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I had more math from 8th-11th grades than most people with Bachelor's degrees. I had no math my senior year because there were only three of us qualified for the next level math course, so they made it a zero hour class. I have a serious medical condition that was not yet diagnosed. There was no way I was going to go to school an hour earlier and take an extra class when I already had more math than I needed by far to graduate high school. The result was that when I started college, I was given a placement test and they said I could repeat trig or I could take calculus. Having had no math the previous year, I ended up dropping out of calculus. Years later, I tested out of college algebra and ended up getting the highest grade in intro to stats, something above 100 after they curved the grade, while explaining it to all my classmates because I seem to have long had a knack for explaining math.

Which is a long way of saying that although I am nothing impressive for the HN crowd, I am no math dummy either. And I don't feel I understand the point being made. I say that to say this: If the desire is to explain something to people who aren't very serious math people to begin with, then it probably isn't succeeding.

It sounds to me like the desire is to explain something to "outsiders," which is the only reason I am commenting. Because I sure as hell have no fantasy that anyone cares whether or not I get it.
Sure. Heres a video about it. https://youtu.be/S2EkDLqszHs
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of pg_shard.)

pg_shard extends PostgreSQL without forking it, and it's worth a look: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_shard

pg_shard v2.0 will target linear scaling and higher HA through metadata replication. If you have any questions or feedback for the project, we'd be happy to hear from you.

If you're on AWS, you can already get linear scale and full HA. This post shows a proof-of-concept: https://goo.gl/3c2GYc
So make the $100 device and get governments to subsidise them, you could give a hundred million $50 subsidies for $5bn (or more like 7-8bn once you get the pork and ancillary costs out the way).

Access to the internet and even feature phones has radically altered lives around the world.
As far as I know, Soylent had a DIY variety. They encouraged hacking/reverse-engineering.

And you're right about Oracle. Google must respond to it timely, or they have accepted the argument.
Jason works for the Internet Archive, which has a very large (and cost-effective) book scanning operation, and makes books as accessible as possible
Does it have any built-in tweening support? I remember choosing Easel.js a couple of years back because of this.
Wouldn't having it in the same place every time make it more expensive/difficult for people to go see the games live? When the location changes every time, there will be a different set of people who go watch the games because it's nearby, but who possibly couldn't afford to (or wouldn't want to) travel to the other side of the world for them.
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Like I said, the big corporate rental houses can buy new inventory. Schools, churches, and nonprofit/educational theater cannot.
Ouch... Well whatever this is its how a startup goes under- Fast
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You claimed the metadata collection program was "written about at length" and viewed as "OK". This is evidence from the judicial branch of the US government it is not, in fact, viewed as okay.
A bad carpenter blames his tools.
I'm generally against radio communication because everyone has to share the wavelengths.

It would however be very cool and cost effective if you could "peer" over radio link instead of digging cable trenches through cities and people's properties.

With smart access points, they could cooperate to not interfere.
It does, and they're easy to use.
>It's tough going if your personality is wired to ruminate though.

This might be why Judaism has many rituals throughout shabbat. Longer prayers with more interactive singing. Three meals with family and friends and of course the most important part...an afternoon nap!
I'm working on 91 applications in it (Series of educational games/interactives/story books). It's going really well and we have more than half complete. There are some bugs, but any framework has that.
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I like the forced formatting: no more petty battles over what is "best".
Just lemme vent it out: shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. Oh shit.

Anyways, rationality now kicking in, and until proven otherwise, I'll assume it is not the real Satoshi.

Regardless, I think it's fair point this person raises. I'm all for lower fees. In my country, the current transaction fee costs 2 rupees, and I wouldn't buy a 5 rupee lollipop for 7, and raising the blocksize sounded like a quickfix, but it comes at a terrible cost. I can't imagine bitcoin being bitcoin if the blockchain become so hideously large to the point hobbyists couldn't download and run a full node on their pcs. Not to mention the obvious harmful precedence it sets if the lead devs bully their way into a community project (which is the defacto super cryptrocurrency)

IMHO the community should put resources into finding a sustainable solution.. lightning networks are a great hack, and i'm waiting on them with bated breath.

If you don't know about them, watch the video on this: https://lightning.network/
You are wrong. I'm not sure what your claim is now, but you were accusing me of suggesting "that behavior analysis is the only valid approach to any topic concerning human behavior." Nowhere in any of my posts did I make that claim. This makes your quote factually incorrect.

This discussion (which has now devolved into an argument) began when you stated that I was "advocating a return to strict behaviorism." This was also incorrect, so I clarified.

I honestly don't have a problem with you, but you have been kind of attacking me in this thread. When you told me that my tone was condescending, I apologized because I know that my words can have an affect on people that I didn't intend. At this point you are offending me by claiming I said things I didn't say and attempting to characterize me as someone who ignores all viewpoints except for BA. Yet, our entire conversation is recorded above and does not support your claims.
Soylent has responded http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Manufacturers/Soylent-hits-...
and has a prop 65 page up here:
https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/204197379-Californ...

But it doesn't much reassure me. It compares Soylent to a tuna fish sandwich meal, which due to heavy metal concerns you are not supposed to eat multiple times per week, much less 3x per day.

The source is likely rice protein. There was a big uproar about arsenic levels in rice a while back, and rice protein in large quantities is much more concentrated than eating plain rice. I typically avoid products that rely on rice and soy protein.
I'm not sure what your link is supposed to prove. It unequivocally states that Colorado makes it unlawful to collect rainwater. Indeed this linked website of the state of Colorado confirms that "you cannot collect rainwater in any other manner, such as storage in a cistern or tank, for later use."

http://water.state.co.us/DWRIPub/Documents/DWR_RainwaterFlye...

Anyway, there is nothing inherently "anti-government" about pointing out what is and is not proscribed by the law.
How many fonts is too many fonts?
I'm not sure I follow. Yes, absolutely, Whites are subject to economic problems too-- not just persons of color.

Are you questioning whether a racial divide exists at all in America, where non-whites are subject to unique limitations that Whites are not subject to? Or is your objection different?
The organization opposes GMO foods: http://www.asyousow.org/our-work/environmental-health/gmos/

So I value their opinion about as much as I do Dr. Jenny McCarthy's pioneering work on vaccinations.
Who pays the subsidies? The most obvious would be the target country, but I suspect that the reasons that make those the best recipients of the phone are the same reasons why the government wouldn't be able/willing to subsidize.
Cringely notes, as many others have noted, that there isn't a compelling reason to upgrade your PC. Without those sales the people who sell PCs have a hard time making a profit[1].

I have been in the middle of the microcomputer revolution from the start. As high school student when the Altair 8800 was released and an engineer during the second generation of IBM PC compatibles, and as an engineer and user during this third generation of utility computing. For most people who own a laptop today, and perhaps everyone who owns a laptop but does not own a desktop machine, what we call computers are just a tool for them. Cringely falls into that category, he writes about computers and so has one, but he hasn't bothered to get anything since 2010 to replace it because, and this is the key here, things that are popular as "computers" today (Raspberry Pi's Arduinos and what not) are not all that useful as "writing tools" relative to what his 2010 Macbook provides.

So generation 4, computers eat the rest of the workbench, is where the action is today. Software defined radio has replaced a crap ton of parts with a single platform. People build timers and pre-amps and automatic sprinkler systems out of chips with ridiculously over powered CPUs for what they are being asked to do. So we see this interesting fork with "general purpose" computing being a server somewhere on the other side of a network, "utility computing" being a dedicated UX device (Chromebook as an example), and "embedded computing" where the computer is a bolt on to some other function. But the old "PC" business that powered Comdex in the 90's and early naughts? That is dead dead dead.

[1] So people like Apple sell a bunch of things which are computer tech in other form, phones, media players, tablets.
Perhaps I should abandon AWS.
What is your definition of irony? The definition from the OED I gave above?
class-dump[0] is handy too.

>This is the same information provided by using ‘otool -ov’, but presented as normal Objective-C declarations, so it is much more compact and readable.

[0] https://github.com/nygard/class-dump
His premise is sound though. If you force a belief on someone without nurturing an appreciation and understanding of why they are supposed to be doing it...the moment they are free of your control they will stop doing it.

He atleast explains why you shouldnt force it...(because it makes the day no fun.)

Really interesting along his point is that in Jewish Law, if someone violates the Shabbat rules, while technically it is a sin punishable by death, he is considered innocent, like a child who doesnt know better...because if they truly understood and appreciated the value of the day, it would be impossible not to observe it.
"If you were investigating a crime, you're in law enforcement." False.

Defense attorneys and their investigators also investigate crimes. This realization shows why the broadening the warrant requirement can have perverse outcomes.

Say you are defending a man accused of rape due to lack of consent. Let's also say that this is a false accusation that can be proven false because the accuser uploaded a video of the events which show consent to her Facebook account. Let's further say that the defense really wants access to this video. If a warrant is required, the defense can NEVER get it because there is no way under the law the defense can get a warrant (unlike a subpoena or court order).

Think about that for a minute. Everything that requires a warrant cannot be accessed by the defense, regardless of what is at stake (which is always life and liberty). Period.

PS: I'm not suggesting rape accusations are usually false. Just an example to illustrate the downside of a broad warrant requirement from someone who defends accused people.
I liked CyanogenMod more when they were focused on supporting almost all devices and not on adding their own (usually buggy) code on top of AOSP...
My post contains some evidence.
Can people suggest companies that better balance the factors that I've seen mentioned in this thread:

- Provide good pay/benefits

- Provide a positive culture for employees

- Employees are encouraged to have a life outside work

- Are run in such a way that good decisions are made and the company seems headed for continued success

- Look good on your resume
The major complaint against AES is that it is very difficult to implement in a data-independent way without hardware support. Bernstein has done some research on this (http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf), and a major theme of his research has been designing systems that are friendly to implementers.

I have no idea if that is what this specific dig ("they already master the art of snake oil") pertains to.
Unless you are studying the meaning of meaning, in which case the goal is the (second) meaning. (i.e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-theoretic_semantics )
I may be wrong though.
Evidently they pay well enough to hire the talent they need.
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OK, does your private definition of "desert" include a county that averages 20" of rainfall per year and is regularly flooded? Growing rice in arid flood plains has been practiced for a very long time.

If you think that Glenn, Butte, and Tehama counties are deserts I strongly urge you to visit them, especially in the early spring. There's just water everywhere.
I could possibly get you an example of both if you were interested. Most of the people using Phaser are using Tyepscript and doing multi-module management with that. I use Browserify (and bring in Phaser separately).

If you have a state that loads levels, you change the level targets and restart the state so that the preload runs again and gets the new resources. Or you can load everything up front and approach multiple levels that way.
The world is a big enough place to say f-you to companies like this and live your life well. At the end of the day work is work. Doesn't matter what you actually do in the long run.
CM have never focused on supporting almost all devices, its always been up to individual device maintainers to provide support for non-Nexus and CM core-dev-owned devices.
But those California Safe Harbor limits are not normal safety limits. Those safe harbour limits are when you need to put a sticker saying "contains chemicals known by the state of california to cause cancer" (or birth defects).

This law suit is not about supplying a product with dangerous levels of lead, (because if it had dangerous levels of lead the regulators would have intervened and recalled all stocks and yu wouldn't still be able to buy it) but of supplying a product that contains some lead and not putting a warning sticker on the product.
I dunno, man. I think you deserved the wall of text.
I'm not making a philosophical statement. I'm saying if you cross this line, our ability to live peacefully together is going to end.
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The soylent forums have discussed this quite a lot in the past and people who seem to know what they're talking about have come to the conclusion that the levels are both nothing to worry about and also significantly under a lot of traditional food. http://discourse.soylent.com/t/question-about-proposition-65...

Also, As You Sow appears to be a woo-peddler, so I would be less than inclined to take their word without independent confirmation.

Edit: And their CEO doesn't seem to be taking their complaint terribly seriously either - he issued the following statement recently.

"Andrew here. Most of what I was trying to do is get a conversation going around food safety, and it worked. I smile at every in depth analysis on lead or cadmium that I triggered. Oh no! You just proved me wrong and educated all the readers of your comment, as well as learned more yourself."
It seems to make common-sense from life experience that fear of imminent death and positive, unburdened, playful states of mind are both highly motivating in different ways. And to some degree, I think struggling with limited resources is often a contributing motivator that is often extinguished with over-resourced situations. This is of course partially orthogonal to individual personality, work style and other motivations. For me, getting away from most stimuli and not having a particular goal or timeframe leads to the most productive idea generation state; that is, when one lets their mind wander and play with ideas. Other people go to places like bric-à-brac stores, flip through catalogues, surf the web or seek more stimuli for inspiration.
The linked presentation slides give a bit better explanation IMO: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hl4KapfAENAOf4gv-pSn...

Too bad there aren’t more general docs for the library.

I still don’t quite understand the benefit of using a single number instead of a pair of numbers for describing a cell in a two-dimensional space. Seems like a pair of 32-bit fixed point numbers would be just as descriptive as a single double-precision float along the hilbert curve.

The way they project the sphere onto a cube also leads to cell shapes that aren’t especially relevant to typical human purposes, whereas there are many shapes on a map which align with the latitude/longitude grid.
Looking at what's on Amazon, this doesn't seem like an expensive problem to resolve.

Most people already have all they need for a wifi microphones in their pockets, albeit probably not of the same quality as professional systems.

The unfortunate thing is that their is no mechanism for selling the right to use this spectrum for all those who've made investments in such devices. It may be worth millions to discontinue their use of it and it may only be worth thousands to existing users, but no way for high value potential users to compensate the current users.

Of course, if spectrum were treated like property or you had to pay to rent what you use, everybody could buy or rent what they need.
Math look static until you reach college and leave the mainstream number + operations fed in previous school stages.
Most people will never encounter the need for higher abstractions.
using a dummy proxy is another approach to this problem. This is how Weblock works, which I'm pretty happy with. It seems to have almost no overhead on the device, though it only works for wifi connections.
Without individual action, a great many things would not exist.

Some would say the point of having a society is to have rules that allow us to peacefully co-exist and trade with other. Its not to allow some to take advantage of others.
Also, a small sum of a billion dollars may be enough to convince a thousand residents of an island to leave.
Ask HN: Who/what companies are working on artificial general intelligence?
I recognize that Google/Alphabet is seen as one of the largest investors/acquirers of technology related to machine learning and is actively researching artificial general intelligence.

I always thought that the Human Brain Project would yield some kind of deeper understanding of how consciousness manifests in humans and I've always had my own thoughts of how memory and cognition might work based on my computer science background, but what is the avenue to pursue if you want to work on potentially building thinking machines?
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There are plenty of android phones available for around $50 now. No need to subsidize. For example: http://www.amazon.com/BLU-S410a-Unlocked-Smartphone-Touchscr...
Working with it professionally, I agree. You pass the game object everywhere, no matter what. The variation if factory methods is also frustrating. It's ridiculous trying to reference how to create things when all the examples use game.add.<whatever> and sometimes you want to construct them separate and use .add.existing. But the standalone constructors will take different sets of arguments (including the game object).
Shouldn't P(increase | happy) = P(increase) P(happy | increase) / P(increase) be
P(increase | happy) = P(increase) P(happy | increase) / P(happy)?

Also I am not getting why he cannot simply compute 950/1000 = 95%? How does Bayes rule help us in his example? What am I missing?
The fact that this wall of text is being greyed is a striking anti-intelligence mindset, and I'm shocked to see it coming to HN, frankly. This man was accused of being a bot for speaking to Ms. Rowan at a level she could address, and the replies are being greyed for pointing out rudeness.
The heart is a muscle that needs rest, as well.
You just spout a bunch of rhetoric and nothing substantial. All of your comments here are the same. You shill for the u.s. the government.

Swiss intelligence is not idle. They were the group that leaked the report on the cia rendition programs, yet another illegal act by the u.s. intelligence community, but in this case by the CIA and not the NSA.

U.S. intelligence has not made an effort to uphold the law. How could you even say that? They have only worked within the law retroactively - they've had to change the law retroactively to make what the NSA has been doing not illegal.
> The truth is far simpler. Mathematicians are solving puzzles, and some of those puzzles don't come from the real world at all, and can't be motivated in that way.

The real question the "outsiders" are asking are not because they deeply care why you (the "pure" mathematicians) spend your time any particular way. The real question behind the question is why should the larger society support this endeavor (by way of research grants, universities etc.. things which are mostly funded out of public funds at large). And it's not unique for mathematicians either.... all academics have to face that question at some point.
Sure. I'm switching this conversation to email though, using the gmail account in your profile. Short version is, I trained it on the RDKit-generated SMILES strings from ChEMBL-20. Three of the strings look like this:

CC(C)=CCC/C(C)=C/C=C/C(=O)N1CCCC1
CC(=O)NC(C(=O)N1CCSCC1)[C@H]1CC(C(=O)O)C[C@@H]1N=C(N)N
O=C(CC(c1ccc(F)cc1)(c1ccc(F)cc1)c1ccc(F)cc1)N1C[C@H](O)C[C@H]1C(=O)N1CCC[C@@H]1C(=O)NC[C@@H]1CCCNC1

On the raw data set (on record per line), wc reports:

1455763 1455763 82882385

while | gzip -c | wc -c reports 18773892.
I'm not searching for excuses. I'm a great saver and took several years off to work on apps and startups and a couple of book ideas.

I'm very frugal. My last car lasted 15 years.

Perhaps you'd be better off responding to what someone says instead of inventing imaginary motives.
Shame on you for calling this man a Bot. You have created much controversy, and his original reply was buried/discredited as a result. Ideas were not heard.

Flagged post accordingly.
If Jews still count as a minority we can bold Facebook and Salesforce from that list, and add Google and Amazon.
When most people think of the olympic games, they don't think about the IOC. They could care less about the IOC. They think about athletes, and sports, and national rivalries.

Most people would not give one fat hoot if the whole IOC got left in the dust to whither and die, while a new organization got set up to host similar events in one location.
I sure hope they contacted soylent prior to publicizing. It casts pretty bad assertions despite little or no apparent corroboration.
It helps that carriers now have immunity so they can do whatever the NSA asks of them without fear of any repercussions (another than stories like this one, but meh, everyone is going to think "it's not going to happen to us" at the time of doing the deed).
You don't like what they think about GMO foods. OK. And that relates to lab-tested lead and cadmium levels...hhhhhow?
And shame on you for saying (in an edit, no less) that this man is not a bot, but merely a troll. Address his original post, or comment on something you are qualified on.

Flagged post accordingly.