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It would help all of us, I imagine, were we to actually use separate institutions for those purposes.
I'm not sure about FF but the beauty of Chrome's Private Browsing mode is that all extensions are disabled by default with the option to allow on Private Browsing mode.
Paying gives no guarantee, open-source does.

Some did not like Gnome 3, they created MATE. Some found GCC was too conservative, they created EGCS. And MariaDB. And LibreOffice. And ffmpeg… And…

That's how you guarantee software will continue to fit your needs in the future. It's not paying for Microsoft Works that made people able to open *.wks files with Microsoft Office when Microsoft discontinued the former office suite (though they are some converters available). But it's open-source that made people able to open TrueCrypt files with CipherShed when the developers gave up.

Even at my level, I'm able to tweak the tools for my needs. The last version of zsh is not available on AIX? I can build it myself (and send the fixes upstream). Vim doesn't provide the feature I want? I can add it (and who cares if it's not yet merged upstream? it still does what I want it to do, now).
Infamous would be a much better description than legendary.
What are your thoughts on this episode? https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
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> Can you master all compiler specific behaviours not covered by the standard?!?

No, and the good part is: I don't need to :). All my programs are standard C11 (- concurrency).
You seem to be using "too ambitious" as a synonym for "unlikely to succeed". But that's something different.

"Too ambitious" implies someone shouldn't even be trying for this goal. That's a corrosive attitude, and I'd like it kept-in-check by a requirement that sources of such negativity show their reasoning/experience/work.
It isn't tracking that is bad but suspicionless, ubiquitous tracking.

Your server analogy is badly flawed because it is analogous to your cop/intersection example. A more appropriate analogy would be universal connection/request logging at the ISP level. It's not OK to have all of your society's unencrypted Web requests recorded and correlated by your government. Do you think it's OK? Why? What benefit does it confer to the people?
I thought he meant 0.15 Billion, not 15c. Or am I missing something?
I also miss downvoting on HN, although Reddit needs my help there more anyway. However, Sam did say:

>I'm sometimes asked how historically marginalized users can help shape the HN community when the karma threshold for down voting inappropriate comments is high. It's a fair question, and we are experimenting with lowering the downvoting threshold.
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This is great, the only problem is all of those Amazon links next to the ingredients are for amazon.com, food products aren't available on amazon.ca. It's impossible to buy all of those with one click in Canada. I'd have to hunt down Canadian shipping sites or visit 3 different grocery stores to find most of those.

Edit: Nevermind, read this comment: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe...

The amount of vitamins are dangerously higher than 100% recommended daily intake. Unlike Soylent which has mid-range http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe...

I'd stay away from this recipe.
And why so you think that is? (I'm withholding my opinion/explanation until I feel I understand yours and can provide a more valuable response)
I am not familiar with this part of the code, but generally, the answer to this question is « lack of manpower, but if you volunteer to implement it, we'll be glad to help you out and have you onboard. »

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Well I have posting a lot lends itself to more karma than not, as in eventually I write something intelligent and interesting enough for people to up vote. The majority of my comments sit pretty at whatever the default is with an occasional soapbox that I post knowing it will get nuked.

As far as stories, sometimes you can post too early and another will follow with a similar story and it runs up, submit what falls under the guidelines that you truly want to see discussed and you might hit karma gold.

Myself, my wish list for HN is a feature I can flag stories for my later review; a save feature like reddit
For me, it comes up in test cases. In a controlled environment, it can be nice to mentally say "add two objects, the first should be this, the second should be this." I don't think I've ever used `second` outside of the testing realm.
I really like how Soylent is versioning, I'm bummed I didn't get to try 1.1 because of the digestive enzymes, but will definitely try 1.2 in my next order. The iterative changes are really useful to keep track of, since they are pretty substantive changes in what you're eating.

Lots of things do have versions, but they just call them products, rather than Soylent DE and Soylent Algae, they're just increasing version numbers. I imagine this probably fits well with their target audience too. Unlike every_other_food_stuff versioning, people eating Soylent are usually not eating a bunch of other products so the versioning is meaningful.
Maybe you don't personally, maybe you don't as a group anymore.

As I suggested in my original post though, I have more useful things to do than look back at comments I posted years ago and compile evidence. I've moved on.

I'm sure it happens a lot more often than you realise, because in general when people get hellbanned, they come to the same realisations as me.
If you can make it to downtown San Francisco I can sell you one day's worth of v1.0 or v1.1 for $12.
The converse being "Damn, I just got my 1 month supply of 1.1 and now they come out with 1.2?!"
I generally upvote anyone who is hellbanned if they are making a comment that seems like it is in good faith.
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This is a cute little easter egg.

However, it's actually not too hard to disprove 3987^12 + 4365^12 = 4472^12 with just a calculator. The thing to do is concern yourself with the rightmost digits, not the leftmost.

The fake solution is actually a bit better than this article indicates, since checking only the rightmost digit -- working modulo 10 -- doesn't show the problem. 7^12 ends in 1, and 5^12 ends in 5. So the value of the left-hand side of the proposed equation ends in 6. And so does 2^12.

But checking the rightmost 2 digits -- working modulo 100 -- we can see that it doesn't work. 87^12 ends in 81, and 65^12 ends in 25. Their sum ends in 06. But 72^12 ends in 16. So the proposed equation is false.

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EDIT. For anyone who wonders how to do this.

Raising a number to the 3rd power, and then raising that to the 4th power, we get the 12th power of the original number. If we are working modulo 100, then we can throw out all but the rightmost 2 digits at any stage.

So, what are the rightmost 2 digits of 3987^12? Start by finding 87^3: 658503. We only care about the "03" at the end. 03^4 = 81. So 3987^12 ends with 81.

Similarly, for 4365^12: 65^3 = 274625. 25^4 = 390625. So 4365^12 ends with 25.

And, for 4472^12: 72^3 = 373248. 48^4 = 5308416. So 4472^12 ends with 16.

81 + 25 = 106, which does not end with 16.
This is a bummer. I did the original Kickstarter run, so when I reorder it's fulfilled within a week. I'd happily have my orders delayed longer than that (a few weeks?) if it helped others get a chance to try out Soylent.
Are you implying that the distinction the grandparent poster made is correct?

(I'm almost positive it was sarcastic)

All prisons should be about rehabilitation. Anything else is simply a multiplier to an already existent drain on society.
>"We" are not here not agreeing with it.

I never made this claim. I reject your claim that "we know [the author's claims to be] true". I don't know them to be true. In fact, I think them to be false.

>A thing does not need to be argued successfully to be true

This is true, of course. But neither your nor the author have proven the truth of what you are saying. You've just flung dogma at us, sans evidence.

>I reject the principle of excluded middle—if not based on mathematics, then for its societal impact on the way we think about the world and ourselves.

Just because you wish something to be true does not make it true.

You may be uncomfortable with the consequences of the truth of the PEM, but that is not an argument against its truth.

Do you have any evidence contradicting the PEM? I'd love to hear it.

>In general I have no patience for those who think in binary.

Why? Because the truth of the PEM would mean you're wrong?
Wow, that's wonderful! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question! You've been a huge help!
I have always considered productivity to be a measure of production over time where time is the duration a person works at a task and not a constant.

So a highly productive person gets a lot done in a small amount of time.

People who get a lot done and work all the time aren't really high productivity people; they just work a lot.

I see nothing wrong with striving for productivity if this is how it is defined.
This happened when I ordered a refill for my 1.0, I actually wanted to try out the 1.1, if you're in the bay area, I'll swap you a week of 1.2 when I get it :)
I live in Croydon (for those who don't know, it's one of the largest London Boroughs; there are 30 of them), and here there's huge numbers of police around the town centre all weekend. Last Thursday I was out walking around 10pm, and passed at least a dozen in five minutes when I walked past some of the bigger clubs, as well as an ambulance on standby, and that is fairly standard for the readiness here.

Most of the time they're just hanging around chatting to people, or making sure people are ok. With the added fun of making sure nobody gets run over when the clubs close and people spill into the road.

Despite the jokes (Croydon has a bad reputation; mostly undeserved these days), Croydon is about average for London boroughs when it comes to crime, and far better than Westminster (which has the biggest concentration of London nightlife).

Basically in boils down to whether or not the local forces choose to prioritise presence at night, since it's obviously more expensive.
As a cyclist who does my own maintenance as a hobby, I am pretty willing to pay retail-type prices on exotic hardware that requires less effort on my part and is more reliable on the road.

Not the biggest market, sure, but it's a market where you could very plausibly sell a single fastener for ten-plus dollars with the right marketing.
The post says "The threshold for flagging is low (only 30 karma), so nearly everyone can help there.". I'm not sure if this was recently lowered from something higher. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the actual percentage of HN users that have over 30 karma. Does nearly everyone imply 99.9 percent?
> anymore

Not only did we never ban people for criticizing YC companies, the very first thing PG told me when I started moderating HN, and the thing that he emphasized most strongly after that, was never to do things that could be construed (or misconstrued) as censorship of anti-YC stories.

(I've edited out some irritation that leaked through in my original version of this comment.)
No, that's not the "new rules", that's the "rules that have been in place forever, but if you are familiar with Chrome, these are the same." The new rules is that Developer Edition takes place of Aurora in that scheme.
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For me it's just simpler. I drink 1000 calories of Soylent most week days. There have been no noticeable health effects. It's just much simpler to not have to worry about food.
Comments that most deserve to be downvoted (trolling, incivility, lies, etc) are inevitably going to garner a lot of downvotes anyway. It's only the ones which oscillate between one or two downvotes and upvotes in what may be controversial threads which most fall prey to what I consider to be the more petty examples of downvoting. The first couple of downvotes are the least meaningful, I think.

So perhaps a margin of, say, five or six downvotes should be necessary before any visual effect takes place. Not only would this no longer bias readers against a comment before having read it, but it would guarantee that the faded comments more accurately reflect the standards of the community as a whole.
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There's a ton of people who aren't using Haskell and never will. It is a great language, but it isn't a language that will ever be really popular.

Rust bridges the gap between industry C++ programmers with the ideas of Haskell. Sure you might not see a lot of codebases migrated from Haskell to Rust (not that there are a massive amount of anyway), but you will likely see C++ codebases migrated over to it, and Haskell programmers that want their library to be widely used may start greenfied projects in Rust instead of Haskell.

You are looking at it from a Haskell -> Rust conversion cycle, when that isn't really important from either a numbers standpoint or how Rust is positioning itself.
It certainly isn't (it pays my bills). It just isn't an obvious good investment for some people (including myself).
Flagging posts and downvoting are important pieces to improving the content here on hacker news. Interestingly, I think this one of the few forums where "trolls" appear to be relatively absent.

One problem I have noticed is innapropriate downvoting. For example, if a voter downvotes a comment simply because he/she disagrees with the opinion of a commenter. How do we encourage a diversity of opinion on a site of like-minded people?

And similarly, how do we prevent "downvote conformity" (I apologize for my invented phraseology, but I'm creating a name for the concept that our community upvotes posts that are generally agreeable and downvotes posts that may be less mainstream, thus imposing a conformity of opinion?)
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Its a great bit of PR for those who fall for it. Otherwise its one of the dumbest things I've read in some time.
I'm not part of the devtools team, but I'm going to shamelessly accept the thank you on their behalf.

Have fun coding :)
That's a really interesting way to look at it. I think you're right, thanks for including that piece of insight.

To continue - Having more RAM also makes you more likely to run programs you don't need, or don't care about. Limiting the RAM left available for the applications you do.

It's easier to kill processes though than drains on your income.
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I felt the same way, but after reading several of the "month long" articles about Soylent where they frequently visited a doctor go make sure everything was in order, I was convinced.

Personally, I had a yearly check-up after a few weeks of Soylent and everything was fine, so I'm not too concerned. I'm definitely eating more appropriate portions and getting more diverse nutrients than I had been when stuffing my face naturally.
Agreed, but performing head gasket maintenance is a rare occurrence and loosening of the head gasket bolts is even rarer. Most of the time that head gasket failures happen is due to process problems on the part of the gasket manufacturer. The auto manufacturers have figured out how to ensure that they're torqued properly at the factory.

http://olybrake.com/pdf/fel_pro_torque_specs_guide.pdf

Most of the plain old torque specs in that brochure are at least 60 ft-lbs and there are some upwards of 100ft-lbs. That is no joke. If the bolt is a grade 5, 5/8" nominal diameter tightened to 57 ft-lbs that's over 4 tons of clamp force. At 82 ft-lbs it's just shy of 6 tons. At 113 ft-lbs it's over 7 tons. That's PER BOLT.

https://www.fastenal.com/content/feds/pdf/Torque-Tension%20C...

Applying 60 or 80 or 100 ft-lbs of torque to a bolt will cause huge amounts of clamp force which highly motivates the bolt not to wiggle loose. A lot of the problems where bolts (or nuts) self-loosen in high vibration environments is due to a torque spec for a sub-maximal amount of clamp force. If you're making machine tools and you need to tension ball-screw bearings (an application mentioned in the video) you can't torque the shit out of things because of the bearing pre-load needing to be a substantial but not insane level. A few hundred pounds of preload (a reasonable range for CNC spindles or ball-screws) can be achieved with only a few foot-pounds of torque; it's exactly what the machine needs but not enough for the bolt to keep itself from working loose.

Engine heads and head gaskets are complicated because you have to apply a lot of clamp force very evenly over a large area. The bolts are more than good enough for this, I've got several friends who are mechanics and none of them has heard of a head bolt that's loosened itself. The problem is that manufacturers often use "inferior" (less expensive) grades of head gaskets because the failure rate is already quite good.

EDIT: I don't disagree that needing to maintain even pressure is necessary (it is), nor do I disagree that nuts which can't wiggle loose doesn't help mitigate the problem. What I'm trying to say is that the failures which do happen are caused by the weakest link, and that in many cases the weakest link these days isn't the bolts or the heads or the block or whatever, but the gasket itself.
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You are right. But these problems can be solved using annotations.

Your comment helped me to narrow my complaint: While functional languages require annotations for things that are not obvious (when to subclass, when to change the type of an object, what overload should I use) and infer the obvious ("n*fact(n-1)" is an integer); C++ infers the non-obvious and requires you to add annotations on the obvious!

Phrased that way, it is striking.
No, it is not. It's about gov't vs. private control. There are provisions for "lawful content" in this law.
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Whoops, I thought I was answering a question about my rejection sampling article. My mistake. I'll address this though.

1) No it doesn't. I don't make any distributional claims for these calculations. You're right. I haven't addressed questions like P(>90%|t=1000).

2) Actually no, it doesn't take the variance to 0. For any given t, the Markov approximation is equal to the expected value of the given atom at time t. There is a variance for every atom count at every time point. I didn't address calculating variance at all. We're speaking in expected values here, the interpretation of 54.8 atoms at time t is the same as the average american household having 2.5 children.

Something I addressed in a comment when I posted this on reddit was that the Markov chain approach is the theoretical mean. If you were to actually observe a decay process like this in the real world, it would essentially be one possible realization of the simulated example.

As far as the Pareto distribution is concerned, I didn't know that actually. That's really interesting.
It is established among a very competent, smart, and vocal community. It is not established as a language heavily used in industry or most open source projects by any means.
Why does it depend on that?
> If I understand the rules correctly, downvoting is used for not agreeing with a comment, and flags are used for inappropriate comments.

No, that is NOT correct.

Downvoting is a for useless comment. Flagging is for spam and abusive comments.

If you disagree with the comment, but the comment was well made and on topic you should UPVOTE it, not downvote it.

This is one of the main differences for HN vs Reddit, and it's one of the main reasons this site is so much better.
I feel like the UI should be consistent dang, because I've been flagging entire threads where there's an inappropriate comment (not knowing that there was a comment flag there).

I think at the moment it's too easy to hit that flag button on the front page (as others have said, especially on mobile), so maybe it should be moved back too?