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Quite possibly! But a bad article can contain a good word. I wanted to stand up for 'heterodox', first because words are my friends and I like my friends, and second because HN is a textual place and good English is part of the business here.
This would be a great product for a non-profit to improve on. Some of the restrictions (only 7k characters stored, consumption of expensive resources like paper, ink ribbons, correction tape, etc) could be fairly easily and cheaply fixed by making a dedicated word processing machine instead of a typewriter out of something along the lines of a raspberry pi and a cheap low res display. Assuming there's a way to print from USB in prisons, or access to computers with email periodically (big assumptions that I haven't verified beyond what I've seen in popular media) this could provide an affordable lifeline to a lot of people.
Do you have any interesting case about the use of "delicious"? I would love to see them, I'm a case collector.

Thanks
He shouldn't even have made any approach whatsoever. For that matter, he literally had just heard that she's married. What a piece of work.
As others have pointed out, power laws are more "normal" than the normal distribution.

The reason for this is that if you have the sum independent identically distributed (I.I.D.) random variables (R.V.s), if they converge to a distribution, that distribution is Levy Stable [1], which is power law in it's tails. The Gaussian is a special case in the family of Levy Stable distributions.

The article states that "the sum of many independent, additive effects is approximately normally distributed" which is patently false. The sum of many independent random variables with finite variance is normally distributed. Once you relax the finite variance (and in more extreme cases, finite mean) power laws result.

There are other ways to generate power laws, including having killed exponential processes [2]. There are many other references that talk about the rediscovery of power laws [3] and give many ways to "naturally" create power laws [3] [4] [5].

The article claims that multiplicative processes lead to log normal distributions. I've heard that this is actually false but unfortunately I don't have enough familiarity to see how this is not true. If anyone has more insight into this I would appreciate a link to an article or other explanation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distribution

[2] http://www.angelfire.com/nv/telka/transfer/powerlaw_expl.pdf

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0601192v3.pdf

[4] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.122...

[5] http://www.angelfire.com/nv/telka/transfer/powerlaw_expl.pdf
Musimp/Mulisp - pair of languages had one-to-one mapping between Pascal-like syntax and Lisp syntax. Which means that you could use DEFMACRO in any which way you feel convenient.

I do not remember details of course, but those two versions were something like these:

DEFMACRO PLUS2(X,Y): BEGIN LIST('+,X,Y) END

(defmacro (plus2 x y) (list '+ x y))
"qualified developers" is probably the key word there. These bootcamps are all trying to train out a pretty specific set of basic proficiencies. That's not to say the training can't be useful, it's just to say that they all seem to be going for the same basic web development skills, and probably the majority of companies looking to employ developers and looking for more than that, or something entirely different.

Could also just be saturation in general. This is not the first closing announcement in recent weeks.
People are paying for news - less and less - every year.

I think a "pay-per-article" may have worked better 10 years ago, I can't even justify paying for great newspapers anymore..

It's a race to the bottom, where the only real money will come from advertisers.
Very true, and I totally agree. I just think the label 'Quality of Life' is a bit misleading and the numerical values to be somewhat meaningless.
My hunch is location, iron yard had a bunch of locations in 3rd and 4th tier markets where there just aren't that many programming jobs. Even in Austin which is probably one of the better markets they had, entry level coding jobs are somewhat scarce compared to demand for them
I imagine that the simplest explanation is that costs end up killing these programs.

Good educators cost a decent amount of money, so if you have a high quality bar you're looking at a lot of (mostly fixed) costs. Add building rent + admin costs.

Public schooling costs $10k/pupil on average, and I imagine most of these code schools have a slightly higher bar.
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A wonderful solution for this is the Turbolinks approach which is a part of the standard Rails stack.

The new page request takes place over Ajax, the server sends the whole page, and only the body gets replaced thus avoiding the need for loading common assets and initializing js.

I'm simplifying but hopefully you get the point.
Doctors are often the worst, they sit at that intersection of having a lot of valuable (highly personal and life threatening) data but being small businesses that don't take IT seriously. They also have the money to pay for ransomware attacks.

A few years ago I went to a local doctor as a once off and the computers were "down" that day. A week later I walked past and they were shut, they never reopened. A few months later it made the news that local doctors offices were being specifically targeted.
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What I am proposing would certainly require a Constitutional amendment (in the US, at least). It is a departure from the "jury of your peers", which is the intention. The specificity of modern scientific evidence warrants rethinking the way we select juries. A jury of normal citizens is just not equipped, educationally, for the job. Specialists are required with intimate subject knowledge.

I am proposing that the expense of the jury be covered by the court (as it is now for citizen juries, and it is also is with public defenders), but that they not be employees of the court. Again, like public defenders.

It certainly wouldn't be a perfect system, but I believe it plugs some of the holes that have appeared in our current system of jury selection.
I'm a developer on the OpenBazaar project which is a p2p Bitcoin market. Because DNMs are the most popular Bitcoin marketplaces I keep up with them and their features and trends. They're great sources for discovering security concerns.
Yeah when we do named args it will very likely be based on Swift, but a bit different due to backwards compat and the desire to integrate it into existing methods like Vec::from_raw_parts and ptr::copy.
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I'd like to know this too. Their prices are very high, so maybe the demand subsided?
I don't see how this requires "deep AI". Aren't songs already categorized by their contents?
Look closely enough and you'll see that they all do. One meaning for 'heterodox' is 'holding unorthodox opinions'. That's an attribute of the person, not the opinion.

The royal road to clarifying subtle differences in language, however, is etymology, and there the difference is plain. Hetero = different, dox = opinion, ortho = correct. So the distinction here is something like "diverse opinion" vs. "incorrect opinion", which to me seems clearly meaningful.
Smart "would-be" criminals don't commit crimes; they make their intended action lawful, then act freely.
1. People who can effectively teach others to program well enough to secure professional employment may have better options than teaching open-enrollment entry-level programming classes.

2. Because of that, and for any of a number of other reasons, we may generally be overestimating how effectively these kinds of schools are educating people.

3. It's an open secret that hiring in the technology industry isn't based on aptitude, but rather on credentials and hazing rituals. Something like 3 decades of cultural development have trained developers that the most important risk they face in hiring is accepting someone underqualified, rather than passing on someone who is in fact qualified.

Given all these problems, it's not surprising that a school with a model of charging a 4-5 figure tuition in exchange for attempting to increase the likelihood of graduates employment would fail.
> However some interfaces easily require like 50 different function parameters

Please tell me you're not responsible for this monstrosity https://salilab.org/modeller/9.18/manual/node315.html
Since this article is very high level, are there other resources that show how to apply some (or all) of these topics in actual code or on a sample set of data?
Knowing how extremely adversely even minor harassment can affect someone in the workplace, I can't fathom how ANY company doesn't have an absolute-zero-tolerance policy for harassment, especially of a sexual nature. There's literally zero reasonable excuse for having to tolerate this kind of crap in a work situation, including "outside-of-work" events.
>Some people like it, because it lets you eat and take a short nap and rest, but then you have to go back to work, which is a pretty big downside.

That, in Greece and elsewhere where it happens, is usually a habit from an earlier era, when most city businesses were small and/or family owned, retail stores and the like, and people lived in neighborhoods next to their business. So they would just close the store, had lunch or a nap etc at the house, and come back open for business again at the afternoon.

The current situation is a regression, and not because of the remnants of the "3 hour break": commutes and/or major traffic, and offices that demand people stay late without major breaks, so you get the same 8-9pm to late shift, working constantly (and then having to commute back).
Mental illness is ultimately a personal issue that affects everyone very differently. You get a picture of this with how the same SSRI or other medication can have wildly different responses in people.

I wouldn't be so flippant and dismissive of terms like PTSD and Depression. For the person suffering them they are going to be very real and different than everyday sadness or misery. Even if for us outsiders they don't meet some documented guidelines of what they are.
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Of course, it wouldn't have been their only market

That's not how I was using "single point of failure." The failure I was speaking to was identification by law enforcement.
I worked for one of the major fitness apps and we partnered with Intel on a couple integrations years back.

I never understood the huge investment in stand alone wearables/tech outside of apple/google. The writing was on the wall (for me at least) from day one. It is/was hard enough for a fitness app to breakthrough without adding complex hardware and supply chain to the mix.

1) Hardware unitaskers at scale (not niche/pro markets) do not seem to ever win, platforms do. Why pay $100 for a "connected" pedometer when I can pay $300 for a do-everything watch from a massive established brand. Platforms have the scale to get better and better while everyone else struggles and falls behind.

2) (Real) Retention on fitness wearables in general is terrrrrrible (relative to other products). After about 30 days, the novelty/initial behavior change wears off unless you have a chronic or serious need to track. People may report using them...but getting value is different from "clipping on". tl;dr fitness is fucking hard.

3) I think fitness/health is the killer app. But its a fully commoditized utility by now. Its "contacts" or "notepad" but for tracking...so its not really blowing anyone's mind, its table stakes. And fitness is a "thing I should do" not a "thing I want to do" for most people -uphill behavioral battle vs. e.g. putting an awesome camera in a phone I just have to click to open.
millay would agree: https://genius.com/Edna-st-vincent-millay-euclid-alone-has-l...
To add to that, the sharp cutoff at faint (large number) magnitudes is almost certainly a reflection of the fact that astronomical surveys and images have a flux limit, below which objects cannot be individually detected.
Ask HN: How is software used in complicated legal cases?
Just curious if anyone can comment on how software is used these days in complicated legal cases ( e.g. money laundering on an international scale with thousands of people involved, many layers of corporate structures, and terabytes of emails along with information obtained via wiretaps etc).

How is this information collected and correlated in an automated fashion? Does it assist in organization, simplification and presentation of exhibits?

Or is all of this still done manually?

Obviously IANAL but I'm very interested to hear how software is changing the practice of law. Thanks!
I understand that. But in astronomy, there are so many vastly different scales to work with, that in practice, at any particular scale, there is usually only one physical process that dominates. It is extremely unlikely for two independent physical processes to operate at nearly the same scale! So it's hard to get processes that are the sum of enough random variables to make a distribution approximately Gaussian. The situation is probably different in a field like biology because there are many factors that, say, affect a person's height. The closest that I've ever encountered in astronomy was the distribution of the powers of a class of radio galaxies I studied that exhibited an approximately log-normal distribution. (See figure 7 of [1].)

[1]: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...756..116A
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Vue is hot right now. Curious to know who's using it, why, and what for. Or just links to some live apps.
Out of curiosity, how do you establish the identify association between the person who submitted the story, the person who manages the site, and the person who engages with the seller that you mentioned?

To me it looks like they could be unrelated different parties or even competitors.
Yes, that's why.
I think they were even based out of a 4th tier market in Greenville, SC.
Any jobs list which has Python above Javascript and Java has to be flawed. Dice.com is hardly the oracle either. Indeed.com would have been a better source. I also think it's better to search job postings by title.
> So much of that could go away if we had a more application-focused platform on the web.

We already have that platform, the desktop. Sure the distribution side of things could be improved, but there is nothing wrong with the platform.
But they haven’t stopped me from using my local vault so technically they’re doing more for more.
>You don't get to set the bar for her.

Words have meanings, just because someone interprets them in their own way, doesn't mean they can claim X when it's not considered warranted.

So regardless of this particular case, we can, and do, society collectively does set the bar for what can be considered X or Y -- and someone can argue based on that.

(That said, grabbing her hand and not letting go despite attempts to free it, and groping her body, clearly fits the bill for sexual harassment and a stressful situation).
Actually, according to the study avoiding alcohol abuse was a key factor in long life and happiness.

Too many people see the point of life as getting past all the crap they have to do to survive so they can get drunk on the weekend.
1. "Invalid/expired link" doesn't sound like a message you usually get from HN when you try to submit a duplicate article - a duplicate submission usually just takes you to the previous discussion. This sounds like some kind of software error (either on HN's side or yours).

2. As per HN Guidelines (see link at bottom of the page), it's OK to re-submit an article that hasn't gotten significant discussion in the last year.

3. As per HN Guidelines, questions like this should be e-mailed to the moderators (hn@ycombinator.com), not posted.

I'd try submitting it again and seeing what happens.
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>"If they succeed, you'll likely get your wish in more ways than you bargained for. The NE corridor is the only part of the entire Amtrak system that's even close to solvent, and it subsidizes the rest of the system."

Yes exactly, and that is the point being made in my Economist link. Amtrak should be broken up. Why should commuters along the NE corridor be subsiding the rest of it? In 1971 when Amtrak was founded this made sense but in 2017 with budget air travel it's to believe it still does.

Let Amtrak continue to operate the NE corridor and be profitable. But why should they be protected from competition? Or stated a different way - why should commuters be denied an alternative?
Generally? Slightly bigger drug dealers.

Selling to end users is practically a mug's game, so there is no end to the number of people wanting to act as middlemen to avoid it.
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The first comment about the bar being too low for PTSD did this too. Neither is helpful.
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What that would prove, even if it was true? It's like saying to someone who is arguing against the death penalty "you didn't have your family killed by a robber".

Even if that's true, that might make them more impartial and clear-headed on the issue, rather than less. The same reason that defense lawyers usually reject jurors that had personal experiences about the offence on trial.
The arguer's credibility has no bearing on the truth value of purely logical arguments that can be fully evaluated within the four corners of the argument. Very few scientific assertions fit that rubric. In the ordinary case where a conclusion is at some pointed predicated on an unknown fact, then the credibility of the speaker absolutely matters.
This. Technically the radii can't even have a normal distribution, because the support of the normal is (-Inf, Inf) but the radii are bounded below by 0.

So you might say that the radii = r + e, where r is constant and e is normal around 0 with variance way, way smaller than r. But then the volume of the ball bearings = K * (r+e)^3, and because r >> e, the largest source of randomness term is going to be 3Kr^2e, which makes the whole thing look pretty normal.
Can I make a comment which is not specific about this school, to which I have no connection, or to coding bootcamps?

For-profit education is a regulated industry in the United States and is experiencing significant adversarial attention at the moment, as a result of widespread looting of federal tuition assistance programs, to the tune of billions of dollars.

Can I name a Greek god who has non-zero relevance to this story? Apollo.
Knew two people who worked at their Detroit campus. If I'm remembering correctly they had more jobs lined up than students. Now Detroit isn't even listed on their website, yet it only opened in 2015. This filled a real need in Detroit and it saddens me.
Can you give an example of some of the security concerns you have discovered? Do you keep a formal list of threat vectors? I would have thought they are pretty much the same as regular web apps.

PS. OpenBazaar seems to have received $3M funding. Interesting about change for a project started by Amir Taaki given his very anarchist professions.

PPS. Desktop client seems a bad thing to develop first (in the true tradition of Bitcoin!). Perhaps you guys could have stuck with network client daemon + API for starters. Anyway, good luck.
I've heard plenty of anecdotes that suggest that this is true of many prosecutors, but other anecdotes showing that there are also good ones out there.
It's not. A CA can revoke only certificates that they themselves issued, so the harm that a CA can do through inappropriate revocations is limited to its own customers and their users. If a CA gets a reputation for doing this, its customers can simply take their business elsewhere (this may be costly and inconvenient, but it's always an option, though in the HPKP case it requires them to have planned ahead). This gives CAs a clear incentive not to revoke certificates inappropriately, so the system works.

By contrast, illegitimate issuance by a CA that browsers trust is a threat to everyone's security. Furthermore, the parties directly harmed—the owners of the domains of the illegitimate certificates and their users—typically have no relationship at all with the offending CA, and consequently no direct recourse against it. That's why browser vendors—the only parties that CAs truly have to answer to—have to get involved in such cases.
I was an instructor there for 2 cohorts. It was probably the hardest I ever worked. The same was true for my fellow instructors. We were/are senior engineers who took the job for reasons other than money (it was a pay cut for me). We wanted to contribute back.

A few students had pretty bad experiences, I think. It was a very demanding program. Several times, I had full-grown adults break down and cry during our 1:1s. But over all, the majority of students thrived. It was life-changing-- in a good way-- for most of them, and that's why I and my fellow instructors were there.

It was one of the most meaningful periods of my career. I wouldn't go back and undo any of it, but I also won't be teaching at a code-bootcamp again. I'd consider a slower-paced program such as a university, tech school or high-school, though.
Moderators sometimes rate limit accounts that post too many unsubstantive or off-topic comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. You've posted a ton of comments that match that description lately. That includes this subthread—the site guidelines specifically ask you not to post this kind of thing. Others include https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14792835 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793511.

Rate limiting is a crude tool, but it's one of the few mechanisms we have to try to prevent discussion quality from degrading. If you limit yourself for a while to comments that are substantive, not flamewars, and not generically off-topic, email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be happy to remove the rate limit.
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It's one of the biggest problems we have. Typical response from a man is that I'm a great catch; she just doesn't know that she wants me. Once she's had sex with me she'll marry me.

This is actually someone threatening rape (imo). Unfortunately it's something our President has said.

We need to stop this behavior where people think they are entitled to someone else. We also need to have our Law enforcement act more appropriately to handle this; ensure Rape Kits are tested promptly.

Educating our children and adults reminding them what is and what isn't acceptable. It isn't acceptable to touch someone on the shoulder if they asked you to remove it.

Lastly we need to call sexual harassment what it is. It's harassment; it's something as a society we have ignored for far too long.
Why Apollo? I got this from Wikipedia: "...Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague." In that case...I see your point.