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I am convinced that no one in the world has ever flipped heads 76 or 90 times in a row on a fair coin

Let's assume instead that it's 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, and 6 tails. The probability of that coming up is exactly the same as 76 heads.

Now, what at the chances of any given permutation coming up? Still the same as 76 heads.

So the author would, presumably, on balance of probability, be convinced that no combination of any 76 coin tosses has ever come up. If 76 heads is unlikely then any other permutation is equally unlikely. As someone who has flipped a coin more than 76 times I can say for certain is wrong. At least 1 permutation has definitely happened.

It is entirely illogical to be convinced that it wasn't heads all the way.

(But, for the record, it wasn't.)
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I'd imagine that the illegality of fraudulently using an Amazon account would be more clearcut and easier to prosecute.
Maven always had a number of issues -- SBT came along and solved none of them and introduced a few new ones.
You should have given them an read only box with javascript that automatically populates it and REALLY knocked their socks off.
I'm not sure if either of them deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but I believe Manning's sentence is reasonable. I'd like to shake his hand, buy him a beer, thank him personally, but it's a decision he made that has severe consequences for a reason. And while I don't like Snowden at all, I think his actions are much more justifiable from an ethical point of view. It's not like terrorists were unaware the NSA was spying before they had proof—the only people being blindfolded were citizens. Manning's actions were more complex and the ramifications were less straightforwardly positive.
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In the unlikely case you live in São Paulo, Brazil, rbanffy@gmail. The beer is on me.
Here's a question: have you ever actually lived in one of these Islamic countries to which you compare the U.S.?

I have. Indeed, my parents grew up in one. My dad still laments how Islamization undermined the secular democratic goals underpinning the country's independence movement. Nobody who has actual experience with the U.S. and such countries would say "the only difference is one side has redefined what the word means in order to continue using it in elections." This is the sort of adolescent false equivalence that will get you upvotes here on HN, from other people who have no experience with either Islamic nations or often even how religion functions here in the U.S.

Your errors are two-fold and fundamental: ignoring the ratios of extremists to moderates in the respective countries, and conflating the communitarianism that exists in America (not just in Christian but also in Jewish and Islamic communities), for the authoritarianism that exists in many Islamic countries.
Couple of years back when I was still doing stuff for various big companies in Finland, I saw a setup that was quite common:

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Thanks, I didn't know that! That might be good enough, as I quite often have no phone signal (and therefore no SMS) but still have net connectivity via wifi.

I'd still prefer the TOTP approach though because it doesn't require any connectivity on the phone.
My first thought was that this could be about automating panda reproduction via Python. It would continuously ensure the future of the species.

Python does have a library for everything, you know.
I always wondered by UPS/FedEx don't have keys to the outside or every apt building have "drop boxes" - large empty boxes that UPS/FedEx could put in a package, lock it with the key, then drop the key in the mailbox of the person who needs it.

Thinking a bit more - I wonder if lockitron could solve this allowing "carriers" to enter, drop off package or put groceries away (for the most part) - cold items in freezer, perishable items in fridge, etc.

Super interest - also how a retail spans years with various connections/products and integrates into your life.
I think you missed a hyphen. I was referring to the horrible limited software that many companies use that always seems to have "enterprise" in the name.

If you're stuck in the sort of toxic environment where a new free machine is not allowed because "policy" then nothing can help you.
Well, I guess since even Barack Obama, a president who spreads hatred by not abolishing torture, not ending wars, supporting assassinations, etc. won the Nobel Peace Prize a lot of things are counted.

Since the US obviously fights many secret wars and considers everyone but UK; Canada and Australia their enemy unveiling the fact that there are secret wars fought way more intensely than we knew before it is the only possible first step to end it.

It at least makes more sense to me than destroying a part of (mostly broken or expired) nuclear weapons. I don't think that the presence or absence of nuclear weapon will ever be a reason for war, maybe a pretense, but that's all.
Wouldn't it be ironical if he wins the Nobel just a few years after Obama?
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I don't think that the Peace Prize is only meant for people who have made tangible changes in the amount of violence in the world. It's also a carrot that you can dangle in front of people to reward them for taking risks in the interest of reducing violence.

Rabin and Arafat (and Peres) tried, with the Oslo accords, to move toward a settlement of a long-standing, violent dispute. They didn't completely succeed. And indeed, you could argue (as many do) that the Oslo accords were a mistake. But they were willing to take risks in order to perhaps make things more peaceful for their people, and that's the sort of thing that the Nobel Committee wanted to reward.

Of course, now that I've described things in this way, maybe Snowden is an appropriate recipient...
True, but that's still a good reason to avoid SIGKILLing your processes.
Email is rarely secure though.

A password reset link that emails a temporary password is OK in my opinion (not ideal, but a tradeoff for password resets, and perfectly fine if the site actually forces a change on logging in with it), but "Thanks for registering, your password is foo" is not, as then the user has to change it (and some exceptionally bad sites may then email them that password as well).
Yes, according to the Nature article's abstract [1]. (It'd have to be, wouldn't it? Erythrocytes don't have nuclei.)

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature1...
It's a cash grab for ICANN, IMHO. There's no need for anything but country TLDs. How often do you see .aero, .museum or .name? Nobody uses those, why would we need any more? And people are used to websites ending in the normal TLDs, how much recognition would you get that, if you advertised with yourname.plumber, it'd be your website?

Maybe it's part of the 'corporations don't want to be bothered by countries' thing that's been going on</tinfoil>
Since Dylan people are probably reading this.

- What GC will the LLVM backend use?

- Is there any data an the performance of the MPS?
How would that be exploitable?
They would have to be I would think: red blood cells are erythrocytes and lack a nucleus.
When people talk about extreme wealth inequality, they aren't talking about the existence of individual outliers from the mean, they are talking about the overall characteristics of the distribution function as shown in measures like the Gini coefficient.

A coherent community smaller than the whole universe of interest that demonstrates the same distributional features can be an example of extreme wealth inequality, an individual cannot -- this is important, because you can have extreme outliers with a relatively flat overall distribution, so its an error to try to say that being against extreme wealth inequality (in the sense that people are usually speaking when complaining about it) means being against any individual extremely wealthy person.
I suppose climbing Everest is only a little less selfish than having children.
Some sitcoms are fairly easy to follow. I watch a lot of documentaries on Netflix and Hulu. I also make use of airplay quite heavily especially for listening to sports games through radio apps on the iPhone.
Not sure why this was downvoted except maybe to try to hide it.

I wrote that title, it is not from the article, it was before HN editors reverted titles.

Found my original post from three years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978295

So it is a direct copy of my post with verbatim title copied.
I actually think that Obama's generally an OK president. (Not that I agree with many of his policies, including those having to do with Guantanamo and drones, mind you.)

But I still think it was kind of weird for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize. At the very least, it strikes me as way premature.
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"intellectual laziness of dynamically typed languages"

Ouch. So if I choose to use python, ruby, javascript, lisp, - I am 'intellectually lazy'?
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The parent was talking on a demographic level. You turned it into absurdity by taking it to an individual level ('those foreigners specifically want my spouse!').
and maybe you can find some here to:
http://www.meetup.com/STHLM-Lounge-Hackers/
If you're a programmer and you're not comfortable with english, you better become. Fast. There's just no way around it and I think it's a good thing, it means less fragmentation of knowledge. Remember when Nginx documentation was almost entirely in russian? Yeah, it sucked.

ps: English is not my first language
Fuck the world. He's action is true to himself. For that, I respect the guy.
This...

My dad is one of the best programmers I ever saw, and he tried VERY, VERY, VERY hard for 30 years already, and don't understand english at all.

What he do is search in english (or try to), and then use google translate to read the results.

Also I once worked in a company with 40 programmers, only 4 could read and write in english well enough to use StackOverflow, the others knew only the programming language keywords (in the sense of what they did even, not what they meant in english), and sometimes barely enough to use english google + google translate.
First, find Core Wars and play it until you can beat the "tutorial" programs. Hell, I should reimplement Core Wars as a JavaScript app doing CodeCombat style instruction for assembly.
LOL as a Brazilian, that was my first thought too! The most skilled developers will continue to use the global SO and only the "pesky" will move to the new site. The only real drawback is for the youth who doesn't speak english well yet, and now has one more incentive to never really learn it.
> One way to make basic income work politically is make it conditional upon providing something other than the actual market value of said something, at least initially.

That's called a "behaviorally conditioned social welfare program", and along with means-tested social welfare programs, its exactly the efficiency and administrative problem that unconditional basic income sets out to solve. That's not making basic income work politically, that's the exact thing that basic income is proposed in opposition to.
I had my first experience for Scala last week with doing the Stripe CTF.

I really liked the look of the language and I started trying to develop my solution in it. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and had a reasonable idea of what to write to get there.

Holly molly, compilation times were absolutely horrible. I tried to persevere but a tiny change would mean 2 minutes waiting for a recompile. In the end I just switched to python where I could develop a solution from scratch (remember, the Scala solution was 90% finished) in no time at all.

Would like to look closer at the language one day but I have better things to do with time than waiting for a machine to churn through code.
> Most non native english speakers probably don't feel confident enough to ask questions on english speaking forums like SO.

On the flip side, people are feeling too confident about asking questions on pt.stackoverflow.com, lowering the SNR quite a bit. But I don't know how English SO was at the beginning, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also took them a while to establish the current quality standards.
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In many ways what's most interesting about this from a biological standpoint is that it explains why stem cells have been found all over the body in previous experiments. This "stress-induced" pluripotency suggests a general mechanism that the body uses to deal with stress. In effect cells are made with the intrinsic capability to respond to injury, by simply turning into stem cells.
If you respect Manning, please stop saying "he" and "guy".
I do wonder whether zoologists are now continually frustrated with the Python data analysis ecosystem when they perform their Google searches :-)
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What do you mean, "in all honesty"? Unless you were privvy to the evaluative processes for the award, what you're saying is pure speculation.
It's funny how he can dismiss Haskell as "hopeless academic idealism" and accuse dynamic language of "intellectual laziness" in one breath. Haskell is different from most languages, but that doesn't make it hopeless or academic a priori. Saying that is itself intellectually lazy, bordering on intellectually dishonest. But it is a good way to save yourself the effort of learning something new!

Besides this, Scala has way too much Java in it to really be "algebraically elegant" or even simple! Scala is a compromise. It has the legacy of Java compatibility dragging it down. That's one of the main reasons it's caught on, but it's also the reason it isn't actually particularly simple or elegant. It's one of the most complex (but not necessarily difficult) languages in common use.

It is nowhere near as elegant or simple as OCaml or Haskell as they can afford to be much closer to the λ-calculus. Which is also why they can afford such incredible things like tail call elimination and type inference!

Also, while Scala is a multiparadigm language, it is not the best of both worlds. In embracing Java and OO, it throws away many of the advantages of functional programming. In fact, any non-trivial functional programming quickly becomes unbearable. Especially compared to Haskell.

Edward Kmett wrote a nice Reddit post[1] about how Scala falls short from a functional standpoint. This is from an entirely practical commercial standpoint based on his experiences at S&P Capital IQ. Here is what he had to say about functional programming in Scala: "If scala was the only language I had to think in, I'd think functional programming was a bad idea that didn't scale, too." A pretty strong image!

Their story is interesting: they took a Java project to Scala. It was an incredible improvement. Then Scala became a pain on its own, so they designed their own functional language for the JVM[2] and moved to that. It was the same sort of incredible improvement. The same thing that happened to Java happened to Scala!

Ermine, their new programming language, is basically like the core of Haskell adopted to the JVM along with some interesting new features. One thing that really stood out for me is that they have customizable type error messages: they can have type errors that are domain-specific! That by itself probably has a fair amount of value.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1pjjy5/odersky_the_...

[2]: https://github.com/ermine-language/ermine
I disagree. Engineering is all about choosing tradeoffs. Freeways aren't built with a slow lane to support horse and buggy users, because that would be an irresponsible use of resources. For most sites, supporting IE7 would be a complete waste of money.
Yeah I quite like Gliffy. More often than not, we take photos of whiteboards and email them round the team.
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Possible confusion here. Given that there are a large number (possibly very large) of possible permutations that might be observed from a session of coin spinning it is not to hard to imagine that one might indeed be observed.

The odds on a given permutation arising are very low.
How can education be used as a weapon?
If you're exploring the phone system and want to know what circuit you've happened to sneak your way onto. It's very useful if you can have the phone company just tell you what part of their systems you're calling from :)
So by your standard, Martin Luther King Jr. should be getting out of prison just about now?

Manning was a whistlerblower, just like Snowden, with less power and ability for flight to defend themselves.

There was no personal gain ever intended or achieved, yet great personal loss even in the best outcome. They saw something very wrong happening and had little to no way to say "hey there are some incredibly powerful forces in this country doing some very evil things".

The problem is we only treat whistleblowers like traitors legally and Manning's "trial" was a complete scam, zero media coverage allowed on purpose by the government so they could be railroaded.
Actually, you can use Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana today for monitoring. There are many users that happily do that, for example, use Logstash with collectd input, store it in Elasticsearch, and build custom dashboards in Kibana. We built Marvel on top of this open source foundation.
Very cool. I have revisited the WTI/Brent spread trade a few times in the last few years - actually wrote a simple algo using Quandl data for USO and BNO, two ETFs linked to the WTI and Brent futures. I would love to update it to use this continuous futures contract logic and see how it does. https://www.quantopian.com/posts/brent-slash-wti-spread-fetc...
It's possible to do selenium with manual steps in, no? A previous company I worked for used Twist, which is a slick GUI on top of selenium with explicit support for manual steps (personally I felt it was a terrible tool and encouraged the wrong style of testing, but it might be what you're after)
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Here is the strange part: with debit card. Theoretically the government can identify and arrest all VPN providers in 24 hours. For some reason they have never made a single VPN-related arrest as far as I know. This has led many (including me) believe that VPNs are government honeypots. People are going to circumvent censorship one way or the other. If they provide VPN for those who are really seeking it, they will lose their power for censorship but not surveillance. I assume they don't care so much about people watching porn as they care about citizen journalists writing for BBC (many of whom have been arrested).
> Patent agreements are also not even covered by the GPLv2

What about section 7?
Wait, I don't think they explicitly chose Portuguese. My understanding is that it was proposed [0] by the community and things worked from there (ie. this announcement is only about SO admins making it official and moving the site out of beta).

[0] https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/23539/stack-overf...
OK. I admit defeat. But explain the geological column and the fossil record in terms of something other than a specific religion's creation story.

You're focussing too much on reproducibility, as I said.
Canada Post's community mailboxes have oversized slots for packages, which work on exactly the model you propose. I gather it works reasonably well.

On the other hand, I have absolutely no desire to have random delivery staff wandering in and out of my apartment. If that means I have to shop for my own groceries, rather than having them delivered, then that's what I'll do. This also has the benefit that I can pick my own produce, rather than relying on someone who works for Peapod or similar, who likely gets paid rather poor wages, and who, to pick one particularly memorable example, has no particular interest in seeing to it that I get fresh, firm, ripe bell peppers instead of sallow, sunken, half-gone-over ones.
I think it is, yes, but where would you document the "outside of the browser" steps that need to be performed?
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"I'd like to shake his [sic] hand, buy him [sic] a beer, thank him [sic] personally", "but I believe Manning's sentence [of 35 years in prison] is reasonable".
My jaw dropped to the floor. Assuming that you want to thank her for doing that thing that landed her in prison, there is nothing you can say that can reconcile those two statements for me.
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This is a big problem - you are right. Users don't like things changing either. It ranges from a few minutes to adapt to throwing toys out of the pram and having to be retrained on something minor. This is an unfortunately reality.
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This is appalling, but sometimes in my work I can better express myself in English than in my mother tongue. It's not because there is much more material in English, but because there is so much high quality material in English.
With this we are basically encouraging removal of high quality material from the web.
Remeber: the internets are english and there are no girls on the internet :D
I don't understand why you don't see the link between an increase in cultural dissimilarity and an increase in incompatible goals. The more similar you are, the fewer incompatible goals you have.

The parent comment was a bit hyperbolic, but it wasn't absurd, and there's truth to it. Claiming that the parent meant everyone was gunning for Susan (that it, turning it into an argument about identical individuals) was absurd.
You know very well

How would you know that? Not every Portuguese speaking user here in from Brazil, and as one of them, frankly I don't have any idea of the English proficiency of Brazilian programmers.
> Who really deserves the scorn—the two best players in the game or the people who own the stadium?

Are the two mutually excluded? I'm not sure about the platforms, but the owners of the account are definitely in the wrong. Ignorance doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to play within the bounds of the law.
Much as the dolls that little girls play with predate the emergence of humanity (girl chimpanzees care for sticks as if they were babies), it seems safe to say that toys based on weapons have been around for tens of thousands of years at least.
Exactly, it's the odds of a given permutation coming up. Obviously the sum of the odds of all possible outcomes = 1. But each probability is extremely small.

Edit to address the confusion directly: There's no extra reason to think it wasn't heads all the way, since it's exactly the same probability as any other sequence of 76. And at the same time, we can be pretty sure that no one has flipped most of the possible sequences! There are just so many, it would take forever to explore them all.
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