skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hey could find electronics embedded in his hat (with radio and bone-conducting speaker). But there's a small chance that the Under Armor factory mistakenly sent him that hat instead of the normal one he ordered. (The cheater hat being intended for a blackjack player in Missouri instead!)

See here is the problem I see with that. The hat alone with the speaker in it would be only one part of the process. How does the hat read the cards? Personally I would say the hat would be just the speaker which is tied back to something that is the actual "tap". So the hat alone but be an indicator but still not proof imo.

See if Postle had some sense (And this is presuming he did infact cheat) they should of got fitted for a pair of Widex smart hearing aids (Or something similar, sure they are costly, but think of it as an investment against your future winnings). Those things allow you to use them as headphones as well as use them as hearing aids and who is going to question the hard of hearing person if they had been wearing them from day dot (Or allowed some time to, say months of turning up wearing them, not cheating before enabling the "god mode" app on the phone)

But at this point the electronics in the hat is just a theory, none have been found as of yet.

Having electronics in a hat that wasn't supposed to have them in stands out like a swore thumb and would be grounds to investigate further, ban them from taking part until that investigation has taken place (Or just outright ban them from taking part ever again), heck even call in law enforcement. I'm not sure of the law's in the state this game is being played as I didn't check where this game is being played but you can be questioned and detained in a Las Vegas casino by the casino's security. But your not going to be labelled a cheater to the world at those early stages as I can see that leading to a defamation case.

Back to the coin flip, Sure check the coin after the flips, if you were running a contest to flip 1000x times hand them the coin they need to use to flip. Heck investigate the person after the event. But just the act of it being done imo is not enough evidence to say it can't be done fairly.

EDIT: Btw I'm not saying that if someone comes up to you in the street and says "Hey I can flip 1000x heads in a row" you don't presume that they don't have a trick up their sleeve. But if you ran a contest for someone to do it then you take the act of someone completing the challenge as proof they cheated in order to do so.

I'm not saying its easy, I'm not saying its likely, I'm not saying I would even see it done in my life time if I got the whole worlds population doing nothing but flipping coins for the rest of my years. I'm just saying the act of doing so isn't imo definitive proof they cheated in order to do so.
Almost every poker room allows phones at the table. Turns out poker's a really boring game when you're at a table for hours and hours. Many of them technically don't allow use of them during a hand, but those rules tend to not be strictly enforced. Often players at the table are even playing online games against each other concurrent with the poker game - sometimes gambling on things like open face chinese/pineapple, or just regular games like Words With Friends.

Source: played thousands of hours of high stakes live games, and I'll bet that some of the regulars are among the best Angry Birds players in the world.
Any message board participant with even the most casual desire to score points and dunk on people could connect virtually any argument to "state-generated propaganda" using this logic.
US Lawmakers Ask Fed to Consider Developing ‘National Digital Currency’
BeyondCorp isn't incompatible with VPN solutions -- if anything they're highly complementary. Why not use both?
I took a Computer Architecture class for undergrad, and one of the pieces of coursework was to implement a Karatsuba's Algorithm in raw UAL Arm Assembly, using some weird non-standard (almost Chen-Ho, but not quite) decimal encoding of numbers devised by the instructor to "make things interesting". The idea was for it to support arbitrarily large numbers encoded using this format, as opposed to the considerably more trivial requirement that it just support stdint style integers.

It was considerably harder than it sounded (very few people in the class actually managed to get something working, since it was 'optional' but could still raise your grade), and I had daily nightmares about stack frame corruption throughout the project.
Umm... not true.

"The highest mountain on Mars is also the highest mountain and volcano in the entire solar system. It is called Olympus Mons and is 16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest"

My knowlege is old, but iirc I think the reason for Martian mountains being (potentially) higher than earth is the the rock is physically stronger due to lower water content. On earth, the water that eventually makes its way into rocks reduces it's strength, but, on Mars, the relative lack of water makes the rocks physically stronger.
It's not high level or high stakes. It's a $1/$3 game--the games Vegas weekend warriors and tourists play. If he really has this superpower, why isn't he playing 100-1000x those stakes in Macau?
You are missing my point entirely. Yes its called a standup because standing encourages brevity. Just because you sit or stand doesn't mean its a standup in literal definition though.
The CJEU Facebook Ruling: How Bad Is It, Really?
Advance notice of some other game jams coming up:

› GitHub Game Off (Nov 1) https://gameoff.github.com

› Global Game Jam (Jan 31) https://globalgamejam.org

https://itch.io/jams is a great resource for other fun, niche jams.
Here are some wild predictions I'm making

+ Many (or potentially all of the backers except Facebook) will withdraw from the alliance.

+ Facebook/Zuckerberg will defy the gov.s and launch Libra.

+ Libra might not dominate the world, but it'll be a success (at least a niche success) and it'll eat up some of the marketshare of these financial institutions.

I think Zuckerberg has come (or already know) to the realization that these institutions "added value" is navigating the regulations/laws of the different countries. They are a kind of monopoly. Sending money across "borders" is hard only because governments made it so. If Libra ignored these rules, they'll put these guys (or at least a part of their offerings) out of business. Why would anybody use Western Union if they can send money through their Facebook for less or no fees? It's easier and more convenient too.
I feel similarly - I use Calibre because it's the least-worst option. I truely appreciate the effort the devs put in, because I know how complex it is and that I wouldn't expend the effort myself.

But it certainly has some performance and UX issues. For me personally, I'd prefer to focus on getting the UX right, then I wouldn't care so much about the performance
But then how do you train it for real world situations where there's real world babies running around?
> I think governments actually want Libra

Which governments? Libra doesn’t benefit any government.

While Libra is a “real” cryptocurrency (distributed, any user can exchange, etc) as opposed to schemes like Beenz, it’s closer to company scrip than to Bitcoin’s model of “digital gold”.

Also - despite all the white-papers and hired evangelists - Facebook would still de-facto control Libra: not directly, of course - but they’d control the specification and the reference implementation - which means they’d control the consensus system that underpins distributed cryptocurrencies - so if they want to switch to adopting a proof-of-stake system (i.e. good for whales and hoarders) or intentionally introducing a backdoor’d cryptography scheme - or even adding address blacklisting.

That last part is probably the most important: I imagine most governments (especially western ones) really want address blacklisting: it provides a Libra with an equivalent of today’s bank account seizures - and it’s easy to ask for: you don’t want to be seen allowing terrorists, money-launderers and CP porn sellers to keep hold of their money.

Finally, Facebook does not have a substantial corporate presence in every country - which means that governments without the ability to sue or prosecute FB for malfeasance probably /don’t/ want to endorse anything FB does.
A New Way to Use arXiv.org
Calibre is just a qwidgets based pyqt program. Since its as KDE project the "modern" UI stack would be Kirigami QML and you can use QWidget::createWindowContainer to embed QtQuick parts in a QWidgets program. With signals and slots they can still communicate, so you can peacemeal replace parts of the UI like that, but looking at the sources the main window is composed of about 30 different parts between a half dozen folders so thats pretty immutable.
and it gives me opportunity to practice my general VIM skillz. Haha.
HLS is real. I've talked with dozens of teams who have successfully used HLS tools such as Mentor's Catapult, Xilinx's Vivado HLS, and Cadence's Stratus for a wide range of ASIC and FPGA projects. They claim they saw compelling benefits in project schedules, architectural flexibility, and overall performance. However, HLS is still (IMHO) a "power tool" for competent digital designers, not a tool that enables a software designer to create hardware. There is too much hardware-specific expertise required to create good HLS-able code and to do the tradeoffs like pipelining, unrolling, memory architecture, etc etc etc.
The Strassen algorithm for multiplying matrices is also fascinating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm
Mediagoblin is one of those projects that I really want to like, but can't. Admittedly the last time I tried to install it was a year ago, but I remember the installation process being incredibly finicky, and more often than not, resulting in a broken site.

And I'm no newbie to this. I've been comfortably RTM'ing and CLI'ing and admin'ing in various Linux flavours (and the occasional *BSD) for over two decades, after I cut my teeth on Slackware 2.something. I've often built LFS just for fun. I've been replacing a gaggle of Excel/Access crap at work with my own homemade golang web apps, despite us not being a tech company at all and me not being a pro developer, just because I know I can do a better job. The point I'm trying to make is that I'm not afraid of putting in effort to learn how to do something complex on a computer. But the Mediagoblin install process broke me each time.

But I wholeheartedly agree about Pleroma. It's a fantastic choice for someone looking to host a reasonably-sized microblogging community on truly minimal hardware. It's fast and stable.
I just cancelled Netflix this month. If they're gonna be throwing down $100 million a year for Friends they can be doing better with their catalogue than what's there. I'm out.

> return to actually buying content again

It's a nice thought, but lets be honesty piracy is coming back for round 2 off the back of the splintered streaming ecosystem.
I had a Treo from Cingular, it had absolutely no restrictions on installing programs. The preferred way to do so was generally by HotSyncing them from a desktop, but that wasn't any sort of developer mode, it was just how things were designed to work in the ecosystem (you wouldn't want to wait for the download over the air anyway).

There were a ton of aggregator sites for software with reviews, or you could just search the web for it, it was pretty easy.
Trams do not glide. The trams in portland sound like nails on the chalkboard when they round a turn. They also vibrate and thud and have to deal with traffic all the same if they aren't grade separated.
The key to consultant vs contractor would for me the focus on specialized advice with the former, but that doesn't mean it is just that. E.g. a consulting gig could start with clear consulting ("talk to the customer about their problem, investigate, give them an expert opinion on how to solve it") and then turn into the consultant also doing the implementation. But a consultant also could just produce a report, or direct the client's employees on how to solve a problem.

And contractors will often do consulting in the beginning stages, e.g. if they're hired to "build a website", they might give the customer specialized advice on what to consider or prioritize, ...
The fundamental problem for Netflix is they have to make money from their subscriptions. Amazon can fund video production at break even or a loss indefinitely. Apple might be able to too, but their shareholders won’t be happy. Google+YouTube is another potential problem, at some point if they so choose to be. For certain demographics, they are fine just watching YouTube all day and not wanting a Netflix subscription.

Disney appears to be another big threat for IP reasons, but we have yet to see how their rollout goes.

Netflix probably has to sell ads and/or do something else to remain independent, if the other big tech companies are going to continue to desire to be media companies. If Netflix’s stock drops a lot, they’ll be a big acquisition target.
The headline seems inflammatory and deceptive, and the article deliberately obtuse.

Using the term "illegal alien" to harass someone implies it's not accurate, or at least willful disregard for its accuracy. So obviously it's a civil rights issue.
Can someone give the tl;dr on whether it was actually proven? I tried to read the article but it's paragraph after paragraph of "As I enjoyed my chocolate cake on a patio at a Parision bistro, the sun pleasantly warming the table and people going about their business unaware of the wrongs of the world, my thoughts turned to the prime numbers and how they related to music" and almost none of it has any real information.
They are and it takes all of two minutes for the buss driver do deploy the ramp and secure the wheelchair to the cabin
Children who start school early more likely to get ADHD diagnosis (2018)
Why do you assume that those "little" problems that stand in the way are surmountable with any realistic rate of advancement in technology? Because some ill-defined "amount" x of advancement has happened in the last 5 years, so in 10 years it will be 2 times x?

Some problems are really hard, some are essentially impossible. For example, the halting problem is impossible to solve. All its corollaries are, too: You cannot for arbitrary cases tell whether a C program adds two simple numbers together, period.

Voice Assistants are an example for "problems so hard, they are essentially impossible": A human housemate has no problem understanding what I mean when I say "it went yellow, can you order this time?", a voice assistant likely never will. If it can understand that one, it cannot understand another way to phrase it that I can come up immediately. It might get good enough to unambiguously understand "order the water filters for the fridge" every time, but I can convey the same thing to a human in infinitely many more ways.

In driving, unfortunately, you don't get to choose which way a situation is presented, the way you can with crafting a sentence to a Voice Assistant. The next time you drive through a city, look out for any even remotely non-standard situation. Now imagine how a computer should be supposed to react without the arsenal of context clues that your lifetime of human experience provides to you, and that tells you to "just swerve left after slowing down for a few feet" with barely a conscious thought.
My first mental image was of an MMU that was running Linux internally—like the Xeon Phi, but even more ridiculous.
Doesn't Germany have an adequate social security system?
real innovation has stalled because it has been prevented from happening by regulation. Just look at any real industry that involves creating actual things: Automotive or Housing, or Medical insurance. They're all choking from mundane regulations we never hear or talk about.
Update: Heard back shortly after this job post went up.
If they don't sell it, torrent it. Artificial scarcity is a joke that only works as long as you keep shaking your head and going along with the system.
I sometimes find the chances of us being here so remote, it can't really be just survival of the fittest can it? There must be other means for evolution to be more intelligently selective. I'm arguing that you'd see some kind of evolved "invisible" hand rather than an actual maker behind all of this.
Well, well, well suddenly it looks like everyone who is making money thanks to current status quo is withdrawing from initiative/opposing it. Probably it means that FB is doing something right... Question is if FB is strong/clever enough to keep moving forward.
For sure. I mean, claims like:

> The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. By 2030, the number of cows in the U.S. will have fallen by 50% and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt.

This is ridiculous. I'm not going to stop eating beef because of the availability of cheap weird unproven lab-grown protein. I might try the latter, maybe feed it to my pets, but as long as I can reasonably afford to eat real meat, I'm going to do so.

The market that will suffer most is probably going to be the non-GMO organic stuff you mention, because it's already that much more expensive than the cheap stuff, so it will be even harder to justify for most folks, esp. if the lab-grown replacements get endorsed as being Healthy by the right Authorities on the issue.
The issue here is compounded because you typically aren't using Calibre daily, so if you launch it once a month, there's basically a new version available every single time you launch it. I use Homebrew on macOS and Chocolatey on Windows to keep it updated, they both work well.
Has anyone proven that the "soup" has to be liquid?

I'm no chemist, but I was curious one day so I looked through the chemical composition of humans, and was surprised to see that almost all of the base elements from the periodic table that we are composed of are lighter than air. Just ran the numbers again for this post:
~96.2% oxygen,hydrogen,nitrogen,carbon
~ 3.8% calcium,phosphorus,
potassium,sulfur,sodium,
chlorine,magnesium

The highest atomic number for any of these elements is 20 (calcium), while krypton is listed on wikipedia as a "major constituent in earth's atmosphere" with an atomic number of 36.

EDIT: And in fact it gets more interesting when you analyze the chemical composition of DNA / RNA.
A couple of responses here:

First, the issue is that he's winning at a rate that is 10+ standard deviations above what the typical winning/profitable player is achieving. These results are accomplished across a significant sample of sessions (39 live streamed ones), and across almost a year.

If you consider some of the players considered the best "live readers" in the history of the game (Ivey, Negreanu, etc.), none have won at the rate that he has.

Secondly, he's playing $1/3 and $5/5 poker in a city (Sacramento) that is not exactly a gambling mecca. You would expect someone who is as good as he is to play higher stakes games. $1/3 and $5/5 are stakes offered at nearly any casino.

Third, he's performed well against some elite pros. Matt Berkey (who regularly plays the highest stakes in Vegas) was in a streamed game against Postle, and Postle performed extremely well in heads-up hands. Given that Berkey is playing for hundreds of thousands of dollars on a nightly basis in Vegas, and seems to be a profitable player in those games, are we supposed to believe that Postle somehow has identified body language tells that no one else has discovered?

This is not even considering other facts like:

* Postle used to consult for the production team behind the streaming for the casino

* Postle used to claim to run some kind of app development company, and has since deleted his LinkedIn

* The extreme winning sessions seem to only have taken place during streamed games

Sure, it's possible that there's a benign explanation here, but it's looking far and far more unlikely.
It's pretty beautiful in Brattleboro, Vermont today.
ArXiv Vanity
It's not risk free.

Keeping a secret becomes harder as more people are involved. Employee (or contractor) turnover means more people are involved.

The same goes for the number of work sites, with each remote worker being their own work site. It is reasonable to guess that you don't have 24x7 guards, video recording, and competent on-site IT staff.

Then add in a training investment, the legal implications (tax, insurance, holidays...) if you are in a different jurisdiction, and all the uncertainties that a one-of-a-kind agreement would bring. Not every company is prepared to deal with the situation you would create.
Many electronic devices simply lack the technical features or input channels that would allow third party software to run. I find it much more worrying when the devices have all the infrastructure in place to do so, but their manufacturer decides to actively restrict the users' freedom in that regard.
> I can sort of understand these homeless guys that walk the streets talking to themselves

Good for you man. I honestly believe that every person should lose their mind at least once. Once you've built up some insane reality, it'll always be there, and the space between is (IMO) kind of special. It's amazing how one can hold two completely contradictory storylines of the world in their head. And for me it helps with groking how different the inside of other peoples minds can be. How real it can feel. How fake my real is. How just as plausible their real could be.

For those interested, one of the easiest cheapest ways to lose your mind is to go live out in the woods for a while (bush fever). Seriously, if you've never had your bubble burst, it might do you some good.
You should see what busses are like now. They are twice as long with an accordion in the middle to round right angle turns. If you need more length you just run more of these busses on the lines. Some of the buss lines I take also accept paying fare at all three doors with the tap card (although fare dodgers are at least 50% of the riders on my bus).
> Do you have some data for this assertion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Of the countries with data for fatalities per billion vehicle-km (not that many), the US (at 7.3) is equal to Belgium, lower than Czech Republic (11.5) and high than the 13 other European countries. In addition, counting fatalities per distance travelled will make driving less look like it has no safety benefits even though fewer people actually die. If we look at fatalities per capita instead (to attempt to adjust for country size, but not policies and behaviour) the US rate is 33% higher than Europe, more than twice as high as Canada and most of Western Europe and 4.5x Norway.

Compared to its peers, the US really doesn't have a low fatality rate.
Isn't that possibly self-explanatory? He could play the lower level because it maximizes his profits. Better players might bluff better or mask their tells.
Mcdonalds knows that the VAST MAJORITY of the populace goes to McD for fries,nuggets,burgers and shakes but still has salads and healthier food on it's menu now for people who don't want to.

I don't see how putting a toggle in their app to turn off all these things is such a major change. This is like snapchat "i don't care about android" levels of tech stupidity/laziness
Usually only two decks are used at a table, one for the current hand, and one in the shuffle machine. That's only 104 unique tags. Decks tend to be changed out only every few hours at most, because it delays the game (new decks are visually verified by spreading them on the table to see that they contain every card).
Isn't the point of WeWork exactly that chatter? It allows for a space where people from different worlds can work in the same space giving a great opportunity for connections. This is all from second-hand hearsay, never actually worked in one.