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> In reality casino card games are 99.9% chance

Small nitpick: I'd argue that Blackjack is closer to 80% skill, and 20% chance, just based on the fact that if you don't play every Blackjack hand with the same statistically "correct" strategy [1], you will end up bleeding money well in excess of the house advantage.

I'd venture a guess that casinos make 80%+ of their profits from players that aren't playing with perfect Blackjack strategy (for example, not double down on an 11, or not splitting aces, or not remembering whether to hit or stand a 16, etc). When players aren't playing with perfect Blackjack strategy, the house edge isn't all that relevant.

The amount of money a player loses can be attributed to the "mistakes" an average player will make (that can be avoided by memorizing perfect blackjack strategy), rather than being attributed as much to chance. Someone playing perfect blackjack strategy will on average break pretty close to even, since the house edge for Blackjack is incredibly small.

> It feels like if you played enough you'd get better

From the perspective of a player learning perfect blackjack strategy, the truth is you do get better with practice :)

[1] Playing a perfect game of Blackjack requires memorizing charts like this: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/816DFf5i0EL...
> Because the people who pay folks to work on systems dont like to pay enough money to get that level of talent.

People like Google can't pay enough? Do all the BSD developers work as front-end quants or something? How are they all earning so much that nobody can afford them?
Ask HN: Why the IDE Religiosity?
Why do developers exhibit such religious reactions to any perceived criticism let alone threat to IDEs? Both as a concept and then also in defense of their IDE of choice.

I can't relate. I'm pretty tool agnostic and just find IDEs cumbersome. I move machines a lot, so I'm not known for getting attached to a specific configuration. IDEs are that on steroids, so I avoid them. But that's on me.

However, coworkers, interwebbers, whoever, on learning that I don't use an IDE seems to assume my toolchains are archaic and slow and simple and stupid and {insert whatever here}. "Clearly your IDE-less projects couldn't get to the same complexity as mine!" they mightily exclaim. I mean, maybe, I guess. But I'm just drinking my coffee?

Write with whatever makes you happy

/As long as it works.
I would think a senior engineer would be evaluated on system design, you don't want to show what you can do?

I wouldn't give them some basic algo questions or one of those online tests. Always start with a chat. I will turn down any "opportunity" which doesn't start with human to human interaction.

Do you know Golang and Kubernetes?
Casinos have way better information on large players' win/loss figures from in-casino surveillance (eye in the sky and pit bosses) than they could ever get from social media.
A mix of whole market low fee index funds with Vanguard or the like.
There is also Deeptraffic from MIT:

https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/deeptraffic-documentation/
Note that if your language has non-precise garbage collection, having parent pointers guarantees that any spurious pointer into any node on the tree will keep the entire tree alive.
It also has a bit of an outdated userland, imported from FreeBSD/NetBSD years ago.
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Are read faults considered Buffer Overflows?
I thought that was exclusively for writing, with other terms like Buffer overread for reading past the end of an array?

It is irrelevant to the point the article is making as a minor detail, just curious for my own knowledge.
See also: Pascal's Wager[1]

The leaks about mass-surveillance don't fit the criteria, as best I can tell. It's in their best interests not to, as you state.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
Looks good! We removed analytics from our sites for privacy and simplicity reasons so I’ll consider this. Does it use JavaScript clientside or hook up to express or nginx or both?

Before google analytics I remember there were a few self hosted tools in this space. Would you mind adding a list of the most current ones that people are using? I need to get caught up.
Here's an idea from an Australian website where you can build a very basic model, using past results (which are of course no guarantee of future performance) and then sell it. Or alternatively, you can buy "qualifiers" for these systems for a small fee.[1]

[1] http://www.puntingform.com.au/account/systems-dashboard/#top...
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I wonder why there is no major hardware manufacturer producing perfectly tuned Linux laptops in the way Apple sells OS X laptops. That sounds like a really obvious business case to me and it's what I would be doing if I were in that business: not merely having linux pre-installed, but a Linux-based OS that's perfectly tuned to your hardware and provides a pleasant no-fuss Mac-like user experience.
What does using Waze have to do with ignoring road signage?
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You don't really need to count absolutely perfectly. The more you count the better, of course, but it's a probabilistic system with a thin edge to begin with.

They don't reshuffle every time because your last statement is very wrong. The money card counters can take before being caught is a rounding error in the face of the masses of people who are happy to play with no edge.
Nor any descriptive text except for saying that some dinosaurs had feathers, which most people already knew.
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Putting your own face (or a friend's face) into a movie or TV show.

Or going the other way, use a real video of your friend and replace their face with a famous actor.
There's also the aspect that nice things require other nice, expensive things to keep them up. Having a nice set of boots isn't going to help much if it's sitting in the rain overnight regularly.

This all points to the lesson that wealth and riches aren't the same thing. Rich people are rich because they have wealth, even poor people can amass riches, say by winning the lottery, but can't be called wealthy until they actually have wealth.

A person can become wealthy off the efforts of other people, but if we want wealth for all, then it's society itself that must hold the wealth. This was Karl Marx's conclusion, but all attempts to build a society capable of holding wealth for all failed.

So we're stuck with trickle-down, the idea that the surplus wealth of the wealthy is good enough for all.
Well there are casinos that use shuffling machines to shuffle every blackjack hand. People still play it though, just like they play slot machines and the dozens of other boring things to do in Casinos.
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An interesting use could be to anonymise people in public videos. You could use randomly generated faces (which other emerging tech can produce) and effectively remove peoples recognizable features by "replacing" them.
Two of the three (current) top-level replies compare BSDs to Linux in general, but that really has nothing to do with whether you disable HT. Using Linux should not have stopped anyone from listening to Theo and disabling HT months ago. Your security authorities don't have to be your kernel developers.
On a network like FB that has your photos, mix your own face into the advertisement! The video can have the pre-computed target, and the network can generate yours from all that free photo storage/tagging...
Probably some US colloquialism? Doesn't make sense to me either, except in the sense "went down 300%" which obviously wasn't the purpose here.
You shouldn't have to undervolt to get normal battery life, though. The OS should be running only the services you actually need. I always thought Linux was much better at this than Windows. Have the tables turned?
> Every economic system and model depends on future expansion of both capital and human resources.

This is not true. There is a negative correlation between economic growth and population growth, e.g. economic growth slows as population grows.

https://www.theigc.org/blog/is-population-growth-good-or-bad...
It's not necessarily bad, but it is not secure by default. That's why it ships turned off.
Google doesn't use BSD. (to my knowledge)

Yahoo! did but they also had BSD developers on the payroll.

Any Silicon Valley company will pay enough but that is why when you leave Silicon Valley or a big tech hub everything is windows. The pay attracts the talent.
I know this, but I also know I struggled with C and Go felt delightfully straightforward.
The police would not be required to add resources to enforce these laws. But without enforcement the signs would make very little difference to LA drivers.
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I've found decent results with .adoc --(asciidoctor)--> docbook --(pandoc)--> docx

It won't roundtrip (and I doubt anything will ever) but I usually go only one way - converting to docx in the last stage.
Not when currency is also a medium of wealth storage.

Currently, when deflation happens, the rich don't suffer losses immediately. Instead they fire their works and reduce investments. So the poor are on the streets or have to suffer first. The rich may or may not lose later (they don't lose because by then they get bailed out or the tide turns).

If we're truly going to use currency as a medium of exchange then we have no choice but to let the rich suffer, perhaps they suffer first.
> What if this is the answer?

It would be a copout. Instead of actually tackling AI's problem of common sense, claim that maybe layers of logistic regression and matrix factorization is all there is, we are its equal, just a few layers up in abstraction and evolution. Does one really stem and count tokens to decide if a movie review is negative sentiment? Or does one empathize with its writer and build a complete model inside your head?

The horse would be the AI researcher claiming reasoning and understanding from an activation vector trained on word co-occurence on Wikipedia, and the farmer giving clues, is the heated community and industry, mistaking impressive dataset performance for a solution for a problem they're starting to forget.
The problem needs to be addressed by those citizens of the country where the deforestation is happening. If they are willing to allow it to happen to their natural resource, why would I assume in arrogance that I have a right to tell them they're wrong and then blame everyone else for what that country is doing?

Lifestyle changes won't change deforestation. The people of Brazil are the ones you need to target your message to.
Google is "easy" and Youtube is "impossible". Is this reliable?
> whereas Linux distro splinters have (largely) remained compatible due to licensing and cultural differences.

Seems to me this had nothing to do with licensing or culture, but rather that if you wanted your distribution you'd use the upstream kernel and build your own userland with blackjack and hookers and whatever direction you were interested in, so there's some measure of strong relatedness in the kernel everyone shares. You might add a few modules or patches, but few people bother (or need) to fork the kernel itself.

Since BSDs are systems, if you want to go your own way you fork the entire system (that's literally the genesis of both OpenBSD and Dragonfly).
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Self-straining of actively crosslinked microtubule networks
Well, that gives me random access to the audio, but I still can’t chromecast it to my TV... Is this 2019? :/

Thanks though.
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They are using FreeBSD for their CDN appliances that they have dotted around the world, everything else runs on Ubuntu out of AWS.
And to what end? I’m of the firm belief that the good done by Waze far outweighs the cost to the NIMBYs. In LA we have a traffic crisis. Sorry but your government built and tax funded residential street is just as much mine to use as it is yours. I won’t speed through it but I sure as hell have a right to use it as much as the local home owners.

The city should not be doing what your suggesting until they’ve solved the traffic crisis and provided actual solutions.

The freeways are parking lots. Housing costs in the city are insane. So workers are forced to have longer and longer commutes. And the city’s infrastructure crawls to a halt at rush hours.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.
Standing in for me for many tedious videoconference meetings :)
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Mature democracies like the US and UK have what is called soft power, by demonstrate how effective their democracies are at home they can influence the people in Hong Kong without directly conducting disinformation
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The default resolution has been a scaled resolution for years now.
The most obvious way they are caught is changing their bets.

If you bet 10$ every hand, then suddenly 100$ when you think the count is good, and are winning, then back to 10$, you're done.

Good card counter will level their perceived variance by dumping money back, just like a poker player will sometimes call with a wider hand range than they consider their play style to be profitable in.

One of the ways casinos combat card counters is to lock their betting. So, they'll see someone with variant betting, between 1 and 100, and tell them they can keep playing, but only if they bet 20$ per hand.

That's an easier thing to kill card counting than outright banning players, as they still may be losing players at slots or some other table game.
Note the wording: "all of these changes". The first part of the change which I've been using for a week now, is already in Developer Edition. It has the largest effect. The most recent change has a small (but noticeable) effect.

FWIW, Nightly just managed to crash my MBP. Which, for the record, is normally rock stable.
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Privacy. A commercial video shot in public today is usually required to blur faces of people who didn't give explicit consent. Replacing faces with stubs is a nice alternative, as long as the target face is from a person with a consent.

I am not a lawyer, though.
I have been aware of how easily my own memory can be manipulated, even by my own self. I've taken stories told to me years ago and have retold them as I had lived them. Then there was the whole Shaq Kazam movie that people swore existed but never did.
I think you are right, but I think it's more about people's sentiment. It's like saying in Washington's time people respected politicians. The question is then did people's perception change or did policians change?
In terms of surveillance, I don't think people are "pro" surveillance, I think it's just not a priority.
The hyperbolic use of “destroyed” to mean adversely impacted, including in performing a thing’s intended function is so common than it may even exceed literal use of the term. The thesis of the article (as is usually the case) is not the headline, but (as laid out in the last two sentences of the first paragraph) that the impacts of the e next recession won't be limited to Millenials but born heavily by boomers through the impact on pensions.

(Though, I would argue, it would also literally destroy pension funds, but as a more distant effect of causing them to be perceived as not delivering value, but that's entirely outside the focus.)
That's mostly fine, but it complicates the scheduler and doesn't necessarily help performance. IIRC hyperthreading performs best when the workload on each thread is different (not taking caches into account), so running threads from the same process on the same core can (although isn't always; I'd hesitate to claim anything concrete here without benchmarks) be detrimental.

OpenBSD devs are likely open to it, but there are other inefficiencies in the kernel like locking that have priority.
Freely competing organizations that cater to the citizens preferences and demands.

The main reason people would choose a public administration of finances is to get the promise that if they fail, some other sucker will pay taxes to cover it.
El-Reg has been a staple of IT news reporting since the 90's, this is their house style. It's an irreverent play on the red top style of reporting used by British tabloids.
This jumped out at me too. It’s pretty garbage, but it may be that garbage works
Do I need to add the javascript to get any data or can I also just use the nginx logs?
It is actually quite easy to spot counters depending on how greedy they are. In order to successfully count you have to bet proportional to how positive or negative the count is in your favor. It is not uncommon for someone that knows nothing about counting to vary their bet a bit based on how much they are winning or how "lucky" they feel, but if you see someone varying their bet widely (Say min bet -> 32x min bet) then all one has to do is keep a count as well and that person is easily detected. Many dealers and security personnel keep counts anyway.

Casinos will use continuous shufflers which kill counting 100% or will cut off multiple decks at the end of the shoe so one cannot get a very positive count and more certainty that the deck is in their favor. In addition, as stated earlier, the type of counting these people did in the early days which was most lucrative is easily spotted. So now modern counters have to apply "camouflage" which includes placing higher bets when the deck is not in their favor to make it appear they are betting randomly, and also reducing their bet spreads. All of these eat into the theoretical return, and make it much less lucrative if not entirely not worth it. So modern advantage players look for casinos that don't watch as carefully or dealers that are not cutting off enough cards.
> Open source is about contributing to the commons, such that your competitors can make a profit from your work. If your competitors aren't able to do that, then the software is not open source. Period.

This kind of first order reasoning is nice, but the reality of software economics is a tad bit more complex. The assumption that the market is large, that the commons helps everybody sort of equally are not true in a lot of sectors. Namely, as IT transforms itself a lot of things become almost zero-marginal-cost. Starting a new server? Setting up a new database? Backup/Snapshot? Load balancing? Scaling? Just click that AWS web console shit, and you're good to go. And this out-competes the others.

I'm not saying that changing licenses is super-A-OK, but the fact is the license was never good in the first place, because it failed to take into account what will happen when AWS starts to offer MongoDB.

Furthermore, I have no problem with anyone holding the view that MongoDB should then compete with AWS, and/or focus on on-premise computing, and/or slowly pivot away from building MongoDB itself to whatever. But anyone holding this view should recognize the aforementioned reality that cloud computing is happening, IT is not just a hydra, it's an ouroboros too, it's eating itself.
The register is a very reputable news site, known for their tabloid-parody style with crude jokes, but very good reporting. They've been around since 1994.
You said the reason people don't use BSD was because the people who work on it are were too expensive. I know Google don't use BSD, but your idea that it's because they couldn't afford to pay BSD developers doesn't seem to add up, since Google happily pays Linux kernel developers maybe half a million dollars or more. Are the BSD developers really paid so much that Google can't afford them over the Linux developers? That doesn't seem likely to me. I think the reason they're not using BSD is something other than what you're suggesting.
> Using Linux should not have stopped anyone from listening to Theo and disabling HT months ago.

Iirc OpenBSD actively disabled it for you, making it the default.

Nobody else did that.
Sorry but my idea is not changing anyway...
sorry, Cassandra

I misunderstood
In a nutshell:

1. interest rates on government bonds, perceived as the safest asset class, have fallen to historic lows, even below zero in many countries

2. pension funds' expected rate of returns have barely budged since the 1970s (7-8%) despite the fact that interest rates have dropped from double digits to below zero in many cases

3. to make up the loss of yield, pension funds have turned to riskier assets such as stocks

4. fueling the fire, state regulations have been relaxed to allow these public pension funds to invest in risky assets

5. since the 2008 crisis pension funds have been underfunded - they take in too little money to be self-sustaining

6. it's becoming increasingly clear that pensions can't "grow out of" their underfunded positions

7. having loaded up on risky assets, pensions will face large declines in the next recession as stock markets deflate

The joker in the deck is how the pension funds will react to a declining stock market.

Their only viable option would appear to be government bonds. A collective flight into bonds would further depress interest rates. Falling interest rates produces capital gains on bonds, which attracts still more investors, driving rates further down. And so on. Flight to bonds on a large scale driven by pensions would also accelerate stock market declines, making bonds that much more attractive.

Having broken the zero interest barrier, there appears to be no bottom to interest rates anymore. The lack of a bottom opens up some very bizarre scenarios.
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Well they’re clearly being marketed as having actual use. Whether it’s true... could go either way
Because unless you make hyperthreading a purely opt in thing, there is no way to know as a kernel if two things that are security sensitive relative to each other are being run on the same core as Hyperthreading neighbors.

Two threads in a web browser that are assigned to different websites for instance.
I don't even remember why scroll lock exists
Except that newer driver happens to lack features from the old one.
Habituating people to the fact that this exists, therefore lessening the impact of malicious uses.
The problem is that if you allow the news to affect you so much that it impairs your mental health, you become less able to do anything to effect positive change in the world, and more easily influenced by the emotionally-charged, manipulative trash that makes up so much of what is presented as news.

If someone's mental health is impaired by exposure to the news, a period of detox is necessary. Consuming more of it won't help them or the rest of the world while they're in that state, and indeed will likely do more harm by perpetuating the cycle.

A person in such a state would be far better off taking some time to improve their ability to discern between useful news and trash, and to become more able to use their knowledge of the news to inspire positive action.
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You also wind up with fewer able-bodied working-age adults, which brings with it its own problems. Specifically, with retiree standards of living; these are proportional to the retiree-to-worker ratio, average worker income, and the combined tax and savings rate on workers. Having fewer children means that when those children would be adults, people need to retire poorer and/or later.
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Individuals tend to focus on the individual. Trying to change everyone's routine is like trying to push water upstream. You'd be better served by targeting a message to the Brazilian people that they should protect their natural resource.