skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is already very good at head's up (two players against each other).

IMHO the real challenge will be playing against multiple players with slightly varying levels of skills. Playing little differently against different players gives an edge if you can model their behaviour.

(ultimately winning in poker means growing bankroll faster than anyone else over multiple games)
I don't think it's static: https://web.archive.org/web/20170718015315/https://frinklang...
That was already 75 minutes waiting for opening (irrelevant if you were still the last person in line at opening, but I very much doubt that). How much longer before you were actually served?
Why do you think that perspective does not apply to americans?

I can't speak to his logic, but I think the whole issue is a lot more complex than is presented in this discussion.

Convenience plays a big role in American dining habits. So does price and habit. And some people react strongly to coupons and advertising.

I think Chick-fil-a is far better quality than Raising Cane's. But the Chick-fil-a in my town is on the wrong side of a road median, and if I'm picking something up on my way home, I'll hit the other chicken place instead of wasting 20 minutes making U-turns.
These are the same people who think Trump is always right. So maybe their BS detector is biased or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When I worked in the fertilizer business both the partners were berry growers. Literally when they figured out their cost of production they allowed for the 'bird's share' of the crop. They tried sound machines, scare crows and air cannons with nothing working very well. They would have been absolutely delighted to have been able to use lasers to deny the birds their share of the crop.
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I wasn't contributing then, but it's still very nice to hear, so thanks for posting. Well done - keep going. And well done to those that gave their time to support someone.
Yes, there is great utility in this approach! For one, most concurrent text editing, rich or not, is actually quite easy to merge in 99% of cases. But even that aside, when you have data structures or document formats that don't ever have to resolve conflicts—or, more accurately, when conflict resolution becomes something that's naturally done in app-space, on the edges, and not as part of the network layer—then you open up the possibility of offline-capable, collaborative apps that require zero coordination between nodes. A node with changes only has to deliver their content to interested servers and peers, not engage in lengthy conversations about who has the definitive version, whether somebody has to revert, etc. You could build a Google Docs clone that synced entirely over Dropbox!

And in any case, the "merge" part would still be up to the app. The data structures will always be able to merge, sure, but the app could still throw up a dialog box on wildly divergent changes saying, "Hey, some crazy stuff happened here—want to look it over and commit manually?" (Where "commit" means generating new changes to overwrite any undesired changes, since it's not possible to literally undo.) You could argue that we've simply implemented ad-hoc coordination protocols in the app layer at that point, but IMO, that's exactly where they belong in cases where there's no authoritative store for your data. (Which is really the case with mobile, offline-first development.)
All the legit sites require multi-factor verification, wifi data, cell phone geofencing, etc. Not to say it can't be spoofed, just requires a bit more effort.
Silicon Valley and SF are where the talent lives, where the VC's live, where the big ideas are implemented.
You need some founders, remember Steve (Jobs) and Steve (Woz).
Watch https://www.startupschool.org/, it is free.
There are other startup accelerators other than Y-C.
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The 4.18 kernel is out
> This perspective is bullshit. You can do anything you want, without real fear, no matter who you are.

Well, that perspective doesn't seem any more convincing.

There are many factors to success: intelligence, character traits, hard work, money, luck. Each of them plays an important role. Each of them can, to some degree, be substituted by more of something else.

There is a huge difference whether you have or don't have a safety net. You can of course simply take a risk, but that by definition works only for a subset of people who try it.
Perhaps he sees a distinction between "saving" and "investing."

Before the bank deregulation in the 90's this was a more vividly defined line.

To my parents generation, saying, "I keep my retirement savings in a 401(k)" is an oxymoron.
You can't con a honest man, but a greedy man... that's easy.
Hoodwinked by Russian bots no doubt. Certainly nothing to do with the low credibility of the political establishment.
From the article: Sin taxes are blunt policy instruments. People who only have the occasional drink are not taking on any great health risks, yet they are taxed no differently than serious alcoholics.

But surely the alcoholics are taxed way more than people who have an occasional drink because of the sheer volume? If you drink or smoke a lot, the taxes do accumulate into significant amounts annually.

Policymakers should still consider implementing sin taxes if they intend to intervene to change individuals’ behaviour. But they should be aware that the bulk of the damage that smokers, drinkers and the obese do is to themselves, and not to others.

It might be blunt in the economic sense if the taxed behaviour doesn't exhibit clear external costs but in a social context the scheme works great. Using taxation to discourage behaviour is a better way to collect taxes than taxing everyone.

Taxing goods or behaviour that is deemed harmful both brings in the money and also makes a statement. Further, if alcohol taxes bring in 1% of the state budget it means everyone's income is that much lower because of taxing alcohol.

"Sin taxes" are also economically unpredictable because when the collected amounts begin to drop the tax is working as intended. But socially this is exactly why they were used in the first place.
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I'm mainly a contractor who specializes in fixing bad code. I'm more than willing to take on a full time job as well.

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You're correct that "career earnings" is a misleading statistic, but it's one that's popularly used in poker.

Daniel Negreanu, currently #2 on the all-time money list, actually had a net negative year in 2017 despite winning $2.8 million that year (https://www.cardschat.com/news/daniel-negreanu-loses-money-i...).

That said, I'm not sure the article is that misleading. Maria is 720th in the GPI rankings, which does account for buy-ins (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=531869). For someone who began playing a year ago, that's a pretty remarkable achievement.

EDIT:

I should also note that "career earnings" or close variations are used in several sports, including golf and tennis. Take home pay is much lower than topline/headline numbers, but for obvious reasons it becomes tedious to ask people to calculate and publicize their living and travel expenses, etc.
Thank you. It was an interesting experience and I'm proud of what we accomplished.
The section/rant about the candela is hilarious. Concluding with:

> In short, candela = EPIC FAIL.
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> I'm going to run a marathon in 3 months!!!

Congratulations, I was gonna run one at the end of October. But because of exams I really cannot work out 3x a week so I cannot keep my pace up. I had also broken my toe so I was out for a long while. Can still do 10ks though. Good luck with the marathon!
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The MPOWER WHO (World Health Organization) plan to help with tobacco cessation is comprised of 1. raising taxes, 2. banning smoking in public places, 3. scary anti-smoking ads of about $1 to $2 per capita per year and 4. doctors speaking to their patients about quitting, 5. patients using nicotine replacement therapies and 6. telephone counseling support.

This combination has been shown to be highly effective. Over 1/2 the contribution of getting people to quit or to never start comes from raising tobacco taxes.

Other studies show that by taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) such as Coke by about 2 cents per oz. (in the US) shifts demand to healthier drinks such as water since most of these who consume SSBs are of limited financial means.

So, in fact when used in concert with overall formulas, the "sin taxes" are in fact effective.
I mean, it is still related to value in the economic sense, but not necessarily the intuitive sense. For example, the Kardashians are certainly "worth" less in cultural value than custodians, but their economic value is much higher because they're much more scarce/have much higher demand. I think that this concept is something that many people on both sides of this debate haven't really taken the time to think about. It definitely does invalidate a lot of the statements like "poor people are just lazy" and it does highlight that capitalism is an ugly system. But at the same time (roughly paraphrasing Churchill) "Capitalism is the worst form of economics, except for all the other ones"
Given that this analyses network traffic on the client side, Local Sheriff is probably playing the same catch-up game that a blocker targeting that same PII is.
>"The government" is people.

In theory.

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.

But in practice...? It's the same with the theory of "the government is the people" and how that works out in practice.

See also; citizen's united
> Between late 2016 and early 2017, Bhatt invested in BitConnect

hey hey hey...
I have first hand experience with such engineers, but I doubt this is unique to engineering.

Breaking down complex concepts from your expertise to an industry outsider can be a difficult skill. Especially if you're not aware of the level of understanding of your audience.
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@nokinside the quote is poorly written, this isn't some special bonus she won, she's amassed over 200k in earnings over the last 18 months. Her largest single win being worth over 80k. You can view her stats here.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=531869
TIL, was about to say the same thing.
Things currently occupying space on Manhattan sidewalks:

1. Garbage and recycling bags on trash day

2. Restaurant and bar advertising signs

3. LinkNYC WiFi towers

4. Restaurant and grocery store food deliveries, which are literal pallets of food just left out on the sidewalk for long periods of time in the morning.

5. Bikes

6. Outdoor restaurant seating

I’ve seen one of these little doghouse things and they seem useful enough for the few square feet they occupy. At least as useful as any of the above given the number of dogs in the city.
Here's a graph of the PSP distance from the sun in solar radii: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/17562/how-does-the...

The corona can be expected to be out to ~12 solar radii, which suggests about a day of really severe conditions. (The data pass is 30 hours, which suggests that's about right.) That's why it needs to be a really good head shield.

It's smallest orbit has a period of 88 days.
One caveat, the AI in those matches, Libratus, played heads-up Texas Hold 'Em, i.e. 1 vs 1 play.

It's yet to be demonstrated that any program can defeat humans in 6 handed or full-ring play, probably due in no small part to the variance in those games.
Went from Android to iOS too.
Basically did a lot of back and forth between Stack Overflow and Xcode. Apple documentation was pretty helpful too, I wish I had more time ingesting it.
I'd recommend making lots of small projects to experiment one thing at a time. Then build your bigger projects from those small blocks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
Specialization is an unavoidable fact of life. Not everyone can be an expert in everything. If my car mechanic (or 99 out of 100 car mechanics) says I need new brake pads, and I don’t know anything about car maintenance, why would I reject their diagnosis? I would not only be endangering myself, but other drivers.

If I am going to reject my mechanic’s diagnosis I need to have strong evidence and reasoning to support my position. Climate deniers don’t have that, and their pigheadedness puts everyone at danger.

Efforts to summarize the scientific evidence for global warming for laymen are myriad. The arguments and evidence for global warming are extremely accessible.

I don’t see how the blame isn’t on the climate deniers.
I'm not following how sin taxes entail a bifurcated society. Can you elaborate on that?
Who knew that crypto and the internet could be used for illegal purposes and pyramid schemes, unlike cash and enveloppes?
Fascinating! I've always wondered about this. Out of curiosity, how did you work this out (and why)?
>Are the datasets all legit?

I mean Academia has destroyed the scientific method, turning it into:

Who needs a PhD and what does your Professor want to prove true?

Ive started to ONLY trust industry.
Both Wenzhou and Shenzhen had 20 year leases, and I think only SZ or Shantou had 15 year ones. These days, I think, only far inland cities still do 20 year leases, and BJ experimenting with shorter term 3 to 5 year ones.

I found these:

>Most of this happened before the property boom began at a national level. So it is those cities that set the early pace in residential property development that have been first to encounter the issue. Wenzhou is one of them. Shenzhen, China’s oldest special economic zone, is another. A few property owners there started experiencing problems about 15 years ago. In that case most were given an option to renew their expired titles by paying 35% of a ‘baseline land value’, calculated on a historic rate far lower than the prevailing market price, Guangzhou Daily has reported.

>https://www.weekinchina.com/2016/04/a-nation-of-homeowners/

I the end, Wenzhou's leaseholders got free extension, but most likely just to shut them up. The govt did not yield to demands on relinquishing the right to set lease extension conditions. More on that in Chinese "ministry of land and resources decision, 23rd december"

I myself think that government's blessing on short term leases, (edit) plus hefty property tax on regular real estate seem to be the most logical way out of China's housing bubble.
Humans are part of nature and therefore anything we do is natural, I wish people would stop trying to create this dichotomy between humanity and the rest of nature.
> OTOH, don't forget it was Google who found this issue in CloudFlare, which earned Google some points and earned CloudFlare /quite/ the demerits in my book

I don't quite understand this one. Are you saying that you have an expectation that all software be bug-free? That just doesn't happen, unfortunately. Cloudflare had a problem, they fixed it promptly and then published a post-mortem on it. That, imo, is exactly what should happen. And as for google, it was discovered by their dedicated team of security researchers. Having such a team arguably reflects well on google, but do remember that monolithic corporations such as google are rarely unified.
Something similar: vendors of stock price data are said to add extra ticks in order to catch people who are illegally reselling it.
And the claim of low efficiency also seemed to lack some numbers. While an alcohol tax certain hits the occasional drinker, it hits the alcoholic far harder because the alcoholic buys and consumers far more alcohol.

That's said, probably still an inefficient and blunt instrument. And yeah, it carries a lot of overhead.
> I even tried to override the font-weight and text-align in the developer tools

I just clicked the "reader mode" button that comes shipped with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari and got on with it.
>Article mentions bitconnect + criminal extortion

B-B-B-BITCOINS GUYS

ITS.... BITCOIN

/s

EDIT: Call out clickbait
That is true, but it's not how I interpreted the word "adaptation" here. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Great job! Keep going :)
You might want to give cfn-builder[0] a try. I'm biased because I wrote it but I find that it's a good way to write and maintain my CFN templates. Also it's written in simple Nodejs and is easy to expand for your own needs.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/cfn-builder
Generalizations are always wrong?
Not just USPTO, it looks like there's a European grant, as well as others.
I see why Mozilla want to do this sort of thing, and I also understand why lots of people like it.

But I do wish Mozilla would make a version of Firefox available for people that just want a fully-FOSS browser.

The efforts of various GNU+Linux distributions to do this (Icecat, Abrowser) are fantastic, but ultimately it’s too difficult for me to judge how quickly they can act on security issues to feel comfortable using them.

I’d have no problem sending telemetry data back if I could get a browser binary with Widevine DRM, Pocket etc. completely removed.

I’d also be more inclined to send Mozilla cold hard cash.
Amusingly, this example wouldn't be nearly as impressive if you used metric units instead.
The fact remains, at least as far as I understand from the article, that without a change in law the doghouses are illegal.

Furthermore, after receiving two cease-and-desist letters, the owner of the company ignored them and continued to expand the company. The article phrases it as 'being unfazed by the letters'. One could also phrase it as willful neglect.
It is not, the artist colored those in PS.
Well that's really just about the balance of liberal vs not. Given a certain overall tax level (which level is acceptable depends on your political worldview), one might argue that it's better to tax things that cause unwanted externalities such as environmental problems, or health issues. The latter is especially important in cases where healthcare is publicly funded. It might feel like government is micromanaging me if they tax my soda, but I really don't see how it's so much worse than taxing my paycheck. Given a certain fixed amount of taxes, I'm more than happy to see as much as possible of it be "sin" taxes to be honest.
But this doesnt answer 'does it work'?

Less drunk driving + less bad decisions?

The cost of alcohol makes it so when I drink, I drink.
Pretty sure there are systems where one would struggle to regulate with 20Hz loop that humans can do. At least with easy methods like linearized PID. For example an inverted pendulum
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I don't think high corporate taxes make sense, but I'm not convinced they would have much effect on entrepreneurship. By definition they are taxes on profits, and corporations can deduct a lot more from their taxes than people can.

As someone who has considered starting a startup, corporate tax rates have never really concerned me since the biggest hurdle is just getting back a comparable salary for myself, and anything else, e.g. smoothing income over multiple years, is just gravy. I don't think this logic would be very different for more traditional small businesses either.

And even before the recent changes, effective US tax rates were not significantly different from effective EU tax rates: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/actual-us-corporat...

Also, colour-coded maps are a terrible way to make actual comparisons.
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Particularly put down by this type of comments.

Such comments are pure negative addition, not adding any value in terms of solving the problem.

It's not even clear if this is a problem: "very little is known about whether lasers can harm the animals' retinas."

The sentiment of this type of comments are also predominantly one-sided, which always is the most important property of any failed attempts of solving any non-trivial large-scale problems.
Sometimes I think we'd be better off just doing away with patents altogether and letting corporations be responsible for guarding their own secrets. There's lots of downsides to that approach, of course, but the amount of harm that patents do seems to far outweigh them.

At least in tech, corporations generally don't patent their secret sauce anyway. They surround their critical trade secrets with a screen of patents, building up a defense (or offense) against rivals.
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Genes account for about 50% of the variance in happiness. Therefore, if you're pragmatic and interested in being happy, I would recommend knowing as much as possible about genetic engineering.
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Sounds like they were taking a page out of Uber’s book.
Thank you, the AMP version was horrible on desktop.
The difference is, speaking of Apple it's iPhone/iPad + Mac, which is super-useful, I don't even know how can you ask for a use-case, since everything is a use-case: copy anything from your phone to a computer, be it a text, an url, phone number, quote from a book/article you were reading. And speaking of KDE, it's just one KDE PC + another KDE PC, which is basically useless, since it's a rare person nowadays to be walking around with a KDE PC in his pocket.

So, yeah, I kinda hate Apple (I like my stuff configurable), but I wonder more and more how long is it until I drop other devices/OS', and buy an iPhone + MacBook.
I love the story of the Shakespearian actor. She put her soul into that, based on the idea she might not survive to adulthood.

I wonder how much this risk taking behavior learned from necessity helped her overachieve in adulthood, where she will now be an actor... and a doctor.
Let me know what they say!

With regards to your (1), (2) predicates: that's the case in every crime! Corporations present the additional problem of whether a person who instructed (or set up an incentive system that effectively instructed) you to commit a crime is also criminally liable. But your boss's liability, so far as I understand the law, never shields you from liability.

We want there to be joint liability between the person who commits the crime and the person who orders and profits from the crime. I'm ready to believe it's challenging to achieve that; that often only the people who actually commit crimes are charged in these corporate cases. But this subthread started because I read your first comment as suggesting that, simply by dint of committing a crime at a corporation, the alter ego liability of the corporation protected criminals. I do not believe that.
From the article, it seems like I didn't really understand the implications of Modi's actions to invalidate so much hard currency.

Could someone familiar with the matter talk more about what the days/weeks following Modi's announcement looked like for the every day Indian?
Heard good things about Seattle or Boise and Colorado for outdoor culture.