skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an open textbook (David Lippman's Math in Society -- "a survey of mathematics for the liberal arts major") which covers several topics like this. The chapter on fair division is bite-sized, so you can read it without investing a lot of time.

The book's page is

http://www.opentextbookstore.com/mathinsociety/

from whence you can download the entire book or just the fair division chapter. The method discussed in the post and a separate method discussed in a comment are both covered by this book.
I would argue the same is, or rather can be, true of makeup, in general.
Aren't all (interesting) philosophical questions about reality, or at least some extended or modified version of reality as we know it?

"What can be known?" "Do we have free will?" "Does God exist?"

(hint, any question that starts "Do we..." or references questions of existence is asking about the state of reality)
There is also the Pizza Theorem[1] which says that even if you don't cut the pizza through the middle but so long as the slices are of equal angles, you can divide it equally by area by choosing alternating slices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_theorem
pointless, what is FB supposed to say?

@OGinparadise says it right
The labor disparity between senior workers and young ones will lead to a lot more trouble. Irrational people take out their frustrations on the easiest target; irrational young people even more so.

I'm not sure if the article's doom and gloom is actually reflected in reality though. Most people are averse to letting society collapse (especially when they've had a history of it standing upright and stable for a long time).

Spain doesn't "just" need stimulus, it needs well guided and allocated stimulus or it will accomplish nothing.
Probably writing code.
Spain's self-cannibalizing downward spiral
Which soaps are 'in-season' and when? ;-)
A rubygem for natural spelling and grammar checking
Contextual alone would completely eliminate their need for panhandling, and would also enable drastic improvements to their infrastructure. Better for users, better for everyone.
Disagreeing with people is not an ad hominem.

Nor is being disagreeable for that matter...

I was dismissive and probably impolite. I apologized.

You didn't answer my question, so I'll ask it again, what makes you believe that an MVP will be more salable in a small market?

You say 'regardless of the complexity of the MVP', but that invalidates every point the author was trying to make. Point 1, 2 and 3 in the original article all hinge on the level of effort of the MVP.

Where you worked is not something that changes anything about your position.

I reversed nothing. The author asserts some things that are provably false, then asks 'What are your thoughts? Should your first product be aimed at a small market?'

There is traction because something was built that solves a problem. The size of the market and entrenchment of the incumbents are not the same thing. This person can do everything because the problem and solution are small enough to allow that, not because of the size of the market. Further, attributing causal relationships to the size of the market and the traction is a mistake that leads to sub-optimal strategies.

Those are my thoughts. Do what you will.
I want to see the excuse for banning these from being used indoors. It'll probably be along the lines of "children will be influenced or something". Gotta love the nanny state - not!
Bizarre. He used a mac for 6 years and didn't know about cmd-` to switch windows within the same app?

Finder does suck compared to Windows Explorer (use Pathfinder). No snap behavior for windows (use BetterTouch). Can't think of anything else to like about windows really.

The command line is terrible on Windows. Even with cygwin, the terminal is awful. Copy/Paste is awkward. Resize the window and the text doesn't follow. No clear terminal keyboard shortcut. No searching in the console.

Locked files everywhere, makes dev difficult.

Installing apps is much more painful on windows. The apps spread throughout the system, I love on a mac how you can just drag in an app and run it. No 5 mins to install. Uninstalling is just deleting the app, no horrible uninstall process.

rm -rf type functionality must take 10x as long on windows.

No virus issues on mac.
Spain needs to breed. Their median age is ~41 (US at about 37... ). Not as bad as Japan, but very ominous when you've got a society built on pensions.

Ireland is about 35 and it shows (little pale kiddies running around everywhere). That is the only one of the PIIGS I'm betting on.
I had much the same high school experience as the OP, but unlike him, I didn't get into a decent college or university and took two years off to work at a small startup. I couldn't have been luckier. I was a much stronger student later as a result, and a much harder worker.

My dad did the same thing, and spent a couple of years in the naval reserve.

My advice to other students would be: don't rush into higher education if it's not the right time for you. Time "off" for other life experiences, including work, makes a huge difference.
Cost - yes. Windows laptops cost much less. But they suck much more. I guess if you don't value the touchpad, mag safe, retina, display, thin-ness, long lasting battery, and the aesthetics that much... I mean I use my computer a lot, it's my career. Easily worth an extra grand every 3 years to have the best.
"Beauty queens" is a terrible group to sample from. It is not in any way whatsoever random, which is what you would need to study. "Beauty" has many subjective components, which can change rapidly.
HTTPS Everywhere with a capital E.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
This wouldn't be the first time "basic human nature" flys at odds with equality movements.
That type of behavior is why I stopped contributing to Wikipedia years ago.

There are way too many people there who get their jollies from deleting other people's hard work (probably because they're not capable of creating anything themselves). It's a form of vandalism, IMO.
As far as I'm concerned, that justification should fail on first amendment grounds, since it would banning them based on the message they (allegedly) communicate.
"Local governments are already taking steps to limit e-smoking in places where traditional smoking is banned"

For no health reason, but for governments to demonstrate their power and how they are doing something - a bit like the pre-flight security theater.

The fact that we have a technological replacement better than the original (ie no tars or carcinogens) while giving the sample pleasure (nicotine, inhaling) should be ground enough to change the laws in the other direction - ie allowing e-cigarattes wherever they are possible..

But this is not about logic. The new habitus sees tobacco as low class and bad http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/bourdieu-and-h...

Why I am not surprised the government will fight against it, regardless of the scientific facts or the right to pursue happiness?

EDIT: From the original article "The FDA has said that it plans to assert regulatory authority over electronic cigarettes" - just like every government agency looking for a piece of the cake, while consumers will suffer.

There is another good article on e-cigarettes on http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21573986-world-should-...

"Smoking tobacco is the most dangerous voluntary activity in the world. More than 5m people die every year of the consequences. That is one death in ten."

Want to save human lives? Don't regulate e-cigarettes- in fact, it might be a better idea to GIVE THEM AWAY in poor countries instead of spending the same amount to procure them with expansive drugs that may help at best a hundred people per year (cancer drugs are expansive, and except in specific cases their efficiency is limited. we still have a lot to learn).

Since people will consume tobacco products anyway, we might as well give them the good stuff that won't give them cancer, our last technology - that's e-cigarettes, instead of exporting the old foul smelling plant.

We are talking about the potential to save 5'000'000 humans
every year.

It should be about helping people, not just subsidizing the agricultural industry or making feel good but ultimately counter-productive actions.

But reason won't prevail. It will be a sad thing to watch.

EDIT2: I originally said "it is about", which is an incorrect formulation since it could be interpreted as a statement on how current systems work. It was ironic, and may not have been very clear.
Heh, but then you're introducing a bunch of variables that affect fairness, ie. arm length, reaction time (muscle twitch speed), proximity/position, etc.
It was a last resort, the author was in in-patient treatment in extreme circumstances in which she had had frequent suicide ideation. Therapies that aren't drug based, while often effective, don't work that quickly and are more of a long term thing than an immediately stabilizing treatment for someone in an extreme crisis. Drugs are your best (and only) shot in that kind of situation. There are plenty of places to get therapies like meditation and similar therapies relating to mindfullness - from psychologists who offer cognitive behavioral therapy and its offshoot mindfullness-based cognitive therapy. They're two of the very popular and widely available types of psychological therapies in the US. In this story I wonder if the author's insistance on going to her father's doctor has skewed her perception of modern psychiatric and psychological treatment -- the story took place in the 80s and if the doctor treated her father he had to have been kind if old, probably trained in the days when psychiatry research was in complete disarray and completely unsympathetic to patients' well-being and when the few popular psychological therapies that did not involve drugs or surgical treatment were things like rogerian therapy and psychoanalysis - not as effective as CBT and frankly based on little science.

I think there is also a misconception that psychiatrists and psychologists are the same thing when they have entirely different purposes and training. Psychiatrists have med school educations, thus they deal with drugs (which are often quite necessary and effective) and acute in-patient kinds of cases more often. Psychologists have training which focuses more on effective treatments which are either are not drug based or work in conjunction with pharmacological treatments. They're the ones you go to for issues with the self or if you want therapies related to mindfullness or cognitive behavioral therapy.
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That might be the long-term solution to the nation's problems. But on an individual level, it would be disastrous for an unemployed person or someone worried about losing their job to increase their financial responsibilities by having kids.
But what about a fair distribution of toppings?
Who is able to physically access your database hardware? Can you or any of your employees walk up to it? If so, who? If someone had a gun to your head and demanded your username and password list or they'd shoot you, how would you get the data for them?

Who knows the sensitive database passwords? Where are they stored? How often are they changed? Have you fired anyone recently? Was their access revoked and were all passwords changed?

Things you didn't mention as precautions are protections from SQL injection attacks (I'm assuming you're using prepared statements) and that you're using huge passphrases, along with making sure that your applications are up to date with the latest security patches.
Also, you have to pretty much vacuum seal them yourself to stop them going off in 3 days.
That makes sense - the ice cubes are below freezing, so it will take less melting to reach melting point equilibrium temp. In this case you are simply using the heat storage of ice rather than the phase transition energy required to melt the ice.
More likely along the lines of other people not wanting to breathe your second-hand nicotine / whatever the hell else might be in this vapor, because the jury's still out on their safety.
Right, it's precisely that learning I'm interested in. I could well be wrong in that specific example. IIRC, I first got that from one of those "science" books for kids.
on a side note, http://l2.io/ip.js is pretty cool. since it allows script injection into the return, it can be used clientside to inject their ip into the webpage. Pretty cool if you're posting from static html to a 3rd party form.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://l2.io/ip.js?var=document.getElementById(ip1).value...;

works where item ip1 is where you want to IP address to end up on the client html.
Win 8 gets along better with your Xbox fyi
Why's the Budweiser site on there? It looks great for a 90's site and pretty good in general.
The agitators will just classify it as something 'obscene'.
What Does “Free as in Speech” or “Free as in Beer” Really Mean?
Expensive? Not at all.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/

They've been (real) Unix since OS X first came out, actually.
I've read this a couple of times and it seems to me to ignore the way royalties worked with broadcast in the past. Artists, if that's the word, were paid per performance when broadcast. They still are and the various rights societies collect royalties for their members. Certainly hard product was a component, but big acts collect continuing royalty payments year after year because of this. I read somewhere Paul McCartney collects millions a year just from Yesterday, which hasn't been connected with a physical product in over fifty years.

Traditionally radio stations account for their playlists in much the same way as Spotify and other streaming services, which is of course why it's a fundamental expense to them.

What has changed for one thing is the change in profitability for the myriad of smaller organisations, like diverse radio, each having an income stream from sometimes equally diverse, even regional, advertisers, from which they payed these dues. And of course, demand for music was met from these lines of supply. It wasn't legislated, just the normal supply demand scenario.

This model, where media outlets competed for listeners to maximise advertising dollars meant that consumers were implicitly engaging in wealth creation for these artists. While consumers behaviours haven't changed that much, after all most would simply listen and not buy product, their position as a factor in this has.

This is more or less what Thom Yorke is saying I think. The economics have changed, and overall capital had migrated to the cartel like few.
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Do they stink like regular cigarettes? The horrible stench of regular cigarettes is worse than any possible carcinogens to me, ugh!
>The FDA warns that more research needs to be done on the health risks of inhaling liquid nicotine.

> "The FDA has said that it plans to assert regulatory authority over electronic cigarettes. And that could lead to them being regulated in the same way as cigarettes as far as marketing is concerned," Felberbaum says.

This is odd. For one, we know the health risks of nicotine patches, and we know the health risks of the alternative to e-cigarettes, which carries very large known risks. For that reason alone we should celebrate these little devices.

Further, what the hell is the FDA doing? I thought this would be for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Edit, some dates:

Since 2009 the FDA has had the authority to explicitly regulate tobacco too, not just nicotine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_tobacco_by_the_U....

Since 1998 the FDA has been allowed to regulate cigarettes as nicotine delivery devices: http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8846773/Szubin.ht...
Oh, that is true. Ideally a fun "AAA" would be the best option...
But even if the exhaled vapor is perfectly safe, they'll still try to ban them.
The only radar that matters is the one you put in your own head. Fuck the radar.
As a small market pursuer, I had to say that a tiny market is different from tiny effort.

I developed torapp guilloche designer (http://www.torapp.info) for security printing industry, which is definitely a tiny market. But it did not mean less competition, and it is in fact much more complicated than a regular graphic editor like adobe illustrator and coreldraw.

Besides regular editing facilities in AI or coreldraw, I spent tremendous effort to handle all possible math formulas/curves as comupter algebraic system (CAS).

I would recommend people to pursue as big market as possible.
E-cigs were banned from public indoor use at the same time as smoking in my area. They used the reasoning that, for some of the e-cigs, it was hard to distinguish them from actual cigarettes as they look similar, and would cause confusion.
The problem with stimulus spending in a place like Spain is that someone will have to lend them the money to spend. They either have to charge pretty high interest (which exacerbates Spain's already high deficit) or give a discount on the interest, such that it no longer reflects the risk the lender is taking. Most anti-austerity calls seem to suggest the latter, which basically amounts to redistribution from those countries (Germany, Netherlands et.al.) that did not enjoy the easy living during the boom years that Spain did.
aka we haven't decided yet how to best squeeze all the juice.
Yes and No

In societies of extreme poverty children have long been viewed a hedge against old age
What struck me as I reread the article was that it had been through a rigorous editorial process. No cruft. That clarity is why it stuck with me twenty years on.

It always seemed wrong to throw magazines away, at least so long as they were packed up early as I prepared to move. About 1997 my computer magazines were not. After the books had been boxed, I'd had enough heavy lifting. Now few articles get read twice. Somewhere in a box in Orlando though there may still be a copy of Deskview X.
Nicotine isn't an alcohol, tobacco, firearm, or explosive. It's a drug.

It's also fair to request additional research into an inhalant version of a drug. I wouldn't want an FDA that immediately celebrates a product without properly researching it.
>it's about helping people, not about feeling good about our own actions.

sure, ideally. In reality going by the metric of dollars spent -> outcomes it is far and away about feeling good.
E-Cigarettes are are excellent litmus test for the prohibitionist brigade - it shows clearly that it's not about safety or health, it's about control and some misguided puritan ideal.
Not by a long shot. I've been a smoker for more than half my life, and while I still am, since I've moved to another city that frowns upon smoking in your own apartment, I've become far more cognisant of the smell - not that I was completely ignorant to it.

Nicotine vaporizers have no scent that I've ever been aware of. I've had a couple myself, and they have found quite a bit of popularity in my neighborhood very recently. You can't even tell someone is smoking one unless you see them take a puff. As far as I've been able to tell, there is no scent.
it's the default config for the notle board, so you want "make notle_defconfig"
I've been around people smoking them, and there is no smell, and it doesn't upset my asthma either.
Nope, they don't. They don't smell like much of anything since they emit water vapor and not smoke. At the most, they might smell a little bit like the cartridge flavor (watermelon, cherry, whatever..)
No, they don't. They produce an extremely mild sweet smell. You would never notice by smell alone.
They do not smell like traditional cigarettes. The Blu eCigs I have smelled are very aromatic, almost like pipe tabacco or hookah. They smell a whole lot better than traditional cigarettes and the smell is less strong but some people still may not like it.
Don’t Replace Religion; End It
"There is nothing more damaging to a young man's character than for him to discover that he is clever."

I stumbled upon this once long ago and have not been able to (re)discover the source since. In my memory, it was attributed to Leo Tolstoy (or may have been a comment made by one character in reference to another in one of Tolstoy's novels). Or maybe I made the whole thing up and was simply chastising myself while trying to learn Russian by being clever instead of diligent.

It near perfectly distills so much.

I would prefer diligence over cleverness every single time, most especially within myself.
Debian made a dumb software coding mistake that broke entropy input into OpenSSL's RNG. This is a part of the code that's very hard to test for correctness because by its nature, it must behave unpredictably.

This could have (and often does) happen to any software. It's not a good example of someone attempting to design their own or modify an existing crypto primitive algorithm.
Amen (lol). Favourite line ... "Religion also includes fellowship, joy, compassion, service and great music, and those can be replaced by ... fellowship, joy, compassion, service and great music."
The vast majority of the public indoor e-cig smokers I've run into seemed to be doing it so they could look like they're smoking and then get indignant that it's not a cigarette
How do you know that's what they were doing?
I don't think I am in your target market based on your current positioning, however I am in a position where I would be involved in the decision as to whether my company would pay money for something like this.

The company I work for (as an SOA architect) uses regex heavily for many mission critical applications. It costs me 100s of Ks in testing effort when a back-end format experiences major change. We usually don't find a lot of bugs in testing but each missed parsing requirement could mean millions to the bottom line thus justifying the investment in man hours.

If you think support of regex is a tiny market, I am not sure you have considered all of your angles or fully understand your market.
The FDA should most definitely regulate e-cigs in some way. If not the vaporizers, then certainly the fluid. At the very least, I would want my country's regulatory body (Canadian here) to at least enforce labeling and quality standards (if you claim your fluid is 95% propylene glycol, and 5% nicotine concentrate, then you better be selling that). As a customer, I do not have the expertise, equipment, nor funding to do this testing myself, just as I do not have the expertise, equipment, nor funding to determine if ibuprofen actually has the stated amount of active ingredient, that my free range chicken actually is free range chicken, that my nicotine patches contain nicotine, etc.
Serious question: How is "pepper" any different than encrypting a traditional salted hash using a symmetric cipher as if it were any other kind of data?
The major component of the secondhand vapor would be glycerin and/or propylene glycol. In extreme cases you might inhale entire milligrams of the stuff. Both substances are safe enough to be in the FDA's 'Generally Recognized as Safe' list and you could drink liters of them without any ill effects.
Turns out yes, there isa picture of everything on the Internet. http://mebe.co/apple_space_monkey.jpeg