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"The sum of the series 1+2+3+4+5+6... = -1/12" is patently false, without a previous assertion that we have assumed the Cesàro sum of a series is equal to the series.

Even mathematicians working with Cesàro sums surround such statements with "this holds only if we interpret the infinite sum defining Z to be the Cesàro sum..." [0]

Precisely none of the times I've heard the "1+2+3+4...=-1/12" bullshit has the person stating it prefaced their statement with "this holds only if we interpret the infinite sum defining Z to be the Cesàro sum..."

If you say that "1+2+3+4...=-1/12" without stating your prior assumptions, you suddenly allow anyone to make any assumption whatsoever, no matter how obscure it is. In your imaginary world, someone could walk into a store and claim that "this 95 cent pack of gum is free" because they just made the unstated assumption that all non-integers do not exist, and seconds later they could return it for a full refund of $0.95 after making the unstated assumption that in fact the rational numbers do exist. Numbers, and in fact the entire system of mathematics fail to work at all once you allow arbitrary, unstated assumptions no matter their obscurity. And in fact, the assumption that non-integer numbers do not exist is made far, far more frequently than the assumption that the infinite sum defining the sequence is the Cesàro sum.

The only difference is that assuming the non-integer numbers do not exist is a defensible assumption in many, many scenarios... but Cesàro summations are only invoked about twelve times a year, in pure math or advanced physics papers.

[0] Madras, Neal. "A Note on Diffusion State Distance." arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07315 (2015).
Couldn't have said it better myself!! +1
> it has absolutely nothing to do at all with Americans dying

I think it does, it's just that people are simply not aware of the numbers.
Important: the author comments in that thread and claims it's satire. I think it's in poor taste, but I'm relieved to know this isn't truly intended to be used.
They don't have traction amongst normal humans.
Give me feedback for Local Social Network pls
Dog-Friendly Workplaces Make Life Better
I will give it him it is an idea, I would need MUCH more proof of this being operable before calling it a good idea. Hopefully it will generate more discussion about golden keys/backdoors so that gov will understand the difference.
Yeah per packet processing at 40Gbps and higher is problematic on regular kernels, OS stack and CPUs. A lot of really can be cache hits -- hundreds of nanoseconds. Article mentions that too:

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To put these numbers in context, acquiring a single uncontested lock on today's systems takes approximately 20ns, while a non-blocking cache invalidation can cost up to 100ns, only 25x less than an I/O operation.
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It also depends if workload is throughput sensitive or latency sensitive. If it is latency, can do things like tie processes and interrupts to cores, isolate those cores, etc. For throughput can processes more than one packet at a time perhaps.

Then there is dpdk and even unikernels.

> CPU has responsibilities beyond simply servicing a device—at the very least, it must process a request and act as either a source or a sink for the data linked to it. In the case of data parallel frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark,7,17 the CPU

That's why you get more CPUs and explicitly isolate them if you can. But now depending on how they share data with other CPUs there will be invalidated cache lines so will pay that way as well.

In general if you run on RHEL / CentOS ( a lot banks, military and enterprise deployments do ), there is this helpful guide as an overview:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...
Facebook has given some developers access to an unannounced Chat SDK
Not to mention proprietary.
Aaaand... they don't accept my credit card. I swear to god, I see this over and over again: services becoming available in my country (in Europe), but refusing credit cards that are pretty popular in Europe (like Maestro and Visa Electron).
Yeah, I meant mostly for the purpose of clarifying and eviscerating it in person, which is always more fun.
You can view what is on Netflix without being a member, if that interests you:

http://netflixportugal.netflixable.com/
> Prior to PRISM, pretty much any reasonable person would assume that the blobs you store in S3 aren't going to be looked at anyone or, worst case, metadata will be seen by AWS employees for debugging stuff.

I beg to differ. Where you concentrate power, you have to expect abuse.

> It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on?

That's a false dichotomy. Yes, I want to go back to people running their own hardware with their own databases. And to have that work as easily as your favourite cloud service. There isn't anything inherent in running your own hardware that requires that to be a major burden.
Just say no to VPNs.
A blockchain created for the purpose of controlling the decryption process.
DFS is more like the stock market: the skilled players take advantage of suckers and get richer, while the average schmuck only wins by not playing the game (and just investing in index funds).

The difference between them is that one provides an essential function to our economy, and the other is just a sports book. Hell, even the stock market has a definition of "professional investor" that means certain consumer protection rules don't apply to you because you should know better.
I'm 100% with you. Honestly, my "prefect Twitter" would be to keep the 140char limit, but to exclude @ mentions, photos, and links from the limit.

That way users can be a bit more expressive without the word-barf walls of text which make Facebook, Tumblr, and other social platforms a nightmare to read through.
iOS app for postings in your neighborhood. Local Social Network
I can't wait for Netflix to provide their own News channel :)
Chaumian blinding was what first introduced me to the patent system as a 12yo. Such rage, which actually still persists even past patent expiration.
don't have any papers specifically about the correlation between framerate / judder and sickness but this older article has some information

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/down-the-vr-rabbit-hol...

as somebody who has major issues with their inner ear I can guarantee that you really do NOT want to get vertigo if you can at all help it
I'm a foster parent. I definitely know people who regret having kids.

Furthermore, just on the basis of the number of single mothers I know, I would posit that at least one man you know has kids, regretted it, left the mother and just hasn't volunteered that information to you.

[edit] Also, my wife was adopted when her parents were in their 40s, so it's probably not too late to raise a kid.
I never thought about it this way, and while you don't have to worry about brokerage accounts and minimum fees, you have to pay for accurate stats. Using a place like ProFootballFocus or StatsInc is going to cost you a pretty penny if you want to scrape an API with up-to-the-second accurate information.
Why on earth would it be surprising that California, with 12% of the population of the United States, would account for 10% of the total shootings? Florida, based on it's population, would have about 61 shootings (it has 60), and Texas would be expected to have about 84 (it has 96, or about 20% more than expected).

The only surprising ones you've mentioned are Illinois (which is about half the expected rate) and New Mexico, which is about 3 times the expected.
And Google could one day build a video store where anyone can monetize their video content, which would probably include both big and small content owners, like TV studios and individuals like me and you. Not sure how copyright would be managed. Youtube basically does this but the only way to monetize on youtube right now is via ads. I don't see why Google wouldn't want to add the ability for youtube content creators to monetize directly via rent/purchase options.
I prefer ditching standups in favor of constant communication, people should know who they need to talk to and avoid waiting for specific checkpoints.

A not-too-long team meeting once or twice a week to talk about big themes is pretty reasonable, but usually I can't even remember what is said in a standup, because much of it isn't things I need to remember.

If it's forced short, there's usually not enough data, if it's it's too long, everything gets tuned out. It's really another kind of status meeting, and I think meetings should instead produce actionable items.
Apparently playback is limited to 720p on Chrome/Firefox. [1] Also the selection seems rather limited in Estonia, not even House of Cards season 1 is available! Very disappointing.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742?ba=GSButtonClick&q=
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That's fair enough, as long as you realize going in that the chances of you getting that payday are basically impossible. There's a better chance of you finding that money in a duffel bag in a dumpster than you winning it through the lottery.

But then, on the other side of that you have the lottery winners who do hit it big after years of trying, then go bankrupt near-immediately because the reason they were poor in the first place is they didn't understand how money works.*

*No I'm not saying all poor people are poor for this reason, I'm saying a certain subset of them are.
So NVDIMM's...
Is any one actually making those except Viking and is anyone actually supporting them in servers except SuperMicro?

These are basically DDR3/DDR4 DIMM's with onboard flash and a supercap/battery pack to provide persistence incase of system reboots and power failures.

They are also a bit odd as they would ignore various system event calls from the BIOS/UEFI and then have to be specifically managed by various software hacks that create RAM drives and access the memory directly rather than working with OS virtual memory.
Since NVDIMM's are basically treated as system memory by both the server and the OS they pretty much only work for very very boutique applications I'ts a bit odd that these are presented as the next step in storage evolution while being effectively an overpriced hack. I've only seen them actually been use in weird server setups like the overclocked watercooled servers that are used for HFT where they strip everything even the OS as possible and bypass anything that adds even a few NS of latency and don't mind running their own code for everything from a bastardized TCP stack that isn't even remotely compliant but works to their own in memory custom database.
You should run a more modern LaTeX engine, such as XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. I can’t type diacritical characters (ąęłóż) without going to the past and figuring out the necessary encoding things.
> Welcome to Hacker News, where people's conflict of interests are not disclosed.

A statement about Hacker News that could just as easily be made about the world in general doesn't carry any information about HN. Many (perhaps most) of the claims I read about HN fall in this bucket.

> If you can pay $100/hr for an anonymous 'personal assistant' you can pay for a real personal assistant.

Isn't this a matter of batch sizes? I might pay $100 for the occasional hour but couldn't hire a full-time personal assistant. I wouldn't hire a full-time accountant or dentist either.
I don't know. Someone with severe mental illness and a knife (or a car) sounds way more dangerous than a calm person with a gun. It's hard to know whether the shooting was warranted without more details. Maybe better video records of these incidents will be helpful.
Trying to switch back to a smaller screen is tough, even if you didn't want a big phone to begin with.

Often I don't want to have a huge phone with me at all, but then I don't have a choice. The long term may be some sort of personal communicator (watch or otherwise.) Small screen, advanced input when necessary by voice. When people want to read things, write messages, watch video, play games, etc, then they can pick up their phablet -- which is effectively a phone sized tablet that fits in your pocket.

The Apple Watch probably is the step towards this direction. However, because it needs the iPhone it misses the full use case, for the moment.
IRC used to have all kinds of these bots back in the day. Mostly for downloading software. I remember even building one for the hell of it when I got bored one summer.
Most people relate Netflix to 'movies'. I have been an on - off customer of Netflix and thoughts of leaving it often crosses my mind.

But the only thing which keeps me on it are the TV shows, seasons and seasons of it. I'm currently watching Mad Men , that's 6+ seasons I want to watch. I love the luxury of just catching up on a 30-45 min TV show while I'm multitasking, eating, playing PS4 etc.

I think Netflix or competitors who want loyal customers ,expanding library of TV shows should be their prominent strategy.
I would suggest - giving out free episodes for every season, atleast 2 and see the signups go up.
In physical production (where it comes from), kanban is a lean method for ensuring that you don't spend on producing right now something that is not needed right now.

It works by tokens that "pull" the production from other productive unities that are ultimately "pulled" from external (client) demand.

The article talks about all kinds of rituals and gains, but never once touches that "pulling" activity that is central to the concept, nor the lean objective.
Passwords stolen in Rate My Professors data breach
Syd Barrett: the genius who almost was (1973)
This is a humorous complaint. I was using a VPN into England and had checked out Netflix and I thought the selection was great (finally, I can stream Battlestar Galactica. Archer's season 6 is finally out, etc.)...but I'm sure if I were using VPN regularly, and then checking Netflix...I'd have the same feeling of "it's the same ol shit on the front page"
Feds Conducting Criminal Investigation at Chipotle
Twitter is chasing growth. They are not adding this feature because the current user base demands it, they're adding it because they think they can use it to bring more people in.
Uh, we invaded Iraq and absolutely destroyed the country and decimated the population - because we were going to be "greeted as liberators".

Certainly the people of North Korea need liberators, even if it takes them a few generations to appreciate it.

South Koreans don't need to be saved, North Koreans do.

However the entire world should be doing the liberation, not just the USA. In fact for once maybe they can leave us out of it and just tell China "end this" or we'll destroy your economy by not buying anything from you for as long as we can.

But hell, look at Syria and the refugee crisis. Imagine if Assad had nuclear weapons.
If PayPal takes your card, they'll accept it through that.
I'm working on a new book lately, and I've been trying to settle on the right workflow. I've been posting the chapters as blog entries, as I complete them, but editing in WordPress leaves a lot to be desired, and I don't really think HTML is the right authoritative source for a book. I wrote my first book, and a lot of old documentation in SGML DocBook, and then later converted it to XML DocBook...it had many benefits, and with a decent vim setup wasn't too hard to work with, and the output options were super flexible. Final format for publication was a Word doc with extensive templates provided by the publisher.

All of that was a long time ago, though, and there's a lot more flexibility in where a document can start and end up in various other formats. pandoc changes the rules entirely, and markdown seems the most "native" format for pandoc.

In short, I think I need to be working in Markdown. But, this doesn't look like the right tool for me, at all. A subscription service for a text editor just feels wonky. I don't really want anyone else in the workflow until I send it off to an editor or for print publication. And, the idea of paying for a text editor, especially one as limited as this one seems to be (though it has some neat tricks), when there are such good/flexible/powerful/free/open editors, seems bizarre.

I think I just need to find a good set of vim settings for markdown, or give Atom another try.
Because I can't fit a phablet in my trousers.

Or in any of the pockets of my hydration pack when I'm running in the mountains. Or, as you say, in my pockets when I'm walking the dogs. I'd go on, but the point is I don't want a do-it-all device. I'm content with a small, iPhone 5-ish phone and a tablet or laptop when I'm home or otherwise sitting down for a bit. "Until <I> wear my phone on <my> wrist", I want a 4" phone, not the monstrosities (I include my iPhone 6s in that category) available today.

Remember when we used to gawk at how small that new Razor-whatever was? "Wow, we'll have those ST:NG comm badges someday soon!" Instead we got Samsung Notes.
I've heard a lot of observations about npm, but being unduly burdened with quality in package management has not yet been one of them!

Bundler and hex, for example, are faaaar better--just consider how long it took them to figure out shrinkwrapping, or flat structure to support Windows.
This is perhaps a general question about 3rd-party auth, but how am I supposed to trust an app like this when I click "log in with google/github/etc"? I'm simply shown a new pane within the same application that could easily be a phishing attack. There's no way to verify who the hell I'm sending my user/pass to.

Is there some way for native apps to launch my preferred default browser to do this task?

(Note: this is by no means an accusation towards OP; I just tend not to type my gmail password into random apps I downloaded from strangers on the internet).
Just what the world needs: more traps.
All of the above, plus attracting new users.

Comparatively, Twitter doesn't have the same user base as Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp, and I think that extending the character limit is a way of making Twitter more accessible for first-time users.

It's also designed to bring more brands to Twitter. Right now it's extremely difficult to promote your brand/business, include a photo, @ mention someone, and include a hashtag. An extended character limit solves all of these problems, making it a more attractive platform for advertising than ever before.
>It’s not about hating free software. I’m a believer in that; I released my first game for free in 1982. Note that the github thing I put up is essentially totally free (something I would have been restricted from doing, by my employer, up to a year ago).

I have a personal dislike for RMS and I think that his philosophy of economy is at best naïve and dangerously unworkable. 25 years ago he was exhorting me to quit my job in protest to support some of his politics and he wasn’t pleasant about it. Thus, ABRMS.

from http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2106. via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6822190
How is this proprietary? The license says that you can do anything you want to do with it.

This sounds pretty similar to WTFPL[0], and WTFPL is listed[1] as a GPL-compatible free software license by the FSF.

0 - http://www.wtfpl.net/

1 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#WTFPL
It looks like leaf blowers originated in the mechanisation of farming, so perhaps there was a legitimate labour saving objective there. In the case of sink waste disposal, I'd be pretty surprised if there was a good reason.

Hamilton Beach is an example of an early 20th C manufacturer that made a lot of consumer products which used similar motors, for example a now-classic catering-grade blender for milkshakes. That seems like a clear example of a market being created by the development of the device, which itself existed to apply a technology (the motor).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Beach_Brands
I don't undestand since you can insert pictures people use them to post long posts so what's the point of having limited number of characters? EDIT: or you can post a link to somewhere
I don't undestand since you can insert pictures people use them to post long posts so what's the point of having limited number of characters?
Something to think about when suggesting that killing jobs by robotic automation will just drive people into more creative endeavours. The demand for everyone to do creative labor just isn't there.
This is a stupid "license"... I rather like the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE" that I use from time to time https://github.com/betolink/snowgl > http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/
You have to look at per capita numbers. North Carolina and Arkansas actually stand out as having lower numbers than some of the 'usual suspects' states they are next to. Wonder why that is.
Once got pulled over while driving through a narrow alley. I had seen the police officer turning the corner behind me at an extremely dangerous speed (wheels spinning) so I assumed he was responding to an active shooting or something. I accelerated to cover the last 20 yards or so and then immediately pulled over once I was out of his way. He came up, gun drawn, thinking I had tried to escape. The reason for pulling me over in such a dangerous manner? One of the 2 lights illuminating my license plate was out.
I won't speak for anyone else, but looking at the code samples, pretty much everything I was worried about in terms of readability for ES6/silly uses of 'this' is present here. It just looks a bit arcane.

I appreciate the DSL-for-problem approach, but this is kinda exactly what some of us were worried about.
Check out http://www.xsimulator.net/ - you can build em for <$1k