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by jnbiche 10y ago
> How should the analyst write his model in a simple way? As a Java (or Haskell, or whatever firs your ideal of simplicity) program? In Python or R, like the rest of us do. Or SAS, Stata, or even SPSS if they want a familiar interface (
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by jnbiche 10y ago
1) That particular example is 10 or 20 seconds on CPython, depending on CPython version, machine, etc. 2) With the exception of Luajit and JS, any dynamic interpreted language will take in the range of 5-20 secs to run equivalent code. I&#
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Try running a nested loop on a non-trivial example, and you can end up spending minutes in what would take milliseconds in any other language. Huh? Can you provide an example? There's nothing about writing nested loops in Python
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Hash functions are used as a one-way transform for some string of data. By definition, they require an input. You can't just run a hash function and get a random string. You can supply a random string and then get a hashed random st
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by jnbiche 10y ago
Why would you use a hash function here? What are we hashing? The username and password? If so, that means you can't revoke the API key without revoking the password. Since you're storing the username and password anyway, an AP
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by jnbiche 10y ago
... anymore than you are supposed to write in HTML?
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Do you have a source? I don't have the source now, and I may be mistaken. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that InDesign's creators drew significant inspiration from Tex/LaTeX, but I can no longer find the origi
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> learn InDesign Ahem, or learn the open-source Tex/Latex, from which InDesign took inspiration. If you can format a beautiful scientific/mathematical textbook for print using Tex, you can format anything. And Pandoc is a gre
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> Science and mathematics has advanced philosophy more in the past thousand years, than philosophy has advanced itself. I'm not sure that it's that simple. Many of the most prominent mathematicians of the past 200 years consid
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Scientific American fills this role.
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> The NSA (or anyone else who can MITM https, such as my workplace, college, etc.) can effectively turn it into http, and see the content. To be clear, unless NSA has some massive capabilities we haven't dreamed off, properly implem
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by jnbiche 10y ago
It's sketchy because the alleged actions are basically tax fraud. It's also unethical because Hampton Creek were taking money from the pocket of the contractors because they were making them pay income taxes on money they didn&#x
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I'll go ahead and ask a question here so others can benefit: do you have any plans to support OpenCL, or will you focus on Cuda?
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Apologies for assuming it wasn't commercial just because it was open source, my mistake. In any case, in my experience, comments regarding related non-commercial and commercial projects are quite welcome on HN. It also looks like yo
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In my experience, it's perfectly acceptable on HN to plug a related project in a comment, as long as it's not done repeatedly for totally unrelated projects (in 5+ years here, I can only think of 1 or 2 examples of this actually h
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by jnbiche 10y ago
I noticed that property when I was 10 after the schoolmaster forced the class to write out the cubes of 1 to 20 to keep us quiet for a few hours.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
SVGs don't work in Github READMEs. I believe this is for security reasons.
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by jnbiche 10y ago
>> I like it! Really good. Maybe just a darker shade of blue there, and change the word ‘giant’ to ‘huge’. Other than that, it’s great! >Let's change this to: >> I like it! Really good. Can you briefly work me through th
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> That's fine in writing software - now try that in an adversarial environment. Oh, software is not an adversarial environment?
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by jnbiche 10y ago
It may well be that responding in Brazilian Portuguese or via a Brazilian lawsuit would have weakened their case that they do not have a presence in the country. And yes, it's also possible that it's just an arrogant law firm (alw
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EDIT: I was mistaken re: username, apologies.
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> Tangential, but why do people support Erdogan? Why do people support Trump?
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> I haven't done math competitions, but I feel the same way about programming competitions. I don't think I'm a better programmer because of the competitions. While you may be correct with respect to actual day-to-day prog
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by jnbiche 10y ago
I've also had exchanges very similar to the above. What I think happens is that managers think that we're negotiating. Negotiating for what? I have no idea, but for many managers, it's their default assumption. In fact, we
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by jnbiche 10y ago
OK, you've implied or linked to some significantly different claims here: 1. That there is no Zika outbreak / outbreak of Zika-like symptoms (this seems irrefutably wrong and as far as I know even the typical conspiracy theorist
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> Just like that the symptoms supposedly caused by the "Zika virus" is more likely to be a result from food by contaminated by pesticides/herbicides. You're making a claim here that pretty radically departs from scien
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In the US at least, "IT" is the support staff that maintains networks, provides staff support, approves/rejects new employee software requests (mostly rejects), etc. Software developers/engineers design new products for
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This is very well done and a great review of basic SQL before an interview.
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The answer is: that's an expected failure, so you make the error handling explicit by catching the error and taking care of it appropriately (including proceeding to the rest of the page load, naturally). Implicitly handling errors be
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by jnbiche 10y ago
> A further claim is that increasing welfare reduces work effort. Is this disputed? Yes, it's disputed. Assuming that you/the GP are correct, and that data do exist that people on welfare have reduced "work effort" (

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