Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll" qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234
Churches are also non-profit. As is Scientology. Just being a non-profit isn't insurance against evil.
Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.
We are on Paul Graham's Hacker News, this is already in the canon: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
Only if we care about getting reliablly correct answers.
Pablum. Kids are happy everywhere because they are carefree kids.
the ovals are far too deeply colored. If they were closer to invisible (especially the horizontal segments) it wouldn't be so bad. and the linebreak between "defun" and "hello" is just wrong. "hello" should be colored,…
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+... Google is the new Microsoft,…
The sentence is excluding the possibility of Google getting it right while leaving some pockets empty.
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
It's the same in US English. The issue is just that there are 1-10% of people who are sensitive to the issue, and computing has grown from a small club of close friends/enemies/frenemies to a more mainstream activity,…
Headline is completely false. Ars Technica made the mistake, and the submitter copied it. Editors, please fix. The cited research shows that wealth is a predictor of unethical behavior. There were no exeperiments…
The author was thinking of http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawoflargenumbers.asp but confused it with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers Apple has no need to grow its market cap forever. It could…
I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins…
So the telephone network is secured by a $100 entrance fee charged to any DDOS attacker?
Why don't actual phone call minutes use all these expensive resources?
What sort of experiment could test the hypothesis "x > c" in a binary way without depending on a precise measurement in a complex system? "x > c" is a binary test, BTW.
Bonus to anyone who gets the answer by intercepting another solver's email message.
+1
Doesn't work for me :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
You don't see the same movie every week either, so...?
Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll" qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234
Churches are also non-profit. As is Scientology. Just being a non-profit isn't insurance against evil.
Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.
We are on Paul Graham's Hacker News, this is already in the canon: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
Only if we care about getting reliablly correct answers.
Pablum. Kids are happy everywhere because they are carefree kids.
the ovals are far too deeply colored. If they were closer to invisible (especially the horizontal segments) it wouldn't be so bad. and the linebreak between "defun" and "hello" is just wrong. "hello" should be colored,…
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+... Google is the new Microsoft,…
The sentence is excluding the possibility of Google getting it right while leaving some pockets empty.
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
It's the same in US English. The issue is just that there are 1-10% of people who are sensitive to the issue, and computing has grown from a small club of close friends/enemies/frenemies to a more mainstream activity,…
Headline is completely false. Ars Technica made the mistake, and the submitter copied it. Editors, please fix. The cited research shows that wealth is a predictor of unethical behavior. There were no exeperiments…
The author was thinking of http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawoflargenumbers.asp but confused it with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers Apple has no need to grow its market cap forever. It could…
I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins…
So the telephone network is secured by a $100 entrance fee charged to any DDOS attacker?
Why don't actual phone call minutes use all these expensive resources?
What sort of experiment could test the hypothesis "x > c" in a binary way without depending on a precise measurement in a complex system? "x > c" is a binary test, BTW.
Bonus to anyone who gets the answer by intercepting another solver's email message.
+1
Doesn't work for me :-(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
You don't see the same movie every week either, so...?