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> Games are being designed to push users to spend money.

Every business is designed to push their clients to spend money. Some are better at it than others.

> Whats the difference between this and gambling in casinos?

There's no possibility of winning, so no way to delude yourself that the money you spend is an "investment", or to try to make back your losses. And we haven't (yet) seen anything like the scale of social problems caused by casino gambling.

> Are users aware that algorithms are being gamed to maximize profits?

Maybe. But honestly what's the difference between an algorithm and a human salesman? (e.g. I've heard it alleged that Dumas and Dickens deliberately stretched and optimized their serialized stories, to maximize their profits) Does it matter?
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Modern cars are very locked-in with computer systems. So fixing many aspects of modern cars is no longer possible for most car owners like it used to be.

So true. And so frustrating. I grew up in a household where my dad built and raced stock cars, and was always building hot rods for street racing (sssshhhh, don't tell) and so I grew up working on cars, and for a big chunk of my life I did my own repair work. But as you say, newer cars are so much more challenging. It's not just the computerized bits either, it's the tighter clearances / less space in the engine compartment, the way you often have to disassemble half the car to even get access to the think you need to touch, the specialized tools you need for some jobs, etc.

Coincidentally my truck (a 2000 Ford Expedition) died Wed. morning. I am thinking about just going on Craigslist, finding an old 1974 Chevy C10 pickup, or something of that ilk, and buying that. I can do everything on a truck like that myself, all the way down to pulling and rebuilding the engine if need be.

because I definitely intend to own more older cars (they tend to be more interesting than modern cars).

They certainly can be, in their own way. I mean, I like both, but old cars definitely have a certain special appeal to them.
In theory, I like the idea of tracking measurements.

In reality, I can't take reliable measurements of myself. Even back-to-back measurements vary quite a lot because the tape isn't in the exact same position and orientation.
O'Reilly's publishing Introduction to Machine Learning with Python by Sarah Guido and Andreas Mueller in January 2016.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030515.do
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Peter Norvig's Artificial Intelligence:

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approac...

Has plenty of examples in Python. You can also look at different Udacity courses. They have a couple dealing with ML with Python.
Realistically the latter is extremely common in business settings. A small percentage of business meetings even need to happen, much less need the presence of all attendees.
What makes a page public?

Opening it up so that anyone who visits a link sees it?

Or actually giving the link to someone to post in public.

If the latter, I have a website that one could visit but which I have never given the link out for. It seems absurd that it would be considered hacking to just visit the front page of my website whose link I have never given out but which you can guess. (0 content website of which I never actually finished designing.)
Previous HN discussion on the diff video if you're curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8513209
I wonder why meteor debug wasn't advertised more by the core team, it looks like a pretty neat feature. I'm going to give it a whirl!
Well, yeah, but this guy gained whatever rights he has in the US just by breaking US law and being kept in prison there. Not only didn't he forfeit rights just by breaking the law - he gained his rights that way! Sounds a tad buggy and something a lawmaker might want to fix to avoid this kind of thing next time.
Cool reference guide. The https://github.com/rclai/meteor-ddp-inspector is also helpfull!
In my experience interviewing candidates, cultural fit largely outweighs other technical merits. I try to keep this in mind when I'm asked for my opinion.

While the questions in this article appear biased towards a 60/40 work/life balance, I would say they're spot on in detecting a very specific cultural fit. If nothing else, these questions would get a candidate talking. They're a little on the aggressive side for my interviewing style, but I imagine they're quite effective.

Keep in mind, the job candidate should also be interviewing the company. If someone were to ask me what unpaid work I have done in the past, I would consider the cultural ramifications of the question. In this case, I would need to be okay with an aggressive internal culture.

Come to think of it, it's important to realize that when you interview candidates you may very well be the first impression of the company. Articles like these offer a glance of a company/interviewer without having to go through the trouble of applying.

I would really like to find a way to study the effectiveness of interviewing styles. I wonder what metrics would even apply?
Glad to hear you ate food and browsed the internet. Welcome to the modern human condition!
Last ditch publicity for either their own personal branding or a product pivot.
Not trying to be snarky.

Reading the official python documentation as though it were a book can lead to a lot of insights:

https://docs.python.org/3/
New Grant Morrison Comic Shows Santa as Sexy Shaman. Is This Accurate?
maybe he started writing about that but got sidetracked context switching :)
It's possible that my observations won't solve the problem. But, we agree on the fundamental that content providers either need payment from the consumer or from ads or both.

Right now content publishers are often taking money from ad agencies in lieu of charging the consumer (no blinding revelation there). My assertion is that I'm more than willing to pay for content (as long as there are no ads), but I don't want to enter into subscription relationships with every content publisher I go to. I was also trying to implicitly state that I don't want to pay for a full issue of (for example) The Economist when I'm interested only in one article. Paper-based publications had to be that way; I'm skeptical that digital publications do.

Publishers who do allow per-article payment methods are often pricing individual articles so high that it would be impractical for me to pay for all the content I want to read.

I've been careful to use "publisher" because the publisher is often the proxy for the authors whose content we read. It may be that we need to enter into more direct relationships with authors rather than their proxies. It seems like we need an "App Store" for articles. It may make things worse, I'm not really sure.
The original owners pumped it up, IPOed at the peak, and walked away with their money. They're probably very happy with the outcome.
Yeah I really wanted a Doble for a few years. I eventually realized that it would take either a decade or two of hunting, or a few hundred grand to make it happen and gave up.
I have Norvig's book, I'm not sure I'd recommend that as an introduction ;) Awesome book though!
Yes I definitely do check if my dentist go to conferences, presents or teaches.

Ever since a dentist fucked up and caused me a lot of pain and to spend a lot of money to fix the damage, I've become very careful about how I chose health care professionals. And while I don't know enough about dentistry to judge seeing a dentist go to conference documents himself on the newest techniques and teach or present at conferences is a good signal to find out if he is good.

There are people who are passionate about what they do and they are people who don't care all that much in almost every case the passionate ones will be better.
Also worth checking: http://meteor.toys/

Most useful and free version:
http://mongol.meteor.com/
Because people are so desperate to watch their home team they are getting away with things like this.
I think the UK is heavily dependent on where you're ordering the taxi. Some cities are truly awful. Nottingham is the worst I've personally seen for taxis, but always had good service in Leeds.
it's just that they haven't thought about it and don't really understand that mass surveillance means everybody, not just the bad guys

You make a good point which I think applies to most of them, though I'd say the politicians in higher places are more self-aware and accept that surveillance offers more benefits than downsides, career-wise.
This all begs the question, "What kind of car do you drive?" :)
>Do you really have a problem with that?

Very much so.

If serving up the material isn't directly harmful to a child, it should be protected under the First Amendment to view and possess (not talking production).

If serving up the material is directly harmful to a child, then the FBI was engaging in abusing children.

The FBI wants to claim it is the second case when anyone else is doing it but the first case when they do it.
The set of US legislation is not a unified whole, designed (ore even intended) to function as an internally consistent well-integrated machine.

Laws are passed by the ream, and these all provide definitions for the things they're regulating. The whole point of including those definitions is to clearly delineate the boundaries of each bill or regulation. And because they each have their own definition, when taken together you'll always find overlaps that cause strange interactions, or places where there areas between defined domains allow creative loopholes. Thus it's not at all surprising that a pair of regulations, one governing cable TV and one covering data services, have definitions different enough that someone can get stuck on the wrong side of both of them.

It does create a mess, and that's part of what the recent King v Burwell decision was about. The PPACA clearly defined its terms, but in ways the Obama Administration (specifically the IRS) thought didn't make sense, and so they did their own thing. The decision was necessary to resolve the contradiction. This kind of thing will always be the result when legislators or regulators are being driven by political concerns, and especially when their work is rushed and they don't even allow time for experts to read and understand the bills.
Show me just one really cool thing that can be done with Renderman and can't be done with Cycles. Show off that 25 years of history.
> I would never hire a developer who didn't have any code to show me.

I would never work for such an employer.
The Weight Watchers points system (the older one) was essentially trying to solve this. Points are essentially calories divided by 50 (with adjustments to emphasize low fat and high fiber) and are easily memorizable. It doesn't matter exactly which bread you ate, because it's probably 1 point per slice anyway.

(I don't know much about the "new" points system. I think there are a lot of things that are just 0 points.)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120 it's totally free too
Use Perltidy to automatically re-format and indent any "ugly" looking Perl!

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Tidy/bin/perltidy
The Road and Track Illustrated Automotive Dictionary is also a good resource. Unlike the Bently guides, it will not be specific to your car. But it does have excellent illustrations and concise explanations.
Looking back over last 20 years, technology (esp. related to computers) had made extraordinary leaps forward and the pace is accelerating.

Largely hardware advances that are heavily interrelated with physics. Even still, it has been incremental (though still impressive) production advances and not radical architectural redesign. Intel only got bounds checking in hardware (MPX extensions) a couple of years ago, even though this was first done over half a century ago.

Software hasn't.
It is a fantastic automobile and a great video from Jay Leno, whom we all owe a debt of gratitude for preserving our technological legacy, similarly to Bill Harrah from a generation earlier.

Imagine what a Doble could be with a few processors handling all the complexity....
Yet the whole reason it is illegal to possess is because possession is considered a direct act of harm against a child comparable to (though not as severe as) production.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895694
Hmmm actually I am not 100% sure, only from what I myself remember reading about it I interpreted it as they they didn't know about each other because the projects in general was conducted in such secrecy. I'll have a look if I can find anything.
Only if everyone has perfect information all of the time.
You realize you didn't name a single benefit over Cycles?
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https://archive.org/stream/06061161.cn#page/n0/mode/1up
No, because drug dealers are not directly harming people and they are running it. It would be like a murderer being given aid to murder more people while they go after the people at the top. Which is horrendous. And which, if I remember correctly, has happened.
It is a neat feature. I also hear that it will persist changes from node-inspector web interface back to your code itself... I didn't mention in the article as I didn't have time to confirm it myself.

Yeah, I am thinking of adding a debugging section as a PR to the Meteor docs.
Can they abuse a child?

Is not continuing the operation of this site doing explicitly that?
Thanks. Yeah, always one of those 'wow' moments during my Mastering Meteor class :)
I don't mean to be blunt, but I don't think you're going to get what you want out of machine learning if you still need people to give you step-by-step instructions.
Jeez, I should have totally mentioned how to use Chrome to see the DDP data. You don't really need a separate package for it.
They need to pick up e-sports before Twitch and YouTube eat them alive.

This year The International, the annual Dota 2 "tournament of tournaments", will have a prize pool surpassing 15 million dollars. Last year's tournament reached 20 million unique viewers and peaked at 2 million concurrent.
You missed the important part of that statement, the "in their spare time".

Learning and practicing on the job is one thing, expecting it in the remaining 1/3 of your life is too much.
The is an edX course going that covers Machine Learning with Python, though it does require "...familiarity with basic machine learning concepts".

"All exercises will use PySpark, but previous experience with Spark or distributed computing is NOT required. "

https://www.edx.org/course/scalable-machine-learning-uc-berk...
Why can’t I hate the tool too? It’s always been a terrible resource hog with next to no usefulness.
This depends on your definition of "advances in physics".

"New physics", physics that we don't already have an explanation for, is becoming increasingly rare. Our definition of "new physics" is also expanding to including things that aren't fundamentally new, just small holes in our understanding of the equations.

The flip side of this is that while we already know the broad strokes, there is still a lot of work to be done in filling in the details. This work is just less glamorous and doesn't make the headlines.
Very good point. This has huge implications for conference realignment which seems to be driven by these contracts. If they can't make good on them what then?
Zendesk's deployment web interface: https://github.com/zendesk/samson
Depends to what extent. A cop who is being reckless to the extent of putting others at harm should be charged with such a crime. It is like when a cop goes to shoot a suspect without any concern as to who is behind the suspect. Cops are allowed to break laws, but only when they do not cause direct and significant harm to someone.

For example, taking drugs is legal for an undercover cop. Forcefully drugging some bystander is not.
Because your error messages might be less-than-useful. Not that Wasabi ever had an issue with that. Cough.
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"Top quality" is misleading since the bottleneck in podcast sound quality is recording hardware (e.g. microphones)
Click bait. It would be nice if HN were to filter out this sort of SPAM.
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Which is actually far less efficient.
>That's not so different than on x86 SSE/AVX. You'd execute both sides of the branch (dual issue) and blend / mask the results away you don't want.

What your talking about is how x86_64 processors can optimize away some branches. Which it does this with the cmov instruction. This has nothing to do with SSE/AVX. Its common to confuse this b/c intel says the branches are executed in parallel (and they often are), just in parallel as the OoO pipeline allows, which is actually quite a few.

Both sides of the branch are pre-computed, then the branch is computed. But its output is sent to a cmov, which just re-assigns a register, instead of jmp into a branch. This avoids pipeline flushes. cmov isn't prefect still costing ~10 cycles, but compared to the ~100 of a pipeline flush its still cheaper.

Provided the same operations are being done on both branches then SSE/AVX can be used. As both branches are just values, and that is literally what vector processors are good at. The chain will end with a cmov.
How come you have not told us more about the startup, type, traction, what it does, the vision, the posibilities, the dream?

Perhaps this is one of those time in life where you already deep down has made the choice and now you are looking for external verification?

Or could it be a case of "when in doubt, there is no doubt" or perhaps it is time to think if it is a "hell yes" or a no?
Something wrong with the text margins?
This. 95% of meetings could be replaced by sending a couple of emails, or just paying attention to the bug tracker/version control system.
I started a series of articles called "Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter" which might be what you're looking for:

- http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/

- http://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part2/
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Flat commenting structure allows you to reply to multiple comments at once. A flat structure also allows you to easily see the most recent posts.

Perhaps mailing lists are better overall, as the client software can sort messages hierarchically or chronologically.
That depends on how bad your internet connection varies. Skype compression artifacts can be brutal. But yes, you are correct in that the microphone makes a big difference as well as the room you record in.

edit: grammar
To answer your question more directly, perhaps a reasonable place to draw the line would be where all inherently capable individuals have a fair chance at gaining or fulfilling their (reasonable) dreams if they so choose. Government subsidies generally are supposed to exist with the goal of the greater society in mind. Hence, the line must allow persons from poorer backgrounds to get whatever education is necessary in that particular society to have the potential for upward mobility. A caring society would not let health, education, or other barriers of upbringing stop people from working their way up, should they possess the ambition and inherent potential. Naturally, of course, as the education (or knowledge) barrier to entry for employment grows ever higher, there will presumably be a greater proportion of society that is naturally unfit for work. Hopefully technology is able to keep up with the growing load of unemployed persons so that society as a whole can still progress.
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I agree, but that is not the issue.

The issue was how the case was decided.

He incremented a number in a URL, and that was his ultimate crime.

Do you honestly think it's right to send someone to jail for several years because they were messing around with a URL?

Of course he likely deserved to be charged with something, but not what he was charged with, and it hurts the rest of us when things like this set a bad precedent.
I'd disagree. New tools for biologists in the last 20 years have strongly accelerated the field.

The trouble in Physics is that the new tools look like the LHC.
That was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I mentioned it because it requires tireless devotion to get right, for ultimately not that much payoff.

I did it for five years and I don't think there was much benefit over writing down what I ate.
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No battery, no crap to go wrong.

Incidentally, mechanical diesels are also immune to EMP. All they need is fuel and air. Not true of newer electronically controlled ones, which is done mainly to reduce emissions.

The compression-ignition characteristic also means diesels have this rather spectacular failure mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine_runaway
It's really cool how they can arbitrarily turn the prop on and off like an electric aircraft, even reversing its direction. Might this be one of the earliest examples of thrust reversal for breaking? Also, could this be a more efficient arrangement than IC engine+prop governor?
As I understand it, from the perspective of an insurance company, rear-ending is basically always your fault no matter what the extenuating circumstances are. I couldn't stop on glare ice a number of years back (brakes basically did zero) and eventually kissed the bumper of a car I was following a good 100 ft. behind that had skidded and eventually came to a stop in the middle of the road. No damage but I mentioned this to a friend who worked at an insurance company and he said I'd have been considered at fault if a claim had been necessary.
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And 6.6 years in Japan, in 2011: http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2011/12/02/are-cars-losing... Americans do a lot of silly things but selling cars too quickly isn't one of them (relatively speaking, at least).
At last, across the weary faem,

Frae far, outlandish pairts I came.

On ilka side o' me I fand

Fresh tokens o' my native land.

Wi' whatna joy I hailed them a' -

The hilltaps standin' raw by raw,

The public house, the Hielan' birks,

And a' the bonny U.P. kirks!

But maistly thee, the bluid o' Scots,

Frae Maidenkirk to John o' Grots,

The king o' drinks, as I conceive it,

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> conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation

This is the worrisome part.

Say that Joe posts, in conversations where it's on topic, that one group of people are racially inferior. Now a bunch of people get on his case about it, flagging him all the time, downvoting his shit, and tracking where he posts his bullshit to counter everything he says with their own version of events, it sure seems like reddit isn't a "safe platform" to express his ideas.

INSTANT EDIT Y'know, I convinced myself I'm wrong, but I'm going to post this comment anyway since it helped my change my own mind so maybe it will inform someone else.

I think "safe platform" doesn't mean "welcoming platform." If Joe's specific ideas get downvoted and called out, okay.

However, if people are tracking down and downvoting Joe when he posts about other things or tracking him to different places or to his Facebook or to his employer, that's where the line is crossed. Then it's not just "unwelcome," it's "unsafe."

And the best part is that this works no matter what Joe was posting that got people's undies in a twist.
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