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> This means that everyone is guaranteed

I don't think that this usage of 'guaranteed' is strictly correct (although I understand the informal sense in which it is meant). I don't know a formal definition of "random number" that would allow me to back up what I'm about to say, but it seems to me impossible to guarantee that exactly 10% of all generated random numbers are less than 0.1. For example, it can't possibly be true if (some, but) fewer than 10 numbers are generated. (For example, consider jmmcd (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874773 )'s hypothetical classroom with 2 students.)

The best guarantee that I can imagine is some sort of "law of large numbers", which won't help in a class of, say, 30 people, 4 of whom happen to generate a small number!

EDIT: Also, I think that the use of a random-number generator should probably count as co-ordination. Consider, for example, a situation where some outside observer picks floor(10%*$classsize) of the class, and the random-number generator is replaced by this person. (Let's say he has an auxiliary random-number generator, for which he generates a number up to 0.1 for the chosen students, and a number past 0.1 for the unchosen.) This is clearly co-ordination, but it is also indistinguishable to anyone who can't peer behind the curtain; so it seems to me that your situation should count as co-ordination, too.

EDIT 2: Also also, let's ignore the fact that there are only finitely many distinguishable floating-point numbers in [0, 1] (so that, in particular, it makes a difference what we instruct the student to do who generates 0.1 exactly), and suppose that there's some clever output scheme that gives infinitely many possibilities.
"there comes a time with communities that go toxic where the only real answer is to take them out behind the barn and Old Yeller them. That time has come for Reddit."

I've been on Reddit since near the beginning and still enjoy the site everyday. We regulars keep pointing out the great subreddits that exist, so I don't need to do that here. Unlike Chuq, I don't feel guilt by association because there are also terrible subreddits. I'm not one to condemn all of 4chan because of 4chan/b/, but I can understand those who think that way.

What I wanted to say is that Reddit has not changed, society has. If anything Reddit has improved by banning subreddits like jailbait and fatpeoplehate. The trend on Reddit is less toxicity, not more as Chuq implies.

America has been having a conversation the last few years about rape culture, sexual harrasement of women, micro-aggressions, exclusionary speech, gender fluidity, sexual objectification of women in video games, sexting, celebrity nudes, and so on. This new awareness has been applied to Reddit recently starting with 'the fappening' and continuing with gamergate. I think these conversations are worth having and I like some of the change as a result, but it's not fair to Reddit to say it is going downhill. We're just applying a new set of standards to it.

Could a site like Reddit or 4chan even become succesful today with all the new rules in place, or would they kill it in the crib? I'm not sure.
I honestly don't understand why any country would want to hold the olympics, unless they already have the vast majority of the infrastructure in place, it's just such a mind-bogglingly expensive proposition.
Assuming you don't use annotations at all...

* DRY for cross-cutting concerns, like database transactions, logging, dependency injection, serialization, validation, web controllers/endpoints... basically, macros for Java.

* Less code means less chance for error - even if that code was generated at some point in the past, it will need to change in the future, and the future developer may do the change manually and might introduce mistakes. Using annotations can help enforce patterns.
In case you haven't seen this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9875372

After reading the e-mail (I haven't seen this at all before, so I have no opinion about their communications and what has happened in the community), this reads to me like it was written by someone who is frustrated that their plan of how to do things wasn't understood/respected and is now fed up with the entire thing? Seems a bit weird, but I think it could totally be genuine (probably result of failure to communicate). And if money has changed hands for access to a product, they'll probably have a bunch of refunds to issue? (depends on exact terms of course)
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To anyone who didn't get the context (I can't edit the above post) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropes_vs._Women_in_Video_Game...
Why, again, would Boston want 2024?
To be fair, Microsoft started taking security extremely serious years ago
Isn't it better to simply not put on your license plates? The penalty for not plates is $25 and proof of correction, after which you can just remove it again. In the meantime, you can't be scanned by systems like these, or be captured on camera, or have your privacy violated by anyone with access to a shady background check site.
No. Already live in a low cost of living place closer to better attractions. But some people won't care...
If I start using the phrase "let's define this" before starting an argument, people usually start to stare.

I think it could be done online since there is no strict text limit and it helps with understanding.

Will try it next time.
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They're all skewed, in one way or another. By number of source files, Linux is mostly drivers - but you don't need to be an expert in the kernel core to be able to write a driver.
And the EU side decided that all ISDS trials have to be done at a court that is staffed with judges from both contract partners and rules in public.
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Another flaw with this algorithm is that it doesn't take into account if the author is current or not. You could have a TF of 8 but 6 of those are devs who have left the project, so your actual TF is 2, but its probably worse than that because a good chunk of the codebase is old with no current maintainer.
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We're well into the era where scarce computing resources no longer limits us the way they used to. We're over some kind of hump with regards to that. Since computing power is more abundant, the limiting factor we're currently running into has to do with the cognitive overhead incurred by our current tools, since tools always lag behind somewhat. Our current tools are primarily built to be efficient with machine resources, but are not necessarily built to make efficient use of cognitive resources.

As cognitive resources become the bottleneck, it's sensible to invest in tools that decrease cognitive burden. So we're seeing an upswing in popularity with methods and techniques aimed at limiting the amount of unnecessary, incidental complexity generated. "Easier to use" is nice, but "less complex" is imperative right now.

Immutability is one of those techniques that can be leveraged to limit growth of complexity.
That's the part where getting people to agree is the problem. To me, 10 years for a repeat offender on armed robbery doesn't sound harsh.
Why should well performing students try to prevent poor performing students—'lesser' seems harsh—from 'catching up'? (This may be plausible in the classroom setting, but I think becomes more questionable if one thinks instead of, say, welfare grants.)

Also, setting aside any ethical considerations, I'm not sure that the mathematics checks out: if there are very few students getting an A, then they don't have significant power to block 'lesser' students from catching up; whereas, if there are very many students getting an A, then this behaviour is guaranteed to reward none of them, whereas they could instead grant themselves all an extra 2 points.
Ah yes, I meant "backfire effect".

This pertains to the conclusion (and thus the premise) of the blog post:

"Next time you have an idea and it gets rejected, I want you to think of these emails."

The message in my comment is, don't allow yourself to fall pray to the backfire effect when people reject your ideas (whether VC, colleagues, etc.). If people reject your idea, it might mean it's not a very valuable idea, as opposed to being an indication that you're on to something that's so radically new and different, etc.
I find it interesting that he uses the sanctions against Iraq to build his case about the immorality of service members who fought in Iraq, as the sanctions predated the war and ended when the war did -- the war was the cause of the end of the sanctions he decries.

(I served two tours in Iraq, so I am not dispassionate about the rest of his argument.)
He also has some other links to his short stories on his blog:

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I believe A Tall Tail could be of interest for the HN crowd:

http://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/
"Truck factor" was popular in some circles many years ago. Given the number of replies that say that they have never heard of "Truck factor", I'm guessing that google won't help me out here. I certainly heard the term "truck factor" long before "bus factor".

My understanding of the reason it changed to "bus" was that people in the UK (who use the term "lorry" for what North Americans call a "truck") found the term awkward. That's purely anecdotal, though. It's entirely possible I was in a bubble of "truck factor" usage.
As per the IR announcement, "bile duct growth" is cited as the cause of death.

The Japanese announcement says 胆管腫瘍.

Just when Nintendo has started having some bright spots in their business.

RIP.
Can you speak more to this? When I worked for a Nashville-based company about two years ago, the hiring prospects were awfully limited.
I don't believe anyone from the Go team has said that using interface{} in containers is "the "correct" way to build generic data structures". It is merely one of the ways available today. (The other is to define algorithms in terms of operations, like sort.Sort does with sort.Interface.) We're not saying either of those are "correct" in the sense of optimal, but they're what we have now.

Robert addressed generics in his talk (summary at https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015... I believe the video will be available in two weeks). Quoting the sourcegraph summary:

> Generics is the single biggest language feature absent in Go. It’s often missed by newcomers to Go. But it’s more of a type-system mechanism. It’s unclear if it’s an essential language feature.

> Generics are incredibly complex in both semantics and implementation. There are considerable trade-offs to consider, such as do you want a larger binary vs. slower binary vs. larger source code.

> It’s also very non-orthogonal. It interacts with and complicates a lot of other language features.

> They have tried and implemented prototypes of generics in Go, but they haven’t found a good solution, so they’ve decided to hold off and keep thinking about it for the time being.

Robert also made the point that generics are very complex, much more so than most people realize. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417.
Doesn't this cause issues with cached bogus A records once the user pays and is granted access? I suppose you could return really short TTLs, but there would still be a delay of at least a few seconds.

(I'm not doubting they do this, just saying it seems very hacky...)
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It's really hard to tell the success of an idea and I think one investor mentioned in the email that they don't understand the market so it would make it hard to nurture such products.

They simply cannot invest in all ideas, just because Brian got lucky doesn't makes it applies to all startups
Wow, he was only 55. He had been sick for a while, but this was unexpected.
He was still relatively young. RIP.
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Agreed.

Also, the author's sub-headline asks whether to blame the IOC then points how the olympics costing doesn't include incremental infrastructure projects -- which likely would've happened without the olympics, just not as fast, as is the case with most olympics[1].

From what I remember, Athens was one of the best executed, efficient olympics ever. Unfortunately, attendance was low as the timing of the Iraq War made travel undesirable.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics#Costs
My off-the-cuff reaction is the same as yours but look what happens to institutions where all negotiation is public: posturing, media tyranny, corridor diplomacy and a huge gap between public position and any real opinion.

Transparency has a cost also.
You answered your own question so eloquently that I'm affraid I cannot offer too much more.

Airbnb removed all the expensive rules and oversight intrinsic of the hospitality industry and opened the market, leading to new gains in market efficiency that are tough to compete with.

Uber did the same for personal transportation.

Crowd funding does this for investing. The real gains will be seen when the intelligence and agility of emergent, fast-moving fund pools are able to out-pace and out-perform traditional funds, indexes, and VC. That will change a lot of things.

FTR, I am talking about investing, not just preorders, but this may not mean that you get stock certificates in all cases.
It is always amazing for me to read about Nintendo's history, especially during the 80s and when they released the NES. It is even more amazing when you think about everything that has changed about gaming since then.

It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda. Some of the games these days really focus too much on graphics and not gameplay. I felt a lot of games back then were much harder and more unforgiving than games today.
> Isn't it better to simply not put on your license plates? The penalty for not plates is $25 and proof of correction, after which you can just remove it again. In the meantime, you can't be scanned by systems like these, or be captured on camera, or have your privacy violated by anyone with access to a shady background check site.

What does this have to do with a microscope for sound ?.
I don't agree with von Rospach's position.

Among the problem he cites is that the moderators were not require to align with the company. He suggests that they should have been paid as consultants, which would enable Reddit to force compliance with company policy.

My take is that the problem is that Reddit did not align with the moderators.

A very common problem, not just with community-driven websites, but any enterprise which is largely driven by volunteers, is that the volunteers really do have a legitimate equity stake in the company. Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, copyright licenses or even assignments have no bearing on that.

Piss off your volunteers and they will all walk away.

Sun's Open Source Diva was hired specifically to explain Open Source to Sun's own staff, after the public outcries that resulted from such blunders as granting new employee commit privileges without them having proved their chops to the volunteer developers by submitting patches via email or by attaching them to bugs.

In my own case I was very excited to subscribe to a feral cat political activism newsletter. But I quickly unsubscribed when I found no way to contact the people who wrote the newsletter. While I think they mean well they were soliciting donations but they were not even permitting me to give them suggestions as to how to save the lives of cats.

It's not just for-profit corporations; IMHO nonprofits are commonly far worse. It is the result of cognitive dissonance. Because the nonprofit is predicated on doing right by others when they do wrong they regard those they harm of deserving of their unjust punishment.

When deciding whether to donate money to or volunteer for a nonprofit, visit their offices. Do they have a nice view out the window? Aeron chairs? Lamborghinis in the parking lot?

Hookers and blow?

That's why I intend to donate to the Portland Rescue Mission, Blanchet House of Hospitality, Salvation Army, Union Gospel Mission and some of the churches around here but I will be damned if the Central City Concern ever manages to pry a contribution from my cold dead hands.
Looks Nice. Do you find yourself trading bitcoin often?

I am unfamiliar with the bitcoin bot atmosphere but I am guessing it isn't a stretch to assume that other bots exist, what made you decide to write your own?
Emacs is an awesome tool, but vanilla emacs is only ok.

I highly recommend that you take a couple of days or so and try playing around with packages that apply to your use. That's where it really shines.
i find graphics and environment are actually much nicer in games with "no 3d engine".

they're not nearly as detailed, but they're just more artistic/pleasant, as if more time was spent in that direction to "compensate" for the lack of detail
> It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda.

What makes you think they don't?

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-USB-Super-Nintendo-Controller-...
I would in an alternate life, but obligations preclude it now. Would a startup in Helena hire a dev in his late 40s? I'd also consider retiring there, or Alaska.
No, there is nothing to tie most developers to Montana, especially other work opportunities.
It's really painful to hear something like this, Mario and Zelda was my childhood, and I play the most recent Animal Crossing on my 3DS still. I hope his family understands how many childhoods he impacted.

Funny picture, when asked to draw Kirby. Artists vs Programmers. Miyamoto, Sakurai and Iwata I believe. http://i.imgur.com/S5Cq9lT.jpg
Why go all to all that trouble when all they require is a few backhoes?
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Haven't been following Nintendo very much. If he was so ill why was he still CEO? Not saying he wasn't capable but, if I were that sick, not sure I would want to be running a company.
Mine's inherited and atypical, but the sorts of things being suggested here have helped, e.g. a SSRI. I strongly recommend getting a copy of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/03808... or any other good guide to cognitive therapy, which has an added behavioral aspect nowadays. Therapists ought to be versed in CBT, and if things are bad enough they're worth a try.
I have a good friend by the name of Stanford. Facebook did not believe him.
Well, sure... but it happens in Chrome as well, at least on my H.P.
Right here. This is what is wrong with our economic system and why I support UBI. Nuclear engineer flipping burgers. Totally absurd.
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Not on a company machine that has the root certificate installed, which is standard procedure if you deploy a system like that.

A really good IDS might be able to catch tunneled traffic purely by looking at the traffic patterns, but I don't know how corkscrew works exactly and if such detection is possible without creating too many false alerts.
"Hate-tweet"? Since when did mild criticism (and valid such IMHO) become classified as hate?
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Or maybe the ship "plans" are like a binary, and the "design" of the ship is more like source code and specs.
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> the awesome Mr. Robot TV series

The one where the anti-establishment hacker hero is a paranoid schizophrenic drug addict and the only other "hacktivists" are portrayed as terrorists?

> This kind of attention to details is what makes an awesome show!

Attention to details is not enough.
They probably will. I don't expect a refund, and anyone paying that early for a product that isn't done should do so with the understanding that there is a chance you may never see what you paid for. With that said, this e-mail makes it stink a bit, and doesn't sit well with me, and after reading that issue on github it seems not with anyone else either. Seems to be a common theme on that thread that it's not as much the money as it is how they are handling the situation as a whole.
Meditation works for me. I am relatively new to it (few months) but have found what I was looking for simply by understanding that I am not my thoughts, that without them I still exist. I began to understand that thoughts are a lot like weather, or like throwing a rock in a pond. For me, I was able to move from that realization to being able to not get swept up in thoughts. This gives me the clarity that I am assuming is similar to what the author found during his hangover. The point for me is understanding that the mind and its processes are a tool. The ability to choose when to use it is freedom.

Some people may also find this through religion or (my opinion) more directly through spiritual practice outside of the framework of a given religion.

Others may use psychedelics. Medical marijuana has been helpful for me in some instances, but I tend to rely too much on it and as a personal choice now try to limit my use. I can understand how alcohol could lead a person to this but there are many healthier alternatives. I could see a person drinking themselves to death before they find it.
Survival bias, much ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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I live in a city about the size of Helena but less geographically remote. There is a good private university but not much of a professional tech community.

As a sysadmin by trade, trying to pivot into software development/engineering, I wonder if I should study and work in a 'hub' city (like the Bay Area) with lots of bright and eager minds, or somewhere with cheap rent and few distractions (like Helena) so it's easier to tune out the world and hit the books/code.
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