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> No it is not. Your statement of the problem does not rule out only the coefficient of x^0 being positive, and the rest being zero.

You are correct that we permit any and/or all coefficients to be zero, allowing the case that p(x)=665. That is intentional.

> Just saying the coefficients are all nonnegative, the polynomial p(k) = 665 also is a solution for the case k = 6 and p(6) = 665.

No it isn't, because you have evaluated at 6, which is not larger than all the coefficients. Specifically, 6 is not larger than 665.

So I still claim that the question is fine as it stands. I do appreciate you trying to poke holes in it, though. Thanks.

(Added in edit: Given that you've retracted that, would you like me to remove this comment?)
Too many "news" outlets and too many lawyers.

Last I checked, gunsmithing--actual gunsmithing, with steel and wood resulting in an object of stopping-power and beauty that does not blow up in your face--was a fairly low-tech and wide-spread art.
So the majority of the people trusted with the money went to two of the best schools in the world? And this is surprising how? And news how? And wrong how?

Come on, its HARVARD! HARVARD!!!! Seems like the system os working pretty well to me.
High for everything, or are you talking about cars and real estate? Please provide an example. The products I see on Amazon are fairly cheap unless you are comparing it to products from CHINA.
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I personally prefer qBittorent. Specifically the Portable version.
how can I make my data more complicated? DynamoDB(non relational, key-value esque WTF-store) + something else
Whenever you're shooting up a human with something you need to be careful about what you're shooting them up with.

That doesn't say anything about vaccines.
I've read that you can hack it into a 1000.
And there is an adapter for the 2000.
LHC accelerates its first 'atoms'
Free books are never 100% free ... because bookcases cost money and even if you pile books up on the floor, that is expensive real estate you now can't easily use for another purpose. Hoarders forget that the opportunity cost of storage drives most of their possessions into negative net worth. Source: I have hoarder tendencies.
I think we should not generalize in any way this. There are people that need this, and there are people that don't need this. As simple as that.

Most of my customers are startup owners, where they need another form of validation before they will spend few months and their savings on a project.
Isn't it expensive to use S3+Athena instead of DynamoDB?
Yes it does. But not in large quantities. The study doesn't seem to suggest very large doses of L-Theanine were used either though. I usually take 5-10x what they were using in the study :P maybe I should reconsider my dosing.
>...And all of this was a direct result of the rigidity of the gold standard. The gold standard created a feedback loop that accelerated the global economy into a brick wall--the brick wall being the reality of the finite supply of gold.

Agreed, though like you said it is pretty complicated. The US had about 45% of world gold reserve in the early 20's and even though was a net exporter by 1929 had dropped to closer to 37% due in part to large capital lending to Europe.

http://library.intellectualtakeout.org/library/chart-graph/w...

A major issue though was the hoarding of gold by France:

>...While the tightening of U.S. monetary policy in 1928 is often blamed for having initiated the downturn, France increased its share of world gold reserves from 7 percent to 27 percent between 1927 and 1932 and effectively sterilized most of this accumulation. This “gold hoarding” created an artificial shortage of reserves and put other countries under enormous deflationary pressure.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/Did%20France%20Cause%20the...
Imagine if members of the Taliban pretended to be US doctors and collected a sample of your DNA without your knowledge. Who would you blame any resulting outrage on?

>Stop lending credence to the horse-shot pedaled by unreasonable terrorists/tyrants

It's hard to consider their lack of trust "unreasonable." They have proof that we've done this before, and we've shown a willingness to kill them without much regard for the civilian cost.
I have mixed feelings. I feel like vaccinations are important and choosing to use that for cover is risky.

At the same time any covert operation someone will pose as someone they are not or use their role in a way ... covertly. If someone discovers this and decides to take action against everyone or every organization that also includes those roles.... I don't think that's the CIA's fault.

If a doctor intentionally chose to kill someone I knew, and I chose to kill doctors, that would not be ok and it would be my fault. Same goes with the Taliban and anyone else who behaves similarly.
Religious accommodations are not required by law if the employer can demonstrate that granting them would impose an 'undue hardship' on the conduct of the employer's business, which in this case would be liability for claims of religious harassment.
The problem isn't really "bad with money", it's more "benefit from making promises that someone else has to try to fulfill".
Has the pricing come down on these robotic hands? Anybody have ballpark cost for the Shadow
Dexterous Hand - 100k, 300k?
I'm surprised to hear this, I would have expected a 16bit noop being necessary to align 32 bit instructions..
Is-there a summary of the discussion about this choice?
Ah. memories. My first business back in the early 90's was a small local IT company called Sabre Systems. On a weekly basis, we would get calls from travel agents all over the world asking for technical support for their online reservation system which I didn't even know existed until we started getting those calls!
Paint, maybe, though unlikely, but the airframe is almost certainly identical to the one that was shot down. The last F-117 was delivered to USAF in 1990. The aforementioned shoot-down was in 1999.
I completely disagree. Ideas are extremely important. A mediocre idea with perfect execution won't get you very far. If Bezos had tried to build online store builders ala Viaweb - instead of THE online store - he would have a net worth at best of 1/10000 of where he's at now. Good ideas are exponentially better than mediocre ideas.
The syntax is probably meant to differentiate between a function expression and a function type declaration.
Do you feel you miss anything from WebStorm?
I always tell them that I will call them to verify them. Like calling Bank of America customer service first then ask to redirect the call that person.
Just read the 'it from bit' paper referenced in the article. Wheeler goes quite in depth into why "turtles all the way down" is not a solution.

http://cqi.inf.usi.ch/qic/wheeler.pdf
I haven’t found this to be exactly the case - I recently worked with an engineer for more than a month tuning Elasticsearch (which required non-trivial changes to our catalog service). (It also took a good amount of effort to coordinate these changes across devices.)

Like Goodreads, we have a fairly constrained catalog and we probably get a similar amount of queries.

The search results are now much, much better, but ES has a pretty poor edit distance / fuzziness algorithm so they still aren’t perfect.
We have built this world for human hands so that has become the best shape overall. It does depend on the situation but I'm guessing for many, an improved human shape is best.
>For the past century, a public pension was an ironclad promise

Let's not pretend like this was ever seriously going to be sustainable. It's just a big middle finger to future generations while an opportunistic generation got to suck the system dry in prosperous times then peace out.
I hate to be "that guy" but take a look at Rust if you haven't. It's pretty close to C but incorporates a lot of functional-style type magic. Your particular example is very explicitly supported by the `Result` type (which is an error-specific version of Haskell's `Either` type). It also has some syntax sugar and macro usage to make working with error types pretty simple.
Excellent. Thanks. (Have you considered using unladen swallows instead?)
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TRON is a rip off of IPFS, and everybody knows that (Source, in case you forgot: https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/950142785373405184 )

I mean, the homepage ( http://tron.network ) has a giant face of the "Founder" / "CEO" of the company... Glorious.

I am dropping my 50 cents here: I would not look at it as if Tron bought BitTorrent... I think it was the other way around: BitTorrent was financially known to not be very "healthy". I bet it was more BitTorrent looking for mo-mo-mo-money as a valid exit!
In case anyone is curious about L-Theanine, it's very often used by people with interest in Nootropics for focus along side caffeine. The Theanine-Caffeine stack is considered to be the sort of entry or gateway into nootropic territory.
How is Facebook authentication easier to implement than e-mail?
Filecoin hasn't launched yet. None of the others have much traction, but I'm not sure I'd call them failed yet.

TRON is just garbage though.
> there's no ability to have a decent discussion

similarly with trying to get a decent discussion about flat Earth. Vaccines are effective and one of the most amazing tools for combatting infectious disease known to humanity. The science shows that modern vaccines are safe.

Given that, the lack of debate isn't surprising.
Harley-Davidson’s electric bike to hit the streets in 2019
"Asian representation climbed from 23% to 26%.
"

This totally ruined the diversity of America.
Interesting story : The FBI wanted to contact me a few years ago. They called and left voice mail that I determined was 100% likely to be a scam. So I ignored the call (and a second one that confirmed my suspicions since the caller claimed to be from a different FBI office than the first).

A few weeks later two Agent Mulder type dudes showed up in my front yard...

Edit : yes we had a long discussion about how the FBI could make cold phone calls that didn't sound like a scammer.
The choice is raising taxes, reducing spending elsewhere, or demanding workers give up the pensions they were promised. Somehow I doubt anyone is going to agree to pay more in taxes to cover pensions in their state or city. After all, why should the government keep its promises (especially if it means we have to pay for it)?
> Some vaccines are very risky, and there are really good reasons (backed by scientific evidence) to be concerned with risks.

You know what be helpful? If you actually named these risky vaccines, so we can look at these good, scientifically backed reasons.
I see your deluge and raise it to https://www.qbittorrent.org/
Very interesting and helpful. It would be nice to have an "answer page" since I was at times struggling with how to get the answer. But really good! thanks!
Also, imagine the joules saved worldwide if known key names didn't have to be sent each time, or, better yet, data was packed in a format that optimized for size and processing speed rather than readability.

I mean, I enjoy the idea of human readability as much as Jon Postel, but at certain scales you have to wonder about the hidden cost of petabytes of human-readable data flying over the wire, never to be seen by anything but computers.
Literally every release I check the notes, the roadmap, and the nearly 4 year old issue filed for runtime type information and every release I am disappointed.

All the TypeScript dependency injection libraries rely on decorators or something else requiring modifying the classes being injected.

It makes the code look terrible and this is really my only complaint about TypeScript which is otherwise fantastic. I basically only do DI by hand because of it.
Your bank account is not a line of credit. So it does not affect your credit score. It does affect score on another system called ChexSystems.
Can I use Ubiquiti devices with some kind of slave or WDS mode with my ISP's wifi AP/router?

I just want to extend the range without monkeying with the existing router or running cables. Ideally configuring the slaves to use the existing SSID/WPS config if that's possible.

I don't care (much) about the impact to latency or throughput, it seems like there's excess capacity now.

EDIT: downvoters please join the discussion, seems like an innocuous question to me.
> Let's not pretend like this was ever seriously going to be sustainable.

There’s a bit of nuance to it. Predictions were made based on historical market returns we’re only now discovering are unrealistic going forward (7-8% historically, 4-5% predicted going forward).

The only issue is that no “relief valve” was constructed in the event predicted returns turned out to be inadequate to fully fund the system, triggering benefits cuts. This is the part that is generationally regressive.

Of course, there is no benefit to anyone whose wants to solve this prior to insolvency, only pain. So the sinking ship continues and the band plays on. Taxes, local, state, and federal, are going up eventually to pay for all of this. Plan accordingly.
An interpreted language is slower than a compiled binary? Color me shocked.
GDP comparisons are worthless, but cash flow to debt is an important metric. If it was compared to cash inflows of the actual government entity it would be interesting (and depressing).
The word “appearances” has bad optics now. It’s called the euphemism treadmill.
Scientific American doesn't like dating articles, but this is clearly old, Obama-era.

And yeah, it's predictable blowback. Especially given the conspiracy theory that HIV was intentionally spread through vaccination programs.
HN Meetup at the Palo Alto Skatepark? I'm in.
In RDBMS world, this is very similar to partitioning large tables by date - moving window pattern. Drop the older partitions outside of the window.
Excellent back-of-the-envelope estimation.

I've recently been doing some world simulation for games, and found that you quickly start pushing RAM limits if you want to represent an Earth-sized planet at square kilometer precision. Turns out the Earth is pretty big. Mars is more reasonable, with about a quarter of the surface area.
is in very poor taste.

I believe my analogy to be a sound one, in that all wireless does is insulate the end user from mile upon mile of wiring, just as serverless insulated the user from racks upon racks of servers, and that you were - and are - being needlessly pedantic.
It's hard to deny that there is a whole industry out there doing just this.

It must be valuable to people, whether you think they are lazy or not, or it wouldn't exist.

Here is someone filling that existing need, with their product, and being publicly transparent about it along the way.

Kudos to them!
Because for a long time (critically, when PHP was very popular) it was quite slow. It has gotten better, but a lot of people haven't used it since it was slow.
I've wired data centres so I'm aware wires exist. However wires are not WiFi. The WiFi in your example ends at the base station. Everything thereafter is still infrastructure but it's not WiFi.
Before passing judgment or engaging in discussion, I have to ask do you have link to the Tahti case?

Thanks! :)
I have seen that in a lot of places also.
There is that need for the reviewer to prove himself by nitpicking non-issues in the code.
#DeleteSpotify
If I paid for WSJ and this is the low quality journalism I got I'd be peeved. This article barely touches on how it got to be so bad. Excuse me but no - a single paragraph stating the obvious 'benefits promised were too rich' doesn't cover it. How is it possible that a solvency ratio can drop from 100% to 75% in 18 years? This doesn't just happen because eh seemingly every pension administrator just decided. How much does WSJ cost again?
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>> I find it odd that you think the question is not well defined.

> You must assume that at least some of the coefficients of the x terms are non-zero.

That turns out not to be the case.

>> Do you not find that surprising?

> No.

Interesting.

>> how would you explain it?

> I think it is up to you to explain why this is interesting.

So far, many people who are clearly intelligent seem to miss that it works at all, let alone how it works. You appear so far to be among them. As I've said elsewhere, I appreciate that you are trying to poke holes in it, but it really is complete and correct as stated.

> Without the condition that k is greater than all the coefficients, the solution is clearly non-unique.

Well, yes. That's why having k greater than all the coefficients is a requirement. That's why your example in another comment elsewhere is not an example of the puzzle failing - it does not satisfy the condition that k must exceed all the coefficients.

> Given that, the assumption of the coefficients are integers, and that the solution is not a constant polynomial, the statement becomes equivalent to "division is a function".

I don't see why this is true - perhaps you could expand on it? Why is the problem statement equivalent to saying "Division is a function."?

So now I don't understand what you're trying to say or do. The question as stated is fine - an example that doesn't satisfy the conditions isn't a counter-example. So at least one of us is confused.

So let me state clearly, rather than having a bitty back'n'forth.

You pick a polynomial p(x) with non-negative integer coefficients. You choose an integer k that's larger than all the coefficients of p(x). You tell me k and p(k). In return, I tell you p(x).

So:

Are you claiming this doesn't work?

Are you claiming it's trivial to accomplish?

Are you claiming it's obvious why it works?

I'm no longer sure what you're claiming, so I thought I'd ask clearly and plainly.
Since 1944, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
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MMR isn't risky though. It doesn't kill people, especially not two children in a row. The chances of a reaction to MMR in that situation are astronomical. If that story is true, the common variables there are the nurse, equipment, location etc. Which points to a cause there, not the vaccine.

It's anecdotal crap, told in way that relates directly to other parents "told the nurse not do it" to help with the virality of the story. You can't draw an opinion on MMR from that, least not from all vaccinations.
Loom is the code name for the project to add fibers and delimited continuations to the JVM. That was in the title I set and the original title is accurate but not very informative.
It's nice for the previous generations that got something out of nothing.

Too bad that "nothing" is my generation and we'll be putting our "contributions" into a pit that will give us actually nothing in return when it's time for us to retire.

As I get older I realize why people say if you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart but if you are not a conservative by 30, you have no brain (or something to that effect).
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Along the lines of getting identity stolen, hotel front desks are one spot. (for instance, in China, aliens are required to provide their passports and hotels are required to make a photocopy of it by law when checking in).
But it's not a real comparison. It's just contextualizing.

If I say that a brachiosaurus was the size of a house, I'm not saying that your current dwelling is comparable to a 65-million-year-old pile of death and dust.

Huge numbers are essentially meaningless to the human mind. But "all economic output of Japan in a year" is something that most people can wrap their heads around a little more easily. We know it's a fairly rich, industrialized nation, and so therefore that's a crapton of money.
OTOH administrations have to deal with significant shortfalls due to corporate tax elusion, compounded by the interests paid to compensate for them (possibly and ironically the bond holders might be the same corporations whose tax money is missing.)

I wonder how significant that amount is. I’m a Scala jockey and I bookmark a totally different part of the internet, I'd love the input of someone who has a better idea of these numbers...
It has many nice shortcuts for exploring and manipulating statistical data. These shortcuts come at the cost of consistency.
The operational perspective is valid but it doesn't help to answer the question, IMO. If your answer to "what is the problem?" is "the problem is our hard-to-predict evaluation strategy", then the beginner's natural follow-up question is "why not just use a normal evaluation strategy?", and there's no good answer to that one (indeed many regard Haskell's laziness as the wrong choice; in recent times we've seen post-Haskell languages e.g. Idris moving away from it, and the best-known industrial deployment of Haskell uses a strict variant).

Meanwhile I find monads very useful in Scala, even without any laziness in sight.
> Somehow I doubt anyone is going to agree to pay more in taxes to cover pensions in their state or city. After all, why should the government keep its promises (especially if it means we have to pay for it)?

I agree with it but then again I'm not opposed to paying taxes. Why shouldn't we provide for the retirement of our workforce?
Talking with my new sister certainly has changed my opinions on nature versus nurture and freewill.
You’ll damage public trust in whatever you pose as.

Let’s say you pose as a hotel bellhop. Following your exposure, hotel bellhops will be less trusted by the public, just like this.

Except that lack of public trust in bellhops doesn’t have any serious consequences. A few people will carry their own bags instead of getting help, maybe. Big deal.

Poss as doctors distributing vaccines, and you’ll hurt vaccination rates and people will does. That’s qualitatively different.
> Look how close we are to self driving cars without needing a sentient robot behind the wheel. Mechanical tricks are going to eliminate the jobs of a lot of people.

Let’s say we’re close to self-driving cars, i.e. it’ll happen in 10 years or so. How much will it cost? How much the maintainance will cost? How many years will be needed until everybody owns a self-driving car? Unless more than a handful people have that kind of car you won’t kill a lot of jobs.
> If you don’t see the clean syntax and simple utility in that then fair enough, but I do.

I see a "cleaner syntax in the example" but the fragments of code you don't like, the literals, are something that you won't see in production code except for a few constants maybe. The difference in ~"characters to change" for switching from list to vector is far smaller than the amount of characters spent on this thread... (edit: even over the lifetime of a programmer)
> Except Antarctica is on Earth. The point of colonizing an off-world body is so that we can spread ourselves out.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why? I mean, I understand why each individual human wants to survive, and I understand wanting to ensure people have a good quality of life. But why is preserving the species in the event of disaster important?
Those admissions processes are actually well-known for producing excellent students of rote memorization and standardized tests. They are not well-known for producing well-rounded students that are capable of thinking outside of the box.
Probably because you aren't literally digging gold out of the ground and reburying it, you are transforming land, labor and capital into a finished product which, in this case, is gold bullion.

Be like saying digging a hole and "planting" a fencepost is a wasteful activity because the wood was nearly in the same state to begin with.
I don't think the original sources choosing what to leak counts as bias on the part of Wikileaks. As for them only acting to confirm leaks in a biased way, do you have any examples of leaks that were published elsewhere because wikileaks refused due to bias?