bmm6o

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by bmm6o 12y ago
I generally agree, but this is a situation that can be explained by either an embarrassing level of incompetence or a pretty minor amount of malice (or even indifference). So I'll assume malice until I see them own up to that much inc
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by bmm6o 12y ago
If you RTFA, it isn't even Facebook harassing NA users. It sounds like this sort of review is triggered by a complaint, so it's really unidentified people using FB's shitty process to harass minorities.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
That's a slanderously uncharitable reading. I happen to think the article is spot on, I happen to think our incarceration rates are an embarrassing tragedy and I happen to think that the poor conditions of our prisons are bad for its a
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The article - and what people in general think of as "crime" - reasonably and intentionally excludes crimes committed in prison. While one is in prison, one can't habitually offend against society at large.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> then you would never need the ServerValue.TIMESTAMP hack ref.push({ foo: 'bar', date: Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP }); Seems way easier than synchronizing a clock in the browser and one on the server, a
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Best-case scenario (for them) is that the random data is "truly" random. 72 bits of the ID are sourced from Math.random(), which means you need to start worrying about collisions when clients attempt to generate 2^36 events with
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> and from here on out I'll be derailing to rant at a more general 'you' than you specifically At least you warned us, but how is this at all related to the comment you are nominally replying to?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
He's added a link in the comments to http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/2014/11/the-top-5-mis... , which makes a strong argument. It's too bad he couldn't articulate this in his post.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Totally. I like Angular a lot, and I'm not blind to its drawbacks. The code sample in the blog post has room for improvement, but I don't understand what he thinks it demonstrates. Yeah, it's a little weird that controller
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> var allowederror = .517 //slightly more than .5 You should probably explain your mystery value better than that.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
You should make it clear if you think it's necessary but not sufficient.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Even if it was a legit suicide, there's a reason the movie is called "Kill the Messenger". It's shameful how much other journalists focused on him rather than what he was reporting, and even worse since he was right.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I think GP's point is that the sentence "The vast bulk of humanity would survive, eventually" is pretty incoherent. It's hard to guess what he means by "eventually" and what specifically he means by "huma
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> You've unfortunately sparked a fairly pointless litany of quibbling about language Perhaps unfortunate, but very predictable. We have to agree on the definitions of the words we're using otherwise we're just monkeys a
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Given that there's an objective definition of "recession" it's not correct to call it double-speak. You can say that people talk about the wrong thing, or that growth isn't what's important, or whatever, but t
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It wouldn't have to be a replyable subthread, just a note somewhere are the top of the page.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It would be great if edits like this could be displayed at the top of the thread rather than as the bottom-most comment.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It looks pretty cool. There's one thing about the demo site that I found really confusing though - those white rectangles look like they should be modal dialogs but they aren't. I kept trying to dismiss the donation popup before
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I meant that "true" random numbers are platform dependent.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
> This isn't an unusual practice. I would even say it's common within programs that generate random sets, but that those use cases make up a tiny minority of all the uses of rand(), and it shouldn't be difficult to deter
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by bmm6o 12y ago
The use cases are more about being able to repeat a run on a given system - a particular simulation or a unit test that triggered an error (e.g. a sequence of values in a hash table). I could probably come up with a story where I'd wa
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I tend to agree. The determinism of random() is a feature, but it's a feature that almost nobody actually needs. It's just that the alternatives are either more trouble than they're worth or platform-dependent.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It depends in what way you want your numbers to be "better". You might mean deterministic and fast and with less predictable patterns (Mersenne Twister), deterministic and indistinguishable from true random (and slower) (CSPRNG),
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by bmm6o 12y ago
It's an interesting idea, but I found this blog post unenlightening. Does anyone have links to other writeups?
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by bmm6o 12y ago
There can certainly be complications, but diabetes is usually considered manageable with an otherwise healthy patient. There's really no point in speculating without more information, so I'd drop it unless/until more is made
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by bmm6o 12y ago
Here's part of the response I wrote last time this came up ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8602494 ): An approach where you watch the clock will be inherently less portable and actually much harder. Not only will
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by bmm6o 12y ago
* is not a wildcard, it indicates that the preceding token occurs zero or more times.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I strongly rebut the following claim, which is central to the article I would disagree that offering an alternate solution that avoids the problem is a rebuttal of the fact that there are quirks in isolation level implementations across R
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by bmm6o 12y ago
What's strange to me about that one is the results aren't drawn from Uber data at all. It's just crime statistics broken down by day.
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by bmm6o 12y ago
I don't think I'm able to make a much more rigorous argument, but I will note that you seem to be applying two different criteria here. If you want to criticize modeling a hash function as a PRF as too idealized, then you aren&#x

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