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> You can basically play ANYTHING with this.

That is very clever indeed! A long while ago I started thinking about how to turn Klondike solitaire into a multiplayer game. I wrote a bit of code. Put it aside for a while. Wrote more code. Bought a domain. Wrote a little bit more code. And then stopped.

The problem in my case is that I still haven't decided quite how to make it multiplayer.

Kudos to pkstn for being clever and executing the idea well too.

By the way, if anyone has any ideas for how multiplayer solitaire could work, let me know in a reply to this comment :)

I've had two different possible ideas in mind so far:

1) Do it similar to "Twitch plays Pokemon". Everyone can input the next move. And I think the action taken should be consensus-based. Even then someone could try and ruin it though by just controlling a lot of players. With Twitch plays Pokemon they were able to complete the game eventually even with the people working against the goal. But with a short game like Klondike solitaire it will be very easy for someone to ruin it for everyone. Even if the game has undo.

2) Everyone plays alone but they compete in real-time against others. However, bots would likely beat everyone and ruin the fun of that.

So I think neither of the two initial ideas I had were good enough. I think something clever needs to be done.

I suppose that one could incorporate Klondike as part a bigger overarching world where you do Klondike "battles" against either other players or against individual NPCs by yourself, or as a team against NPCs or something. But then the question becomes what is the motivation for having Klondike be part of the game at all? And the problem of bots being able to beat everyone would still be hard to get rid of I think.

Here is the site I put up for mine: https://klondike-mmo.com/. None of the buttons on my site do anything, heh :P
It is more accurate to credit Blaise Pascal for that aphorism https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
Amazon recently paid $200M or so for CloudEndure - I don’t know if they support DO, but they do let you easily move between and among cloud providers, which is something every cloud based company must plan for.
Fisher yates yeah! Server is the single-source-of-truth, so no way to peek cards
> You deceptively omit parts of the paragraphs you quote

I do not intend to be deceptive. You have provided overly simplistic vision of slavery and I have provided some counterexamples.

> The opportunity to buy one's way to freedom was not the norm, and typically only skilled or educated slaves could aspire to do this. And, as the article mentioned, this could take a very long amount of time and its only something that skilled or educated slaves might aspire to achieve.

This seems to me like a vision of an American dream of sorts. Promise of social mobility for a choosen few members of lower class to become middle class.

The problem is that for the last 30 years American dream isn't working anymore. It is rather that middle class poeple are pushed in lower class ranks.
I will open source it soon here: https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards
The PP aren’t even in power yet and when they are they won’t be able to implement it instantly. If you are in Spain at the moment this shouldn’t put you off.
I have to admit this sounds awful but true. I'm not going to be hypocrite and claim to have read the Facebook terms of use but I have never really expected those to be in my favor in terms of privacy.

Society and regulators should treat the social media industry like we do with tobacco and firearms.
Awesome! Another vote for (a simple way) to do chips.

I've wanted to have poker games with my team (which is distributed) for a long time. This is 90% of the way there.

Update - I just found pokerchips.io. Check it out; it has a simple interface which does everything you'd need.
I joined this community and the members are truly inspiring me. Thanks for gathering awesome individuals there :)
It is. Aside from looking up information and ordering things, the net is almost completely useless to me now. Nothing is discoverable any more.
My new HP laptop has an RJ45 Ethernet socket where the key side is spring and hinged. It's basically to allow the laptop to be slimmer. I'm a network engineer so often have a need to connect to random patch cables. Half of the plugs don't readily come out when depressing their tongue and i have had to coax them out with a improvised tool.
I changed the design of faces, the previous font had too similar 3 and J
Others have requested chips too, so will add. But first need to open source
Why should I as a taxpayer (mind you I am not American, argument still holds though) subsidise ubers business practices? Because that is exactly what you are arguing for. The article clearly states, that uber is extwrnalising costs, which results in significant losses for the state. Somebody will have to pick up the tap, and your argument seems to be that regular taxpayers should do it.
My joke about what an honest cookie prompt would read: “We use cookies to remember that one time you accidentally accepted our cookies.”
Make backups to a different cloud provider, or onto your own infrastructure.
I don’t have a blog, but considering Medium and Hugo, but would like to know what happened to them?
How about a support emergency button. Clicking it will cost you $1,000, but would immediately put you in contact with a human in escalated support mode.
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I'm not a googler and I don't think their revenue model is funded by "evil stuff". At least you can choose not to use Google.

For broadband ISPs, on the other hand, you have one option. It's pricey and the service is not what it should be.

If people told me to feel badly about working for Google I'd tell them something not nice. There are real monopolies in the tech world, and Google isn't one of them.
> Electric buses are very efficient on hills

Electric buses struggle on hills. LA Metro found their BYD electric buses would stall on hills. BYD's response was that "Metro drove BYD’s buses on hills that were too steep":

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...
Carbon emissions are decreasing in Europe despite economic growth. Nature is getting in better shape as well.
I saw a similar complaint video[1] from ZoggfromBetelgeuse but didn't know the problem was pervasive. It is a shame this killed one of the best channels on YT.

[1] https://youtu.be/SADDJY7e7cM
Openclipart Offline Due to DDoS
Links are still the single most important factor for ranking, though. I mean, there's a lot of other stuff going on, and the content/information extraction has advanced massively since the early days, but PR (or a similar concept) seems to still be the biggest part of determining how relevant a page is.
I did that. At one point I had like 10 aces of heart lying on the table.
That's still table stakes for SEO. Although not sure being in <h1> matters, but doesn't do any harm.
None of that invalidates the core issue that "trying to make a general purpose engine without a game is a BadIdea™" ("...if you want it to be used by other people" implied) is a pretty strong belief among experienced game developers.

OTOH there's Unity, who never developed a large game themselves, only demos and samples.
“Eutectic alloys are also notable because they often have the lowest melting point”. Isn’t the very definition of eutectic the mix proportion that has _the lowest_ melting point?
In many cities of Europe (like Prague, where I live) we call Uber "savior". Using taxis used to be flat out dangerous (crazy drivers with no regards for anything, often drunk or on cocaine or meth) and it was guaranteed you're going to pay at least 3 but usually 5 times more than you should - Uber fixed that and is cheaper than the "correct" (by law) price, it solves safety, I don't have to wait 30+ minutes, ...

And the drivers are satisfied. I made a point to ask each one and they really like it, much more than any traditional work and MUCH more than being an "official" taxi.
It won't be easier, and it won't be cheaper. When you're a small team trying to build a business, there are a lot of business functions where you won't personally have the expertise or the time to do it yourself efficiently, and your requirements won't be large enough to justify hiring somebody full-time.

In the case of these business functions, the standard and correct approach is to outsource them to a 3rd-party service provider. You do this with accountancy, legal representation, facilities, office management, recruitment, etc. If you try to bring all these things in-house from the get-go you'll never get around to building a product, and it's financially and logistically sensible to do it with IT as well. This calculation may change over time as your business grows, but if you can't comprehend that the correct strategy for a fledgling business may not be the same as an established one, then you're simply not suited to run a business in the first place.

Of course, in every case, you're taking a calculated risk by relying on a service provider: They may go bust, they may be incompetent or malicious, they might ramp up their prices. Your job as the manager of a company is to accept and manage these risks as best you can. Risks cannot be eliminated, only managed, and attempting to do is a fool's errand. If things do go wrong, you'll always have people lining up to tell you how you could have avoided this problem, usually it's by making a decision that can be justified with the benefit of hindsight. You should ignore these people. The only question is: did you make the correct decision at the time, based on the facts to hand?
Haha well at least we can make people more materially comfortable so they can focus on their spiritual, social, and existential discomfort.
What are we going to do with millions of people who will loose jobs in the automotive industry? Surely they will if we ban cars!
Yeah hard to know really on that one.
But think of all the interesting work ahead! :)

I kind of welcome the death of the "just wait for hardware to improve" approach to optimization. I find computers interesting because the field is so fresh and you have to figure out so many things on your own and through communication with people that are still alive. Due to the death of Moore's Law, it's going to stay that way for some longer and the end result is going to be more varied.
How would it benefit everyone? Who exactly and in what way?
Interesting set of videos by Jansen explaining systems used to create strandbeest: https://www.strandbeest.com/explains
Funny as I remember it 2008 was all about bailing out the banks, that is giving money to the rich, not rebuilding social structures. It seems increasing debt is always fine if it goes to the elites (via tax breaks or bailouts), while it's the bogeyman idf it actually going to help people that need it. You know that the US during the golden age of the 50s and 60s had a marginal tax rate of 90%?
You know everyone always calls this the "dumb fucks" quote, but I think it ought to be the "just ask" quote. That's the truly objectionable part, the part that exposes the black heart of Facebook even today - you have no expectation of privacy, and your data is handed over to third parties for a pittance (or even, in this case, to impress Zuck's friends).
> It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more.

And that's not what the charges are about either. You're making it way too simplistic. Google has been involved in actual anti-competitive actions, for which they've already been found guilty in Europe that had nothing to do with "users liking their service more" - Google actually downranked competition in the search engine, and other stuff like that.

There even was a story a while ago on HN about ProtonMail being essentially shadowbanned from Google search for the term "encrypted email" for a year before they made a big scandal about it and Google "admitted its error" (the same bullshit excuse Facebook uses every time it's caught tracking users in a new and more nefarious way).

Also, I can't be bothered to look for a link now, but there is a good story out there about how Google killed a map competitor in the US around that time, too (Skyhook was it?). Once again - nothing to do with "users liking Google's maps more" -- Google took real action to prevent a competitor from existing in the market place.

It's also a super-duper coincidence that Eric Schmidt started working for the Pentagon, while also remaining on Google's board and some kind of technical executive, too, not long before Google started working with the Pentagon on Project Maven.

Either people don't want to admit what's happening or they are being way too naive when they see all of this and think it's "nothing but a coincidence". It was well known that Schmidt was one of Obama's besties at the time. And Google is ranking very high in its lobbying efforts, too.
>it's illegal to leave children under 12 unattended at home

W-what? I remember babysitting my 6 year old brother since the age of 8 while my parents were working.
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How about "we will reimburse the company for any damages if we found it was our fault"?
I was thinking of Hans Moravec's calculations based on being able to perform the same function such as visual recognition at the same rate and resolution as the brain. He figured about 100 terraflops. https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm

Which you can now kind of get in a $7k Nvidia GPU (the Tesla v100). Not saying that has all you need for AGI but the hardware is getting there.
Not only were games addictive back then, but they were explicitly advertised as such and it was considered a good thing. Being addictive was the mark of a good game!
> After years of serving malware through ads and doing nothing to stop it,

I occasionally see articles to that effect. But I have never been effected by such malware. And that includes 20+ years on the web, including the seedier corners, and without ever taking special measures like anti-virus.

As far as I can tell, this 'ad-distributed malware' are a few cases far between, completely blown out of proportions to justify peoples' use of ad blockers.
I think you will see SOC's that have multiple specialised architectures, which will be lit up intelligently by the CPU depending on what the workload is.
Contrast to Facebook's recent "privacy initiative". A certain level of untruth is unfortunately expected from company PR, but Facebook is really taking it to the next level.
If they were smart they'd rename the 'Huawei Honor 10' to be the 'Honor 10'.

That should help sales considerably in the west
Google says it did clean room implementation but investigation uncovers that Google copied and pasted a lot of code to rush through development and there were strict guidelines set to remove the use of word "Java" from the source code repository which even delayed some of their launch

So Google might have simply used Java's code without ever being able to source a license. So here the case is not merely copying API but source code too.

If you read the case history, even Google's key employees knew this, they were worried and they did try to acquire the license till end but failed to do so, they proceed to move on with the project. (Disruption mindset? Will pay the fine if caught later?)

Google surely underestimated who they were messing with.
As a new parent who did all kinds of research on SIDs and wearables this is awesome. I’d love to have a product like this to put in baby’s room to detect breathing. It could also make an amazing device for analyzing sleep quality for adults as well.

Sadly, this is likely just going to be applied to advertising.
Norway isn’t a monolith. Oslo city councilors don’t have any control over oil production/exports.
In the 80s IBM got the federal law changed so that tech workers no longer had a safe harbor provision to be 1099s. They wanted to pay less for the workers, and they got their wish. The take home for tech workers dropped a lot. You have to wonder what the big interest is that is pushing this puff piece from vox.

This law will have an overall negative impact on people who want to work independently and take care of their own stuff.

Here's how its already impacting freelance journalists:

https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/california-freelan...

We're not talking about slave labor here. It's a consensual relationship.

If I want to be a 1099 and be more independent, I'm not sure what the state's interest is here.
That’s ok. You can go elsewhere.
As far as I understand the only way that it can work without without js is either by using @supports or similar feature/media queries (which would be the same for all users on the same hardware and browser) or by requiring user interaction (like a :hover state or clicking a link).
I don't know, not for me. I still think it's possible to think of your business also as a political statement. Sure, you have to be prepared to 'pay' for your conviction, and possibly fail because of it. Which does not seem to make sense or be acceptable to a lot of folk. It is for me though.
You would have more fun living in the Sahara dessert than on mars.
The idea that data stored on AWS is equal to data collected by Amazon is ludicrous. There are contracts and laws to govern such relationships. Hundreds of people inside Amazon would know about it, and any one of them could expose them to existentially threatening lawsuits whenever they are even slightly upset with their employer.
> It's even reflected in the law, 10 year old me was shocked to learn that it's illegal to leave children under 12 unattended at home.

That certainly sounds ridiculous, speaking as someone born and raised in a developed western nation.
The emails from their "Trust and Safety" team are extremely tone-deaf...

"We've locked you out, no explanation"
"Sorry for any inconvenience"

Seriously? That last line is like a slap in the face.

No one should talk to a customer like that in this situation, if only because (a) if this is real abuse, you don't need to be "fake nice" and (b) if it's a false-positive, you've just come across as extremely smug when you're in the wrong.
You are being unreasonable here. He promised a postmortem. I’d much rather wait a few days to get a clearly written, comprehensive analysis of the problems than to get an immediate stream of confusing and contradictory raw data.

If you have ever been involved in post facto analysis of a process breakdown like this you know how hard it is to get the full picture immediately. Rushing something out does no one any favors.
"If a person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under 12 years, leaves the child for an unreasonable time without making reasonable provision for the supervision and care of the child commits a misdemeanour.

Maximum penalty – 3 years imprisonment."

Legislation: Queensland Criminal Code Act 1899 (QLD) - Section 364A
It would be hard because traditionally most of our hardware relies on the register memory model. Implementing a hardware stack can be done but there are very few silicon CPUs like that thus a lot of the research which has been done on getting register machines up to speed in terms of caching and speculation could be difficult. Then there is the fact that webassembly doesn't use branch labels rather it uses blocks, which AFAIK have never actually been used on traditional CPU hardware.

People have tried to create high level language CPUs but often failed in terms of performance. An overview can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_language_computer_a...
Sure, but what about people that work 2-4 hours a day, to supplement their main job? Or once a day on the weekends? Or a mom whose daily routine is to drop the kids off school, and drive Uber until the kids are done with school?

By and large they don't exist.
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This is civil law. It's not about any sort of moral failings, and therefore intent is rather unimportant.
What would be nice to really be able to play anything with it, would be a selection of used cards. That would mean for example choosing if the deck goes from Ace to King, or from 7 to King, or even if it contains jokers. Even more advanced would be allowing multiple copies of cards, the game Doppelkopf for example is commonly played with two cards each of (9)/10/J/Q/K/A for every suit.
1st June 2019: The end of tenant fees in England and Wales
It's not necessarily C-fast and it is dynamically typed but in the ratio of easiness-to-performance elixir seems to be pretty affable, especially for concurrency stuff. It does tend to balk at some heavier stuff like number-crunching, and that's when I see people start to use Rust NIFs.
What magical thing do you think iTunes is doing besides managing playlists and syncing?
You are aware that we are all subsidizing the money losing operations of the state all the time? Pretty much anything the state does is assumed to be a money losing proposition. Is it right for the state to externalize its costs on business?

If I'm an independent contractor, then it is my responsibility to get insurance, etc. It is my responsibility to make sure I'm taking in enough money to cover that stuff. So, the state is going after the wrong entity here.
Maybe it's beating a dead horse and the article itself seems fine, but the submission title sounds a bit ridiculous.

"Install this software on your server to make it serverless!"
>Sheltering your kids too much will make them fragile and unable to cope with actual adversity as adults.

One could argue that adults from the third world are saner/happier than adults from the first world, despite poorer material conditions, because the struggle to obtain food, survive war and so on keeps them more more in contact with reality.

Does this mean we should deliberately starve western adults, or introduce artificial viruses and other stressors into their environment, in order to improve their mental well-being?

Of course not. The reality is that there are many urgent problems of survival for all humans, for example: supervolcanoes, ice ages, asteroid impacts, cancer, genetic meltdown, local supernovae, and an unlimited supply of others yet unknown. The physical universe is hostile to first worlders and third worlders alike, and to adults and children alike. The social and bureaucratic environment can be pretty bleak too!

Therefore we need the material and technological space we inhabit to allow us the best chance of solving these problems. We also need to find ways to make them seem less abtract and remote, so that we engage with them as if our lives and our sanity depended on it. Because they do.
Supernatural beliefs allowed societies to bond and spread
> Imagine that Euclid's algorithm was patented? Or Pythagoras theorem? Or the definition of exterior derivative? Or the expression of a function as Fourier series? All of these are valuable ideas that are non-trivial to come by. The same argument for software patents applies to each of these cases, and in all these cases it is evident (to me) that these mathematical constructions cannot be patented, and that society cannot grant monopoly of their usage to their discoverers.

You are forgetting that patents are only granted for limited time. If we applied the current system, those things would be patented only for 20 years after their discovery. Would it still be unimaginable?

Maybe your opinion is still the same but the situation is not as clear-cut as it seems. For example, I would guess that if patents were cancelled the industrial budgets for research would somewhat decrease, because there would be smaller advantage in figuring things out first.
Until you are old, basically investing is better than not. When you are old short term dips start to matter. Prior to that, the market eventually goes up.
Some strong statements in these comments on a website with registration and login protected by Google's ReCaptcha. :)