skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my other post; I actually think that a Monty Hall comparison argues in favor of an unbiased 1:2 guess, because of how the terms of the two problems differ.

In the SB question, your odds of being asked the question are 1:1. You just don't know how many times you'll be asked. You didn't know the night before (and neither did the researchers), and you still don't know, even though the researchers now do.

In the MH game, you give the host some new information when you make your initial choice. He already knew what door not to open, but now he knows what door he must open, and the rules require him to communicate that to you. That's when you receive the new information (as you point out with the example of your mom walking into the room).

In the SB problem, you don't get any new information before the question is asked, including whether or not you're going to be put back to sleep. So the only answer you can rationally give is 1:2.

If the researchers used a d20 instead of a coin to determine how many times to wake you up, you could safely guess that any given awakening wasn't your first or your last. But you still can't give any answer about the number on the die, other than a random guess from 1-20. You need to store some information for later recall, and they're not letting you do that.
OK, so I think we're basically in agreement then :-)
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>> So if you have a felony conviction, or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude — e.g., petty theft or making a false statement

Ironically, these are just the qualities that make you most suited to be a municipal politician.
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On first use, i guess i have checked these parts one way or another. To assume things work the way you expect them might be the reason the bug was present in VS (if it ever actually was).
I've thought about a structure like this for a long time. And I independently came up with most of the same ideas as they did. One additional thing I've also thought would be cool would be to have the implementation of a liquid democracy system itself under control by this same system. So you could use it to vote on pull requests and bug fixes and other things like that. I think this step would be necessary for real government because the code that was responsible for this system would in effect be part of the laws of the country.
You can absolutely work around that:

- Require an explicit initial value to be provided.

- Or require that a collection/iterator/generator of values be provided (and fail if it's not large enough).

- Or have a built-in ArrayBuilder<T> type that accumulates all the needed values before allowing you to retrieve the array.

- Or make your language dependently typed, and change the signature of Array.get to take both an index and a proof that said index has been initialized.
The majority of the devices on my LAN are wired and -even though this might not apply to OnHub users[0]-, my wireless APs are also attached to a switch. So, what it means for my LAN when my router reboots is that the LAN loses Internet access [1] for about a minute.

[0] I guess we don't know how sophisticated the link handling is in the OnHub. It might be able to keep the AP active and pass traffic through it (and its LAN port) while restarting the OS and do similar things while restarting the AP. The marketing copy does make it sound like you'll get near-constant connectivity, no matter what the software on the thing is doing, and I have seen (ages ago) NICs that would do basic packet handling even if the machine they were attached to was powered down.

[1] And -I think- all uPnP-initiated port forwards.
The James Webb (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) is going to be launched in 2018. At 6.5m, it's in the same class as the 8.4m LSST.
I tried just that: "your work is simply not engendering confidence. If I were working for a sewerage works I'd recommend you for promotion, since what you are producing is more of the proverbial. By Friday things will have improved one way or another. I am sure you understand what I mean." The particular things that Watson saw in this just aren't what I see in it.
That is why this system has vote delegation. You can delegate an issue to someone else ...and then they in turn can delegate it to someone who knows more than them
Ironic to note that Wasp.inspector shows NASDAQ is making 80+ calls to various servers, mostly ad-related servers like AdBlade, DoubleClick, Rubicon, Disqus, Quantcast, etc.

I wonder how effective this will be against 1st party tracking. Ad/analytics companies are increasingly moving to this way of doing things due to blocking technology.

As a digital media guy I am obviously not thrilled that my ability to see whether something converted will get murkier, but I'll be the first to say that publishers have really shot themselves in the foot by adding the level of bloat they have to the point of making certain sites unusable on older mobile devices.
What do you mean by "home business account"?
> More people own homes

Source? My guess would be that in fact, more people are homeless, jobless, living on food stamps and/or without health insurance.
So is there an application that Google uses internally for this that others could check out? Wasn't sure if it was through Google+ or if it was a 20% project built independently/outside of Google+.
> So, how do you propose to handle version control of your exact production configuration?

Version control is perfectly acceptable for that, but the key point is that access keys aren’t part of your production configuration. I personally don’t allow my team to have long-lived AWS access keys that have access to production. Production is only changed via an assumed role requiring MFA or an IAM instance role.

If this kind of setup is too complex to create on your own, solutions like Vault (https://vaultproject.io) can make it much easier to get right.
Why would anyone support this?

If you're in the left and believe in equality, it's disgusting.

If you're in the right an believe in freedom, it's disgusting.
> I don't think this would work in a country. In my opinion, democracy only makes sense when the state of the entire set of decisions can be held by every voter's mind. [...] Republics work well because they break up the required duties among the people, so the amount of work required to vote is decreased.

Delegation in liquid democracy solves this problem in much the same way that representation in representative democracy does. "Republic" is really neither here nor there: a Republic can, like the US, be a representative democracy or it can, be an autocratic dictatorship or just about anything else, so long as its not a monarchy. (Conversely, a constitutional monarchy can be a representative democracy in substantive form without being a democracy, e.g., as in the UK.)
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A home with a Tesla charging station sells for $9.9M
To me the Id issue isn't the biggest hurdle at all. My government (Canada ) already has a way of verifying my information when I want to access my tax return or something like that. It mails me an access code to the address that they have on file for me and that plus the pass word i enter at account creation gives me access to the system
Scientifically speaking a atom is a atom. If you get so many atoms of the same type in your body it isn't batty it is just chemistry. https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/car...

Here is a anti-sugar post presenting the idea that 2 slices of bread has a HUGE impact on the body similar to soda.
http://www.vanadia.com/stopbeingsweet/comments/soda-wheat-br...
Cert removal does not seem to work on El Capitan. Maybe because of rootless?
> I don't know if it's the same with Guix but in NixOS it's just a matter of running `bundix` and all the Gemfile.lock dependencies are converted to a nix expression.

I'm glad to hear that the infrastructure is working for you. There are, admittedly, some kinks on master, though I have a PR to make things much, much more robust:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/8612

Unfortunately, while Bundler is generally a great, useful piece of software, there are aspects of its design that make it very difficult - borderline antithetical - to cooperate with packaging; if you look at the commit message in the above PR, you can see a thorough description of the challenges.

I have an open PR for Bundler to try to make things a bit more amenable, and recently got the thumbs up with respect to the general idea:

https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/3775

Unfortunately, most Ruby deployments are quite imperative in nature - just push to a git repository, bundle install, and then bundle exec (that's leaving out all of the subtle prereqs: `apt-get install ...`, etc), as with Capistrano. There doesn't appear to be as much of a culture around packaging (yet), and so there hasn't been a demand for the tools to meet those needs.

I hope that we can push through those problems and make it trivial for people to enjoy the ease/dependability/resiliency of package management, as many people have no idea what they're missing out on.
You are not seriously going to try and claim that setting up a business is an easy thing to do in the uk. Between the VAT and accounting rules, and conforming to the government and council ordinances, it may as well be licensed. And in many cases is, transport, food, retail, and many other business types also have licence requirements ontop of the mountain of paperwork.
I believe that Xen SMP hang was fixed in 5.8:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.cvs/143877
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I was with the article until the part about null terminators on strings. Null terminators are nothing like a NULL reference. We could just as easily have dollar-sign-terminated strings and no one would be conflating that idea with the concept of NULL.

Also, NULL pointers are the least problematic type of pointer if you ask me. If a pointer is NULL it is not likely a security problem, and certainly not on its own. Accidentally using a NULL pointer will cause a crash, but accidentally using any other pointer could cause unlimited damage.
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If you see Google as an adversary, then this is a great position to take.
You are not being asked the probability of a coin flip. You are a being asked the probability of a coin flip given that it woke you up. Simple Bayesian statistics. You don't know which of the three scenarios your in (Heads: 1st wake up, Tails: 1st Wake up or Tails: 2nd wake up). Given that there are three possible scenarios you are in, when finding myself in a scenario, I would give each scenario equal weight.

There's my devil's advocate view. I can see what you're saying though.

Edit: Additionally, even though the awakenings are not in the same 'stream of consciousness' if one tails waking happen, they both happen. They are linked even if you're trying to view them in isolation.
Sandstorm actually self-containerizes. The installer unpacks a bundle under /opt/sandstorm which, when executed, runs itself in a container (Linux namespace) and mostly avoids interacting with the rest of the system. It also (with your permission) auto-updates itself within 24 hours of any release with near-zero downtime.

I know that Docker-izing it could be more comfortable for people who are already familiar with launching Docker images, and similarly Debian packages would be more comfortable to long-time Debian users, etc. But, these other distribution mechanisms would have significant technical disadvantages compared to what we have (and what we are building), while adding some significant maintenance cost for us. So we've decided not to pursue them for now. That said, it might make more sense when we have a "stable release".

Regarding Synology, they actually sent us a test unit that we plan to play with at some point... so much to do, so little time.
WA State requires a license also for this privilege.

When Do You Need a License?

Your gross income is $12,000 per year or more.
Your business is required to collect sales tax.
Your business is required to pay taxes or fees to the Department of Revenue.
You are a buyer or processor of specialty wood products.

If you answer yes to any of the above statements, then you need to register with
the DOR. If you’re a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability
partnership, a limited partnership, or one of the offshoots of these three
organizational structures, you need to register with Washington’s Secretary of
State Office prior to filing a Business License Application.

http://business.wa.gov/are-you-starting-business#top
I'm guessing you have a lot of flexibility with how you tackle things in your current role, as well as more control over your work/life balance. Consider how those would change by taking a new role. More money might solve some problems currently, but it quite likely may come at the cost of far less free time.

If you ever want to get your own stuff off the ground (and it sounds like you are equipped to attempt that), and your current pay is workable, it might be good to focus your free time on these new endeavors vs. taking the higher paying job and not having the free time to explore that.

Beyond that, if you still feel passionate about your current company, start digging into why you don't feel there is growth potential. Is it a management issue? Is the company itself stalled? Is it that the founders are greedy and don't want to pay you more? Getting at the root of that might add some clarity to your decision-making process and priorities.
> If you're in the left and believe in equality, it's disgusting.

While many on the left believe that the criminal justice system has structural inequities that need to be addressed, few on the left would adhere to the position that past conviction of a crime is categorically unacceptable basis for discrimination (though they might agree that particular instances of it exceed what is warranted.)

So, I don't think this works as a blanket statement.

> If you're in the right an believe in freedom, it's disgusting.

Most on the right would not, IME, support the position that freedom cannot be restricted based on past conviction of a crime. So I don't think this works as a blanket statement either.
First of all, thank you for responding, I expected that no one would. Second of all, you point out that "no false negatives" is not always realistic. Fair enough. That means that 4.8% need not be the right answer. But at least it's clear how I got it. I still have no clue how on earth they got 29%, rather than 28% or 31%. Am I missing something?
Most countries don't allow foreign organizations to lobby, and don't allow domestic lobbying groups to receive foreign money. There are many existing decentralized political action campaigns which sound similar to what you want to do, but they sometimes have trouble moving money across borders.
Wow, I finally have a word to describe my mental experience. To others, I've described the vividness of my memory as like a wireframe. I can feel spatial relationships but I don't see them like a picture in my head. There are occasions that I can see color in my minds eye, but it's mostly greyscale.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/images/s...

Wow, is it just me, or is that design just needlessly complicated. I'm trying very hard to think of a good reason why they did that, but really can't. Anyone?
I like your original title better ("Amherst County (VA) law: felons may neither self-employ nor be employed"). HN has a blanket policy that they will change any submission title to match the title of the submitted URL as closely as possible, except when they'd rather not. I wish they'd quit doing that and limit themselves to misleading/inflammatory/clickbait titles.

Getting the original submission title is one of my favorite things about having my own HN reader.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104949
And what's really crazy we force sex offenders (which includes the people who got caught peeing in a public place) to announce themselves, not allow them to live within X feet of schools, and there's a public database of them.

But we don't do the same with kidnappers or murderers.

How insane is that?
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I used Sage in the math department at Bard College with Prof. Greg Landweber. Honestly it felt a little half baked but when it was good, it was amazing (and my impression was that it was completely free, no option to pay). My armchair critique:

- The concept/vision are great and you could be a serious competitor to Mathematica if you got a product person on board. It has all the power of mathematica, a more popular programming language (python), and a good user-acquisition strategy (professors are already using it for college courses... you just need to get the students to take it with them when they leave the course).

- You need a product person / designer because there are serious UX gaps and the feature-set feels really scattered. For instance, the fact that I had no idea you could pay is a big red flag.

- Figure out what your goal is. Are you making Mathematica or Linux? My guess is it's more towards the former and you should apply to YC.

Edit: Thanks for making Sage, BTW!
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090245
OpenBSD/sun4v already has some support for virtualisation via logical domains. See: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2011-kettenis.pdf and the ldomctl manpage here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/...
For 1-9, tails being the correct guess 90% of the time still makes sense to me.

If you run the experiment twice, typically the first time you get heads, you are woken once, and so heads is correct answer once, the second time you get tails, but you are woken 9 times, so tails is the correct answer 9 times.

Even from the frame of reference of the experimenter, heads and tails are equally likely, but it if you guess heads incorrectly, you will be wrong 9 times, or 9 times as wrong ;).

Basically it depends on what you consider to be a "trial" of the experiment, if a coin toss is one trial, the wakings are a red herring, the probability is the same as the coin toss. If one trial is one waking, 90% of wakings are going to be tails.
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The Newton skipped SQL but had an object database with queries.
Let me try to explain why this is the wrong answer.

Let's assume there are 100 people undergoing this experiment. Half of them will flip heads, half tails. The half that flip heads will be woken up a total of 50 times. The half that flip tails will be woken up a total of 100 times.

So, we have a total of 150 wake-ups. 100 of those came from tails, and 50 from heads. So, if you're woken up and have no prior knowledge, you have a 100/150 = 2/3 chance that you flipped tails, and a 50/150 = 1/3 chance that you flipped heads.

Put another way, when you are woken up, it could be one of three cases:

-- Awakened on the only time for heads
-- Awakened on the first time for tails
-- Awakened on the second time for tails

Two of those cases correspond to tails, one to heads. So, it's twice as likely that you are being awakened due to a tails flip.
For my needs, they're performance-identical (I only have 50/10 Business internet from Comcast), and well, I wanted to try out the ERX just to see how it compared. So much feature! So tiny box!

So far so good, and I have three OpenVPN tunnels nailed up 24/7 to various company locations.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem A person's age and politics have nothing to do with a technical argument.
To quote the article:

> This is a bit different than the other examples, as there are no pointers or references. But the idea of a value that is not a value is still present, in the form of a char that is not a char.

It has nothing to do with the similarity in name (NULL / NUL). As you said, it could be terminated with $. The similarity is that they are both sentinel values. NULL is a sentinel for types; NUL is a sentinel for char arrays.

In both cases, they create exceptional and non-composable situations.

Good explanation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3j4pyd/the_wor...
Hi, someone who has lost 2 family members and a close friend to cancer here. Not a medical person so I won't touch on that other than to say be aware that whole brain radiation brings on dementia. They typically won't use it unless it is use it or you die and they count on the idea that if they are using it means that the patient doesn't have long. At least that's what I've been told by a friend who's wife has brain cancer.

My advice is to take full advantage of every minute you have with your relative. The doctors are frequently upbeat and paint a picture that is not realistic (my dad thought he had another 3 years, he was gone in 6 months. My mother in law thought she was going back to work, she was gone in 2 months. The doctors should have been more realistic).

One of my great regrets is not pushing to get all my mother in law's friends gathered for a party. She insisted that she didn't want to do it "until she was better". She was "fine", bed ridden, but alert, mostly not in pain, we could have had a party. What I should have said was "That's cool, we'll have another one. Let's do two, I'll set it up". Instead I folded and I regret it too this day, I'm a weird dude, I actually loved my mother in law, she was a cool lady.

tl;dr: go see your relative NOW. Hang out, drink some wine, tell some stories, or just hold each other.
Cali is too far for me, thanks for the offer though :) Hope to find people like you in the south east!
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What kind of uplink/downlink bandwidth do you have/need?

As the other poster said, the ERX doesn't have hardware offloading (UBNT beta forums says they're working on it), but for my use case, there's no difference in performance between the two so the cheaper ($50 vs $99) ERX is fine.

ERL has the advantage of the onboard flash being a USB flash drive plugged internally and a dedicated serial console port; ERX is permanent onboard flash and no serial console unless you open it up and find the points on the board.
True. We're still broadcasting most of our internet traffic in the clear for fuck's sake.
I suppose society gets restless if it doesn't have some class of people it can very publicly brand, so if needed it makes one up semi-arbitrarily. Modern day scarlet letter.
I wonder if whether or not this is the right question. What if we asked the question "Do we want to commit to being able to explore the solar system?" and if we do, what infrastructure could we build in orbit and/or on the moon that would support that activity?

The current one mission - one budget (I know it isn't quite that bad, but it seems close to that) is not sustainable. I'd love to see us build on orbit refueling depots, that would let us launch to LEO at any time, then refuel, and have plenty of gas to get to where ever we want to go. What's more we send automated fuel depots into orbits around remote planets and they let you top up once you get there. Does that allow us to use the same hardware to do several explorations?

Imagine building a space tug that would sit in orbit until you want to send a rover to Ceres to check it out, you launch a rover and its 'landing system' (be it airbags, a rocket crane, or just thruster packs) on a reusable Falcon 9 for basically the price of gas to get the F9 to LEO. It then rendevous with the tug, which fills up with fuel and adds the delta-V to put you into an intercept with the target. Once there the lander/crawler is dropped off, the tug refills at the local fuel depot, and boosts back to Earth.

Large initial investment to put infrastructure off planet, but then that infrastructure enables exploration at a much lower marginal cost.
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