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   Watch Live: Lee Sedol vs. Google DeepMind Final Game(youtube.com)

   7 points by kelseydh 11y ago|0 comments
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   Personally I get more annoyed when reporters cover stories about "cyber attacks" but don't actually go into the details of what's going on -- because a DDoS is a completely different story from a SQL Injection.
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   But tracking is more pernicious than this. I hope you realize that major political parties now buy this data and use it to target their campaign pitches to people in close elections. Do you buy diapers? You're probably interested in
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   Warrants are really only a defence against mass, dragnet style surveillance since with enough will, anybody can become subject of a warrant if those who are investigating them have enough will to get one.
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   I think you make a good point. There is an argument to be made against ad blocking, but it can't be made honestly if they are also requiring tracking technology to also be turned on.
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   If you're really this worried then you should probably be spoofing your request headers and hiding your IP behind a VPN, because those will reveal a lot more about you than what most 1st party trackers will.
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   That reminds me a lot of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I Would be great to make one similar combining the two concepts in regards to sharing phone data.
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   Back in the 90's when everybody installed those wacky click counters on their page, it all seemed so innocent...
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   by kelseydh 11y ago

   I agree, I quite like it as a method as it keeps its congruence with .include? as an opposite of .in? (what .in? does should have been what .include? did from the get go). Perhaps another way of doing this is calling the method .within?
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Very true. And even in long, professional play its not uncommon to see GM's play highly tactical, but unsound openings if they think the other player doesn't know how to beat it. E.g. I saw Nakamura play the Kings Gambit once ag
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    You're right that material is the correct term. I was trying to use language appropriate for someone thinking about programming a chess machine. I perhaps resorted to hyperbole in my original description for the sack of emphasis. You
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    I wonder if there could be a way to abstract this for testing gem version upgrades.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    There's a good story in Ben Horowitz book the "Hard Thing About Hard Things" that angered me about how blatant good school vs weak school bias appears to exist within the startup world. But it has good advice on the need to o
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    You think that's what caused it?
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    What caused GitHub's downtime yesterday?

    7 points by kelseydh 11y ago|2 comments
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Very interesting. Do you think ipfs could be used to mimic a server to host a static website that could be loaded by a browser?
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Agreed. If I had to speculate at a high level why the Sicilian opening is so popular for black in professional play, it would be ultimately because the Sicilian allows black to obfuscate white's board symmetry, which creates opportunit
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Well almost every computer playing chess algorithm uses piece counts to evaluate the quality of chess positions, because barring an amazing tactical combination (which can usually be computationally eliminated past 5 moves) or a crushing po
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    I play competitive chess, and I assure you most moves are made because of players proving in their minds that a move is objectively good. The reasons for why the player may think the move is objectively good can vary, but they are almost al
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Go look at a project like Rails where you can tell they need it.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    That sounds very cool. I was just pointing out how divorced these ideas still are from the way we actually program and implement things on the web. In an ideal world, a link to a source code repository (or a link to anything for that matte
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    That's not how it works. Happy consumers leads to happy enterprise users. They are one and the same.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Their source code pointing to Github is symbolic of exactly how this problem hasn't been solved yet.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    The bigger problem here is the number of build packs only relying on Github as a source of truth. We need to find an abstraction to distribute storage so that there is no single point of failure.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    The best approach to this was shown recently by Slack, where they had a huge team of people on social media while their engineers figured out the outage.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    I heavily rely on Github # tags to document my codebase. Failures like this make me wonder if there is any way to decouple my codebase from Github while preserving all the comments and issues on commits I've built up.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Weird, Github is down, but I was able to pull new code not existing on my local repo from Github successfully...
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Github's security team should clarify what's going on.
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Well that's the last time I ever write a deployment that assumes Github is working...
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    by kelseydh 11y ago

    Good time to buy.