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By your logic, imagine a world 50 years from now when the S&P is 500 times the size it is today (mostly due to inflation), CEOs will get paid 150000 times what workers are paid. That doesn't really make sense.
Yes OP, make us laugh with ancient stories of the ".doc" web! You've said to much when you mentioned "some documents"...
Wow, that ceilings link is really cool.

I was also recently listening to that soundtrack. Kind of excited to see this thread, sometimes I think I'm the only person that loves this game.
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"Why are there volunteers in the world? Why does anyone volunteer? Why does anyone ever help anyone when there's nothing in it for them?"
I don't object to purity, I want to know what it means. I didn't
realise that this is not a well-understood concept. (I mentioned
Sabry's definition of purity which I found surprising.)

The original discussion started because somebody complained that
Haskell programmers often appear unable to transliterate imperative
algorithms. I assume that this complaint was about transliteration
into pure Haskell (whatever that may mean exactly). Clearly
transliteration into full Haskell with actual mutability is
possible. I mentioned Pippenger's article to bring to the debate the
idea that the question whether such transliteration is always possible
is an open research problem.
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I know how Lighthouse works -- I wrote the article. :) I was responding to the GP: "You would be able to get some distance information via the modulation on the signal."

I was telling GP, (1) how Lighthouse cannot use time of flight, and (2) how time of flight works for laser rangefinders.
Maybe, I haven't read the study, but there is a huge selective pressure here. That is, these days you tend to order autopsies only when there was something mysterious about the death.
Trigger warnings likely do more harm than good. Avoiding reminders of trauma actually reinforces PTSD. Trigger warnings help make and keep being a victim of trauma a central part of the survivor's identity.

Here is a comment from an earlier discussion with cites to a couple of article covering the harmful to victims aspects of trigger warnings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801995
Thanks for the tip. It seems we agree that there is a subpar under average as well as an above-average.

Whether or not this applies to mainstream music seems to be where we differ.

I believe the Einstein quote is still relevant to this discussion, even if it is possible to misuse the quote. Similar to wine, art and other things of quality, when you first start to learn something the basic, simpler things seem better. Most people start by drinking fruity wines, enjoy simplistic art and like pop music. Also, while you are still enjoying simple things it's hard to understand why someone would want something more refined.

However, once you have experienced the basic level you will eventually want to move beyond it and enjoy things of higher quality. Higher quality wine, music or art requires that you move beyond average.

I believe a more refined musical palette will always move you beyond pop music. Again, similar to fruity, sweet simplistic wine, that doesn't mean you didn't enjoy the basic experience, it's just that you now want something better.

Whether or not the things one would eventually move onto are truly better seems subjective to me, hence why I think "better music" is a qualitative thing.
Completed it. Never practiced as an attending. Went into the computers instead
It's an attempt at a catchy title by appealing to the 10X developer belief/archetype.
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Minetest isn't compatible with minecraft though. This project lets players connect using the Mojang proprietary client (and currently that's the only client).
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I've had a stalker track me for well over 2 years.

That said, he only reveals that she was stalked which I presume the stalker and her are quite aware of, but no more than that. A better way to report the finding would have been to keep her name and the name of the institution out of it.
After the gold rushes were long gone, people still offered to let people rent a shovel, a pan, and buy a map to go try to find their treasure by panning in a river where most everybody knew there was absolutely no balance to the time+effort:value ratio. But, come they did.
forge is java. unless they somehow manage to run java mods, I doubt it.
Pretty interesting read, the concept of tunable consistency was foreign to me, keep on the good work !
We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...
Unrelated to your offer, but this was a very interesting piece:

http://www.viksit.com/opinion/praise-melancholy/
Ahh, that's disappointing. I guess for now I'll just stick with https://github.com/stephencelis/ghi.

One thing that I discovered after seeing that Shrink lists "Subscribed" issues is that ghi has an option '-f' which lets you filter by 'all', 'assigned', 'created', 'mentioned', or 'subscribed', which is all I need for my purposes.
The decoupling in 2008 is plausibly explained by increased pressures for pay restraint following the financial crisis.
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It is way too expensive - $100 when you can just get disposable cell phone for what? $30?
Did I miss something there? What needs to be fixed?
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Change the graph to log scale, and you'll notice that the rate of increase in corporate profits has been relatively constant since the beginning of that time series. Choppy, but overall, I don't see any statistical evidence that the graph of relative CEO pay and corporate profits would be statistically related.
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I know how Lighthouse works (I wrote the article). :) Like I said, " Like many IR systems, the LEDs and lasers are actually modulated (Alan said, "on the order of MHz"). This is useful for a few reasons: (1) to distinguish the desired light signals from other IR interferers such as the sun; and (2) to permit multiple transmitters with different modulation frequencies."

I was responding to the GP: "You would be able to get some distance information via the modulation on the signal." I was telling GP, (1) how Lighthouse cannot use time of flight, and (2) how time of flight works for laser rangefinders, where modulation is actually used for ToF measurements.
I was around 31 when I decided to teach myself how to type properly. I used to hunt and peck around 30 WPM.

http://www.typing.com/typingtutor

This is the site I used. I went through the entire program in a month or so without skipping any of the core program. After just a few months, I could type around 70-80wpm. After a few more months, I was able to type around 100wpm.

Once I was able to type reasonably well (30-40wpm), I started using the following two sites for practice/fun. These are the sites that helped me build the majority of my speed.

http://10fastfingers.com/
http://play.typeracer.com/

I strongly encourage you to see this through. When you can type without thinking about what you are doing, your productivity will go through the roof.
paraphrasing an old adage:

There's no money in the cure.
>By the time Darren was assigned to drug court, his addiction story carried almost every possible red flag for high-mortality risk: prior overdose, prior treatment failure, a childhood ADHD diagnosis, and a family history of mental illness. Any addiction doctor—or anybody who simply follows evidence-based treatment guidelines—would know exactly what to prescribe for him: opioid maintenance, by far the most effective treatment, known to lower the death rate of opioid addiction by between 66 and 75 percent.

I am a psychiatrist, and I treat many people with addiction problems. This formulation is a gross oversimplification. Opioid agonist therapy (methadone or bupronorhpine) is not trivial or one-size-fits-all. There are many other factors to consider, not the least of which is the person's interest in getting clean.
Exactly. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
He is not demanding. He is pleading/asking politely. "Please". It is totally up to you whether you want to do what he asks for you.

Granted, I agree with you to a point and I don't see any reason you are downvoted/beside the obvious "don't be so negative" point, though I will upvote you, I feel this conversation is important/. At the same time it is extremely easy for you to use these articles/posts even in your CV and in building in your brand. Of course, you might not need that, but there are still a lot of uses including showing them to your future kids or thinking about how your writing changed someones live.

Leave that, there are specific content, which I have no issues being behind a paywall. You might put it behind a paywall/e-book/, show me that your content is useful to me, I will pay you in a heartbeat. Of course this is something that will take even more time.

To your point above spending time with new things or friends/family/working, I don't think that the author wanted you to stop doing them. Again he is asking you politely, do that if you have free time AND you are willing to help some complete strangers online. It is not something everyone would want to do and this is completely okey.
I don't know if it's even possible to answer such questions concretely. Everything hinges on transaction fees, and future fees depend on both the rate of transactions (which they propose to increase greatly) and the block size (which is being hotly debated right now). The case where their chip doesn't even mine enough satoshis to pay its own transaction fees isn't out of the question.
I believe you fundamentally misunderstand.

In order to believe that the authorities really think they can remove drugs, you'd have to assume they continue to hold this belief in spite of 44 years of post war-on-drugs evidence. I mean, I think cops are authoritarian idiots, but they're not that stupid. As Bill Hicks said, we had a war on drugs, and the people on drugs won. They're more pure and often cheaper than ever.

Rather, the war on drugs is a way to systematically deprive people of civil rights and transfer control to police. Not to mention all the private prison vendors who are making bank. And the military industrial complex selling weapons to the police. Seen from this angle, actions make sense.

After all, we've never really had a war on drugs -- we've had a war on some classes (black, poor) of people who use some (crack bad! coke ok! heroin bad! adderall good! xanax good!) drugs.
This would require a significant overlap between 'smartphone' owners and 'people not so good at math'. They may be on to something.
They're there, at least the two I looked at.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130413152316/http://www.state....

Each line is missing `/documents` in the snippet of the `robots.txt`
This is definitely true in the interest of shipping anything. The problem is when new features are added to the thing that shipped, small refactorings should make it a manageable beast. Instead, <rant>you end up chasing bugs across six different files and fixing the entire thing will take a week and a half of your time because it involves moving things out and straightening the screwup that went on for three days before anybody noticed, so they insist you live on with the bug and keep chasing bugs down as they occur</rant>
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Then I think there's no way that justifies the additional effort required both from people writing papers and for journals to implement this.
If you're going to create custom hardware but not going to mine actual BTC it seems like it would be much easier and more energy-efficient to use something like trusted-computing-based proof of existence.
Yeah...this is an ad, not info.
That makes is pretty clear to me. They are not generating actual Bitcoins. Read the article again.

"we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol"
Krugman expressing his political opinions is worse than Chomsky. At least Chomsky doesn't dress his political opinions up as linguistics.
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Stock price is what the market thinks of company performance, not to mention the metric of company performance CEO compensation is usually explicitly linked to.

I'm not persuaded of the existence of some more accurate measure of company performance than market cap that CEO compensation committees are aware of but Wall Street isn't.
Observationally this seems why sales driven organizations might have trouble keeping good developers. They force the build up of so much technical debt and never give the time to fix it that the good developers just leave rather than maintain the nightmare of code they've had to write.
The prison example is one of the most illustrative of the endemic problems of regulation: in prison, both the buyers and the substances are regulated by law, yet the presence of buyers inevitably leads to sellers filling the demand.
Is touch typing all that useful for developers? Writing code involves using special characters frequently (){}[]_%^&$#, and most IDEs are designed around reducing the amount of text you need to type. Am I wrong thinking touch typing is not designed for coding?

Also, http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
If I'm not mistaken, most standard IR sensors have built-in demodulators. They most likely want to keep the parts needed for a receiver as off the shelf as possible.
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The article claims it's a change in social norms - nobody paid CEOs that much. Until, one day, someone did. From there, it was all just CEO perception and FOMO.
I don't think it's hopeless, it's just that focusing on removing the supply without solving the root cause (namely that there is major, lucrative demand) is a waste of resources.
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I hope you're right, there _must_ be other components to their business model to warrant $116m in investment capital. At face value this all appears beyond foolish, though I'm rooting for them to make me eat my words down the road.

"21 Inc., formerly 21e6, announced it had raised US$116m in venture capital, the largest investment yet accumulated by a startup in the digital currency industry. 21 Inc.'s lead backers include American Andreessen Horowitz and RRE Venture, Chinese Yuan Capital, as well as strategic investor and chipmaker Qualcomm Inc."

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113668/bitcoin-startup-21-inc-...
On the contrary I always heard several years ago how good it was and it was the language to rule them all. Now those years have passed and I used it extensively from time on and off, even jumping on the C++11 standard as soon as it was available to start working in. Now I know the dismal truth about the state of C++ projects.

Now the people who defend C++ or push it to every project (like in this thread) is almost always someone who sit exclusively in C++. You know, the people who think they are experts in C just because they know C++ (like in this thread)? There is the real incompetence.

I also fail to see how hunting down a memory corruption bug in C will make C++ look better, and since you mention it is legacy code it is the same in C++.

It does not matter what language I suggest, the real fact is that C++ user will use C++ for ANY project regardless. So no, we can't move away from this horrible language yet, but not for the right reasons.
The statements "2 + 2 = 4" and "2 + 2 = 5" are not consistent (unless 4 = 5), which is OK; the second one is not true (unless 4 = 5).

The statements "Norm said '2 + 2 = 4'" and "Norm said '2 + 2 = 5'" are consistent. (A sufficient but not necessary definition of consistency of a collection of statements is that there is a model—let's leave the meaning of that vague—in which they hold. If we are sufficiently vague about what 'model' means, then we may take the real world to be one.) As you say, together (if true, and if taken to be true expressions of Norm's beliefs) these consistent statements imply the inconsistency of Norm's beliefs. That is a good thing; it is useful to be able to judge the consistency of statements about inconsistency, just as it is to be able to judge the truth of statements about falsity. (For example, I think that you will agree that the fact that "2 + 2 = 5" is false does not make "Norm said '2 + 2 = 5'" false.)

To me, the nuanced distinction between truth and consistency comes in the facts that (1) the latter is weaker than the former ("Norm said '2 + 2 = 4'" and "Norm can do basic arithmetic" are consistent, even if they are not both true), and (2) that the latter is of interest mainly about collections of statements; the truth of a group of (non-mutually referential) statements is determined by the truth of each individual statement, but the same is not true for consistency.
Their bulk of their pay comes from the granting of stocks, whose value is driven by their market price. This is was the point I was basing my statement off of.
It's completely legal to grow opium poppies, it's just not legal to extract the sap, or to process it.

It's also a simpler way to get started producing morphine than to be doing cutting edge genetically engineering of bacteria to produce it as a byproduct of sugar digestion.
Exercise bikes that mine bitcoin. Hey Tesla, who needs batteries if you can store energy as monetary value.
Why does anyone comment on the stories posted on HN? Why do we have leisure activities? I don't think that anyone is commenting on HN in lieu of learning, spending time with family or friends, or pursuing a career. (Though many may be procrastinating at work!) I think the request was a less a demand, and more a polite suggestion for more content of this nature. No one will banish you from HN if you don't participate, but the site and its users might reap the mutual benefit if you do.

Also, I think there is something to be said about the whole "learning as you teach" mentality. Often times I find myself explaining something (which I've done a hundred times) to someone (who has never done it before) and I catch myself saying things that I had not paused to reflect on before; or, I find myself finding even better ways to do things as I explain them to someone else. Those are the sorts of benefits that might be in store for yourself, without any consideration to mutualistic benefits.
Many of their hypotheticals selling their solution involve bitcoin mining to create cost savings:

>For example, one could build an internet-connected device that shared some portion of mined bitcoin between the user, the retailer, the handset maker, and the carrier — thereby reducing costs and/or increasing margins throughout the entire supply chain.
I'm not sure if it's possible to run outside of DOSBox, but I learned to type using Mavis Beacon. It had a bunch of different modes and fully gamified learning to touch type.
run the excess energy into a bitcoin farm instead of batteries?
> By way of example, you have property rights and if, by exercising them, you erect a hideous statue on your property which your neighbor finds offensive, your neighbor has no right to have the statue torn down simply because he finds it distasteful.

Also on this unrelated topic, exactly the opposite is common in Europe.

In the UK, you would need planning permission to place a statue, a process which allows a neighbour to voice their objection to the planning committee of the local government.

e.g.

http://www.cherwell.org/news/2009/02/19/gormley-statue-place...

And this is considered normal and accepted. You don't get to place offensive statues in public.
For the sample constraint satisfaction
problem

s e n d
+ m o r e
---------
m o n e y

how about considering it as a special case
of integer linear programming for which
there is an enormous literature of
powerful techniques all of which are just
applied math and can be coded up in
Fortran, ..., C, etc. with no mention at
all of functional programming or monads?

Moreover there are several highly polished
software packages that implement the
applied math.

For a detailed formulation as integer
linear programming there is:

Find

d, e, m, n, o, r, s, y

to solve

maximize z = d + e + m + n + o + r + s + y

subject to

1000 * s + 100 * e + 10 * n + d + 1000 * m
+ 100 * o + 10 * r + e - 10000 * m - 1000 *
o - 100 * n - 10 * e - y <= 0

d, e, m, n, o, r, s, y <= 9

d, e, m, n, o, r, s, y >= 0

and

d, e, m, n, o, r, s, y

integers.

More generally, that constraint
satisfaction is often just looking for a
feasible solution to a linear or linear
integer program is part of why ILOG and
SAP used the R. Bixby optimization
software C-PLEX.

Similarly if functional programming and
monads can make good progress on linear
and/or linear integer programming, then
there are some people in parts of the
applied math, operations research, and
engineering communities that would be very
interested.

And, of course, since integer linear
programming is in NP-complete, really good
work would win a Clay Math prize of $1
million.

In more detail, at

http://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/simplex.html

can get linear and linear integer
programming on-line.

Then for the sample problem, in the format
of that on-line solver asking for just
linear programming and not integer linear
programming, the problem formulation is

maximize p = d + e + m + n + o + r + s + y

subject to

1000 s + 100 e + 10 n + 1 d + 1000 m
+ 100 o + 10 r + 1 e - 10000 m - 1000
o - 100 n - 10 e - 1 y <= 0,

d + e + m + n + o + r + s + y >= 1,

d <= 9,

e <= 9,

m <= 9,

n <= 9,

o <= 9,

r <= 9,

s <= 9,

y <= 9

Note: In the above, the on-line solver
wants the first constraint to be all on
one line.

Then from the on-line solver an optimal
soluion is:

p = 18;

d = 9, e = 0, m = 0, n = 0, o = 0, r = 0,
s = 0, y = 9

in which case this solution to the sample
problem becomes just

9
+ 9
---
18
Couldn't the causation also have run the other way? Say, increased CEO salaries for companies with rising stock prices led CEOs to optimize for the short term, with layoffs, cutting research departments and pension plans, etc.?
Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.
Prison time for drug use alone is a waste of resources. Prison time for crimes committed while under the influence is probably necessary (not just politically, but the moral hazard offering "under the influence" as a way to reduce your punishment is a pretty bad incentive). A big problem is the difficulty in determining who is a "user" and who is a "distributor who uses." Not sure there is a good solution there, but a great start would be replacing incarceration for simple possession with treatment.
Idiomatic F# code also uses Option types. However, all .NET reference types have null as a possible value. While most F# types don't have null as a "normal" value, there's nothing to prevent null instances of these types from being created "abnormally" at the .NET runtime layer (e.g. values of F# types created in other .NET languages like C# that don't respect F#'s metadata annotations, or created via F# operators like Unchecked.defaultof<_> that implicitly use the .NET runtime's default value of null for reference types).

In practice this is rarely a problem, but the article is highlighting what you need to do when you want to (efficiently) check for these boundary cases.
Humans see censorship, embargoes, and prohibitions as damage and route around them.
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For crying out loud... another instance of the GNOME team's insistence that they know better than their users, no doubt.