skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am with saurik.

The utility function is an approximation. So MCMC is aggregating information over an erroneous space, and min/max is also optimizing over an erroneous space too.

Which is the correct thing to do is conditioned on how the utility function behaves. In this scenario I think min/max plays maximumly conservative, which empirically seems to be the best thing to do.

If the utility is minimize free space on the board, the min/max will try to get to a free board but doesn't take risks so gets there in a suboptimal route. The MCMC will take the odd risky move as long as a large proportion of the futures lead to a even emptier board.

Clearly you don't want risky moves, because do enough of them and it ends in disaster (and its a long game). So the utility function should be exponentially weighted against going near risky situations. However, developing such a utility function which combines well in MCMC really requires understanding too much about the future game dynamics.

For MCM to work, the utility function really needs to capture how potentially bad a situation is, and I don;t think that is easy. Min/max is naturally pessimistic in stratergy, which is probably the correct thing to do.
I couldn't find anything nearly as powerful as Pg so I would discount it fully.
Those pages lead you here, which works: https://delecorp.delaware.gov/eCorp/LoginAnnualReportsCLF

Their problem is the div#forceDOMredraw which appears over everything. Good times. Remove that node and the page works again.
This is an old and interesting debate.

There is a difference in purpose that perhaps Knuth is seeking to tutorially expose a different way of thinking about the activity of programming. McIlroy is looking for a compact result. I am myself all for short programs, and reusing components, but there is something that is lost in doing so.

I am more aware of this in a security context. For example, consider qmail. It moves mail (some interesting fraction of all internet mail), which sounds like it could benefit from reuse of other components, like the standard library. However, DJB elected not to use the standard library, but to write secure substitutes for necessary functions. The record is clear.

The record is clear also on one of Knuth's major achievements, which is TeX, which has had very few bugs in its lifetime.

So tutorially, McIlroy's counterexample doesn't teach how to programmatically split lines into words without TR, and so on.

One thing that I work with programmers that want to be security folks is to be able to puncture through abstractions. If you understand the details of such abstractions by reading Knuth's approach, you will be further along the road.

So basically I disagree with Knuth has shown us here how to program intelligibly, but not wisely.
Does anyone else find this kind of pre-development marketing kind of scummy and deceptive?

It's basically lying to potential customers: You're pretending to offer to sell a product that doesn't exist.
Exactly. She has no more right to live in SF than I have to live in Malibu. If she is entitled to 500/mo rent in SF, why am I not entitled to some nice 500/mo rent on the beach?
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I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.
That sucks.

If the company is making you reapply for your job, it is a sign they are trying to avoid paying for moving expenses. It's not even lip service to doing anything for those laid off.

It can't hurt to apply, just to keep them happy while you look for something else. If you might want to move and keep your options open. If you do move, it's not.like you.owe them much if something else comes along. Management that makes people reapply once has precedent for doing it again.

Good luck.
The reality is that none of us deserve anything. The so called social welfare is nothing but a government's excuse to reduce our liberties.

If there is any reason why poor can not afford housing in SF then it is not the fault of the landlord who is trying to make maximum money but the government regulations which prevent him from doing so. It is beyond me why In-Law unit is illegal in SF. The city is expensive, poor people are clearly willing to stay in these illegal units which is a better option than staying in a car. What exactly is government's problem ?

My making the in-law unit illegal government has actually deprived the poor people of any legitimate consumer rights they could have. Government has reduced competition between the in-law unit owners and as a result increased prices and left the poor people susceptible to all sort of oppression.

The problem with poor people is most often they are able to see the first order causes but not beyond that. Igne was not stupid to blame the Landlord for her situation, but she was merely ignorant of the fact that it is government that forced him to take such steps. Her sense of entitlement though it totally misplaced.
[edit] - sillysaurus edited his comment slightly - I hope this rely still makes sense...

I think your'e giving good reporters too little credit (note the good, which is unfortunately a minority). My experience is that these people are aggressive in their search for truth and the uncovering of corruption. Their problem is that to do their job they often need inside knowledge, secret sources and the ability to confront the potential perpetrators. So they need friends in the very places they are trying to dig up dirt. It's a very fine line.

To some degree I think media has always been like this, but it's gotten worse over the last 10 years. I see 2 obvious reasons for this:

1) The political game has moved, and there is much more emphasis on controlling the agenda than there was before. In the modern media world there is no way you'll get access to a high-standing official before having been vetted by media consultants, spindoctors and aides of all sorts. An impenetrable layer of spin between the reporter and the official has sprung up, and without some cooperation on the reporters side he won't get the interview/tip/story. This is a huge problem for truth and democracy. It also shows itself in how the news is being reported, since this layer of spin consumes so much attention. Note how the news is less and less about the story and more and more about the process. It's not "Why did Putin invade Crimea", but "Is Obama weak because Putin invaded Crimea". The layer of spin uses their power to throw dirt at the other side of the aisle.

2) Traditional media is in decline. This has some fairly serious consequences for the news landscape. Less and less time (money...) is allocated to producing more and more stories, and as an obvious result the quality suffers. Ironically this also means that often reporters know they are being fed a story by the spin machine, but they don't have the time to disassenble it or be critical of it if they are to meet their daily qouta of X articles. The editors also require more and more sensational stories, based on less and less research to keep readership and clickrates high. The recent story in Newsweek where they claim to have found the founder of Bitcoin is a good example.

Note that I'm from Europe, and the dynamics here are a bit different - namely that we often have public radio and TV (like PBS) that don't have a political agenda or affiliation, and that we often don't have the media conglomerates that you do in the UIS that try to push a political agenda. This is a very serious problem b.t.w.
At least it's given the world a new alternative to 'a to-do list' in demonstrating new technologies/languages/etc. There are ones for various different gaming frameworks:

https://github.com/uralozden/flappy-bird

https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird

The ZX-81: http://bobs-stuff.co.uk/quack.html

and so on. To my shame, I made a version that you play by flapping your arms:

http://experimenting.alastair.is/flappyarms
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Perhaps if we were accepting pre-orders or requiring a credit card. A soft launch like this would be more comparable to a focus group for a traditional product launch.
San Francisco has Rent Control ordinances, so as long as the unit was legal, she could have stayed there for the rest of her life (which she probably expected).

http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html
> “Everyone is selling electric cars, it has nothing to do with that,” she said. “If you allow someone to come into the market with no overhead, that's an unfair advantage,” she said.

Being more efficient than your competitors in NY state is apparently an unfair advantage.
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First load gave blank screen with nothign but header tag. cmd+shift+r fixed it. Seems to be limited. Pretty slow.
You know there's a way around having to do those things every time you use CreateFile, right? It's a neat thing they invented many moons ago, starts with an F and ends with "nction".
> so as long as the unit was legal

It wasn't, according to this article. She took a risk.
At risk of being called a crazy conspiracy theorist:

At some point you have to realize that politicians have been reduced to little more than actors and the deep state is now the entity that's really in control. What do I mean by that?

The Affordable Care Act is pretty much the primary political blockbuster over the course of the last several years. Still, it didn't do much beyond establish an online insurance exchange and eliminate discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. Not exactly what I would consider sweeping reform. Despite this, Republicans are constantly shouting to the public "Obamacare is destroying America!" and Democrats are saying "The ACA has made our nation infinitely better off", when the reality is that neither is true.

The grandiose televised presidential debates seem quite indicative that these people are just acting for the public in order to get elected. Romney and Obama tried to paint each other in such a dramatic way that it really bordered on absurdity.

Meanwhile, we have the three letter agencies getting into all sorts of trouble. Spying on the public, starting coups abroad, and all sorts of things that they will never be held accountable for. It seems far more likely to me that Obama was pressured into his present foreign policy by the members of these agencies, rather than him backing out on his promises so extensively. In the case of the NSA, and now apparently the CIA, they are in no way obligated to inform congress of their actions. They pretty much just do whatever the hell they want and then leave the politicians to rationalize it.

So, while Republicans and Democrats may argue over petty issues, there isn't a whole lot behind their talk. The critical decisions about which countries we enter into conflict with, what rights US citizens have, etc., are really being made behind the scenes by completely unelected people.
I had some luck (winning the game, that is) by following this general heuristic:

- Default to placing tiles in one corner, so, for example, using Up & Left primarily so that high numbers will accumulate in the upper left corner.

- Don't automatically consolidate tiles, but rather, maximally fill out the diagonal half-matrix with 2-4-8-etc... before moving to force a consolidation. Example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aargiwvoyg1shdp/Screen%20Shot%2020...

- When no Up or Left move is available, move right. Sometimes, this allows for a general consolidation chain reaction to occur, which generally radically empties the board.

- repeat - sometimes you'll need to switch corners to the upper right.
It could be useful as a tool for new Twitter users, but it doesn't seem revolutionary. If you up the limit to 2000 favorites an hour, then it's suddenly not different from any other bot, despite good intentions.

Again, I can see it being useful for a new Twitter user (if you manage to get it in front of them), but it's not going to solve the grander problems of Twitter sociability.

It also ruins Twitter favoriting as read-it-later (through IFTTT or otherwise) for people who use it that way (me). Perhaps I'm in the minority though.
Wow. He anticipates many future inventions. I suppose we can forgive him for not knowing about the transistor. He does talk about the possibility of using vacuum tubes for switching the telephone network, among other things.

Interestingly, he mentions the vacuum tube again when talking about unknown unknowns that might increase technological progress:

"Technical difficulties of all sorts have been ignored, certainly, but also ignored are means as yet unknown which may come any day to accelerate technical progress as violently as did the advent of the thermionic tube..."
Best web host for a startup?
What do you think?
This seems to be happening more and more often. I notice connectivity issues with Github, and/or extremely slow downloads of tarballs quite regularly (at least two or three times a week) when running deploy scripts that download vendor packages from Github.
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loophole ˈlo͞opˌ(h)ōl/

noun: Part of a set of laws that I do not like.

Rent control does not give you the right to live in an area for a given amount of rent in any circumstance. The circumstances in which it does not provide assurances are not "loopholes".
I am arguing that you signed(/agreed) a contract with netflix. Second, in order to actually watch the content you have to licence it. This next bit is only 90% accurate, but will do for this discussion : that licence is another contract that at some point (probably as part of the netflix contract signing) you saw and agreed to follow. The difference between both contracts is the other party. In the first it's netflix, in the second it's the copyright owner.

Both contracts stipulate that you won't look at the content outside of a given service area. You then proceed to

a) violate the actual provision (contract violation / copyright violation)

b) use technical means to fool the other contracting party into thinking you haven't violated the contract (fraud)

Not following the terms of a licence, that's exactly what piracy is (gets more complex if there are multiple licences for the same content, but ...). Just like fraud is nothing more or less than deceiving parties you've contracted with into believing you're respecting the contract, with intent to violate said contract.
But you're not being honest and up-front about the fact that it's a focus group.

If it was like "Click here to take a survey about what features you most want in an email service" that would be one thing, but that's not the messaging in your case.
Interesting. What tool are you using to do this type of thing via the api?
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I live in Hayward amongst plenty of people making her income or less. She can come be my neighbor if she wants & still be within a bart ride of her friends.
The problem there is that there's no universal set of principles that are right or good.

For example "don't leave money on the table" or "make as much money as possible" could easily be a principle someone adopts. In such a case, she would be standing up for her principles by maximizing her acquisition of money at the expense of other things.
It's almost as if excessive regulation and NIMBY-ism in San Francisco has created an artifical bubble of hyper inflated housing prices that causes the most harm to the people who are in most need of help. Damn.
Beat the game:
http://oi62.tinypic.com/2wdopq9.jpg

At least I don't have to spend any more time on it.

My simple strategy was to keep the biggest blocks in a corner at all times.
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I liked full-service when I lived in NJ. And the gas is fifty cents cheaper than where I live now.

I don't even understand what the objection is.
The market's been sending that same message for years.

Security is a cost center and potential source of user-friction. User Data Integrity is a "nice to have". Privacy is considered only from the angle of "what can other users see through normal operation".

And that market is driven by the consumers themselves.
No. Here's a video that gives a lot of video game historical context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-W5CWj7Ic
Misaligned incentives in action.
It works in IE. :(
I have been told by driver vendors that GL multithreading does not work on windows, yes.

D3D multithreading works (even, to a lesser extent, with D3D9!), and this is one of the reasons why our D3D9 renderer is dramatically faster than our GL one - we can offload a subset of rendering work to helper threads instead of keeping it all locked on the thread that owns the window.

TF2/etc do offer a multithreaded rendering option, but IIRC on Windows their engine still uses D3D. Also, note that it's an option, because the feature used to be very unstable (still might be, actually) - I suspect people using the GL version of those games may have to disable it on certain hardware/driver configurations.
>>Throwing away $50k/day is just a stupid thing to do.

I would have done the same thing if I was in his shoes; just get out of the spotlight with whatever money I already made(and still making from previous-installs). Getting paid 50k, even just once, for a mobile game I wrote over a weekend is more than enough. I wouldn't care how many millions I left at the table by dropping it and running away.

I'd just upload it to github, throw on WTFPL[1], and run away never to be seen again.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
This is just an of desperation. Plain and simple.

I don't understand what is so unfair about it. Tesla is the one going into these states as a newcomer, they have an expensive product, they have to pay rent and hire workers. If these franchises want to complain, complain to the manufacturer they are representing.

The thing is these franchises don't offer enough value-added services needed justify the extra costs (or their existence). That is why they are afraid. They know this (this is why they have such a bad reputation from customers).

Also, cars are increasingly becoming more complicated. These hybrids being built now are so complicated that they require automated tests to be done to detect issues. As technology progresses, these franchises will increasingly rely on the manufacturer for assistance in solving problems that are not simple.

I think the real advantage to Tesla is that the feedback loop is faster. They can listen to customers and improve their products faster. Improving the products can further reduce the costs and increase it's competitiveness.
Brilliant would have been taking it down for a day then putting it back up. Not keeping it down for weeks while the excitement around the game fades.

Based on what, exactly? This sounds like conjecture.

UPDATE: Fine. Taking it down for one day can result in the audience feeling jerked around, him being perceived as unreliable, and any number of other negative connotations. There are also myriad instances of successful relaunches after extended absences, even to the degree that minor appearance tweaks justify a sequel or version bump. Simply put, there are just as many reasons why it wouldn't matter if he waited, if not more, than those supporting it to be "brilliant" for him to only wait a day and disastrous if he didn't.
Even if this argument holds water (and as a US citizen you're bound by US law whether or not you're in the US), you still agreed to a contract that you wouldn't do this.

Now given that contract you agreed to with netflix, I think is pretty safe to say that you're violating the law in every last jurisdiction on earth.

Sure they won't sue you for it, generally speaking. But you're definitely violating the law.
Same thing in NJ. And no one thinks prices would go down if they got rid of full service, so what would be the point?
It seems there is a bug where only the higher or two cascades trigger at once, will be scored. So some of the points seem to being lost.
The Unix way and the pipe was definitely McIlroy's genius.

But let's not forget that he also indirectly spawned ActiveX ;)

Here's he is in 1968 presenting his ideas on component based software at NATO

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/9/95/Software_compon...

My favourite McIlroy quote :
"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code"
There appears to be a giant <div> on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of <body>:

<div id="forceDOMredraw"></div>

With the CSS of:

height: 3000px
width: 3000px
position: absolute
top: 0px
z-index: 50000

I do love arbitrary constants.

Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these:

Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [object Object] is not a function

Looks like jQuery isn't getting loaded, but that's probably because of:

[blocked] The page at 'https://corp.delaware.gov/paytaxes.shtml' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://www.delaware.gov/CLF2012/js/jquery-1.5.1.min.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

So, yeah, no jQuery, no script, defunct page. The problems seem to be rooted in the fact that jQuery didn't load due to it being sent over HTTP, and not HTTPS; indeed, loading the page on HTTP causes things to appear to work.

Just don't use any security, and everything will work just fine. :-) This problem seems to cover the entirety of corp.delaware.gov, too.

Also, the 404's the article mentions,

GET https://corp.delaware.gov/undefined?1394573701086 404 (Not Found)

I doubt that the URL is supposed to have "undefined", but rather that JS has stabbed yet another dev in the back.
I think SteamOS is a very tough sell for gamers who run windows and steam anyway and mostly don't give a damn about linux.

Even Steamboxes are much more useful if you just slap windows & steam on it.
Agreed. But given the rest of forrestthewoods's post I thought it was worth pointing out.
Another open compute project, another day where I cry I don't manage enough servers to get involved!
And what will you drive? Living in prettymuch any Midwestern city requires driving (or someone to drive you around). Public transportation is abysmal, and distances are large.
McIlroy tried to show us that the best programming is none at all.
Reading the article, the data the "exploit" looks at is only if the user has turned on the backup feature (disabled by default).
I guess there's another reason...

http://xkcd.com/303/
From the podcast, car dealerships/dealers were rated "least trusted" and "most painful" consumer experiences. Clearly that is for the benefit of the consumers...
Everyone in NJ is too cynical to think that would happen...
http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/21864047 - from their FAQ
Unfortunately, her constituents won't want to give up the political power she wields as one of the most senior Senators, even if she spends most of her time abusing that power. Next weekend, do a House of Cards marathon and you'll have all of the "political background" you need to understand what you'll be up against.
So why isn't HN up-in-arms about Google allowing Android apps access to all your phone's un-encrypted images?!? That seems like a much bigger issue!
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This is great!

One note about your site's landing page: for the sections about each "engine" try leading with the engine's benefit to the user, and go into the highly technical jargon in the small print. I have a feeling your customers don't know what, "adaptive learning algorithm to locate and bridge cognitive gaps" means.
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