skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to read the paper carefully and think hard, but going in to it I still have philosophical issues saying imperfect information is 'fundamentally' different.

Sure, the specific learning algorithm may not generalise from board games to poker. But to claim that Go is perfect-information is more theoretical than practical.

In practice, the 50% of moves your opponent makes are unknowns. Nobody can assess the entire game tree, so the fact that it is theoretically knowable isn't actually relevant in a game. Neither computers nor humans can compute it. Once the tree can be reasonably computed, between high level players the game is over (bar the occasional blunder).
Even if it does prompt, 99% of users will read it as:

Attention: You must click OK to play this game.
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I think what's missing in your parent but assumed is, within the context of Clojure, startup is slower than ClojureScript. The Clojure runtime is relatively slow on startup.
At the barbers today they were all talking about having bought bitcoin recently. When barbers start trading in bitcoin its probably the peak. In 1929 some people started getting out when the shoeshine boys started giving tips.
No, it's like asking someone who spent a lot of time building an octagonal wheel and is now trying to shave down the corners... why didn't you use a circle to begin with.
So i place a classified ad in Chinese Daily News but not one in the Daily News.

Am i discriminating against non chinese workers?

Im not a FB fan but this isn't discrimination if i, as the buyer of the ad, don't want my ad to go to any group. Do i want to place my ad for a day care help to any FB member that may have a criminal record or keeps track of megans law?

We just have too much information now.
As does CNBC and CNN, admittedly to a far lesser degree, except theirs is the "correct" bias.
+1 imo luck plays larger role than most people would like to admit. Particularly at places like Google who just throw their CS bingo bonanza at you, but at places that interview properly too.
This happened with Star Wars Galaxies. Two projects:

https://www.swgemu.com/

https://www.projectswg.com/
From what I read, several big teams at Microsoft were dogfooding Typescript immediately during development, even before it was ever externally released.
Many in the Haskell community talk about being guided by their types, perhaps you're seeing a similar benefit?

Not sure why the negative vibes toward this comment, I think it's fairly sensible (of course, this is a very subjective subject).
> with a lot of expected longevity

This is a great thing to bring up, because Hearthstone churns out expansion packs on a two-year basis. The "standard" game mode, which is presently the most well-supported and popular, only allows cards that were created in the last two years. If you want to keep up, you need new cards, and you need a lot of them, and they are expensive, and they are getting more expensive [1].

Blizzard has a great reputation, as you said. Hearthstone's monetization model puts their reputation at risk.

1. https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/12/16763594/hearthstone-expe...
Yeah.. no.
Some of the points of the article, albeit not new, still stand. The coordinator and the evident immaturity of the network as well as the tech are off putting. At the same time I feel like this write-up, and also a lot of the attitude here on HN, is too harsh, borderline deceiving. The first quote is backed by links to two articles by IOTA team members. The response conveys the notion that David intentionally mislead the readers into thinking that IOTA is formally partnering with the companies he, as the source article reads, presents as merely participants. The word partner is casually used by the representatives of the participating companies and that's what the other linked blog post explains - it's not an admission of wrong-doing as the author suggests.
The third response is also something of a rather unfair nature. By nitpicking to the concept of free transactions the article accuses IOTA team of deceptive practices. The response seems like it's trying to not only downplay the significance of zero-fee transactions but to event present the current model as the better thing - a notion that seems preposterous considering the actual dollar value of current bitcoin transaction fees.
Doesn't matter one single bit. Goldman Sachs can't mine gold and control its physical supply, but they sure can play with its market price. So they can drive down the futures price and then hoard physical bullion on the cheap if they have a large institution or country wanting to accumulate gold reserves. Rinse, repeat. Finance 101.
You are correct. The idea of dinosaurs with feathers is older than the 90s, even Dr. Alan Grant suggests this when speaking about raptors, on the other hand evidence appeared until mid 90s.
One of the most interesting debates was between Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel back in 2012, especially in the positions that Eric staked out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXFwy6gG_4
The key to playing competitively without spending money is the arena where it’s a level playing field for everyone. Unfortunately arena play is still limited (unless you’re willing to pay of course!)
I thought this will be about electrical conductors.
Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage
If you consider BTC to be the stable currency then it is USD that is crashing.
Right now, this store-of-value is being manipulated by whales and exchanges. Bitfinex has allowed illegal wash trading for months, there is evidence that points to insider trading on Coinbase, it's entirely possible that exchanges have been front-running their customers...
Anyone want to guess what percent of these places keep their facial tracking database in an incorrectly configured public AWS bucket?

I bet it's not 0.
Do you read Hacker News?
In gold rush, you want to be person providing services to people chasing gold, instead of being person chasing the gold.
> The conclusion I draw from this is that some of the symptoms that we associate with viruses actually comes from the under-production of our normal enzymes.

The conclusion I would have drawn is that different assaults on the metabolism can create similar symptoms.
For anyone wondering: there have been some rumours that Eric Schmidt has been indiscrete in the past, more specifically that he described that he had an “open marriage” and that he had relations with “exotic dancers”.

As far as I can tell, there is no reason to think that his close collaborators at Google didn’t know about and discovered something unsavoury recently. More to the point, there is no reason to think his behaviour (although offensive to some) was ever non-consensual.

It’s entirely understandable that, after more than a decade at the helm of the most incredible companies of all time, he’s stepping down to simply retire.

Given the times, the question bears being asked -- although as far as we can tell, No.
Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper is incredible context.
Mathematical model reveals solution to sloshing coffee
Most of the stories about social media are focused on the fact that it was non-US entities putting pro Trump posts up.
I would really like to use Google Cloud Functions as the integrate super easy with the rest of the Google Cloud platform, unfortunately, they are still only in the USA and if you have you DB somewhere else then it is not really optimal.

There are other pitfalls as it can connect to your Google Cloud SQL without opening it up to the public as it is not in the same network and there is a limit of a 1000 functions deployed.

But the developer experience is in top compared to how it is to deploy a http reachable endpoint on Amazon Lambda!
I’m a full time paid open source developer. About 40% of my time is reviewing pull requests these days. Most of these are meaningful contributions. And while it can be a pain in the ass it is community building.
> when it becomes known

When "it becomes known" is a matter of one person going on a moral crusade to destroy the other person's reputation and position because of something about them, wholly unrelated to the project, which they personally dislike--is it still valid for there to be "consequences" within the community?

If so, it seems like only a matter of time for all of us, because surely all of us do things or hold opinions that someone else in a community we participate in would find unacceptable. Therefore, all that is required for anyone to destroy anyone else is to "cause an uproar and crisis" about them.

What will you say when someone causes an uproar and crisis about you?
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Japanese original:

https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62658/

--

Edit:

Apparently it's just that GeForce cards have(/had?) no warranty for use in "data centers" --but academic use is not precluded in of itself:

https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAIJP/status/943141204744585222

https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62667/

Still, the line is somewhat unclear, I wonder how many university/academic cluster admins are aware of the fact..
2016 Election, Eric's role in it, and the exposure he added to Alphabet to gain favorable political position with the Democrats that he thought would win Presidency.

Google was right to start lobbying the Government for good causes, they just chose the wrong horse. Eric chose the wrong horse. Not only that, they paid the price for that access by letting in political advisers on internal content-review/content-policy boards, and adopting new hiring practices.

More than the loss of Democrats, this virus that Eric introduced inside their organization to gain that DC access will be bad for Alphabet in the long run.
Maybe, but what has that to do with node.js?

badum tsss

But jokes aside - the whole node environment doesn't strike me as particularly un-bloated or un-clunky, especially compared to modern JVM solutions like e.g. vertx, netty or even wildfly/undertow.
Same goes for the pure runtime itself (i.e. v8 vs jvm), where v8 may be competitive at best, but hopelessly outclassed in other cases.
I hate the fact that US citizens are increasingly treated as enemy combatants.

I have a citizenship for a reason. You know who I am. I shouldn't not be subjected to unreasonable search, I should be treated to an express lane where they can simply scan my ID, see I am not a threat and let me go on my way.
I think you are wrong about them not being "trust breakers" and right about them being fairly tame.

The reason the response seems outsized is because of the breach of trust involved, much more so than the technical impacts.

Quantum is great, and I just like a lot of the UX decisions Firefox makes. But a major reason for my support of Mozilla is their stated mission. And regularly making bumbling moves that overtly compromise that stated mission makes you start to question their commitment to it. Is it really their mission, or is it just a thing it is good for them to keep saying? POSIWID and all that.
The error is in thinking Hillary is majorly opposed to the Republican agenda. A lot of Bernie supporters switched camps to Trump, as insane as that may sound. The rich would continue to accumulate more money either way, more war in the Middle East, etc. I viewed Trump as kind of a last ditch hail Mary, which seems to have been a bad guess in retrospect.
I would say yes, since web browsers should prioritise performance and security of their primary use case which is accessing the web. In my opinion extensions are just a nice add-on, not the reason browsers exist in the first place. Most developers understand from their own experience that backwards compatibility while admirable can be very costly to maintain forever.
Fiction: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor - the first of a very enjoyable SF trilogy

Non-Fiction: Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture by Gabriel Thompson - a collection of detailed and moving stories from people who work in the fields in California.
Yep Kanban is the way to go, focus on flow, small batch sizes, reducing waste of wait times and handovers. Look at cumulative flow and rightsize stories instead of fretting over estimation, points, burndown, and all that mini waterfall that scrum seems to entail. Takes most of the drama and hysteria out of delivery.
I do think it’s only fair for these games to disclose odds but I don’t think it will lead to any change. Casinos also disclose odds and they’re clearly in favor of the house, but people still go in droves!

The bottom line is this new micro payment business model is here to stay, and hopefully people give money to the games that do it well and avoid paying the games that are simply exploitative.
"A run-flat tire is a pneumatic vehicle tire that is designed to resist the effects of deflation when punctured, and to enable the vehicle to continue to be driven at reduced speeds" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-flat_tire
Massgate – The central server for the game World in Conflict
You need to define "should" and "consequences".
So then the trend is that platform owners are the only allowed browser implementors on the their platform?

Platform owners' interests and public rationalizations aside, is this in the best interest of the web and its users?
Another one on Coursera, "IBM Blockchain Foundation for Developers".

https://www.coursera.org/learn/ibm-blockchain-essentials-for...
Explain for those not in the know, like me. I thought Goldman repaid their TARP bailout money?
We've updated the link from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/eric-schmidt-is-stepping-dow..., which points to this.
I know there is https://github.com/haiku/haiku/tree/master/docs/develop/port... but I think it's out of date at this point. Check the commit logs for the "arm" directories in the kernel, and then ask the developers responsible for that on IRC (Freenode#haiku).

I don't know much about the ARM port in specific, but I'm very familiar with our build system and development model in general, so if you have questions about that I can help there.
This is nonsense (the tricky part), esp. when it comes to a software giant as Blizzard.
Virtually any ssl/https library allows custom certs that can be shipped along with the executable.
It's awfully common to see clients (enterprise) with trust-all keystore.
This is encouraging! In my experience, getting to this stage - where you've actually seen the thing successfully hit a breakpoint - is 95% of the hard work with debugging. I'm not a heavy debugger user, I prefer trace logging, rich type systems and tests for most problems, but then that one time when you have no choice but to "use it in anger", it simply has to be there.

I seem to run afoul of some obscure, ungooglable edge case almost every time I try to start a debugger I don't use very often, regardless of the platform. Of course this happens when I'm frustrated enough to be considering using a debugger in the first place, which is exactly when you don't want to be rage-googling why your debugger refuses to print symbol names, but only when you start it with exactly the arguments you need to start it with to trigger the bug. Or when you try to send an email more than 500 miles away Or print on a Tuesday. By that point, your debugger problem is worse than your original bug.

There's a strong sense from a vocal portion of the software development community that debuggers aren't really needed (not suggesting that this is you, just a general observation). Coupled with the fact that building a functioning debugging tool is no easy task, we end up in a situation where far too many platforms treat debugging as a second class citizen when it's really an essential feature, even if for some of us it's a feature of last resort.
> Investors buying subprimes were professional investors. Most of them didn't like subprimes but were buying them because that was the only way to pick up a little bit of yield in a market where credit spreads were massively compressed. It's after they lost their shirt that they suddenly pretended having never realized that subprime stood for loans to riskier borrowers.

There's certainly more due diligence that they could have done, but that's a red herring. There was plenty of outright fraud on the part of the ratings agencies. No subprime mortgage should have been rated triple-A. Yes, you could blame investors and pension funds for not realizing that they were systemically duped, and buyer beware and all that, but the ecosystem expected that CRAs were not flat-out lying to them.

Also, some of those investors were legally obligated to invest portions of their portfolio into AAA instruments. Their hands were, quite literally, tied.

> Investors losing money = investors suing. Selling products that you don't believe in yourself = testifying in front of a bunch of angry senators waiving internals emails about "shitty securities" at you.

When I buy a shitty penny stock from my stock broker, and the stock tanks, I can send as many nasty e-mails to him, and my senator as I want. Unfortunately for me, nobody will care one whit.

When Charles Schwab sells me a share of MSFT stock, it's not because they believe, or don't believe in MSFT. Their opinion of MSFT is completely irrelevant to this transaction. They do it because I asked them to sell me a share, and because someone else asked them to buy a share.

When some crook sells me a mortgage that they underwrote, that they then bribed a credit rating agency to rate highly, that I'm legally obligated to buy... That is an entirely different situation. Do that enough, and you bet some state senator is going to be gunning for them.
A simple trading desk does not create the kind risk that caused the financial crisis. The nature of the CDS/MBS contracts the bank owned in their name caused the counter-party risk. Buying and selling bitcoin on behalf of customers does not come with anywhere near the amount of risk as signing a CDS that says Goldman owes a pile money money if AIG defaults.
I’ve heavily used jqueryUI and can’t thanks the team enough for all the work they done during those years.

But when I opened the blog post on my iPhone and got only a small column, around the quarter of the screen, with content, I thought about how ironic it was, regarding the jquery mobile topic.
I normally only read books to help me sleep and usually that book is "Lord of The Rings". However, I did branch out in 2017 with "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman which I quite enjoyed until near the end where it got a little too crazy.
That's not so far fetched, I mean CNN gave the debate questions to Clinton...
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A few years ago I got interested in my ancestry. I discovered a great great uncle, born in 1892, who immigrated to the U.S. from Romania in 1904 (aboard the RMS Carpathia, which would later become famous for rescuing the survivors of the Titanic in 1912 and was itself torpedoed and sunk in 1918).

His family likely left Romania due to the persecution Jews were experiencing in eastern Europe. Sadly, he died from the Flu in Denver, CO in 1918. :(
To add to this, note that type hinting is quite a new feature in Python (introduced in v3.5, released in 2015), and this functionality simply wasn't available before. So any company heavily invested in Python today obviously wants to improve their runtime reliability, without having to rewrite parts of their stack.

Stricter typing goes a long way to achieve this, and gradual typing allows you to upgrade the code base at your own pace, which is great.

Consider this study[0] about TypeScript and Flow, which use the same approach for JavaScript, which found both able to detect ~15% of runtime bugs. So no wonder companies with large Python code bases would be the first to invest in this space.

Personally I feel this is a great addition to the language, and hope type checking becomes a first class citizen too, instead of being delegated to external tools like mypy[1] or pytype[2].

[0]: http://ttendency.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/type_study/

[1]: http://mypy-lang.org/

[2]: https://github.com/google/pytype
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Consider re-writing it as prose, instead?
Someone suggested that copyright renewal happen closer to original, and that each renewal becomes a factor more expensive than the last time.

Lets say you require renewal each decade (with a one year grace period)... The first registration costs $100, the next 1000, then 10000, etc. If a company is literally willing to pay tens of million+ to keep a work out of public domain for more than 60 years, let them. This allows you to get the first 30 years for $11,100 before it gets pricey.

Frankly, I like this idea. Get rid of the pretense of public domain as long as a company is willing to pay that much a decade. Maybe just have it 2.5x each decade once you hit 100 million. Also, have a 3-5 year grace period for renewal before it becomes public domain.
I understand this, but that wasn’t my question. And the only comment in all this typing under my original comment that even made an attempt to answer my question of whether or not a piece of software can install a root CA without my knowledge, well, that got downvoted, too.
Good point about incompatible goals. One way out is to align the value as perceived by users with the value as perceived by engineers. If users aren't willing to pay for reliability/security/etc. then it's rational for management to devalue those properties.

I'm not optimistic that this will happen. Anecdotally, I expound to acquaintances the risks of unprotected PII or questionably-secured home security apps, but convenience seems to outweigh such concerns.

Regulation is one approach to solve asymmetric information transactions. I don't see how that could be applied in general to software quality, but it could target the cases that have severe or widespread effects.
I wouldn't expect you to be respectful of their opinion should it ever turn up in the course of your dealings with them as part of engaging in the community. But if it doesn't come up, you have no cause to be exclusive to such a person.
I just checked and found "Blizzard Battle.net Local Cert" in certmgr on my home Windows 10 desktop.

The thumbprint is e8e6a2932ae8de6eb3b555270b55fdc72b7db7b7, but it's limited to the subject alternative name "DNS Name=localbattle.net".
Perhaps better, just have tools to filter ratings (both for top lists and individual review displays) by total or per-month IAP spend of the reviewer, defaulting to a limit of zero until and unless modified by the user.

I don't care if a free game makes lots of money from paying users, I care if I'm likely to find it satisfying without becoming a heavy payer. Actually, if a company does that and gets people willing to recurringly spend lots of money on the game to subsidize it, that's a plus, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm sorry there's just a whole bunch of words here that don't seem to correspond to anything I said.
Due to medical issues I fasted for 10 weeks. After around 1.5 months, I was getting nutrients via IV, though. I lost an average of a pound per day in weight.

I felt great for most of it.
Who they decide to appoint will only be interesting if they appoint somebody interesting, which seems unlikely. Larry Page is still running the show, and moving from an executive chairman to a non-executive chairman will probably only mean that the board has less power than they did before.

Odds are they appoint somebody politically well-connected, and that person then gets to use the "chairman of the board at alphabet" title to lobby various governments in Google's favour, rather than they appoint somebody who is going to do any serious oversight of alphabet's executives.