I'm glad the video briefly touches on this question, but I find it frustrating how much of this debate focuses on the silly question of whether receiving free money morally taints people or whatever.

Edit: I mean, one of BI's highest profile advocates is Mark Zuckerberg. Does Mark Zuckerberg seem enthusiastic about paying tax?
Edit: I just learned that things have changed quite a bit since I looked into computer chess more deeply, and Stockfish does actually not use a book. So they did play the default config. The below is thus completely off.

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These engines are built for results, not as technical demonstrators. You are testing the engine in a scenario that it was not built to cover. Opening books are not optional add ons for these engines, they mean that the heuristics are not tuned for early game, and no work is put into optimizing the evaluation in that phase of the game.

If they could have beaten Stockfish in its default configuration (using book), they wouldn't have artificially weakened it, right?
Not sure why you're being downvoted, since your answer is correct.
I don't know. I am just echoing a sentiment which is going around.

The way I see it is not many of the articles talk about the economic perspective of bitcoin and rather dismissive of the whole point of bitcoin. It helps no one but reinforces the support.
Listening to Padgett's rendering of his Enigma theme on Youtube, it's not especially musical. Author of the article seems duly impressed, but it's very easy to write harmony to any given passage if you know the rules.
I've been doing ecommerce for years, and I think one of the best-kept secrets of the industry is that their fulfillment systems exist. Even inside of the company, the warehouse guys seem like they're second-class citizens. But I think if you're honest the warehouse management systems are where the science part of computer science really lands. You are doing literal knapsack problems and Eulerian paths. Queues and schedules and producer/consumer problems abound!

Oddly, evidence seems to suggest that companies can get by with treating their fulfillment systems as unimportant, but I have to think there is some value in recognizing their value and getting them tooled up before a surge of orders comes in on the front-end and there's no capacity on the back-end to handle them.
Basic knowledge of Javascript and HTML, plus the ability to use buzzwords and sound like you know what you're talking about.

I wish I were kidding.
Not necessarily

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
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(0) We need a culture that penalizes writing incorrect specifications and programs as harshly as possible.

(1) we perform vastly below our potential because we spend so much time working around our own and each other's bugs. People are shit not because they're dumb, but because they stick to the wrong attitude in the face of disastrous results.
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No, the problem is that a lot of good content got flagged while a lot of garbage is still monetized.
> Funny how they are coping with signing up users just fine.

Not my experience - no luck getting ID verified yet.
> More evidence that Google is hurting financially.

Google routinely kills off products. Because this is a standard Google platform life cycle, it doesn't look like evidence of anything in particular.
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Yes, it's 100% rewards at the moment. I need to get real monetization in since there's no guarantee this will last for any amount of time. I predict they'll keep it going for at most 2 more years.
Note that in the winter months even if you're naked outside in the UK you won't get any vitamin D, the sun is too low, the latitude (about same as Alaska) too high.
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Vitamin D is only absorbed in the presence of fat in the intestine. Milk is a source of fat. Of course it isn't the only source of fat, but the hypothesized explanation is more plausible than you might think.

I have observed 'seanmcdirmid to be a thoughtful commentator. It would be uncharitable to suggest that he thinks that USDA has regulated milk drinking for millennia.

Most "1st-hand" nutritional research is also wrong. That has been the case for decades, which explains the field's relative lack of progress. The reason is that most nutritional research is funded by large commercial food interests.
Ethereum wants to get into finance, but they have cryptokitties that slow down the network like crazy. Check out https://www.adjoint.io for a more legit blockchain. No crypto in the same sense as Bitcoin or Ethereum, but they have a serious smart contract solution and their blockchain is going to make a lot of companies really happy.
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I'm very curious as well, as there's no way the AlphaZero team hasn't scrimmaged against full-power Stockfish. It seems suspicious that they decided to go with a gimped version.
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You have an alternative to offer? Facebook is where the users are. What is your non-facebook approach to get visibility from new users?
You are mistaken. We as a society have agreed to pay taxes for certain things. As defined in the constitution, some are the post office and raising a military. We pay taxes and expect to get X in return.

Your argument is comparable to saying we've as a society accepted we pay for food. What we get in return for whatever we pay is not part of the equation. I won't pay $40 for a fast food burger.
Not surprising though, given that said dissonance allows for profits to be pursued.
There is a derivation of Qt named Copperspice that has removed the need for moc. See http://www.copperspice.com/
Isn’t that what wxWidgets is for?
Going by the ‘successful’ ICOs, an affinity for hype. The ability to use the word ‘decentralised’ in every sentence.
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But to stretch the analogy a bit further would it be fair to say that impact factor is very like sexual selection for extreme display traits that otherwise are detrimental to the wellbeing of the species?

Yes impact factor matters to current science as practiced but there is plenty of good criticism to show (at least as it is currently calculated) that it is a lousy measure of what is likely to end up being true, reproducible and useful.
The C++ that you write does not run through moc. It uses a few special macros, each of which either inserts something trivial (e.g. a virtual method declaration for Q_OBJECT) or nothing at all (e.g. "emit"). In another build step, moc scans for those macros and generates additional code accordingly. The features added by that generated code are super useful and are implemented in separate methods, i.e. code that does not somehow appear in the middle of your own.
a shared_ptr would probably also be a better choice if the ptr should go through several nodes of the pipeline
No. Profit is given, not taken.
Discouraging driving in general is one thing with one market price, discouraging driving where it leads to congestion is another thing with a higher market price.

Not all vehicles that cause congestion even use gasoline, which is another reason for why trying to solve congestion with higher fuel taxes is a bad idea. Your Tesla is just as bad for congestion as a gas guzzler.

Even ignoring that, regional fuel charges don't fix the problem. There's plenty of big cities where you can drive in specific areas or at specific times without causing any congestion problems, which is why it makes sense to charge road tolls on specific roads at specific times.

Vehicles can also drive to different regions to fill up, which becomes a big problem of arbitrage if you try to make the regions too granular.
This is kind of a joke, but imagine this scenario:

If I illegally immigrate to USA, how much I would make just to take a ride with people?

I believe I could charge US$20 per trip. One trip early morning, go back by public transportation (it is just 10 miles!), and get another ride. The same at rush hour in the other direction. It would me about 80 * 22 = $1760 each month. Nothing bad. Better than a minimum wage of $1,150 per month.

This is a kind of job that exists in a lot of places: https://gizmodo.com/10-transportation-related-jobs-that-only...
This is a pretty standard way of how governments enforce their authority. Each demand is backed with the threat of a bigger punishment, ultimately ending with incarceration. I wonder if there is any alternative strategy that is "better"? Dings on credit score? Automatic garnishment of wage / tax return?

In practice, however, most of the issues arise from people not getting the notices in time due to moving, clerical errors, etc. Unfortunately, there is very little recourse (and a lot of hassle) if the state makes a mistake.
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Economic definitions are abstractions built for mathematical tractibility while creating formal models.
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The financial shitstorm that it's gonna cause is when the world comes to its fucking senses and realizes that burning electricity to move around Internet Fun Bucks is a massive waste, the bottom falls out entirely, and this whole thing is finally behind us. I'm gonna feel vaguely sorry for everyone who put their life's savings into Dunning-Krugerrands to get a handful of lucky nerds who got out at the right time rich.
I did start my post with the words "in my opinion". I am not right or wrong about anything, and neither are you. We're mostly talking about syntax preferences here.

I'm separating out traditional statistics as an alias for statistical inference - make distributional assumptions, test them, estimate the effect of X on y and put a 95% confidence interval around it. That sort of stuff.

It's the stuff that absolutely does not matter if you're assessing the overall effectiveness of a classifier, and certainly isn't needed in a lot of data analysis tasks where all you need are variations of counts and percentages.

For the record, my academic background is maths and statistics. I've picked up any software development experience on the job.
Zsh is a bit of a bear to configure -- the documentation is relatively chatty and verbose, and there is an enormous variety of options and configuration points available.

IMO its real benefit is in its scripting language, which is mostly a Bash superset with really nice quality-of-life features, namely a vast set of parameter expansion flags, super-advanced globbing options, native support for numerical-indexed arrays, and... it doesn't split arrays on whitespace unless you explicitly ask it to! You can freely iterate over filenames with whitespace, special characters, etc., and you technically don't need to quote any of it. A good Zsh programmer will be able to almost totally grep, awk, bc, etc., and all the overhead of spawning a subshell.
The only thing I can think of is that they take their potential leads and run it through a third party to weed out bad numbers. Maybe so that they don't waste their sales people's time.
Density =/= high rise. Lots of 3-5-story building mix with townhouses creates the density you need with a human-size feel.
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