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In the modern day, the difference between civilian and terrorist is so blurred (not only in factually but also in time - fon't forget, USA's founding fathers were terrorists, if you asked the UK monarchy) even humans often cannot tell. Do we trust AIs to?
I wouldn't recommend Shaw's stuff to anyone, but being Python 3 opponent for a long time doesn't seem like a solid point. Armin Ronacher was hating on unicode in Python 3 and writing stuff in Python 2 only long after Python 3 has "won", doesn't make him a bad programmer and such.
Unicode handling. Python2's implementation on that is broken.
While I agree with some of your points much of what you say is unnecessarily simplistic and partisan. As John Prados writes “what actually happened was more complex.” This article is about the details of what actually happened not revisiting political arguments from the 1960s and 1970s.

John Prados is no “Vietnam revisionist” or right-winger. If you read his main book on Vietnam War, “Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975”, you will learn that he was actually an anti-war activist during the war. He later became one of our top military historians and has written several books on the Vietnam war. Prados is particularly known for his advocacy for openness in government records. This article draws from once secret documents that Prados helped uncover and declassify.

Lastly it is almost universally acknowledged that the Tet Offensive was militarily a disaster for the NVA/Viet Cong and huge win for ARVN/US forces. This is a common refrain in the most histories of the war and this NYTimes series, Vietnam ‘67. The political debates about the war are separate matters.
Could you provide some detail about what Piketty said?
It’s what I use at work, but I’m not super happy with it. It seems to crash quite a bit unless you work exclusively in the Linux filesystem. So you lose a lot of the advantages of having a native Unix desktop.
It's not about controlling all the people, it's about controlling a significant percentage of people.
Characters like Arpaio are relatively uncommon in lower levels of the US gov. Corruption in Brazil is endemic. Pretty sure theres a large difference.

US may occasionally see third-world-BS, but in many places elsewhere in the world it is a fact of life.
I made no recommendation about doing what others do, just pointing out some facts, why did everyone trip out defensively? Maybe it's the guilty conscience speaking.

And it is guilty conscience because you know that those problematic actions netted the aggressor (the most successful ones at any rate) plenty of benefits that many people still enjoy to this day.

I don't think the world should go down this road, and there are such things as international norms. That's why when one country ignores them continually and also gains from doing so, it becomes very disadvantageous to refrain and tempting to emulate. In that regard it absolutely matters to talk about the fact that "the US did it" and still does in a another way. Same goes for China or Russia.
> The lion's share of the mainstream media is biased to the left,

No, it's not. The lions share of media workers may have left-of-center leanings, but media firms aren't coops, so that doesn't actually matter; old media corporations are not owned and run by leftists, or even left-of-center-ists.

The mainstream media may be getting increasingly distant from the Republican Party by standing still (or, at least, moving to the right more slowly), politically, while the Republican Party continues the sprint to the far right that it's been doing since the moment the Democratic Party, led—dragged, really—by Bill Clinton, itself shifted right to form the center-right neoliberal consensus of the early 1990s.

(I call this response an “Overton Slingshot”, because while the tactical move to the right by Dems may have had short term electoral benefits for those left of center in getting slightly less conservative Democrats elected over Republicans—though whether it had any tactical value is itself highly debatable—it definitely was a long term disaster for them in the way it shifted the Overton Window.)
>I think you ruined your point at the end there by implying this attitude is unique to those that are religious.

/s/Jesus/trickle down

I think that fixes it
> Putting a tesla in space doesn't matter.

Second-guessing a choice of test payload for a new, risky rocket design definitely doesn't matter.

Cheaper and better weather and communications satellites, that matters.
I think this is a key point. To say "X has failed" when the truth is "X was done wrong / badly and it failed."

While a vaccine might not be a license to _____, it also fails to address education, personal responsibility, etc. Sure there are health benefits but if everyone gets a trophy so to speak when and how will the lack of learning Y manifest itself later?

That is, give the vaccine. Sure. But don't be so naive to think that education in some form isn't still necessary.

Furthermore, Mother Nature is clever and crafty. It's only a matter of time, now that protection is less necessary, before she comes up with something new.

I'm not a Luddite. But there are two sides to every advance, and we almost always igrore the unintended consequences until it's too late.
As you said, this is equivalent to factorisation in terms of complexity. The Wikipedia article[0] on the subject does a good job of summarising the details of this in the section "Other properties of repeatend lengths".

For a simple answer, the lengths are bounded above by Euler's totient function [1] (the sum of factors) of the denominator. Any tighter bounds depend on the specific primes in the factorisation.

Note that Euler's totient function is "always 'nearly n'" in magnitude (Hardy and Littlewood), so that representation will be very expensive for most fractions of large denominator.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_totient_function
tino shows a default or delayed rate of around 25%. That means your returns are not risk free.
[0] -> If we're talking robot armies, it will still depend on a "smaller" state's access to resources. You can't build robots out of thin air, unless you plan on hacking yourself one. But that depends on someone building one in the first place.
One could, but it would be a statement completely divorced from reality.
That is a very interesting idea and a lot more do-able than what I originally asked. If you post it, I would come over there to discuss, but today I wanted to explore the idea of representative democracy vs direct democracy.

Please don't think I'm actually trying to implement this. just trying to further my understanding and develop my own opinions about the issues.
Most companies are run by people with souls, so I doubt this. Most corporations though, there you might have a point.
This is in the third paragraph of the article.
Past performance does not guarantee future returns. One could say something similar about the 50 year period ending in 1910. WWI, WWII, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot really skew the average.
Yeah, I can't believe a majority of voters went for HRC.
That's the point though. The USPS costs more then it takes in, by a lot. Yeah, it's due to regulators, but they're not going anywhere. That's exactly the argument against having USPS pick up additional responsibilities like banking. The USPS opens a bank branch in every post office, now those same regulators (who can't even agree on increasing the price of a stamp) are pricing loans and opening checking accounts? What reason is there to believe that would end well, especially when it's a whole new line of business for them?

Not complaining, but the fact I'm getting hammered by downvotes on all of these responses is mind boggling to me. I'm surprised how much of the tech world apparently thinks this is a good idea.
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Obviously video game journalists should be in charge.
This is, I'm sure, butchering the details to some degree or another, but in brief:

Piketty's primary thesis is that as the rate of return on capital grows, so too does inequality between holders of capital and the lower classes. The rate of return on capital has been increasing steadily since the start of the industrial revolution. In order to reduce inequality without abolishing our entire system of economy and government, the most obvious lever is to reduce the rate of return on capital. The most obvious way to do that is to tax it.
The actual claim seems to be: inequality looks much more extreme if instead of comparing people's total wealth you compute their wealth minus housing and pensions.

I dare say that's true, but I don't see any good reason why you should do the comparison that way. (Other than a desire to make the figures look more extreme, I guess.)

Suppose Alice has $500k in pension funds, a house worth $400k, and $100k in ordinary non-retirement savings. And suppose Bob has $100k in pension funds, rents rather than owns his house (a similar one to Alice's), and has $900k in ordinary non-retirement savings.

Apparently Ruccio wants us to consider Bob much richer than Alice, because he has $900k in non-housing non-pension wealth whereas Alice only has $100k of that. But their real situations are extremely similar, and most likely Alice is actually better off because her pension funds will be subject to less tax.
These tools ever adjust for taxes paid when you trigger a cap gain. It usually assume you never sell and buy a different stock
comparing prices has been done way before online shopping just took more time and effort. there are of course things that can not be compared though like crafted and one of a kind type things.
Having no talent and no achievements I have no plans for this. My only wish is my browsing history dies with me.
You can get iodine from sources other than iodised salt. Vitamin D is often combined with iodine in supplements, for example.
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Honestly curious as I only know of a few cryptocurrencies. -
- Are there over 500 types of cryptocurrencies?
- If so, can anything past top 5 even survive (long term, like a few years?)
- Doesn't the increase in amount of coins dilutes its own value?
Unless you discover an internal bug in Python 2 in which case it will never be fixed. Depending on the source of the bug, your options then become: (1) maintain your own patched version, (2) upgrade Python to a version where it is fixed, or (3) use something else. I would personally choose #2.
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The USPS spent $2.7B more than it gained in revenue from taxes.

By taxes, did you mean fees (postage and other fees)?

In analyzing USPS financials, bear in mind that they have to pre-fund all of their potential long-term pension and healthcare liabilities[0], unlike other arms of government.

[0] https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
Thanks! I'll post something new in a few weeks on my site :)
Tried starting a company to connect big brands with manufacturers. It was not a pretty picture. The brands made it almost impossible for the factories to make a decent profit without cutting corners.
Think Permissions. Authentication backends. For the world, as it is.
Built it into the thing right form the beginning. Always.

There is no future for mediocre frameworks that do not come with what is most hard to get right - knowing who to let in and what to allow them - that is the most important hackers work - to collect that knowledge in devoted collaboration is the noble generations teaching.

The work that does not make the reasoning on locks and keys its cornerstone looks hollow, inchoate, empty. No need for just another lightweight paper castle, no matter how magic your language speaks - it needs to fill the needs of a warriors world, full of dark and evil souls, so better you draft with shelter always on your mind.
Earth's orbital eccentricity has nothing at all to do with its seasons. It's nearly a perfect circle right now. The reason Earth has seasons is because of the axial tilt relative to the plane of rotation. In the northern summer, the northern hemisphere is angled towards the sun, and in the northern winter, it's angled away. This repeated incorrect claim in the article is frustrating, because it's otherwise describing a fascinating theory.
As a US citizen concerned with our bloated military budget but who also wants the US to remain the strongest military nation on Earth, I'd like to cut $100 billion from the $600 billion plus yearly US military budget, and allocate that money to infrastructure and social programs. We would still have by far the largest military budget in the world after this.

Whoever knows about the US military budget, how feasible would this be? What is the bulk of the military budget dedicated to?
Because a lot of it is pretty simply rooted in economics.

If you want your kids to go to school, there needs to be resources for that to happen (and you personally have to have enough resources that you aren't using them for labor).
Who cares about software and github repositories after death? I certainly don't.
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Ask HN: Does the regular Outlook.com have a lite version?
The Outlook Web App sucks. It takes minutes to load if it loads at all. When on a slower connection it is impossible to use. I don't know why Microsoft has to have such a clunky piece of crap.

Anyway, is there a lite version at all? Not for Office 365, but just for the regular Outlook email.
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It would make some sense to subtract off a fixed amount for "basic housing" and another for a basic pension.

But that's not what Ruccio wants to do. He wants to exclude all housing and pension wealth. That's crazy! It means that given two people in the exact same financial situation, if one of them decides they want to spend more of their money on a really nice house (or a house somewhere really expensive) then suddenly that person is -- for the purposes of Ruccio's calculations -- much poorer. Likewise if one of them decides they want to move a load of their money into (tax-efficient) pension funds. Nonsense: this reflects a difference in priorities and preferences, not in wealth.
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How bad of a job the UX people at Twitter are doing, that we have to come up with apps like this to read the feed!

This looks really cool. I wish they were flexible about organizing our feed.
> Republicans cause government dysfunction on purpose, then advocate cutting it because it "doesn't work".

Meh. The ability of a bureaucracy to screw things up transcends the ideology of those who think they are directing it.
FWIW I submitted it under the original title, "OpenTable Infuriates Restaurants With Fake Reservations Scheme", but I'm guessing it was changed to clarify that in the article, blame has so far only been assigned to an individual employee, and only the company Reserve was targeted.
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Why is slow and low quality rail great for freight?
They're upset because...they're getting something for next to nothing (in terms of hard dollars)?

Should there be more transparency? Sure.

But even so, being naive is only going to manifest itself somewhere else. The Nanny State will never win that race.
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Thanks, we've updated the link from https://www.marketwatch.com/story/econ-professor-says-expert..., which points to this.
One of the proclaimed reasons for which Japan invaded Asia in the Second World War was to oppose European nations (Japan included Russia and the US in this) colonizing Asia. I am sure to Japan that didn't (and if you probe Japanese deeply, still doesn't) sound very bully-like. Yet, we know what happened.

Let's not beat around the bush. This is a rising country's way of saying, I pwn my backyard (so you can't pwn it) and I will use my might to defend it. Of course the one saying that doesn't sound like a bully to himself.
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What is the typical interest rate in these situations, both in banks and pawn brokers?

I read somewhere that it's usually 200% APR, for pawn brokers, so if you are inherently paying ~20%/month in interest I feel like this is a very bad value proposition.
>Just because Python 3 is the shiny new version and the future of the language doesn't change that there is going to be a lot of Python 2 out there and folks will need to learn and understand it.

1) Teaching beginners' Python 2 , the motives are suspicious -- especially considering Googles' use of Python 2 internally.

It's not entirely noble to train beginners' to familiarize themselves on languages that are on their way out just so that they can maintain your legacy code once they get some experience. It's profit maximizing, speaks to their thought-process behind the employees' career, and points towards a culture that's uninterested in internal improvement when things work to turn a profit.

2) Python 2 is not Python, it's Python 2. Programming tutorials for "Python" muddy the search-query waters and make it difficult for beginners to find specific information. This happened to the Lisps, and it's a big barrier to entry for beginners to the language(s).

3) Python 2 can be easily understood by Python 3 users. In fact, it's often more verbose and easier to wrap your head around than Python 3, and the syntactic differences are minor unless you're using advanced features.

I'm sure Google is just releasing internal stuff that's been around for years -- I just think its' disingenuous to refer to what they teach as 'Python'.

Yeah; it's Python if you're a googler; it's python 2 to the rest of the world -- and it's on the way out.

P.S. if my company sent me to a seminar on COBOL, i'd be well aware of the position they expected of me -- and i'd have one foot out the door.
Hi i'm founder of https://bitbank.nz a crypto currency live prediction dashboard/API/bulk data service.

Our system streams in market data from exchanges, creates forecasts with python/sk-learn and displays the data, we also have background processes that updates our accuracy over time once real data is available.

We test our code with the normal python unit/integration/end to end testing methods locally with local copies of all of our components (except firebase for live UI updates, we don't have a dev version of that yet just use live forecast data when testing the UI charts/display), would probably get expensive/cumbersome to setup dev environments with local firebases in them.

with deployment we simply ssh into machines, git pull latest code and supervisorctl restart so its fairly low tech, the forecaster has a roughly minute outage when we deploy new models because there is a decent process that computes and caches a data structure of historical features for use in the forecaster.

In terms of maintaining a reliable online stream of data input, feature computation/prediction pipeline we run the code under supervisor aswell as running a manager process under supervisor, that manager process checks if conditions are turning bad (OOM/no progress updates by the forecaster) and restarts things if anything goes wrong.

For testing we also use the standard training/test data split when running backtesting/machine learning optimisation algorithms to train parameters of the algorithm.
If things perform better on training and test data over a long enough time period to build confidence then we will deploy a new model.

Using graphite/graphana to monitor prediction accuracy over time is a good idea as mentioned already :) and some kind of alerting/monitoring if things go down.
In the UK there's a startup called Birdsong [1] that's providing local, ethically sourced clothing.

They're still fairly small, but growing, and recently completed a successful crowdfunding campaign. They came through the same accelerator [2] as we did with Overleaf (then known as WriteLaTeX) back in 2013.

[1] https://birdsong.london

[2] https://bethnalgreenventures.com
I keep a free wordpress.com blog assuming it will last longer than me.

Further to that I have my keepass password manager with the master password written down on paper.

Then my spouse has access to my email and knows from keepass all the accounts I have.

I'm not sure what to do about domain names. I guess they'll just lapse and free up for the next in line with my name.

I think twitter and Facebook accounts should be nuked. I've never said anything important there.
Not sure what you consider the difference between a "company" and a "corporation", but I know a lot of people who work for small government contractors that definitely have "souls". Not everybody has the same ethical standpoint on military technology.
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Agree. Before I read the article I assumed that this would be a tongue-in-cheek series of suggestions that would destroy twitter.
Funnily enough I tried later on desktop and it kept sending me to a blank page with text saying "WTF dude".

"Works" is certainly an overstatement.
There are about 900 listed on Coinmarketcap cap right now or thereabouts. In total, it should be over 1500. If there is anything my research for this project has taught me, majority of the coins didn't need to do an ICO when all they were building were simple apps.

So no, I don't think the majority will survive (hence the need for this project) but the survivors will be so astonishing and will give amazing returns.
> An interesting property of word vectors (which are usually 300-600 dimensional vectors) is that most are quasi-orthogonal.

I think it would be more interesting if this wasn't the case. The set of all possible English words is <200,000, with probably 10% of those being in common use. Given the small set, large number of dimensions, and the nature of language, it seems likely that non-random word vectors would tend towards orthogonality.

I'm assuming you mean that, "I will run with Bob" and "I will jog with Stacy" are not orthogonal, because they convey a very similar message, but are orthogonal to, "Man, that was a good beer."
Freight by truck is worth it because of flexibility and reduced latency, flexibility and reduced latency are worth it because of just-in-time production, just-in-time production is worth it because of less inventory, less inventory is worth it because of less money locked up in inventory, less money locked up in inventory is worth it because of better cash flow on the quarterly reports, better cash flow on the quarterly reports is worth it because it makes the stock market like your company more, the stock market liking your company more is worth it because ???

We might just find out the things we thought are worth it, are not really. It works the other way around, too, of course, which is that the increased per-mile cost is still way below what it would have to be with the externalities accounted for.
if 22000 is the mean they are equally like to be getting paid less.

(well actually if it's the median it's equally likely but for practical purposes...)
"They're upset because...they're getting something for next to nothing (in terms of hard dollars)?"

That's a rather disingenuous way of putting it.

"The Nanny State"

That's an even more disingenuous way of putting things.
Housing and pension wealth are a fundamentally different kind of wealth than, e.g. factories, farmland, businesses, rental properties etc.

The clearest contrast is between a house and a factory. If you own a factory, you have economic power - you can hire workers, pay them $X dollars, and get $X+Y dollars from what they produce.

The point is that housing and pension wealth doesn't produce surplus, whereas financial and business wealth does. I don't know if I fully understand the pensions argument, but I absolutely agree with the housing argument.