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C++ allows you to write code that is equally expressive as C. It is no longer true that every valid pice of C is also valid C+++, but the deviations are purely minor syntactical differences. I know no C construct for which a C++ counterpart does not exist. Please enlighten me if you have an example.
Those Chinese investors didn’t do anything illegal did they? Sounds like your beef should be with your own city or towns council or state government for allowing this to happen. The Chinese investors saw an opportunity and took advantage.

What blows my mind are all the folks who point at corporations and capitalism in general as being inherently “bad” and are quick to point out the effects of transplants from other countries or cities moving to their area for economic opportunity. Then these same folks also are in favor of liberal immigration policies.

The NIMBY mentality is hypocritical.

You left Seattle but others moved in to take your place. I don’t see a negative here other than you’re upset that others are successful. You feel like you are entitled to live in Seattle, and I disagree. You moved out but Rahul who came from Hyderabad has a much better quality of life in Seattle. It sucks for you, but is it inherently bad for society?
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In the article, one service reports 61% Balkan and another reports 23%. That one algorithm is mostly accurate within itself is hardly notable. That they're not close with one another means that one of them is way off or the industry is very inaccurate. If the latter is correct yet they're purported to be reasonably accurate, it's a sham.
I'm sure padthai meant that you need to do math to learn math, not just read or watch videos.

Sure, I'm just saying that it kinda depends on what part of math one is referring to. I think sometimes in these discussions on HN, we overload the term "math" to mean both "calculation" or "applied math", and "pure math" or "math research" and it can be unclear which is being referred to in a given statement.

I believe you can learn the former - "applied math" - (at least up to a certain level) just by reading books, and watching videos (and doing exercises, of course). But for the latter - "pure math" - I agree that you need other people, since you can't easily verify your own proofs.
Or an actor. Or a politician. Or an athlete. Or a nonprofit. All of them benefit from strong social media game. AOC has much more political heft than say, Rashida Tlaib even though they're both freshman in Congress. AOC's 8x more followers on social media might have something to do with that.
“Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture”, by Russel Smith (1929) is an excellent, well sourced book on the subject. The title also hints at the origin of the term “permaculture”, popularized by Bill Mollison.

There’s a lot of solid scientific evidence out there for soil repair as carbon sequestration; in fact the appendix of the IPCC report that shook the world last year lists soil repair as one of the top things we can do to address climate change.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714112.Tree_Crops
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I suggest you get the syllabi from a state college, and then follow that. "work through" the books : copy each page of exposition by hand, try to do the examples and proofs before looking, do all or most of the problems with answers, and get ready for a long journey.

I find a page of math textbook takes about 30 minutes (at least) to really work it over until you understand it.

Personally, I don't much like working in groups or watching video lectures. To learn math, you have to be able work problems by yourself, so you might as well just do that.

David Morin has some great self study books:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Edjmorin/book.html

I have a math BA from a regional state college, usually scored in the top 5 on the tests, and I am self teaching physics / me /ee about 5 hours per week after work.
"For keeps" is right!

Years ago I was helping a friend model a cam at the heart of a large piece of metals processing equipment for these guys: https://www.butechbliss.com

It was _almost_ right, but had a negative curvature on one surface. The effect was to lift a multi-ton piece of machinery off the floor – which it was bolted to.

My understanding is that the cam is now used as a coffee table!
This time the random bullshit generator threw up inconsistent clickbaity sentences, sometimes it happens.
Yes, that is what is used with MPEG-DASH and HLS too. But none of the DRM systems implemented (beyond ClearKey) is used on just pure MP4 files. So while EME works in either case, nobody is doing it with the file formats natively supported. It's pretty much always in combination with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Sourc...
I think the summary here is that, the head/leg room numbers rarely are indicative of whether the car has been designed/tested for taller people.

As you mentioned telescoping steering, I have to point out the toyota FJ, which I would have purchased because sitting it in was incredible... OTOH, the steering wheel didn't telescope, and the pedals weren't positioned particularly deeply, so while the seat slid backwards with incredible range, to drive it without leaning forward to hold the steering wheel required having the seat so far forward as to cramp my legs.. Just a couple inches of telescope would have made all the difference.
> If you do that out of memory, you are most likely re-using passwords.

How does that follow? It still adds value to use aliases that identify the site where they're used, because then you don't need to do a hashtable lookup to see where your mail is coming from.
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But it's comparing it to the corpus of known DNA in different location, which is changing and being updated even by the fact of people submitting more DNA samples from different locations.
That would help, to a degree.

But ultimately any kind of DNA analysis (that exposes the raw data) is intrinsically de-anonymizable, no?
I've always found Bayesian Inference to be a more "solid" theory than neural nets. I like the idea, but its just a mish-mash of words to me right now...

EDIT: The link in the article doesn't work for me. Here's the link I used instead: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3290350

Looking it over, the words seem to be... in the correct order. :-) "Proper use of Prior" and Baye's theorem. Heh, I'm going to have to pull out some textbooks to remind myself what these words mean.

EDIT2: Are they... generating a Bayesian model automatically? That's some meta-level theory going on here. A Bayesian Model is a graph of priors (If A then B 50% of the time, if B then C 25% of the time, etc. etc.). You observe "C", and then the program seems to be trying to find the "If A->B" probability and "If B->C" probability.

Unlike neural nets which are "unobservable", the human can theoretically look at the list of priors and understand the model that the computer has generated. As I stated earlier: I've always found this branch of AI to be more interesting than neural nets.
It must be compared with other caribean small poor post-colonial countries. Against that, they're obviously better off. One can only wonder what would be of it without the sanctions. This is not to claim their system is good or etc, what really pisses me off is that most examples we use, of people starving, of poverty, of misery, etc, in a "ideological-enemy" is proof that they suck, while we are full of it in our "other side" societies, slums, crime, misery, what this leads us to is that, actually, all those other suffering are irrelevant unless they serve as pretext for some political interest, in other words they're nothing. And let's face it, there's much more post-colonial people in capitalist societies living in hell than else, there's just more people.

US is propping up a war with Venezuela right now because of "humanitarian blablabla" at the same time there's children starving because of the Yemen's war the US is a sponsor.

There's absolutely no morals in geopolitics. If you hear about it, be confident it's bullshit. Sad but true.
Just take community college courses. Work lots of problems. Ignore the grand theorems unless you're going to be a math major (in which case you should go to college).

Applied math; if you deal with matter it will generally be linear algebra and differential equations. Vector math important also, and Calc-3 is inadequate; junior level classical physics mechanics book is how I learned stuff like action angle and rotating frames of reference.

If you deal with electronics/signal processing you'll need some kind of Hilbert space course to get you through Greens functions, Laplace transforms and so on.

And for computer science/machine learning/OR: just be really good at linear algebra.

(Applied obv) linear algebra is the highest leverage thing you can do.
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No surprise. Rule #1 in retail is "Make it easy for the customer to give you their money."
Do you have any ideas on how software developers can solve the problem of corrupt government?

Not being facetious, curious to hear what your views are.
I would expect this level of variance in tests given the original twin genomes are not identical.
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As an alternative I would suggest a top-down approach. Start with the theorems/results you truly wish to understand and work backwards.

There was a great quote from an interview of Peter Scholze (one of last year's Fields' Medallists), which has really changed how I view learning:

At 16, Scholze learned that a decade earlier Andrew Wiles had proved the famous 17th-century problem known as Fermat’s Last Theorem, which says that the equation xn + yn = zn has no nonzero whole-number solutions if n is greater than two. Scholze was eager to study the proof, but quickly discovered that despite the problem’s simplicity, its solution uses some of the most cutting-edge mathematics around. “I understood nothing, but it was really fascinating,” he said.

So Scholze worked backward, figuring out what he needed to learn to make sense of the proof. “To this day, that’s to a large extent how I learn,” he said. “I never really learned the basic things like linear algebra, actually — I only assimilated it through learning some other stuff.”

[1]https://www.quantamagazine.org/peter-scholze-and-the-future-...
Based on the validity of some of the comments here, it really does seem like it's a company trying to convince investors to make it rain... I'd say do some research on some of the companies being mentioned here and see what you make out of it...
Out of curiosity (and I'm speaking largely out of ignorance on this), have you considered making this plugin NeoVim specific and doing it in another language you are more comfortable with?

EDIT: Also, just realize that you are the person who wrote the Practical TLA+ book...I loved it! Thanks for writing it!
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How many people know even the basic facts of political or economic history as young adults?
Probably a couple orders of magnitude high, too. One in ten thousand? I doubt that many make it through people's spam filters.
Having additional wireless competition will improve the quality of the wired options. They've been able to skate along in near-monopoly conditions for too long.
Well, we disagree. Plus, taking on some crazy problem without background saps motivation as well.
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I got tons of those too, mostly to test accounts. It’s hilarious how bad they are when they use my test names to address me.
Ordering people to take such positions in peace time is a good way to stop them from reenlisting.
> in places like California where farmers expect to be pushed off their land eventually by rising land prices they are using destructive practices to extract as much as they can before they go defunct.

Assuming the land is going to be used for non-agricultural uses (residential/commercia, covered in some material in some way) and "destructive practices" means over-farming, but not otherwise polluting or causing damage, I'm not sure I see a problem with that (but I may not be thinking of some consequences).

Then again, that's a lot of assumptions...
To your point, cost (or strength) should always consider size as well as time.

It would be nice to have a tool that could compute the size impact of a given line.
MLM is it’s own world of garbage, but what’s wrong having an Etsy store? How does that make you less of a “business owner”?

I would very much consider someone with an Etsy store an entrepreneur, doubly so if they can sustain themselves from that channel alone.

Most entrepreneurs don’t get 8-figure exits.
Working link to a copy of the paper on one of the author's websites: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/popl19.pdf
Some of the firmware versions do have G2/G3 in them but not all. http://smoothieware.org/supported-g-codes

I assume most of the modern ones do but some of the older 3d printing firmware use a very butchered version of the gcode "standard" which eliminate or rename many of the unused codes.
They shouldn't, and they aren't (not in Cuba at least)
Semi-related: I was thinking about getting one of the newer iWatches, the one with the heart-rate monitoring and all that jazz. To me, those features are really cool and future-y. So, I waltz on down to the store and try one on. It reads my heart-rate and it seems to be fairly accurate. Ok, well, let's test it a bit. I start running in place. The heart rate goes up. I then just stand there, after a bit, the heart-rate goes down. Nice, the thing actually works! Well, they had a few of the iWatches sitting there, without anyone else taking a poke at them. So, I strap all the free ones on the arm.

Well, they all gave different readings. I repeated the running in place test. Some went up and down much more than the others; maybe 10 bpm more. I tried re-arranging them on my arm and doing the running in place test again, you know, maybe it only works on the wrist since the blood is closer to the surface there? Nope, the readings were all over the place still. It was not super scientific of me. I mean, I was some strange person running in place in a store with a bunch of iWatches strapped to my arm.

Maybe the watches have some sort of learning algo in them that was getting messed up with all the folks trying them on. Maybe I was wearing them 'wrong'. Maybe I should have waited 10 minutes between jogging sessions. I don't know.

But, to me, these things have a long way to go. A lot of the bio-tech and bioengineering out there seems to be a bit of snake-oil right now. I really do want it all to work, I think that would be a great boon to us all [0]. If something like the iWatch can't give repeatable readings in nearly any way, then it's all just a gimmick and not useful.

[0] I mean, can you imagine if Theranos' tech actually did work?! That would change medicine for the better in incalculable ways. I can see why that company's plan was so intoxicating.
One thing I always wonder: your typical cell plan (that I'm familiar with) with, say, 6 GB per month would be completely used up within, what, 5 minutes or less? And then you can either pay more or wait for next month? What's the point?

(Yes, and presumably they'll increase the cap, but even a 100x increase would give you 1 full day of usage per month.)
"Value-semantics is the way to optimal performance!", said no one, ever.
I think you underestimate the quality and power of short read sequencing. Most well-designed sequence-based genotyping assays take into account the length of the read and are easy to read out. (You are thinking of issues with copy number variation and perhaps assembly of longer genes, which do have issues). The sticky part is the analysis--how realiable are your databases and your algorithm for representing the mix of SNPs and INDELs as %European...that is the question.
They do have NFC and usb-c options (separately, though), and are planning to launch lightning as well

https://www.yubico.com/2019/01/yubico-launches-the-security-...
Pretty well known by who? The general population? I don't think so.

And there's a difference between "not perfect" and "doesn't provide the same result twice".
Never seemed that buggy to me but maybe I am jaded by years of experience using $10k CG apps that crashed a lot more.

Congrats on Alpha!
Well most of the entertainment is finding out you didnt know where you come from

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I think this is good advice. I tried to read parts of CLRS a few years ago but could not wrap my head around the work. The mathematical prerequisites needed for CLRS gave me an end point to guide my self learning to focus on specific areas: algebra (linear and elementary), calculus 1, combinatorics / probability, discrete math, propositional logic.
Words are not distributed uniformly in a dictionary at all. They are distributed according to the grammatical structure of the text.
My oldest brother had a real love of mathematics and got a masters degree but never even applied to a PhD program. When I asked him about it he just said he was tired of working on other people's problems.

He had a quiet programming position in a large company that gave him time to work on personal projects. Among other things he volunteered at the local schools teaching "fun" math. I guess I'm just agreeing with you about finding something that inspires you and go with it.
My wife's percentages have changed over time w/o a new sample- they've just refined their data and can give better results from the original data.
Ooh! Pretty!

Nice work there.
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"Some language implementations have arbitrary precision arithmetic built-in; some provide an arbitrary precision arithmetic library; some use a third-party library (GMP); some provide built-in arbitrary precision arithmetic by wrapping a third-party library."

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Thank you for your kind words! The students worked really hard to get all those details right. And yes, all that stuff is at the GitHub repo (https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer).
There’s a permaculture technique called Keyline Irrigation — one of its claims is that top soil can be generated at a much quicker pace as the result of a practice known as subsoiling, wherein a large blade cuts deep grooves into a field. The blade cuts plant roots which in turn decompose, and aerate the soil, providing pathways for water to infiltrate.

It hasn’t been scientifically validated. Anecdotal reports from farmers like Mark Shephard are that it works. [1]

1: https://books.google.com/books/about/Restoration_Agriculture...
I can't. Here's the link to the publication in German https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/elektrosmog-europa-... and https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/mobilfunk-wie-gesun...

Tagesspiegel is usually a good newspaper but this reasoning is are very light in facts. They should stick with uncovering lobbyism.
> people want to feel and try on clothes before buying them

The "Amazon showroom" concept isn't really a joke, and it hasn't really been resolved. Some nontrivial amount of shopping, especially for fitted products like clothes, takes the form of trying things on in a store then checking Amazon for a lower price.

It seems possible that this is sustainable, with immediate-purchase customers sustaining 'showrooms' for price-sensitive customers. It also seems possible that it will crumble in one of several ways. Amazon might raises prices in pursuit of profit far enough to end this pattern. It might drive out (some) clothing stores, creating a vacuum where consumers rely on 'free' returns to make up for a lack of showrooms.

Or it might even drive new business models and branding changes. Levis are already widely discussed as a "don't buy online" product because they're weirdly high-variance; we could see products designed to be desirable but ineffective to buy online. The "Amazon store" model could gain ground, with Amazon offering low-inventory showrooms or cutting affiliate deals with brick and mortar stores. Or brands could offer online-only discounts to reduce carrying costs, while using showroom access as a selling point to fight Amazon's economies of scale.

None of these seems guaranteed, and I won't be surprised if Amazon and physical stores simply coexist in the clothing market. But I do think it's important to note that Amazon's current model is partly enabled by their physical competitors.
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Sunlight foundation got the laws passed so GPO could provide legislative data to the public. AFAIK they are the reason GPO/govinfo.gov bill data exists. Congress having an API is their doing.

https://sunlightfoundation.com/press/success/

Many people use this data, from consumer non-profits to lobbyists. OpenStates is a spin-off of a Sunlight Foundation project as well.
There were many cases of religious law being the law of the land e.g. the Ten Commandments.
I always got more from working problems on my own with an occasional consult from peers or a teacher. A danger is that you think your group sessions substitute for working problems.
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Gosh, that sounds terrible. Like it sounds like she doesn't even want to understand. Okay, you can study math if you give me three hours of "free time" and then she goes off shopping while you watch the kids after your math break lololol. Sorry man, that sounds like hell.
One could argue cloud services is just a mall for computers (VMs), computing services (managed databases), or computing time (serverless offerings).
Do you have a clear understanding of the "causes of peace" that you'd like to share with us? Regardless, did you read any of the newsletters to give you a basis for your claims?

> It’s just hypocritical anyway...

Yeah, we're all hypocrites--get over it. It's true that almost nobody can be completely peaceful in all areas of their lives, but it shouldn't stop people from trying. You gotta start where you are.
After the Ashley Madison hack, haveibeenpwned still had not instituted blinding so you could check, for example, if your co-workers or boss has an account there, assuming they were follish enough to use their widely-known personal or employer email addresses (the latter being shockingly common for lifer-types st big companies like HP and Cisco).

One of my co-workers ended up getting revealed this way to his then-wife; it wasn’t really a happy marriage up to that point but that was the last straw.

Haveibeenpwned has since gated access to the reports which is good....
These DNA kits are like astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology.
Which could potentially even just be explained by something as "simple" as cohort testing to show more specific breakdown vs a more regional view
I read somewhere they want smaller chickens that the farms produce.
Ah that feature I was using during the 90s for GUI development, but apparently was invented by Dart.
Actually, they only offered a link for enabling 2FA, And yea, I typed the website in. I have a fake name on the account, and I don't have any payment info on there since I'm not playing any of their games. Now I really have to just think of a constant false name when registering accounts.