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> Linux distros are a fantastic example of this. It's easy enough to create a viable linux distro that there are 5+ popular ones, and if you don't like those there are 10+ less popular ones which are perfectly viable and reasonable choices for an OS.

But isn't this the same as all the Chromium/Firefox forks? I mean I understand they aren't as popular as the major players but you could say the same about all the Linux distributions compared to Windows or OS X.
The book structure depends on your goals for the reader.

Books that are for teaching a skill to a beginner generally follow a project based approach. You start with a basic concept and have the reader build a project. Then you go on to a more advanced topic and have the reader build a more advanced project. It would be great if each project built upon the previous ones. I think that is one reason why Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial is so popular: https://www.railstutorial.org/book.

Then there are reference books. These are for experienced people to go back and relearn a concept they forgot. These books are great when organized with a clear table of contents for easily looking up topics. They don't need elaborate projects, but they do need examples to demonstrate the application of the concept. Something like the C++ reference would fall into this category: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/.

Hope that helps. Good luck!
Thanks for sharing, this just inspired me out of my code funk and back into developing!
The last administration signed a law that directs government to communicate with the public in so called plain language!

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/law/
I understand that. What I don't understand is why. Without naming names, this is just gossip, not journalism.
This is the situation we put ourselves in by constantly complaining that we can’t move fast enough and hiring “talent” straight from coding bootcamps. Brace yourselves, the time to eat your own dogfood is coming! :^)
Genuinely curious how anyone could know about matrices and _not_ know their relationship to geometry.
The wording “X causes Y” is slippery. Saying “X increases the probability of Y”, is another thing. Thinking about smoke, with “smoke causes cancer” I expect every smoker to have cancer. It isn't so. If the effect of X on the probability that Y occurs is too much small, maybe it's just that we haven't enough statistical data (yet) to see it. Then, even if the effect could be statistically seen, telco companies could always say that it's safer than driving a car… Or a new business for body-cellphones shields could be made… Or, more likely, some people will pay more attention at to where they put their cellphones.
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Don't be surprised when your children fail to thrive as an adult if you've never let them out of your sight and on their own.

Criminals can act anywhere and at any time. It's not a good enough reason to hurt your Childs development.
What do you think about the new law that allows police to walk with dogs in any public happening and check the bags of suspicions people for drugs?

Edit: and looking at the queues waiting to get free food is definitely showing that the amount of poor people in the country is going up.
Quaternions represent 3D rotations in a way which avoids the drawbacks of Euler angles. See "gimbal lock".
Thank you. I saw that one. Some of the more recent critical comments (stability, responsiveness) gave me some pause.

I'll give it a go.
Before I read the blog post, I thought that this was a nit-picky complaint, but it speaks to the entire structure of what's he's written. The lede is horribly buried, and the road to it is paved with mild but somewhat aggrieved snark. It has the virtue of being a chronological account, but his preliminary comments are not very informative and do not sound particularly well informed. (i.e., "…something called a directed acyclic graph." Indeed.)

This is unfortunate, because the factual reporting he can offer, located towards the bottom of the page, describes a situation wildly contrary to the claims made on IOTA's behalf, and is suggestive of a code base that is unready, fragile, and teetering (at best) on the edge of fraud.
That is a very bad idea. Basically a dictatorship or oligarchy where those in power do what they want by selectively enforcing laws when they want. "Rule by law" is the phrase used to describe this system, most famously used in China.
This is wrong on so many levels, I don’t even know if I should start “defending” bitcoin and the rest crypto currencies...
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/171...

"Paras Jha, Dalton Norman and Josiah were also a part of this normal Minecraft server entrepreneur game until they decided to force players from other servers on to theirs by clogging their networks. Therefore, Mirai came into existence and started performing for them very well. However, Mirai started outperforming the creator’s expectations, affecting the Internet outside Minecraft badly."

"The creators of Mirai found potential in the botnet and therefore went on to fine-tune it to improve its abilities. They even started leasing Mirai to other cybercriminals, who used them around the world for their own vested interests."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)

"Upon infection Mirai will identify "competing" malware and remove them from memory and block remote administration ports."

From an evolutionary perspective its an interesting example of 'fitness'
Identity is the only solution.
My entire home regardless of value is protected from creditors in Florida (even if you sue me!), whereas you’re on the hook for your spouses medical bills even after their death in California (community property state).

Will take my Florida chances :)

(This is also why so many wealthy individuals make it their state of residence, besides no state income tax)
Previously here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14572298
Why ego? This is just as easily explained by habit/routine/dependence on the group by its members
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Just in case you hadn't checked, this is the New York Times you're talking about.
Fortunately other people have started to set that legal precedent, so hopefully you won't have to. That case in Maryland was national news, and precedent isn't necessarily limited by jurisdiction.
I'm amused by the overall reaction and the downvotes. My perception of the general ethos of Hacker News that we should be able to get to original sources without gatekeepers. Such disintermediation is exemplified by e.g., arXiv, but when it comes to news, journalists are given a pass on what might be gossip.
Between 2006 and 2017 the first class letter rate has gone up eight times and down once. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...
Not only Japan, everywhere.
I believe the US is the only country which would be worried of kids go to school by themselves. Sick.

But the most trust into their kids I saw amongst Africans.
I've learned over the last few years that rape reporting is not something which can be reliably compared between countries.

If a woman reports to the police that her husband has raped her ever other day for a year, then is that 0 counts of rape (because marriage means permanent consent for sex), 1 count of rape (because it was reported once), or 180 counts of rape (because of each reported occurrence). (I say it was 180 counts of rape.)

Different countries have different standards. According to https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/12/08/voices/for... , the definition of rape in Japan excludes things rape requires violence or threats. That article goes into more about some of the differences, including low levels of reporting it.

As CityLab pointed out in the article, "The persistent problem of women and girls being groped, for example, led to the introduction of women-only cars on select lines starting in 2000."
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Making the pattern even stronger: "number of times" is average 0th-power of distance,

And "distance" is "the 1st power of distance".

And "squared" is "2nd power"
I've read a great deal for the last 50 years, but I feel that this gives me little time for fiction. Every time I pick up a fictional work, I know that I'm going to be forgoing hours of reading or thinking about other things. I feel that I have limited time for fiction. Sadly, this causes me to miss out on the joy of reading good fiction.

It's easy to speed read technical material, especially with the benefit of 50 years of doing it--I simply look for the new material that is inevitably mixed with lots of introductory or background material; I really can't read fiction any faster than my normal relaxed, rather ordinary reading speed. Fiction can take so many twists and turns that it's not possible to dash through it without reading every paragraph.

Recently, I've been thinking about revisiting the subject of my undergrad degrees, Mathematics. I just don't know if I really have time in my life to go back and relearn Topology for example. I didn't appreciated (nor respect) it enough to learn it well when I took Topology 45 years ago, now I wish I recalled it.

It's sobering to consider how few kilo-days I've got left. :(
This is radically inaccurate.
If you send from an address, trash that address and never use it again. You can receive to an address as many times as you want but once you send from it you gotta move to a new address. The desktop wallet does this automatically so no need to worry about doing it yourself.
Isn't Ethereum inflationary and popular ?
For mode to fit into this unifying framework, this article assumes that 0^0 is not indeterminate and is instead simply 0 (instead of the more usual assumption of 1).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_the_power_of_zero

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html
Get a better phone? It works great for me :/.
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Univac I used mercury delay lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_I#Main_memory_details

They're called acoustic because a transducer much like what you'd use for a high frequency piezo speaker sitting on one end would inject pulses into the fluid mercury and the pulses would be detected on the other end of the delay line using a second transducer. You could do the exact same thing with a speaker, a microphone and air as your working fluid.
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1. Great communication skills: Both for communicating with the people who report to you and for the people you report to
2. Understanding the business's goals: This will help you prioritize projects in a way that helps the business the most
3. Managing office politics: Your direct reports may be gunning for each other's jobs or your own. You need to get everyone to work as a team instead of working as individuals. Improving your emotional intelligence can help here.
4. Knowing where to get help managing when you need it. Often talking to your boss or a former boss is a great way to go.

You might find this article I wrote helpful: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-be-a-great-manager/.
Exfiltrating a hard copy/digital copy proves to be a very traceable source for a leak.
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Readability and censorship are two very different things. At its surface, using plain language should not hinder any communication of ideas and would generally have benefits to achieving goals. Unless the standard prevents communication of ideas, I don't see any problem here.
I'm aware that it was posted to the New York Times. I saw the same thing presented on several news sites yesterday. The New York Times does not get a pass because of some appeal to authority. I don't want the Trump administration to make the CDC less useful. The New York Times publishing gossip doesn't improve the situation.
He runs one of the more prominent historical re-enactment suppliers in the country, so I think they see it as a form of advertising. Plus, you get the impression that he just genuinely loves to share his interests with people.

Somewhere there's a list of all the Hollywood movies that use Townsend clothes or props, it's not a short list.
I believe its metaphorical cannibalism.
And it is up to the journalist to decide when anonymity is warranted. We aren't talking about Watergate or the Pentagon Papers. This is gossip. Promoting gossip serves Trump, not the public.
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This is a really cool idea! I can't wait to see the kinds of games that could be built out with this.
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Requiring people to climb over traffic doesn't seem like an unreasonable imposition in most cases. That sort of physical activity is even a health benefit for most people. I'm sure there are exceptions.

All of the calming proposals create an imposition. The whole point of traffic calming is to impede the flow of traffic so as to reduce its speed. Without effective alternatives, reducing the speed of this road reduces its capacity to get people from one part of town to another, and it appears that state road 108 is, in fact a major road. It provides access to a number of businesses including a Walmart supercenter, churches, four public schools and city hall.

The obvious alternative to driving is a public bus service, which also uses the road. It stops near the two schools hourly most times of day.

So to make the interaction of the road and the schools safer, the city could redesign the road and make traffic worse, more substantially redesign the whole transportation infrastructure, or add a pedestrian overpass. The latter is not an insignificant project, but it usually costs less than the examples you linked.
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Those people should consider a difference device, then, or only using a passcode.
Was totally expecting this to be a plug for firebase (google's realtime database) but it actually comes with a koa server using websockets. Seems to be built with redux under the hood. No fancy conflict resolution and does syncing by serializing entire app state and sending it to each client after each move.
Later UNIVACs such as the 9000 series used plated wire memory (as described in http://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/plated-wire-storage). However, while plated wire memory uses magnetization (already similar to the hard disks we still use today), delay line memory exploits the finiteness of signal traveling times which is a totally different concept.

Back in these days, storing data was really a challenge. We are talking about working memory here, by the way. For persistent storage, all kind of punched cards and tapes were ubiquitous and magnetic tapes were in fashion. Still today, for cheap long term archival, magnetic tapes are unbeaten!
Unclosable pop-up.
Why is Silicon Valley so interested in censoring certain kinds of speech?
Please don't be fooled by the branding.

Evidence-Based Medicine[1] is a particular movement that makes particular claims about what sorts of evidence are better than other sorts of evidence, and how we should (re-)structure clinical practice to revolve around these.

In other words, EBC != evidence-based medicine. It strongly emphasizes large-scale studies at the expense of other types of empirical knowledge, namely the direct clinical experience of the practitioners.

What might be the harm in doing so? Why shouldn't we all rely only on large-scale meta-analyses to guide treatment?

1. There are important clinical questions that are difficult to measure in a double-blind clinical framework; the risk is that we end up optimizing what we can easily measure over what is truly important, the health of the patient.

2. It increasingly risks turning doctors into assembly-line technicians that are only there to take the indicated 'evidence-based' tests and treatments. It takes agency and decisionmaking effectively from the hands of doctors and transfers it to large research bureaucracies, which may or may not be asking the right questions.

It increases the social and informational distance between the patient and the point of decision-making -- which we've seen can have disastrous consequences (for example, in planned economies), when that distance impeded the smooth flow of information.

3. It presupposes the the studies and meta-analyses in the research pipeline are a good decomposition of the current state of medical knowledge. E.g. if there's an analysis that says 'treat a person with diabetes with treatment X', then that approach would work well, regardless of the specifics of the actual patient at the clinical level. Patients don't come cleanly with a single diagnositic label; most people with chronic conditions have more than one, for example.

Note that the methodology and effectiveness of Evidence-Based Medicine has itself not been subjected to rigorous large-scale scientific evaluation; we are literally being asked to take on faith that this particular 'EBC' implementation of evidence-based medicine will be better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine#Limita...
> And extremely rare situation won't be handled well by a human either.

Why not?
The safety that allows a child to travel alone should be a defining factor of a “first world” region.
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Presumably...
That’s a good point and I don’t think the journalist is making it up, although there have been quite a few cases of journalists being wrong or outright lying (eg, Dan Rather).

I think the bigger risk is that the source is wrong. Being able to confirm with multiple sources isn’t just about proving yourself as a journalist, but about verifying the story.

I look forward to the follow up stories to confirm or deny what this is about.

Like I said, HHS already has statements saying “that didn’t happen like that” so it’s an issue of HHS credibility vs. New York Times. Having better sources would remove this question.
Brilliant!
I'd love to combine this with terrific "Cheap-Ass Games" (like "Kill Dr Lucky") ...
and it's not?

Inflation harms fixed wage earners and pensioners far worse than "businessmen"
This is a good point, but it’s what makes journalism hard.

Fortunately, there are many ways to get hard copy / digital copy without traceability (eg, Wikileaks but not Reality Winner).
On my Android, the math is small but readable
So? If I were a CDC employee and I were fired for publishing policy, I would be proud of that. I'm sure many lawyers would love to represent such a person.
Please don't violate the guidelines like this. We ban accounts that do.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Depends on how you define "random" thief. Random as in someone taken randomly from anywhere on earth? Yeah, faceId is likely more secure. Is it random as in someone taken randomly from your city or country (which is the most likely scenario)? Then we're talking someone who is likely significantly closer genetically and in appearance to you, which greatly increases the odds of the thief being able to unlock the phone. In more isolated places like islands this effect is even more pronounced.

On the other hand, fingerprints don't suffer from that effect, as they're unaffected by genetic diversity.
One line from the discussion section of this paper seemed to capture the essence of the concern:

>Although Japan's rate
of homicide is low compared to many other advanced countries, Japan's rate of unexpected deaths including homicides, traffic accidents, industrial accidents, and suicides is near the median among the selected advanced industrial countries.
Because these people are career government employees. If they are specifically named, under this administration their career is likely ended.

And unlike the tech industry, people in these positions don't job-hop constantly.

They want the public to know about this [I can think of many unfavorable adjectives] behavior. But they don't want to lose their careers, put their families at economic risk, etc.

Acting as (responsible) intermediary in such circumstances is a time-honored and proven role of journalism, in the U.S. and other countries.

P.S. I'll add that the U.S. scientific community had a good, close look at such behavior as a preview, in the neighboring country of Canada under the Harper government.

To the point where they were collaborating with Canadian scientists to back up data before the Harper government erased it.

They are not merely reacting emotionally. They've seen Conservatives' (on either side of the border) play book for this for nigh on a decade, at least.
Is there a list of some games that were built using this cool framework?
Not at all. Up to C++14 MSVC is actually better than gcc or clang, it's the only compiler which fully implements C11 with its safety Annex K.

Only from C++17 on gcc and clang do have an advantage.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

The label worst std support would go to: EDG eccp, Intel C++, IBM XLC++, Sun/Oracle C++, Embarcadero C++ Builder, Cray, HP aCC [Collapse], Digital Mars C++

MSVC has very bad C support, this is their problem, not C++.
i was expecting the same as well. glad it wasnt!
The New York Times doesn’t have the credibility they once had. Sadly. I think after the Iraq War, even the Times has to prove themselves.
Which lines of longitude and latitude pass through the most countries?
I should note that square-error loss is not the only one that gives the average. Log-loss is another one, for example (you can prove it by taking the derivative of your minimization, setting it to zero and solving)
Perhaps the lack of public transport is a significant factor ("if you-the-parent are driving the kids around anyway, what do you do at destination? Hovering like a helicopter is the easiest option") - I got a traffic pass, a watch and a time of curfew when starting 3rd grade, and that was it (no cellphones back then). Most of my classmates had a similar arrangement, what with 5-20 minutes of public transport commute; in a city where public transit is both cheap and plentiful, it would not make sense to even own a car for most people, other than a status symbol.
And to be completely fair, this was originally broken by Washington Post, which has a long history of corroborating their sources. I understand that an appeal to authority is hard to stomach these days, but I believe that Washington Post has shown more than enough evidence that they investigate their sources' claims thoroughly before publishing. If you don't want to trust this right now, that's your prerogative, and you can wait for the official comment by the administration.
Fuck that sounds difficult. Let's just menace someone until he confesses.
PC is not just not being offensive.

It's also limiting debate, policies, administrative measures, politicization of science, etc.
You could have learned them from a very algebraic source, I suppose.
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That second face has to look a lot like yours to get adddd via training.

And if you are one of those couples that look alike enough to be able to train the phone, why do you care? You already gave your spouse full access via your passcode.
They’re still going to get the money. Landing fees will go up.
That really only applies if you have a narrow view of which writers are journalists. Lots of people make stuff up.
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passcodes are the least secure method for almost everyone.
Still in alpha but accepts real-money deposits in the tens of thousands. I think the market was unprepared for anyone being that brazen.
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