skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's a fundamental part of the game which forces a high level of variance. That is what OP was complaining about. Even the best decks are prone to mana flooding or screwing. Your brilliant "1/3" strategy is literally the first thing beginners learn about deckbuilding, and doesn't change the high variance of each game.

>And from a recent card randomizing thread, it takes 7 "riffles" to fully randomize a deck.

I don't think you understand what "randomize" means. It doesn't mean "you get proportional hands", it means that the state isn't predictable. It is still subject to variation in the amount of mana you draw.

Seriously, you are reciting trivially basic concepts, that everyone is aware of, and completely ignoring and/or misunderstanding what is being said and the real situation.
There's a lot to unpack in this article, since the article is embedded in a given point in time (1975), translated (from Polish), and is itself a critical examination... of critical examination ... of early 70s Science Fiction.

There's a few themes here that are interesting. Firstly, it's Lem's early recognition of Dick as a genius. I'd like to think that one of the things that Lem had in common with Dick was that they were both mentally traumatized (Lem, barely surviving Nazi-occupied Poland, and Dick, suffering from intense depression and psychoses). They both wove stories around the mind dealing with situations that were pervasive and inescapable. Lem went on to translate Ubik into Polish. Dick responded by accusing him of being a Communist party stooge/pseudonym, and held Lem personally responsible for financial shortfalls from the publisher. So much for kindred spirits!

Neither one of them wrote "entertaining" stories, at least not according to popular trends. The main thrust of the article is how to consider literary greatness in the midst of contemporary entertainment. But, the striking thing to me is that Dick's works are entertainment now. It's one thing for genius to be recognized after the author has passed, but why are Hollywood and Netflix churning out Phillip Dick (and related) stories decades later? Most ideas about future technology from that period are laughably wrong or outdated.

After the events of the past few years or so, I have to wonder if people feel the same sense of paranoia and dissociation echoed in the stories. It's pretty clear modern society is unraveling, and we're heading towards some awful disaster, whether it's ecological, technological, or political. Dick's stories follow those mental patterns and somehow feel familiar.

Finally, I am grateful for taking Istvan Csicsery-Ronay's Science Fiction class at Depauw all those years ago. He maintains this page and the rest of the archives : https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/index.htm
Sinh viên Cao đẳng Dược nắm bắt vị thế ngành Dược trong “cuộc chiến” kinh tế
This comment finally put the puzzle pieces for why so many people seem to hate this website.
Is the UN supposed to be a democratic institution? That was never my impression. I thought the point was that, no matter what else was happening in the world, we're all generally better off if the leadership of various countries have a standing body where they are basically forced to talk to each other all the time.
That's a nice example for a reasonable reaction from politics. Good to know!
I use rr all the time; it's amazing. In fact, I would say that if your debugger can't go back in time, then you're using the wrong debugger.
AI for prosthetics – deep reinforcement learning for healthcare
> Smoot Hawley Act anyone

generally regarded as making the depression worse.

I don't think I've ever seen someone defend that.
Verizon has a section of their site to turn off marketing and adjust privacy settings. Notably absent is the ability to turn off location sharing. I emailed the privacy department and they totally dodged my question. I still would like, and think it's important to have, an option to opt out of all location sharing. I don't care if it's for fraud prevention since that is easily abused by companies.
'No, we are not rewriting Office in JavaScript' and other Microsoft tales
At my company, there was a specially-trained fraud department that could handle cases like that, with specially arranged hoop-jumping to prevent social engineering for information. I would expect that Paypal has something similar, but maybe the phone drone in that case was too untrained or unmotivated to transfer things to them.
What is it like to be a Machine Learning Engineer in 2018
> Engineers do, why can't hackers do this?

That can be difficult if security features rely on humans not being able to subvert the process, I think. But for other processes, this should be the default!
Was he involved in the making of the movie? Or were the dreary and rainy scenes described in detail in the book?
It’s a valid point, but there are also factors in the other direction- for instance, there are people who would have chosen to buy cars if ride sharing weren’t available, and this would have led to greenhouse gas emission through their manufacture, trips taken lazily by car rather than walking, and etc.
Sounds like 100 people asking to be fired.
You are pretty much right. A couple of things to add: even hand optimized asm code wont be able to use all ports all the time with a single instruction steam; the biggest win for hyperthreading is filling the pipeline bubbles caused by memory loads out of L1 (there is only so mach that OoO scheduling can do on your average load)
Not intended as flame bait, sorry if that's how it comes across to you.

It just so happens that people complaining about Firefox doing it wrong is a pretty common thing in Firefox threads on HN. And they usually have an example where it's really unclear if it's a problem for more than them or not. But, usually, they have a lot of advice about what the Firefox team should do. Whereas the Firefox team has telemetry data from most of their users.
Yeah that seems insane to me. Sure maybe you go back since it doesn't seem to be malice on the part of the employer, but to not get compensation for the time you were "fired"...
Engineer jumps to death at Qualcomm
I didn't say I like or dislike the TPP agreement, so I'm not sure where you get that from. Trump had no notable objection to it, beyond his normal pejoratives and limited palette of adjectives, when ultimately it addresses precisely many of his complaints.

Because he isn't arguing merits, or what's best for the US. He's pitching a grand show for his base.
AFAIK painted over old lead paint isn't a problem. If you sand it it is.

For most of these old toxic things, where plausible, the best option is to just seal it and leave it alone.
> you tariff me, I tariff you

Really, cause they described Trudeau as stabbing them in the back and said there is a special place in hell for people like him. He said Canada would respond with tariffs after Trump put in tariffs.
INSIDE THE CRYPTO WORLD'S BIGGEST SCANDAL
My thoughts as well. I've spent the last decade+ working for sub-500 person companies, largely sub-100. I find myself now through acquisition in a 1,000 plus person company and I find it… stifling.

It's bizarre to me to work for a company where I don't know close to everyones name. This kind of junk never happens in small companies.
Easily solved by simply fingerprinting and retinal scanning the positives and the "unknowns", which is essentially the status quo. Nothing changes except our confidence level that we are actually engaging the right people. The cost, to me, is simply in terms of how expensive implementation would be in terms of dollars.
What would happen if Amazon collapsed tomorrow?
Out of curiosity I searched google for anything hypothesizing the impact of Amazon collapsing, but didn't find anything except books about socio-economic collapse...

What would happen?
This story is fascinating. Computers were designed to be black-and-white. It seems like the automation tool that was in place is not transparent or restrictive that its hard to figure out why that happened to you.

Glad to hear that you are able to continue on your job.
Gauge – a test automation framework from Thoughtworks is out of beta
On a related note, another interesting CPU design - http://multiclet.com/index.php/en/support/general-technical-...
Could this conceivably be used to speed binaries like nginx? I tend to compile nginx on my systems as over time there are always custom modules I want to add/modify anyway.
The market for ride-sharing services is over $17B [1], of which Lyft accounts for about a quarter. This is cited as a “multimillion dollar” effort- it’s likely barely a drop in the bucket. (And nice marketing, to boot.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/368/109/ride-sharing/united...
There are many possible fixes. The most obvious is to wrap it in a mutex (assuming 'done' is standing in for much more complex logic):

func main() {
doneMutex := sync.Mutex{}
done := false

go func(){
doneMutex.Lock()
defer doneMutex.Unlock()
done = true
}()

getDone := func() bool {
doneMutex.Lock()
defer doneMutex.Unlock()
return done
}

for !getDone() {
runtime.Gosched()
}
fmt.Println("done!")
}

Another option would be to use a channel in place of done.

Effectively, the lesson here is that go doesn't have concurrently safe types (e.g. no concurrent map) nor generics to create them, so all concurrent code must be built around the builtin generic concurrent-safe type (channels) or must make careful use of mutexes / the atomic package / etc.

Idiomatic concurrent go either is built around channels or mutexes, and in either case the compiler won't tell you if you messed up, only the runtime race detector and testing will save you.
Lets do a little math. FB has 25k employees. Lets suppose they pay everyone a million buck. That is 25billion. Their gross profits were 35 billion. They can afford to have two teams or 3 teams or 4 teams working on the app. I don't know what Airbnb's numbers are, but I am sure they can afford to have multiple teams.
Doesnt ICE answer to the President and the laws written by Congress? Is hurting ICE meant to influence the decision making of the Trump admin, and if so, how effective might this move ultimately be?
> Why would that trust be necessary? It very clearly isn't.

Okay, why should North Korea cooperate with Trump?

Why should Iran?

He says one thing then turns around and does another. How do you come to an agreement with that sort of person on anything?

It's not about having good or bad policies. It's about being able to do any sort of good faith negotiation.
Some companies that make copyright claims against YouTube videos request a cut of the ad revenue instead of having the videos taken down. I'm pretty sure that "monetized content" is Google's term for these videos that you upload and Google has decided you don't really own.
> And yet it works.

I don't see what happens on Twitter as "it working". Tastes differ I guess.

> it is very rare that a single thought actually takes more than 280 characters (and maybe a picture) to express.

I guess that depends on the thought. Twitter is full of the kind that take a short grunt to express. But do I really want them? I've found I can do very well without them.
The fix that's probably closest to the author's intent is to use an atomic. There's no atomic boolean in the language, but if you store 0 or 1 in an int32 it works.
I ran into a fun one like that many years ago in IE. The JavaScript I had written was failing, but when I opened up the devtools to debug it, it worked.

It turned out that in that version of IE, the console object only existed when the devtools were open. So a stray console.log call was causing an exception because console was undefined. But when I opened the devtools to see what was going on, console existed and so everything ran just fine.

I suppose that's the kind of error that only bites you once. When you know about it, you tend to never make that mistake again. But that first time you run into it can cause a painful few hours of head scratching and attempted debugging.

Funnily enough, I ran into a React Native error like the one described in the article, where something worked only while debugging. My previous experience with the heisenbug in IE led me to immediately dig into what was different in RN with the devtools open vs without them. So in a way, those hours I wasted in IE back in 2010 prevented me from potentially wasting hours debugging RN in 2017.
>...literal modern Gestapo is suddenly not okay and removed in blink of an eye.

This comparison isn't helpful, at all. Invoking the Gestapo seems needlessly inflammatory, and is quite obviously untrue.
The contract was a 3 year contract, the new system hadn't been updated to reflect that.
Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
There is some truth to this, but a lot of times it's just not possible. Some spreads are so ugly, so rural, or so small (relatively speaking) that they really don't have that option. Some don't have the vision or the inclination as you mentioned. And some have both the option and vision, though this group is the minority.

There is a medium sized dairy farm I know of (1,200 dairy cows) that started making compost out of their manure and selling it. I know some of the nicer/larger spreads that do dude-ranching or guided hunts etc.. I just don't see most ranches as even having the opportunity to transform even if they wanted to.
If you accept PayPal as a merchant, every dollar you have received is 100% at risk until you have a) received it in your bank account, and b) removed it from any account for which PayPal has the information necessary to perform ACH withdrawals. For merchants, PayPal is a nightmare.

As far as alternatives, customers seem to love PayPal, because they side with buyers effectively 100% of the time in any disputes. So even if there were a convenient PayPal clone (which there isn't, at least in the US), you still wouldn't match the conversion rate that PayPal has, as many people will only use PayPal.

So, you can either accept a lower conversion rate by going with something like Stripe (because users don't want to enter their CC information directly on small merchant sites), or you can accept PayPal and be essentially guaranteed that at some point your account will be closed and you'll be screwed out of a significant amount of revenue. Currently, these are the bad choices that merchants face.
related:

Airbnb is sunsetting React Native [1] to move to native code:

[1] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sunsetting-react-nativ...
>Microsoft has been positioning itself as tech’s moral leader. Mr. Nadella and Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, have publicly said they want to protect user privacy

Hard to take this seriously given what Windows 10 and other new microsoft products subject users to.
GP was not complaining about HN, but the media companies that report on Chinese censorship while at the same time stoking moral panics, proliferating biased hitpieces on people and entities spreading ideas they dislike, and practically begging tech companies and western governments to censor and regulate the internet.

That is the whataboutism at hand here: "Yes we want to censor, ban, and shame you for our own reasons, but hey...look over there at China! Scary!"
>"The most recent evidence from epidemiological and toxicological studies suggests that low levels of exposure can, over time, damage the heart, kidneys, and brain."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797860/
They get sold
If only legal immigration reform had this much political attention...
Yes, it's a security risk, if having an encrypted drive is your only security measure.

Encrypted PDFs don't show their contents in QuickLook (just a lock icon).

QuickLook is useful though, especially when used from the command line. I use it to convert DOC and PPT files to HTML, and then to TXT, without needing MS Office.

https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=191939#p191939
Whiskey Can’t Hide Its Age Either (2015)
Not necessarily. Time with a kid is not sliced in a way that supports a nine to five, but could support an enterprising, driven person in the margins. You can fully support the child and have some time to support your own interests.
Many people hold the position that if you believe something is immoral you shouldn't assist it. Effectiveness of the protests be damned you're at least not part of the problem.
You asked "when was the last time..." for Africans as if you were referring to recent history, then went back to Confucius and Sun Tzu for Asians?

That's pretty funny. So, are you including Ancient Egypt for Africa or only later? Because, as you know, so much is derivative of that civilization.

Otherwise, slightly more recently, do Shaka Zulu, Ras Mengesha Yohannes, and Tariq ibn Ziyad, count for generals? How about Mandela, Soyinka, and Tutu for Nobel prize winners?

And, of course, for more fun we can reference other categories of "achievement", the value of which is culture-specific, then ask which other cultures have matched those "achievements".
The Elephant’s Superb Nose
Its not about hurting ICE, its about being decent human beings. ICE will be ICE regardless, but Microsoft doesn't have to be complicit, and its employees don't want to be either.

That said, if ICE can't find a single company to buy services from, it will reverberate up the food chain
After the Google AI pull out and now this it’s starting to inch pretty close to the inmates running the asylum.
It's hard when it's a cobbled-together set of systems sending signals to each other, some of which are automated by human robots (e.g. main system sees exit, files a dozen tickets, some of these get picked up by different automation, some of them cause humans to trigger other processes, each of which can again file half a dozen tickets in three different systems...)
"effectively 100%"... "essentially guaranteed"... Com'on, that's not true.

I've won disputes on PayPal as a seller.

Companies have been using PayPal for over a decade without their accounts being closed.

You're talking nonsense.
Linked in the body of the article, it's a very subtle variation
People have a right to refuse service as long as there is no discrimination against protected categories I think. Also, given this is a response to current events, it's worth noting this is wholly the admin's policy, it's not something instigated by congress.
The question is what happens when the exposure stops. Do things get better?
On macOS safari shows a hint “this webpage is using significant energy. Closing it may improve the responsiveness of your mac”. And the app is using 100% of time on a core, apparently.
Why Is Travis VanderZanden Already Selling His Shares in Bird?
I have often wondered if it's possible to build a successful, large-scale community/commune that is secular and run by sane people who engage in minimal financial thievery of their supporters. Think Wild Wild Country but without insane murderous narcissistic assholes at the helm. From a political perspective what they did was actually pretty amazing. The fact that the feds ultimately just asked them to leave the country rather than imprisoning them makes me suspect that the biggest impediment to building such a community may in fact be trying to do it underneath a bigger government.
With most software, well most software is pretty inefficent and profits from HT. However there are a lot of reasons for that, writing in something interpreted because it is faster to develop and the software does not need to be very efficient in the first place would be one application. (Not to say that all Python/JS/etc is inefficient, just that software that needs to be efficient is precisely the kind were one would consider an unmanaged language.) Additionally, things like webservers or dbs often just don't know which piece of data they need next, simply because they don't know the next query, have a tendency to profit from HT, even though the software is hardly known for being inefficient.
Is using "guys" not plainly kind of dumb though? Once someone pointed it out to me, I can't help but feel foolish using it to describe a group of women.

Conversely, if you call a group of men "ladies" you're being playfully derisive...
Someone would buy AWS and it wouldn't have a second of downtime.

No one would buy retail and there would be beautiful competition in eretail.
He never really was, just people are paying attention now.
The more you warm things up the faster water evaporates and so the demand for water goes up. A place that has enough water to be green now may not have enough water to be green if temps go up by very much.
>... [We] recognize the grave responsibility that those creating powerful technology have to ensure what they build is used for good, and not for harm.

I don't read hear or read this sentiment nearly as often as I would like.

Good on these folks for stepping up.
Microsoft has something like 125,000 employees. 100 isn't even a rounding error.
> That sounds crazy to me

Probably because it's not true. Of course, it all depends also on definition of "tax rate" - are you talking about federal income tax? All taxes combined? Marginal tax rate? Effective tax rate? Single-year or averaged over a period of time? Do you include corporate taxes (which are paid by corporation, but effectively reduce the wealth of corporate owner or shareholder)? Until you define all those, this slogan is meaningless.

> I'm not going to discuss about finances with Warren Buffet.

He wasn't discussing finance, he was propagandizing. These are completely different games with completely different rules. In finance, numbers and facts matter - if you lie in a financial report, you risk heavy fines or jail, and probably will lose confidence of your business partners. If you lie in propaganda, as long as the lie is believable, well packaged and matches the prejudices of your target audience, you win.
Why frame the question in such a way? I would expect a good portion of people to not want to contribute personally to ICE activity.
Because HR in general has worse employees than other disciplines?

Seriously, in my 20+ year career, I've run across very few legitimately talented people in HR. The department seems to attract the kind of people who have little to offer intrinsically; who happen to be willing to facilitate the necessary protocols, as minimally effective as possible, while claiming "people skills" that end up being little more than office politics.