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I was immediately annoyed when reading the first caption, which confuses "roll" with "role".
Bayes to the rescue! In this case, most people's prior, that is, the unconditional probability that a given coin is biased, is probably much less than 0.5 - after all, almost all coins are supposed to be nonbiased, and biased coins must be specially manufactured. In light of this prior, after five heads in a row, the posterior probability that a randomly chosen coin is biased is much less than 0.95. On the other hand if your prior really is 0.5, for instance if you have two coins and know one is biased but not which one, then, after five heads, you really should deduce that the probability of you having picked the biased one is high (it depends on how biased exactly the coin is!)
I found it quite appropriate that the referenced CBC article referred to it as a moon "buggy."

More seriously, I'm excited to see more countries, and more people in general, involved in space exploration.

I also think that instead of pointing to the rover's failure, we shout point to its success: Launching a rover to the moon and getting it to work in any way, shape, or form, is a pretty amazing triumph. Sure, the US did it several decades ago, but not all NASA missions were successful, and it's to be expected that you need a few iterations to get the bugs out.
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Well, let’s look at it from a historical perspective. In the past, before the Internet, the only place it was even possible to be anonymous was in writing – anonymous pamphlets, books written under pseudonyms, etc. Now, did these contain horrible behavior? No, the horrible behavior (as judged by the standards of the times) was associated with lower classes instead. The anonymous pamphlets and books written under pseudonyms were instead challenges to the status quo and the powers that be.
It's an British thing, in my understanding. I've never heard an American say it, but I see it in English literature all the time. I can only assume it's a regular, everyday word there.
Yes they're bad. You can't even view your completed tasks. What's even worse is I tried to tell mobile Chrome (the app is the same as the mobile site) to show the desktop version but I still wound up with the crappy mobile site.
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> I think Americans are much less racist than almost anyone else. I'm Bengali by ethnicity, and my observation is that people on the subcontinent are racist enough to make a south Georgia redneck blush.

Not really, it's just in the rest of the world being openly racist is just fine, in the US (and Canada) you have to pick when you can be openly racist and pretend otherwise the rest of the time.

> think we'd still have legal segregation if the courts hadn't forced it down peoples' throats.

We would.
That's not enough. Learning what doesn't work is sort of useful, but only if it ever leads to something that DOES work. There's an infinite supply of dead ends out there. You need a higher bar than 'learned something' if that something is a negative.
Or simply send an email to i@snipek.com with subject line 'hn'
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"Strictly speaking, while more energy came from fusion than went into the hydrogen fuel, only about 1 percent of the laser's energy ever reached the fuel. Useful levels of fusion are still a long way off."

The rest was lost to energy conversion losses. Yeah, not the best breakthrough I've heard today. Their best breakthrough was this CAD-flythrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sp1sDpn_M0
Fun bit of trivia: If a moon rover could maintain speed of about 11 miles per hour (17 Kilometers per hour) forever, it could circle the moon in 28 days, and would be moving fast enough to stay on the light side of the moon. That doesn't seem very fast, but with the moons low gravity and all.... You'd have to be doing science while catching big air.
> plain racism, something that's blatant all over America (some might say, it's what defines America)

Have you ever lived in any continental European country? As someone who has spent about half their life in northern and western Europe and the other half in America, I can tell you with 100% confidence that Europeans are, in general, more xenophobic and racist than Americans.
A nice aspect of this is that it could work better than the system being replaced (tracking gets automated and centralized.)
What does Elasticsearch add on top of Lucene?
This is so depressing and even though sample size is small it rings 100% true. I think it's just a symptom of an inherently racist and unfair world and is not Uber or Airbnb's fault. The same thing happens with names at the resume level and on and on.

That said I think there's a new market here. If the average Airbnb listing is rejecting applicants of color maybe there could be a special "diversity friendly" designation on Airbnb or other sites. Perhaps users could add some flair, something similar to the LGBT pride flag that some business add to their windows, to their profiles to signify they sincerely welcome all applicants. Hopefully this doesn't sound too ignorant.

If mass rejection of specific groups is occurring, there's some money to be made here by sending out the right signals. Just think of the profit made by some gay/lesbian bars in the 1970s and 80s.
True, but that's an advantage of Lisp's uniformity. Imagine passing a query comprehension (or two) as arguments.

Foo(from n in range select n * n into: from n in range where n % 2 == 0 select n)
People are also more racist than normal when their assets are on the line (aka paranoia).
One small caveat: I was referring to single-sentence messages. Full stops with multiple sentences just fine, but you then enter "wall of text" territory.
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Even the kindest reading of that sort of ideology is saying that rather than solve the problem now, we'll let it solve itself really, really slowly.

It's sort of cute in the abstract, but it ignores the reality of people suffering now.
In 2013, Wikimedia got over $44M in contributions. I'd not call that minuscule. Of course, they have huge site, huge traffic, etc. - but that doesn't make $44M minuscule.
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No, I don't think so. Not generally, that is (standing in a line, distractions, or messy transportation notwithstanding). There's a part of me that feels a certain dismay for the mangling we've wrought upon the written word, but mostly because I know there isn't anything much that can be done...

Although I do find one thing of particular amusement. A friend of mine IMs me with proper punctuation and capitalization only when he's on his iDevice and not at a keyboard. So I have to wonder if sometimes the opposite of TFA's argument is applicable...
It depends what question you are asking. If the question is "should we fund projects even if we don't know if or when they will have demonstrable results?" then I would argue that, yes, some portion of research should go towards that.

How long is "long enough" to deem that a line of experimentation "didn't work out?" There is no period long enough. Sometimes a negative result is quite useful down the road. Some research just comes together when the right things are learned and tried. So any notion of a "dead end" is really just a tentative assessment, frozen in time.
The lack of generics in Objective-C is one of my biggest complains with the language. A huge portion of the runtime errors I run into are due to containers not containing the type of object I expected them to.
Antidepressants don't make people have suicidal thoughts. They give people just enough energy and ability to execute on plans, which sometimes include suicide.
It's tempting to define "impoliteness" as disagreement with progressive beliefs about feminism or white racial guilt. Judging by what Scalzi has banned people for, he seems to fall victim to this. He uses the banhammer more than any other blogger I've followed. The others don't feel the need to curate the discussion so closely.

It's fine to be so closed off in your personal space, but the intellectual air can get a bit musty.
doesn't this get even worse since the python server is run by root?
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That's the nature of R&D. There are 100 failures for every 1 success, because often, the usefulness of basic research is unknown.

Modern cryptography is based on advances in number theory and abstract algebra. None of the mathematicians over the last 2 centuries who contributed to those advancements foresaw the applications.

Modern GPS satellites are dependent upon general and special relativity. Einstein never foresaw it.

Much of the military industrial spending that funded the creation of Silicon Valley was not specifically targeted at creating the industries that followed.

The whole point of basic R&D is you don't know the economic outcome. It is a quest for knowledge. It may create the next disruptive technology or industry, or, it may not, and just be a another curiosity to be studied by academics.

It's a double edged sword, but why should we want swords with only one edge (short term economic success)?

Microsoft R&D funds for example, like IBM, mathematic researchers. These people are not working on products or applications, they're working on proving theorems.

I don't fault Microsoft for "wasteful" spending. Research and Development is a genetic algorithm for searching the fitness frontier of knowledge space. A whole lot of organisms, or ideas, have to die, before local optima can be broken out of to find the next peak.
We're humans; of course we're judgemental. If you forget your punctuation (or use the wrong punctuation) in a cover letter, you're going to be judged on that as well (and probably not get the job).

First impressions are important to humans. "y ru not here" will be judged very differently from "Just wanted to make sure you're still able to come."
I like Friedman, but this is one of his more hand-wavey arguments. It ignores the fact that discrimination might be a positive marketing characteristic for a business. If the customers are themselves racist, a business might lose a lot more revenue by serving minority customers than it gains from those customers. Indeed, even if all the business owners are not racist, as long as most of the customers are, they face a collective action problem. The first business to serve minority customers would quickly lose most of its customers to the competing businesses. And that seems to be precisely what was happening in the U.S. until Congress broke the cycle by making such discrimination illegal.
I would assume that they are only working with a narrow subset of dead ends. They probably have promising leads and work on those. I think it's a constant process of refinement.
This is from my observations in Australia and Asia including our own spaces. Is this generally the case or are there noisy incubators/accelerators/co-working spaces out there?
"Use pickle with caution" would be better advice. There are plenty of cases where your data is under control and pickle is a huge time saver. It takes work to translate most data structures to/from json.
>White Supremacy is an oppressive institution that reaches throughout all of society. Unless it is actively fought against, it will prevail.

Or, you know, we could just educate people and get rid of racism in a way that doesn't swap one bad thing for another (like racist policies intended to favor non-whites, which I assume you're referring to).
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Hey guys - I'm in a pickle and am up for anybody's legal advice. I've built a start-up site for musicians to sell electronic dance music (EDM) and have the domain name EDMZOO.com registered. The EDM part refers to the broad genre of the music. The ZOO part refers to the fact that I'll have tons of subgenres, which aren't necessarily your run-of-the-mill 120BPM "dance" tracks, so it's more of a zoo with all kinds of chillstep, dubstep, melodic trance, etc. mixed in. AND, for today's fun fact: I've received a Cease and Desist letter from Made Events LLC, which runs an annual event called "Electric Zoo" telling me to stop using this domain name. I feel like I'm being totally shafted here with the almighty-Electric Zoo just over-extending (IMHO) their trademarked name without even being able to launch my site! Thoughts? Anybody know any pro bono attorneys? Please help!
Kind of a funny example, given that you change the meaning from one sentence to another.
This isn't limited to white hosts either. My brother stayed with a black couple during an internship in DC last summer (he's white).

They told him that after several bad experiences they no longer host black guests.
I've tried Engines in the past and came away with the feeling that they are just a "one toe in the water" approach to Service oriented Architecture. The hills that you have to climb in regards to testing, assets and dependencies just don't seem worth it. So we created an Engine because we feel that parts of our code base are different enough that they should stand alone, but we then want to share code (a cool way of saying "coupling") between them? It just doesn't add up for me.
That's a great idea - that would have been damning evidence.
Wasn't this milestone reached sometime late last year? I remember writing about it: http://www.therefinedgeek.com.au/index.php/2013/10/08/fusion...
That is a depressing set of links.
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It doesn't matter whether the host is rich or not. One of the key ways of proving a discrimination claim is to show a pattern of action, which calls into doubt the host's pretextual reasons for denying service. Much harder to do that with an individual than a business.
I'm in a similar group (I'm not, but my peers are), and we all use full punctuation and proper grammar in our private IMs. We are all fairly well educated, and members of a profession where professional communication is a must.

Anecdote is not data, etc.
Ha. Is that the same obesity and diabetes (and even potentially ADHD) epidemic that's been encouraged by low fat high carb hysteria for the last 30 years.

I just hope my kid can still get whole milk when he goes to kindergarten.
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I think the distinction made it this comment is valuable, and echoes our experience. ES is not (at least so far) suitable as a general purpose data store, but it is suitable (and very good) for more than search. For some use cases, it's the best available.
The question is, how do you enforce this? What is to stop a host from displaying the "diverse friendly" flare for promotion purposes and then just rejecting minorities anyway.

The only method I can think of would be to monitor when hosts reject minority guests but then there's a risk that you punish hosts who reject a minority guest for some unrelated reason.
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> If that's something that's still interesting to you, check out http://microcorruption.com.

I was very excited to see that for just that reason. :) I think I peaked at #24 on the day it was announced, but I'm sure I've slipped quite a bit since then.

Fundamentals are important; agreed, but the difference between knowing the theory of buffer overflows and having actually exploited one is a huge to me. Now I can say that I have actually done that, thanks to you having packaged everything up so nicely on microcorruption.com, but even that isn't 100% of the experience I would like to have, because the environment is a lot different than what I program on day-to-day.

For example, I know that I shouldn't map any memory wx (and I explained this rule in my article about JITs: http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...), but I don't really know why. I don't actually know what an attack would look like where having wx memory around makes an exploit easier.
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Considering that they previously had to use way more energy than they got out: This is pretty awesome.
There's no obvious difference.
Perhaps you're right. Still, the title isn't accusing either company as racist.
AirBnB created artificial trust between strangers to allow them to share homes. That's a HUGE accomplishment.
On one hand, AirBnB has to keep investing dollars (marketing/dev/support) at their core user group - perhaps the "Student Universe" segment or the "Business traveler" segment.
As they continue to grow, plan for an IPO, take market share from hotels... they need to think about these unintended consequence and work harder towards creating a "open, trusted, diverse community."
This is so depressing to make AirBnb or Uber responsible for the image of Black people that the Black people worked so long and hard to achieve and maintain.
I'm pretty sure I saw something recognizably similar to this used as a sample program for the Commodore 64 in Compute's Gazette.
Considering the fact that nothing yet optimized on the prototype side, it's fair to have a such benchmark since the test cases are complicated enough for a prototype. Indeed V8 performs quite well. The project is under development and only time will show whether they are exaggerated or not.
This would have been far more convincing if he tried to book the same dates as his friend and was accepted after they said they didn't have anything available on that date. As it is, it's just one of many possible reasons his friend had trouble finding a reservation.
Is this even basic science? It sounds more like an engineering problem, albeit a very hard one. I am not a physicist, but I would consider this more like the Manhattan project -- the science being done is not of the 'deeper under standing of nature' type, but rather 'how do you make a controllable explosion' type.

Given that, the way to evaluate the project is not on grants received, articles published or citations in premier journals, but rather 'Did you make a controlled explosion? If not when will you be able to?' And I think, so far an 'F' is fair.
Also XSRF with QR code meant to log in to site 1 shown to client on site 2.
If it's just Solr underneath, then why is the pesudo-Solr API implementation not a complete implementation? Something to do with each node being an isolated Solr instance maybe?
subject line 'hn' (without the quote)
You can't force someone to write well by any means.

Good writing is sensitive to multiple contexts and multiple rules. Essentially, one has to be able to shift-gears and notice the results of your writing, how your audience will receive it.

The only way a person becomes a good writer is through self-direct study. A bad writer who writes long sentences without noticing the results will remain a bad writer if someone forces them to divide their sentences, because they are still not being aware of the results of their writing.

All that said, a lot of people learning to write create long sentences because they don't yet have the skill to communicate with shorter sentences. Demanding that a person break up their sentences into smaller chunks can help them become more skillful - if they put in the effort to learn this.
That would be a better title than "Learn Perl by experiment" or "perl-by-example" or "A Guide to Perl: By Experiment"
all of which suggest a tutorial, which you're saying is not what you're trying to present.
Jesus, that article is so full of shit. It's literally a list of misleading headlines.

Equivalent:

"21 things white people can't do in Germany: Be the nation's leader while having a tootbrush mustache"
They are, but because they are mostly "comfortable" in their homogenous societies, they don't express as much fear through action as in the US. As the minority gets bigger, fear and negative action rises. I think in the US this was compounded by a lingering fear of a literal slave revolt.

In other words, it's easier to be racist but nice anyways if you don't fear the tiny minority.
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Honestly, Candy Crush and CandySwipe, while both using the candy theme, are rather different in terms of gameplay. Unlike the Scamperghost case, it is certainly not the case that Candy Crush is a copy of CandySwipe or even derivative. Candy Crush is the better game at least in terms of polish and long-term playability.

I won't deny King's douchiness in the trademark case, which will no doubt hurt Mr. Ransom and Runsome Games, but this is not like the Scamperghost case (and nowhere does Mr. Ransom imply that it is -- he's just calling out King on its evil scheme of attempting to quash a pre-existing trademark).
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Quora was a bait and switch, much less ethical than Klout. Medium is a self indulgent blogging echo chamber.
My point was that his attempt to not generalize, whilst generalizing (the poor? the uneducated?) was a bit offensive.

I don't really care, just figured I'd point out that there are also educated engineers/architects out there who don't punctuate during informal speak.

Personally my feeling on it is- "big fuckin' deal."
like, you can't be annoying and expect not to hear a comment?
Thanks for posting the article. I wish I had known more about this when I was in high school. I have recently found myself becoming much more interested in mathematics when thinking about very simple concepts and asking why it is a certain way vs. memorizing the rule. I think my 10+ year aversion to the subject is rooted in the fact that it felt like nothing more than rote memorization in high school, and thus a dreary subject to learn anything about.
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Individuals don't care about the long term, they care about their personal experience while they are alive.

Just another point against Friendman and his "understanding" of the world.
I am being judgmental - I'm suggesting he is wrong. It's just that in this case, he is judging a lot of others harshly, and I'm judging him for that.

We at HN are probably not the most emotionally connected anyways, so there's going to be a huge gap between the average HN experience/opinion on this topic vs. the general population.
There is backward compatibility with the old Riak Search (which wasn't Solr based) intended to not break old applications, but you can query with any currently implemented Solr client afaik.
Why not just have browser support for client X.509 certificates?

Oh, wait, we have one. It's just that UIs are horrible because noone ever cared about that part (because nobody uses it, because UI is horrible).
The Smalltalk environment is much more than just a REPL.
I would say that is the animation itself, intead following me around from the previous point, i would like that just appear below me with a shorter duration, also the style seems a little bit dated.
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I thought it was ironic that the first two sentences were very well-written, but highlighted. As if to show an example where the app would be useful. The sentences are excellent and don't need changing.
Do I understand correctly that this is just plain old client certificates with nice wavy picture on top of it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7227028
For an investor, that's the best chart. More sales for each dollar of R&D.