skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But my point was you cannot look at a historical event and say "Well this happened, so that was the chance."

If the event happens repeatedly, you absolutely can! If someone attempts something 20 times, and it works 10 of them, you can conclude that there's an approximately 50% chance of success. You have a sample size! The exact same thing is true for a statement like "the chance of an astronaut dying is approximately 1 in 25". We have the sample size to show that.

>That's the basis for the silly internet joke "The chance is 50/50, either it happens or it doesn't."

No, that's totally different. That's a misunderstanding of priors. What you're doing is more like forgetting that the law of large numbers is a thing.
I strongly disagree. In this case, I think understanding of the SLS is not something that would be expected from the audience reading his comment, and summing it up as the Senate Launch System, of course lacks nuance, but simultaneously does a great job of explaining what it is, why it's so critically flawed, and finally why individuals of certain affiliations would have surreptitious motivations in something that seems like it ought be as distanced from politics as possible.
I get that. But damn, it'd suck if Birchbox does become successful, and the new investors get all (or most of) the benefit.

I guess that it's like poker. The initial investors could have increased their investments, to meet Birchbox's operating losses, but they didn't. And that's like folding on a hand.
That report came out 32 years ago. The article suggests that the space agency has become more safety-obsessed over time.
Take-Two Interactive's Kerbal Space Program has a new restrictive EULA
Russia to New York

I lived in New York for 5,5 months (the max period allowed on one continuous stay on a B1 visa in the USA).

Cons: I wasted ~3000usd on rent

Pros: I, never having been outside former Soviet Union, flew straight to another part of the world, without any connections, without friends, alone, with some money that only appeared to be sufficient to be spent on rent and food. I managed to rent a room (never done so before in my life), I tested if I could find a job in NY (yea, guys, don't be hurt by this, this is illegal, and I never actually worked while staying in the USA, so i didn't breach visa terms, I was only testing the possibility of finding work there - and that was very easy, I found a low-paid position on the second day of looking for it). I was amazed by how much people in America respect your privacy, talked to some people, developed a daily routine - not too sophisticated but still I managed to survive some 7000 or so miles from home, and it wasn't too difficult and I came to one of the main conclusions in my life - the world is much smaller than I thought, and in order to fly anywhere and live anywhere you just need some rather humble amount of money. This 'global thinking' replaced rather depressive 'local thinking' framework I was thinking in previously and in that regard now I am happy that I have realized that.
Some declarations of the limits of computers jump out to me as dated:

"The inability to develop good translation software has been one of the most embarrassing failures of Artificial Intelligence. If the best computers in the world are unable to translate from French into English..."

"in the calculus final exams at my university we usually ask for exact (not decimal) answers. For example, sin(60°)=\sqrt{3}/2, not 0.866; the circumference of a circle is 2 pi r, not 6.283r"

Also, the comparison of computers to automobiles in order to dismiss them is odd, as driver's education was part of school when I attended in the 90s. And so was auto repair, which I regretted not taking in later years.

A computer from 1996 seems, in today's context, rather ironically like "simple, unstructured play material like clay, sand, blocks, rag dolls, and finger-painting sets".
> Global emissions have been rising in recent years, not falling.

It's been said that (a) every living creature is influenced by environment, and (b) humans tend to do things harmful to themselves near an "end".
I think it's also similar, to a lesser degree, to modern card-based banking, in which all the money physically sits in a vault and only changes hands virtually. (But this lacks the concept of ownership being determined by distributed consensus.)
I am not the author, however there is a full discussion in the paper... https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01407

To summarise...

Xoroshiro256+ is slightly faster but fails some linearity tests in the low order bits, however when generating 64 bit floats only 53 bits are used, thus if you take the most significant 53 bits then Xoroshiro256+ is perfectly fine. It's also probably fine for generating the full 64 bits for the vast majority of cases, unless you have some very specific requirements. But for peace of mind there is the option to take the 15% slower version for a PRNG that is still sub-nanosecond (per 64 bits generated, on contemporary superscalar CPUs) and that passes all tests that the authors were aware of.
Check out Blendle https://blendle.com/

They aren't Apple but they do the pay per article thing.
There are some benefits in terms of product as well, if Adobe knows they have subscription revenue then they may be more focussed on fixing bugs and keeping existing customers than adding dubious features in an attempt to get upgrade revenue.
How many of your friends had anything less than 3 A's (A* since 2010) at A-level?

There's 424,000 students got into university [0] and Cambridge enrols 3,480 out of 17,000 applicants [1]. So they don't take even 1% and only the top 4% of students even bother applying.

Edit: I suspect that 3,480 includes overseas students which makes the the percentage of UK enrolments is even less.

Further [1]:

> In 2006, 5,228 students who were rejected went on to get 3 A levels or more at grade A

Perhaps being surrounded by the top 1% makes you feel very normal/average, but there's certainly nothing normal about the Cambridge applicants and your figure of 10% definitely isn't correct.

I got accepted at Imperial with predictions of ABC (+ no extra curricular) to do Maths and Computer Science there's no way Oxford or Cambridge would have looked at me without 4 A's + a significant amount of extra curricular activities.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/education/live/2016/aug/18/a-lev...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge#Admiss...
"Lessons learned from hosting my personal website on AWS"
Scrambled Linear Pseudorandom Number Generators
No batteries?
There's no reason why a publication can't charge more for an in-depth piece. I'd gladly pay far more for a comprehensive exposé.
Most of the time if they bite they aren't being malicious, generally you are doing something they don't like so they nip you to tell you to stop or most often they are just scared. If you understand how to handle them few cats are actually a problem, my wife works at an animal hospital (where the cats are generally pretty stressed out) and she's only really been bitten once
I think you're right in that ghc's actual implementation is something like that, but it is a bit lacking in describing the semantics. To see why, imagine functions:

getLine :: RealWorld -> (String, RealWorld)

putLine :: RealWorld -> String -> RealWorld

And some code like:

Let (line, w1) = getLine w0
w2 = putLine w1 line
w3 = putLine w2 "other stuff"
w4 = putLine w3 line
...

Now, imagine an optimization compiler for some reason decides it would be better to recompute `line`, rather than hang on to the value in the interim. It would be well within its rights to do so, because referential transparency guarantees that this is safe.

IIRC ghc essentially "plays dumb" and just never duplicates a computation (which is not typically a desirable optimization at this level, though register allocators will sometimes do it). But it's arguably a hack.

A better metaphor is to think of values of type IO a as fragments of a script in some other (imperative) language. The Haskell program merely computes the script, and the runtime then takes care of actually executing it. In this sense, effects in Haskell are not "side" -- they are first class citizens. What order the fragments of the imperative program are computed in (or how many times) is independent of the text of the final program.

In very early versions of Haskell, main had a type roughly like [Response] -> [Request]; you computed a list of things for the runtime to do, as a function of the results of its (hopefully) previous commands. This kinda works, but it's easy to deadlock by creating a circular data dependency. What the Monad structure does for you is avoid that problem, by making it impossible to depend on a future value.

It's also worth pointing out that all of this is specific to IO; understanding monads in general are neither necessary nor sufficient to understand Haskell's IO.
There is nothing we can do to Earth that will get the survivability level even close to any other option out there.
Because it is also mostly a prejudice. Well treated cats are very friendly and attached, specially if born and raised in a good environment.

Even stray cats usually responds well to good care if you know what you're doing and have the endurance, skills and resources to do so.
Sidepact: start a company with a full-time job
It's not a test of the technology. This has been tried many times before. Perhaps most famously by the Cousteau Society, with their expedition ship 'Alcyone' built in the mid 80's. It used two, and they called them Turbosails.

I was fortunate enough to have been given a tour when I was a child and the ship visited Sydney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail

http://colaco.freeshell.org/downloads/alcyone/zoom_alcyone_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_(ship)
It seems to me that there's one very obvious difference: once software is created, creating more copies of it is almost free. The reason pyramid schemes collapse is that they require an exponentially increasing amount of new deposits to keep up with the payments owed to existing depositors, and that's just not how software publishing works. So long as there's a sufficient stream of customers buying, it doesn't cost much more to keep everyone up to date than it does just the new customers, and if there isn't then forcing repurchases won't necessarily fix that.
Commenting like this will get you banned here, and you've unfortunately been uncivil in the past too.

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Healthifyme is doing something on similar lines but there are based out of India right now.
Also means attackers are much easier to spot in the logs. It's also a point of real interest if an attacker took the time to port scan you first in order to detect which port your ssh is on.
Gogs author didn't want to incorporate proposed changes into Gogs, so a bunch of other developers forked Gogs and went on their own promoting Gitea as true open-source by spirit and blamed Gogs author for his inflexibility. I am using Gogs, becuase it has all I need (Gitea is too little added value for me)...
Indeed they are going to come and go.

But, generally this will be to a much more predictable level that if you are relying on upfront sales. Unless you really mess up your product, if someone subscribed last month, you can generally predict that there is a, say, 95% chance that they will still be subscribed next month.

If it is a one off payment, then you know you aren't getting any income from them and you just have to hope your sale people are going to do their job next month.

It has nothing to do with lock in. That's a bit of a red herring. You can have just the same (or more) chance of a repeat subscriber by creating a really good product as you will with some kind of hostage strategy. As you say, not a winning business model.

My experience here comes from more business to business where a months worth of expenses would be covered with 1-2 sales. I had times when the sales people would just disappear on extended unannounced holidays or decide to move to a different job without informing anyone. With our business strategy relying so heavily on upfront sales to maintain the cash flow, it was not a fun position to be in!

Things may well be different with consumer products where sales volumes are in the thousands of units.
>And yes, it is for their own good to not have thousands of databases with their data littered across the internet.

"With their data". Aka whether or not they liked a group pertaining to motorcycles or whether they searched for fishing rods on google. Yeah, we definitely need to shut off what is the most consumer friendly way of monetizing services in history so that a database of inane shit that is only relevant to marketers isn't tracked.
CloudFront is AWS's CDN product, and is charged on volume. CloudFlare is a separate company that sits in a similar place in your service map, but is very differently priced.
Generally agreed, but one should beware that even killing a process can still be quite destabilizing if that process was messing about with, say, shared memory.

Still, at least those "dangerous situations" are a bit more obvious/explicit when we're talking about processes rather than threads where everything is shared by default.
Best of luck. As a European user I look forward to the added protection this app will afford me.
I feel like Ulysses wouldn't have gotten nearly so many complaints if (a) they'd given some way cross-apply the license purchase price to a subscription, instead of expecting recent purchasers to shell out a premium price a second time to get updates, and (b) they'd actually had any substantial feature updates to show for it, instead of almost all attention since then going to just making the iOS app act more like the desktop app.
Most of this seems relative to your own personal preference for moral codes, etc. In the West, we've generally settled on a set of morals that many people agree with (although it seems to be splintering now that the world is becoming far more complex), whereas in other countries they have their own set of generally accepted morals. Barring a dictate passed down from the creator of the world, morals are a man made construct, a matter of many opinions typically subject to local culture, so any argument fundamentally based on morals seems flawed and can lead to conclusions like "all economic development anywhere in the world is beneficial to all other parts of the world".
lost karma posting truth.. hf with this commie forum.. LMAO "hacker news".. centralized garbage
talk to him, try to see what are his intentions wrt biz before making any decision. It might turn out that he himself may no longer be interested. If he is interested try to see what he thinks is the value of it? and would he be interested in taking your stake for it?I see people running away all the time when i ask them to put the money where their mouth is!
> More recently, however, scientists discovered that cells could package their molecular information in what are known as extracellular vesicles.

Seems like cells then need some type message-response mechanism. It could be that there's an incidental minmax game happening at a cellular level, leading to types of intelligence that we don't understand at all but maybe can be modeled.

I think this creates incredible disruption opportunities for drugs and healthcare if AI can augment the intelligence of a cell in the long term.
It's merely that it's going to be safer to be far enough away.

edit: i cant reply so quickly due to rules so to clarify for what you asked me in response, I'm talking about being a certain radius away from a killzone. You need more information to verify this.
> Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format. That “quality” costs enormous sums in engineering and design talent, not to mention massively increasing bandwidth and storage costs.

Says who ?

In other news: stuff costs money.
The difference of not using nuclear power in Germany is less than 1% of the planned 40% reduction, even if we assume that only the worst coal plants are used to substitute. This is a larger problem, sadly. (That said, by now I'm all for keeping the nuclear plants running a few years longer, but that is not enough by far.)
I’m not forgetting anything. The actual shuttle missions were not a statistical experiment or a consistent action where you can say “well this is what happened so that was the chance of death on an individual shuttle flight.”

It only means that’s your chance if you have the technology from quantum leap (the tv show) and you randomly land in the body of one of the participants.

as I said already the shuttle and everything around it evolved. The crews changed. Trying to say “the actual chance of death was this based on how many people died.” is silly.
Sorry, assumed you hinted at that since that was the premise of the article linked here.
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Where would you deem safer and why?
Yes, but this is true of many wild animals as well. The whole meaning of "domestication" is to change an animal's instincts to be more intuitive and easy to manipulate using human socio-tribal instincts, without knowing anything about how the animal thinks per se.

Or: you don't need to do this with dogs—at least the breeds people actually keep as pets—because [those breeds of] dogs have been bred for friendliness.
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Yes, this made me laugh as the first thing I did when I got to that page was was switch to Reader view.
Nice Job there.
How much it differs from Flipboard / Pocket ?
Came here to find this sentiment and am glad.

My bit to add:
Since somewhere they can't be responsible for doing without a given service (have everything), someone is at fault! The developers! Of course, those lazy bastards.
Its going to be a real problem for Adobe. Their biggest apps (PS/AI/IND) haven’t had real upgrade worthy updates in years. Competing apps like Affinity Photo are pretty much 1 to 1 replacements. Eventually some significant portion of Adobe’s core users are going to go elsewhere.
Show HN: Python script to get historical OHLC data from GDAX
I wrote this Python script to gather OHLC data (with 1min interval) from GDAX. It's open-source (MIT) and I've been running it daily for about 3 months and gathered 6160206 records (571MB). You can get it on GitHub:

https://github.com/arthurk/gdax-ohlc-import

Feel free to write here if there are any suggestions or questions.
Depends on your mission.

In my experience, the companies that succeed are those who are sincere in wanting to help their customers.
> If the people who happen to be on the other side of an arbitrary, invisible line don't have rights, then neither do you.

If a communist dictator takes over a country (on the other side of an arbitrary line) and reduces rights, my rights are also reduced? Could you possibly explain the mechanism of how this works, and maybe even provide some examples?
What about letting the astronauts decide what level of risk they are comfortable with?
- Cali sets up rules / situation which makes cost of living very high

- Cali residents flee state to other more sane states that don't have these rules / situations

- Cali residents then vote for the same types of rules / situations in their new home state
Why don't you edit the page then if it's so misguided?
Skatole
Look at the price of residential-zoned lots versus the price of a finished home. The cost of a house isn't in the building.
For me, those two points are inseparable. But I’ve also spent the last several years of my career focusing on maximizing profits within consumer subscribeables...

There are only so many ways to make money: ads, once off charges, term payments, and recurring charges. A consumer license to use vs physical ownership is incredibly interesting. Buying a Mario Brothers cartridge for the original Nintendo vs games delivered online. You could see a compelling case for the Nintendo Switch to offer a subscription service giving access to X games every month.

I don’t find either right or wrong. They just “are” so to speak.
I used 'humanity' to link to humanitarianism and the humanities.

Civilisation has ... other connotations.
what will that be? Popular VR?

My impression is that Microsoft has been falling down on the job for some time. in the '90s and aughts a computer felt slow after three years, and was nigh unusable after five, even for just word processing and web browsing.

These days? the almost new MacBook I'm typing this on only comes with 8gb ram; that was a decent (but not great) loadout in 2011. And my thinkpad? the other laptop I use? It is from 2011, also has 8gb ram, and runs just fine. As far as I can tell, the big difference between my ancient laptop and my new one is that my new one is way thinner (and has a keyboard that is dramatically more vulnerable to foreign matter)

I mean, I do own an occulus rift, and it does very much require a modern computer to run, but as far as I can tell, that's pretty niche. Hardware requirements just aren't going up the way they used to.
Official announcement by Take-Two on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/games/220200/announcements/detail...
Migrants turn historic Greek park into hellhole
Author/maintainer here. I see someone else posted Inbucket four years ago, but it's changed a lot since then.

Website: https://www.inbucket.org/
GitHub: https://github.com/jhillyerd/inbucket

Inbucket was my first project in Go, and I have been slowly adding to it ever since.
I wwas thinking about the same concept a few days ago. thanks a lot for creating this.

Query: How often it rescans the link to check the new comments?
If it's a new server (like your example) there should be no other user already logged in. If it's not new, then you'll get a warning. And focusing on the "shortlived", so the damage is also shortlived...

I can only speak for myself, if other people are ignoring warnings, it's their problem.
Does scuttlebutt offer something like this? or only git repository hosting?
I don't do literary translations, but I have done plenty of technical translations from Japanese to English. The biggest mistake I see novices make is trying to do a literal, word-for-word translation. It never works because the language structures and cultures are too different.

The key to a good translation, in my mind, is understanding the source language and the content well enough that you can write a good target translation that reads as though it was written in the target language to start with. The point of translating something is to convey an idea, not a list of vocabulary words and grammar structures.
> First of all, the nationalist assumption

Could you possibly direct us to what definition you are using for Nationalism? Judging by your words, it doesn't remotely resemble anything I've ever read.
But 50€ a month is way too much for casual users.

I do some vector design work maybe once a month. I'd love to buy a license for Illustrator, if it cost whatever it used to cost before Creative Cloud. I would use it for a long time.

But 50€ per month is too much. So I bought a license for Affinity Designer instead. It covers most of my needs, and it's no subscription. I also bought a license for Sketch, since the subscription is optional.

I'd love to use the same tools as professional designers, but they've become too expensive.
Not so obvious. Prop 13 puts a cap on property taxes.
Exactly. No one cares what the product costs to make, they care what it costs from their own pocket. If the app isn't worth $40, then it doesn't have the features and/or the polish to have multiple full-time developers working on it. If the price people are willing to pay is lower than your cost of goods sold, lower your COGS or raise your value proposition. Those are the only options.