skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You told us he opens the door with the goat. All cases consist of the host opening the door with a goat after you have picked.
It'd be pretty cool if this actually had leaderboards, perhaps one leaderboard per set of options, limited to clusters so as to minimize the amount of leaderboards.
Such as "arithmetic, multiplication+division, arithmetic and mutliplication+division, free for all"
Was pretty upset to see that the result for scoring 5xx was the same as my next run of 7920
For some languages (French) it can make sense to transliterate when sorting, while it would be a terrible mistake in others (Danish).
Thanks a lot for that tip!

JOVE from 1983 as part of 2.9BSD: http://www.retro11.de/ouxr/29bsd/usr/contrib/jove/

JOVE circa 1988 in 2.11BSD: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Trees/2.11BSD/usr/src/new...
IME it depends on whether they're inside a mall or not. The ones inside malls tend to just be glorified mobile phone sales depots, but you can actually get components at the standalone ones.
You didn't write the simulation.
There is a clear contrast to what xx223 says and what you imply, and in that unravels a lot that doesn't need to be said. He says extremist Hindus and you said just plain Muslims.

I'm an Indian Muslim and myself and others that I know would never think of such an act, yet I'm being grouped with the miscreants just because of association by religion.

Evil doesn't need a religion, what happened in Godhra was the triumph of evil over not just good, but basic humanity.
There's at least 3 paths. Top down, like article recommends, your first project is lines of VHDL code. Bottom up where you learn gates and work your way up where your first project is feeding two switches on a dev board thru a single xor gate and light an LED with the gate output. Systems integrator is also a valid path where you go to opencores and pull a soft core CPU (ranging from totally proprietary all the way up to GPL) and start with a dumb peripheral and make it smarter.
It's very useful if you need to get all the performance out of the CPU. Compilers are good for generating code for 10 year old CPUs. It's usually pretty trivial to get 2x improvement.

That said, typically you shouldn't bother.
In the US or in Sub-Saharan Africa?

I tend to agree with the WMF that in parts of the world where millions of people are using a smartphone as their first computer, providing free information is key to wikimedia's mission. I think that the world would be better off if all websites were treated equally by all ISPs, but I also think the world would be better off if millions of people who have never had a computer before can have the access to information that we take for granted. Given that the WMF is unlikely to be able to change telecom policy or business practices in all these countries, I think it's better to work within the existing system and provide a resource that would otherwise be costly (perhaps prohibitively so).

Having said that, many Wikimedians disagree with me.
Android is the best argument for the AGPL.
But it matters whether you have the guarantee or not.

If the host picked at random and happened to get a goat, it is 1/2 vs 1/2. If the host picked a door he knew had a goat, it's 2/3 vs 1/3.

Again, write the simulation. It shouldn't take you 5 minutes.
I think it's in the book "Automate This" [1] that there is a section about a guy who has spent a lot of time building AI to write classical music. Apparently people can't tell the difference, and only criticize it after they're told it's written by a computer.

[1] http://smile.amazon.com/Automate-This-Algorithms-Markets-Wor...
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If you ride against traffic, then you still "don't see" the vehicles that are going in the same direction as you, and you are now on their left. Sure, they're on the opposite side of the road, but you don't know if they are paying attention or what. Thus: no more safety gained by riding on the opposite side of the road, where you aren't supposed to be.

The most dangerous area is, obviously, an intersection, where being on the wrong side of the road is demonstrably less safe[1]. After that, it's the blind spot over the crest of a hill. If you are going against the flow of traffic, you will be moving your slowest when you are in that blind spot. Moving with the flow of traffic -> moving quickly through that blind spot.

Knowing when a vehicle is coming up behind you, with plenty of time to react if necessary, is solved with a $12 helmet mirror.

[1] http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/riskfactors.htm
Going to be very hard to get real long lasting traction.

All these coupons are actually digital coupon codes (affiliate marketing). Very small margins from the affiliates. As a startup you don't have the marketing money to compete with the big boys like coupons.com, retailmenot, fatwallet et al. to get ahead of their listings.

The only way this will work is if you have a secret SEO technique and/or exclusive deals with manufacturers. Maybe even explore doing a Chrome plugin so you are always there like "Coupons at Checkout" did.
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At some point, this abuse must cross some line which I will and perhaps the law should define as extortion.

If the is no consistency nor comprehensibility and predictability to the law, it is no longer law. It is merely capricious authoritarian behavior.
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Just speaking for me, I'm not confident there's a "really" about this, so I'm not too concerned with finding it. I'm just trying to find the easiest way for our co-commenters to understand why the correct answer is, in fact, correct :)
I agree with and already practice many of these conventions (at least the ones that apply to C-like languages in general). It's interesting that I do and I kind of wonder what lead me down that path, since I haven't programmed in C since my college days. I often think that my assembly class from those days pushed me into making my code as vertical as possible rather than the indented-if-statement-curly-brace hell that I often see, since assembly was very readable without having that capability.
> Maybe building rents have exploded?

I think this is plausible as a contributing (but by no means primary) factor.

I owned a few stores in malls in the 2k's and before the Great Recession hit, the publicly traded mall management companies didn't realize how overbuilt and over-priced their spaces were and charged accordingly. Absolutely insane per-square foot rents + gross profit % of rent. It was absolutely impossible to make a profit based on their 10 year lease rates that didn't account for changing consumer behaviors.

I suspect that most Radio Shack locations saw a drop in foot traffic and combined with a mismatch in demographics with their offerings caused a shift to high-pressure sales tactics and less technical products. So sad. I loved the TRS-80.

These factors as well as others, probably pushed RS corporate to local optima that ensured their final demise.
See my cousin comment[0] about this, I think you're getting tripped up with the idea of the host's "knowledge" mattering. That's a distraction here, what's important is the probabilities.

Two game shows, two hosts, both reveal a goat. The random host revealed a goat with 1/3 probability; the canonical host revealed a goat with 1 probability.

We know that both hosts revealed a goat. We also know (for the purposes of this problem) that they had different likelihoods of doing so before the fact.

Does it make intuitive sense to you that the prior probability of an event could affect how you react to it? That's all that's going on here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=8664771
Were you recharging them?
Purging proc from Rust
before getting to FPGA is helps to understand computer architecture and digital design 101, this book is a great intro with examples in verilog/hdl: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-E...

as a side benefit I learned MIPS assembly from this book which is very helpful in understanding assembly languages for other architectures, and assembly snippets in Knuth's TAOCP
The observation of the similarity between electron orbitals and various astronomical phenomena is one that's made fairly frequently.

My first recollection was during a high-school session to a local university for a science and physics colloquium for high-school students, over a quarter century ago. We were seeing slides of steller objects, and one showed as I recall a galaxy with high-energy jets radiating from both poles. One of the bright kids in the group (ergo, not myself) noted the electron orbital similarity.

Perhaps it's the chagrin at not having noted that myself which has made me highly aware of the symmetry since. But yes, there's an economy of patterns in the Universe. At least at some levels.
Right. My point was just that the actions of the host, as far as we observe, can be the same in both cases.
Ah, your note reminds me of The Automated Curse Generator story on The Daily WTF...:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generato...
Correct. Bitcoin addresses are more like invoice numbers than account numbers. You're expected to use a different one for each transaction so that you can tell them apart.
59 people were killed, not 200.

Isn't Modi hailed an as administrative genius, are you saying the riots were justified?
Can you describe your "performance monitoring"?
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An address can receive multiple payments, but the most likely use case from that is mining output, or recurring payments from the same sender.

A wallet owner is able to generate new addresses at any time, and generally does so in order to verify that a payment is coming in for a specific transaction. For example, a Bitcoin ATM operator wouldn't generate a payment address until a patron is standing at the kiosk. As soon as a transaction is verified, the machine would dispense whatever amount of money and future payments to that address would probably be ignored.

You are right that Mozilla probably isn't even operating a bitcoin wallet in this case. They are probably just getting USD from Coinbase.
While this is technically correct, it suggests a causation that just isn't there. Metered per-byte rates have existed since at least the 1990s. Datacenter bandwidth has historically always been metered, though typically on a 95/5 rate basis.

This is also how mobile data has historically been billed: data packages really only took off with the relase of the iPhone, and before that most people just paid per-kb (which is why nobody actually used their mobile data capability).
>Imagine someone minifying PHP for faster parsing and then asking everyone to use some source mapping technology for debugging. They would be laughed out of any conference or discussion.

Source maps or debugging symbols have been accepted for compiled languages for a long time.
Thank for asking these questions. I was wondering some of the same things.

Also: Has anyone done versioning with the Accepts header, and how did you do it on ASP.net?
Radio Shack had a lot in common with Sears, now also on death's doorstep. Sometimes the contract manufacturers making RS's house brand speakers or Sears "Craftsman" power tools or "Kenmore" appliances would turn out a top-performing product for a great price. As the actual manufacturer might change from year-to-year, one could never rely on the brand to deliver a good value. One had to read magazine or other reviews to discover where the diamonds were hidden.
Ask HN: Why does Google expose search query processing times to the user?
It's obviously very important for Google to be instrumenting and logging performance. But considering the simplicity of their search UI, I'm not sure why query proc times are still exposed. I also can't find any other examples of search that have this behavior, including direct competitors (Bing, Yahoo, duckduckgo, etc.).
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Please demonstrate that there is any such "entitlement" attitude among cyclists that does not exist among drivers. It is dangerous for cyclists and other road users for cyclists to "complete stop" at stop signs. It's not entitlement, it's an evaluation of risk.
The Fry's in Dallas is in the space of a former Incredible Universe. The Fry's is decorated like a cattle ranch, but Incredible Universe was like a rock concert. The first time I went in there, I immediately thought they were trying too hard to be cool. It was completely over the top, so I'm not surprised they wiped out all of their profits. It's too bad they couldn't find a happy medium.
Tweet from Brad Fitzpatrick (of memcached fame) on the Golang team: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/537699677596966912
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Relevant to the company being defrauded perhaps.....?

This story is about Netflix suing a former employee who _happens_ to be working at Yahoo currently.
Dat comic sans though :P
59 makes it alright?
Ragaman
Yeah this is it I think. If I can restate more simply for the 3-door case:

You pick. The doors are now in two groups: your door (1/3 chance) and the other two doors (2/3 chance).

The host picks. The second group is now reduced to a single door, still with 2/3 chance.

Now you decide - stick with the door with 1/3 chance, or switch to the door with 2/3 chance?
That's great for defusing the "there are two options and it's random so it must be 50/50" initial of some, but it doesn't quite work for the "Monty chooses randomly, and happens to have revealed a goat" situation. I think the next point is that, when the host picks randomly, it is then correspondingly less likely that you've found yourself in that situation.
Sure, I see what you're saying. In a technical sense the information in the host's head does "matter". My comment is more along the lines that "information content in a system" is a sufficiently abstracted idea from "knowledge of a human being" that, especially if you equivocate them, it's not a useful metaphor for someone who doesn't already get why the right answer is right.
I find that the more we know about this planet that keeps us safe, a large moon to keep asteroids away and tectonics hot, a mass just enough to keep an atmosphere around us and a spinning iron core to provide "impenetrable barriers", the more I learn of this the less I think Fermi found a paradox and just that it's hard for life to stay alive in this universe.
Could you elaborate? This seems less clear, to me.
They might be automatically converting to USD and giving that to Mozilla.
I don't think there's any good reason to speculate wildly about the interests of a smallish segment of the market.
To answer your first two questions:

1. TLS is the successor to SSL; setup your webserver with a certificate and redirect web traffic from HTTP to HTTPS.

2. UUIDs have some advantages over database primary keys; they are hard to guess; they can be generated on multiple machines without duplication. You could extend your current table with an extra column called public_id.
>I have trouble "hearing" math and keeping it in my head.

I have the exact same problem. Interestingly, it's a problem for me both in my native language and in several other languages I learned to fluency. So clearly, the "hears numbers" part of my brain is deficient.

I've actually practiced to try to overcome this, and made no progress.

On the other hand, I'm quite good at visual calculations, and also at remembering numbers when I see them. So if I bother writing down a phone number, I can easily remember it for a long time.

But hearing it? Nothing.
That's a good way to make sure your odds are 50/50...
Thanks for this Joel. This will come in handy.
If you're really going to talk about semantics, xx223 says 'Modi and his government of extremist Hindus'.
There is no evidence to back the point that the entire government is made up of extremist Hindus.
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A pistachio powered city?
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You don't need to because you're asking what is the probability of winning by switching once the goat has been revealed. We want to know:

(# of possible worlds in which we win after switching) / (all possible worlds in which we are shown a goat after the initial pick)

vs

(# of possible worlds in which we win without switching) / (all possible worlds in which we are shown a goat after the initial pick)

in this case 2/3 vs 1/3. We are only considering the cases where a goat has been shown so what happens when a goat isn't shown or what the host's intentions are when a goat is show is irrelevant.
In practical terms, the answer would be "Introducing the Spartan 3E FPGA and VHDL" by Mike Field freely available.
You can use your Coinbase wallet in a variety of ways, including having it build a cart and payment address for you for each transaction or simply using a single address for receiving multiple ongoing payments. The address will be permanently assigned to your Coinbase account once you create it.

Here's some Python code for creating addresses on Coinbase, if anyone is interested in how it works: https://github.com/StackMonkey/utter-va/blob/master/webapp/l...

That said, I don't think there is a way to get the private keys for these addresses so you can use them on your own wallet software. Not that you would want to, given Coinbase is currently holding (and aware) of said addresses keys.
The classic bait.

> Give a wrong number.

> Someone corrects.

> So that makes it alright?
Everyone (MacOS X, Android, Jolla, etc.) is building there products, thanks to free Software, (GPL & not GPL) and than adding proprietary wrappers to lock things down & making sure they use non-Copyleft licences for anything else they add as "open"-ed.

Free Software is about governance, community, open development, etc: not only the licence!
These company are just grabbing what is now infrastructure built by everyone to sell it back to everyone, locked down, and doing code dumping with not-so-open development and communities to trap people who don't get it.

So, since the free and open aspect could be built with Public Domain or non-copyleft licences by a community or company doing the right thing (tm), I agree, AGPL "all the things!" is the best way to eliminate part of this problem.

(Yes, they can always relicence the code if they own it all, but that's the community & open development part that is harder to evaluate...)
I've wondered this for many years: could the idea that life originated here on Earth be the final geocentrism?

This is really quite interesting too:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-t...

All this is pure hypothesis and speculation until we can find some life out there and engage in some comparative analysis. If we found life elsewhere and it appeared to trace back to a common ancestor, then this would suggest that life originated far back in the history of the cosmos rather than independently in many places. Perhaps life -- if interpreted as a phase of matter -- arose along with all the other phases of matter during the early cooling of the universe?
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If anybody was capable of solving the Byzantine Generals problem, it would be Nash.
Hi Dan, I think ReactJS.Net is a great project. I've got to say, it was very reassuring to see that it was there when I began exploring React. This is definitely the approach that I will use when not building an SPA. The criticism about routers was not directed at this project. It was a more general criticism of some of the JS routers that I've seen, which are sometimes light on documentation. Cheers!
The premises of the riddle in both cases is that the host reveals a goat. There is no randomness. The fact that there was a chance the host might show a car doesn't matter. He showed a goat. The probability of the host showing a goat in both cases is 1.

I understand the math. I know what the op was trying to say. But they worded it wrong. The 2nd riddle is the same as the first.
The government was definitely threatening him with over 30 years, perhaps not privately, but it is not a falsehood.

"If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million." (http://www.justice.gov/usao/ma/news/2011/July/SwartzAaronPR....)

Not pleading out would mean that the offer of a lower sentence is off the table, and the prosecutor would push for the threatened maximum sentence.
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What I find amusing is how anti-tax activists are generally unconcerned with this kind of behavior which acts in-effect like an "invisible hand" tax on the entire metals market.
Exactly! With the current maker movement you'd think they would be primed to reinvent themselves.

After reading that article, however, I'm inclined to think that their problems are not so much from a market that changed out from under them, but rather are internal and self-inflicted. If so, then they completely deserve their current situation.
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I just read a description of a business calibrated to "Kafka Settings", or at least a feature biography in "Zombie Business Today".
You do have a guarantee. The premises of #2 above is that the host shows a goat.
It's boring at some point. You should make a countdown instead: you have, say, 1 minute to answer as much questions as you can (with an possible skip button).
The variant works like this: A player picks a door, and Monty picks a door, and whoever gets the right door gets the prize. Monty knows what is behind every door, so the prize is either behind the player's door or Monty's.

So now, suppose you get to bet on who will win.

Its clear that the chance of the player winning is 1/3. Thus the chance of Monty winning is 2/3. So bet on Monty.

To change it back to the original problem, you are also the player in the game. So now, do you bet on yourself or on Monty?
Contributed to Mozilla for the first time ever with Bitcoin. Very fast/easy.
You brought up three issues:
(i) Anti-competitiveness in music streaming
(ii) Anti-competitiveness in social networks (in developing regions)
(iii) Effect of zero-rated services on congestion

(i) http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/music-freedom-list.html
This is a large enough list that I wouldn't worry about anti-competitiveness. It is still them vs. everyone else, but looking at the list right now, the barriers to entry cannot be that high, which means any anti-competitive effect cannot be that high either. I and most others in my income category (college undergrads) are willing to accept this in order to have free music streaming.

(ii) Facebook (in some parts of the developing world) is a slightly different issue, and not necessarily one that I agree with. Still, zero rating popular websites in the developing world seems to be win-win-win for consumers, carriers, and content providers, and ignoring market forces is simply not a solution. Especially if the target demographic simply cannot afford to pay for data - this is an entirely different market and I don't have the experience to form an opinion on this. Edited my original post to remove Facebook.

(iii) Let's assume all paid traffic should be treated equally. And to keep things fair to paying customers, paid traffic should be prioritized over free traffic. I'm willing to bet this already happens indirectly - by lowering the music quality when the network is congested.

But what if I have Spotify Premium - I (indirectly) pay for my traffic, so why should your maps app be any more important?

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Obviously there are tough questions here, and a "one size fits all" net neutrality approach for wireless and broadband might not be the best solution.

If wireless was as cheap and fast as broadband, I would be all for net neutrality on wireless. But it's not. They are different 'products' in economic terms (even if they have a similar end result and "feel the same"), and I think it's therefore okay for policies that govern them to be different.