skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting phenomenon! To me it makes intuitive sense when viewed as a uniform distribution of money between 0 and ~$100. Bottom graph approaching linear.

In that light these kinds of posts can be a bit disappointing: "here, have a simulation to prove the phenomenon". Yes but how does this work in general? As others have noted, is it stable over time? Which factors play a role in the speed of convergence? What if one introduces tax per transaction, giving the returns to the poorest? What would be a fair percentage?
I'd buy your argument twenty years ago. These days, almost any American or Japanese car can be reliable for over 10 years
Would require ridiculous amounts of dogs, they get bored very fast.
If it's specified as i16, it would be exactly two bytes in all situations - there would be no logic in including a size parameter that didn't actually mean anything, and sized ints are specifically meant to be platform-independent.
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I've heard that most dogs in airports are specifically trained to detect explosives, not marijuana.
This is very much on the path I've seen in software defined radio (SDR). I am particularly interested to see when they invert atmospheric interference in real time. A telescope or spotting scope with a co-linear laser visible to the circuit should be sufficient. Then no shimmering heatwaves in the distance, just a clear picture.
Still, there's a risk-reward ratio, where the risk is presumably chance of search * chance of detection * penalty for detection.

With a flight the chance of search is 100% - and the TSA are famously tough on innocent people, so I can't imagine they're easy on guilty people.

One would think the increased risk would at least raise prices, if not limit the supply.
Was it Cingular that got that very first Edge iPhone? Man that was so long ago, but that does sound right. IIRC Cingular was part of AT&T originally, then split off, and then was re-absorbed. Eventually SBS bought AT&T, a couple of Bells and other carriers and renamed itself to AT&T.
Usually for money reasons?
What do you mean by "run"? Check in the TLC model checker? You need to first write a configuration that you want to check. Lamport's Specifying Systems has full documentation for using the model checker from the command line. But if you're a beginner, you might be better off using the IDE, at least at first, as it helps you write a configuration very easily. Also, I would recommend starting with a simpler specification (there are lots of examples available). Otherwise, the checker would just work for a while and spit out "OK", and won't mean much to you.
Can you say more here or offer some links on what it's like to be a foster parent? I'm adopted and had to deal with some ACEs, and being a foster parent really does call to me. My dad was an attorney and also volunteered to help with foster kids, so I had exposure to them as a child. I want to look more into it.

Also, if you have biological kids of your own, how did they deal with foster kids? I have a daughter and would like to have another bio child as well.
USAID "assistance" to Africa and other countries is more of a gimme to the US big agriculture lobby than to Africa. The US pays big agriculture to send food and agriculture equipment to Africa and other countries. The temporary food abundance often destroys the country's ability to build up its agriculture. Also, it comes with strings attached where the country has to use patented seeds in order to get the aid, making the local farmers dependent on sending money to Monsanto every year - this happened in Haiti and Monsanto is doing it in Africa as well.

Also, USAID is infamous for spreading money around in order to destabilize governments who do not follow the US's dictates.

This notion that USAID is some benevolent aid program is ridiculous. It is a brutal instrument of US foreign policy and big business, cloaked in a very thin veil of liberalism/charity/humanitarianism.
Incognito mode doesn't do anything to hide your location or IP (basically the same thing on non-mobile). It's really just meant as a porn mode: nothing you do is saved to disk.
Trump discussed forming “impenetrable” cyber security unit with Russia
I worked with a couple of guys based in Monaco and since it is a city state I guess it applies, I asked and they said they are called "Monagese" but I see it is spelled Monégasque.

In the article I see the ese is French ending maybe Monagese is the English version of Monégasque, or I misheard.

In Canada there are two cities Saint John, New Brunswick and St. John's Newfoundland I'm not sure what each prefers with each being so closely named. I do know that you never write out St. as Saint for St. John's that's a paddlin'.
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I prefer to buy rented cars over previously leased cars. I think (no data to back this up) that a majority of leasers don't care to do routine maintenance (oil changes, etc) while the rental companies do.

I also think that folks who rent aren't any more rough on a car than folks who lease, but again, that's just my feeling.
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He might have lived there in country a while and simply copying a popular style of light reporting. It's not unusual.
The thing is, in Tokyo most housing projects are just replacing already existing houses. In California they are adding houses.
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> As explained by Mt. Gox, this was due to a hacker breaking into the exchange and stealing a large amount of funds. The drop to $0.01 was caused by the hacker selling a bunch of those coins on the exchange, eating through all the orders on the book.

Wait, you don't need to do anything to MtGox's coins to sell BTC on MtGox if you've hacked them - their coins, as far as the exchange goes, are just records in a MySQL table. So for MtGox's explanation to be true, the hacker would have needed just wallet-access on MtGox, then turned around and sent MtGox's coins right back to MtGox, hoping to cash out via MtGox before MG noticed and undid the orders?
I don't understand this example. Are you claiming the laws of thermodynamics only work with a very high probability?
"When we lecture angry people, the search data implies that their fury can grow. But subtly provoking people’s curiosity, giving new information, and offering new images of the group that is stoking their rage may turn their thoughts in different, more positive directions."

This was the most interesting takeaway for me. It's one thing to know that negative behavior is underreported on surveys, but much more valuable to draw potential conclusions about how the situation might be improved.
It is unsustainable long-term, but it's a reasonable model to follow. Build today while the cost is cheaper, create a larger general economy and then coast for a while. Japan also spent decades boosting GDP with huge infrastructure projects. They can't sustain them anymore and in some areas are starting to dismantle some of the excess but the Japan of today is much nicer place to have a flat economy than the Japan of the 40s or 50s.
This will not be a popular opinion, but whenever I see protection of privilege in the US these magical words are somehow involved:

> have the right
Welcome to your modern culture, which is centered around neoliberal consumerism.
I have a two year old android that doesn't have that either. I think it's just a Samsung feature. Or at least it varies by manufacturer.
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Why would that not matter? If you ignore some states that are possible is that not changing the problem?
this. do not complicate your cap table early with so little capital raised, think long-term. raise the 150K from value-add angels, emphasize "making the pie bigger" to existing investors. Startups and startup investing is unusually binary in outcome: you should focus on increasing your odds of success rather than maximizing value in case of success.
Interesting. I looked at the Certum website a while ago, before choosing StartCom.

The page on the Certum website about certs-for-open-source-signing didn't mention AuthentiCode at all. The AuthentiCode compliant certs seem like a different product.

If their certs for Open Source projects really are Authenticode compliant, I'd expect that to be front and center on the page about it. It's the one main feature of importance. :)
I remember that about a decade ago, doctors and others were criticizing the DEA for being draconian in their regulations surrounding opiate prescriptions. They were complaining that doctors often felt that they couldn't prescribe even when there was legitimate need.

I don't know what happened in the interim, whether or how the DEA's policies changed, but if only we had draconian DEA policies aggressively stopping overprescription now.

As someone who used to naively believe in legalizing all drugs for recreational use, this addiction epidemic has opened my eyes to why that's a horrible idea.
Well, only in that they shouldn't be hosting illegal content (e.g. CP). But beyond that, nothing they host can be construed as being "said" by imgur.
I studied Latin in Newcastle and definitely heard "Novocastrian", but I'm certainly an outlier. I can't imagine any Geordie you're going to meet in St James' Park is likely to use the term.

Mancunian, Glaswegian, Geordie, Liverpudlian and Scouser, and Bajan are all commonly used. I have never heard the ones for Leeds or Wolverhampton and I assume they're silly back-formations like Novocastrian. Malagasy seems to be a proper term both for a language and a people, according to Wikipedia, though it's not one I'm especially familiar with. I have no idea about "Haligonian" or the Pittsburgh ones.
I don't believe that Soviet era military doctrine recognized mutually assured destruction.
Yeah each build would take about an hour, 4-5 hours for the whole CI/test to get finished. It was crossed complied so there was an MSBuild and a gcc build. It was sone in serial since we didn't want to waste time building the release if the testing or QA builds failed.
The risk is based on the fact he might get the job without the sample, but by providing the sample he might not get the job.
I fostered for nearly 2 years, and ended up adopting my foster daughter who was just a few weeks shy of her 7th birthday. I had a 1 yr old bio son when she joined the family.

I’d say what worked best for me was doing the very hard and frustrating process of building trust between me and her birth mom & family. It was at times maddening but so worth it for her. Especially since the system itself is broken.

My son was actually a plus - she was able to bond with him first and I believe that enabled her to then trust and bond with us.

Now she’s 12 and is amazing. I feel like the luckiest mom in the world to be able to spend my life with her.
Whenever this comes up, I argue for moving the queue orchestration out of Postgres. Everyone will be happier that way.

By this I mean that you keep your jobs in Postgres, but instead move the ordering -- the physical queue data structure -- out into something like RabbitMQ or Redis.

To schedule a job, create a job row, then push its ID to Rabbit or whatever. To process the next job, grab the next ID, look up the job row, then do the processing.

That gives you the best of both worlds, without ever running into issues with locking and dead tuples.

(There is of course a race condition here where you may create a job but not publish it (due to Rabbit temporarily failing, for example). But there are ways around that.)
> Fentanyl isn't created in the back of a motor home.

But it probably could be, if there's a market for it. There are trained chemists making meth [0]. The sale of the precursors of fentanyl is controlled, but so are the precursors to meth. If fentanyl (or an analog) stays popular we'll have people making their own.

Edit: I'm not saying it would be as obtaining PSE, but if you're a member of a chem lab, the only thing between you and an order to Sigma is ~two signatures? There's too much money involved for it to not happen.

[0] http://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-cartels-cooking-crack-i... (I know, Sky News..)
You're (likely incorrectly) assuming that the rate of extreme radicalization is lower than the rate of annual suicide attacks.
The advantage is that it pins stuff on IPFS while the others don't? I'm not sure I understand the question, I'm afraid.
Technically correct, but it solves a different problem. The StartCom signing cert is a solution solving the "big scary warning" problem on Windows for untrusted binaries.

GPG signing is suitable for a different group of users. :)
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Erlang and Elixir and all languages on the BEAM. Haskell, Ocaml and Rust on recent linux kernel or on freeBSD/Illumos OS.

But i do know what are the advantage of Go you want because i personally do not see a lot in it. Different pov i guess.
Just for your information, it wasn't on an unpopulated island but on Exuma, specifically 1 mile north from the resort "Sandals Emerald Bay" .
What we used to do when I worked at a consulting firm that took contracts whose deliverables included source code is when writing code just put in the comments that we needed for ourselves during development.

For the final delivery of source code we'd make a binder that had a code listing on the pages that were on the right side, with a detailed running commentary on the pages that were on the left. On the left hand pages we could go into great detail (we'd add vertical space on the right hand pages as needed to keep things lined up).

The left hand pages in essence were almost a book on how to do whatever it was the code was doing, making it easy for the client to hand over the project to their own programmers after we were gone. We did not rush writing the left hand pages. Sometimes I spent more time writing the left hand pages than I had spend writing and debugging the code. (Our contracts were all fixed bid contracts, so spending all that time didn't raise the price for the client).
I've encountered the Brown article before. Averaging the $3.6 trillion spent to-date since 2001, we're spending $240 billion per year on war in the Middle East.

For perspective:

* Hillary Clinton's campaign platform included a decent infrastructure bill - allocating $250 billion over 10 years.

* NIH is estimated to spend $8 billion this year on cancer and cardiovascular research - the leading causes of death in America, killing over 1 million people each year.
And you're cherry picking Muslim countries, when when we talk about starvation in Africa we mean the huge barren between the Muslim countries and South Africa.

We are talking malaria here, what do the Muslim countries have to do with that?

http://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2001010053/200378675...
Bro my old city's opiate overdose death rates have doubled annually for several years now. I have several friends whose lives have been claimed by opiates in that span of time. It's most certainly a thing. No offense but you shouldn't talk completely out of your ass.
It is also possible to cut those numbers with low tech: less driving. Stop subsidizing roads and parking, start allowing walkable development. Take back the streets. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236825193_Street_Ri...
> Basically, Mt. Gox would be operating with fractional reserves.

I would not call what happened to Mt. Gox "operating with fractional reserves."

In a normal financial system, fractional reserve banking means that a bank retains X% of its customers' deposits as a "fractional reserve" while lending out the rest to other customers, often with either collateral (home, auto) or high interest rates (credit cards) to mitigate the risk of nonpayment. In this case, the bank can balance its asset (loans) and liabilities (deposits) balance sheet.

In Mt. Gox's case, they simply lost the bitcoins they were supposed to safe keep rather than making loans or anything like that, and are thus insolvent.
> I want to question the premises that [tabs in pubs and bars] is a widespread thing

Really? Where do you think it's confined to?

Credit cards are not an equivalent service, they're a means to pay the tab...
Just did a test.. sadly (and logically) sections that use images or graphs turn up bare, but overall this looks pretty useful! Especially for moments when you just need a quick blast of info.
I never said "lightning network" won't work. I said that it doesn't matter. If bitcoin someday becomes a thing, it will just behave like dollar, nothing less. With more technology, someone or some corporation will find a way to concentrate more power. Then someone will come up with an idea of a new way to do transactions. Algorithms don't fix social issues. People fix social issues.
I agree with most of your comment, but this part is misleading:

> This means that every state is recurrent, i.e. will happen if you wait long enough.

It doesn't mean that the expected frequency of every state in the chain is equal. Moreover, the frequencies are very different.

The interesting part of the experiment is not that each state is reachable. The state where someone has all the money - 1 is reachable. The state where all have the same amount of money again is reachable. But if you leave these people alone in a room for some time and open the door unexpectedly, you will almost sure find out that they have very different amount of money.

I ran an numerical experiment and I get that the average distribution of money is for 5 persons with 5 coins each is:

11.04 6.38 4.03 2.44 1.11

i.e. if you enter the room at random, the one with more money will have on average 11.04 coins, not almost 24 coins

If you count the number of times they have

11±1 6±1 4±1 3±1 1±1

coins, you get a 21% frequency.

If you count the times someone has 24 coins, you get only a 0.00125% frequency. If you count how many times someone has at least 90% of the coins you get 0.0131% frequency (10x more).

This is difficult to compare, because each classification has a different amount of states, but nevertheless, it's clear that an almost linear distribution is more common than a very concentrated distribution.

For 10 persons with 10 coins I get that the average is

28.77 19.11 14.25 10.98 8.53 6.57 4.93 3.53 2.27 1.06

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14730315
Mz never questioned that no means no, only that events before Cheryl finally said "no" could have played out differently if she were faster to react to his pretty obvious sexual moves. And that it is unclear why he believed that she would want to sleep with him in the first place and was surprised when she refused and felt offended.

Feel free to defend Cheryl by saying that she was worried he would refuse to finance her if she kicked him out, even though in fact she ultimately did kick him out and he still signed the deal regardless. Even though tolerating sexual advances in expectation of financial gain could be seen as borderline prostitution by some - maybe she really didn't want it to be that way, we get it.

But don't pretend that she wouldn't have been much safer if she were more assertive from the beginning.
I think its confined to places outside of major metropolitan areas, where the vast majority of money moves around.

If you have a credit card you don't need a bar tab.
> I don't know what happened in the interim

The VA noticed a lot of people had untreated pain. They pushed a campaign to make pain the fifth vital sign. Every time someone went into a hospital they'd be asked about pain. Pain was seen as something that absolutely must be treated.

They also said that opioids are not addictive if prescribed for pain.

It turns out that both of these are mostly wrong. If someone is in pain they'll tell you, you don't need to ask. And if someone has chronic pain they can become addicted to opioids.

The VA withdrew that document. Here's a Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pUQ-mc...

We knew some time ago that it didn't help. Here's a report from 2006: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924634/
I think that understanding how common data structures are implemented is a worthy endeavour to understanding the foundations of your craft. There will also be a (very small?) subset of developers who really need to understand them well because performance and optimization is their everyday job.

But I get very frustrated whenever I see an argument for learning them like this one: "...knowing how to implement these data structures will give you a huge edge in your developer job search..."

This is what makes me worried/frustrated about the prospect of interviewing for a future software engineering job: the worry that they'll ask me programming trivia and miss the point that I'm kick-ass at my job and bring great bottom-line value to the company I work at.

On another note, I was playing Human Resource Machine recently and on one puzzle I said to myself, "this is a linked list!" having learned about it from an MIT lecture I watched at bedtime months before. Very satisfying nerd-validation.
The usual spiel about DRM is that you don't own what you "bought" but in the case of subscriptions and rentals, why would anyone think they have a right to ownership when they are clearly paying for access?

Why should I have a problem with paying Apple for DRM free music from iTunes and paying for a subscription to DRMd music for Apple Music?

I haven't pirated music since the iTunes Store opened in 2003. Even from 2003-2008 when it was DRM encumbered, there was a simple built in way to remove the DRM -- burn it to a CD and rip it.

I also don't have a problem
paying to rent a movie from Apple/Amazon, but I would never "buy" a movie from Apple/Amazon with restrictive DRM. I also wouldn't have thought about buying a physical disk without an easy way to rip it to my Plex Server and use in the way I see fit.
The second law of thermodynamics is intrinsically a statistical law.
I once ran into "adult selfies" of a gay man in his 40s when fixing his computer. I was 14.
However, it is evil to colonize people, use your economic, military and political might to support corrupt and tyrannical leaders for your economic (and military and political) gain and then be upset that the very people you helped subjugate/oppress and/or create an environment in which life and liberty is impossible shouldn't then be able to seek asylum.

Wake up. The political situation in Northern Africa, the Middle East and the Sub-Continent is DIRECTLY the result of Western actors going back over a hundred years and continuing today.
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I would assume the opposite because of the cash available to the attendees and someone probably flew private. This is a rich clientele with a desire to party. Someone would figure the logistics of supplying them.
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Hmm, mentions Pittsburgh and 'yinz', but not Pittsburghese. Definitely worth looking into if you're interested in strange regional dialects(?).
Sensor SIZE is still the primary determination of quality. Not seeing how this changed that.
Oh interesting, I've never seen checkpointing on a time interval. Most Torch examples just dump the model to disk after the epoch finishes.

One reason to use epoch checkpointing is because that ensures that all samples of the training data have been seen the same number of times. If your data is large and diverse, with heavy enough augmentation it might not matter very much
I don't believe you _totally_ disagree. You must understand that littering every single like of code with comments describing minute details is unnecessary. There must be a balance.

I'm not a purist by any means. I don't think comments are pure evil either. They have their uses but to say that code without comments is

Clean Code principles only state that code comments are not good _per se_. Most comments are just noise. Yet they are sometimes needed and bring value. It's not black and white.