techman9

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by techman9 9y ago
As a quick first pass at this, it looks like Shkreli was convicted of 2 counts of securities fraud (15 USC § 78j) and 1 count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud (18 USC § 1343) [0][1]. According to the US Sentencing Guidelines[2] §2B1.1, ea
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by techman9 9y ago
That's not the way federal law works. Beneficial ends don't justify illegal means in the eyes of federal prosecutors.
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by techman9 9y ago
That doesn't make his claims any less fraudulent.
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by techman9 9y ago
Sentences are largely set by the guidelines published by the United States Sentencing Commission and are based on a standard table[1], which assigns "points" based on the severity of the crime and level of involvement [0]. While
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Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix(nytimes.com)
48 points by techman9 9y ago|15 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
Ok, but there are still myriad confounding factors, even at that age. Do students from higher income schools in aggregate have higher IQs than those from lower income schools?
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by techman9 9y ago
Is IQ an excellent "predictor of income, social status, and academic & job performance" or merely associated with those?
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by techman9 9y ago
Oh man, I do not envy your tax situation...
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by techman9 9y ago
To be fair, it's market cap weighted. You could just buy every stock on the S&P too, but lots of investors prefer VOO.
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by techman9 9y ago
You wildly overestimate how good most people are at evaluating risks. This isn't a couple hundred bucks over a weekend in vegas we're talking about, it's peoples' life savings or retirement accounts or childrens' co
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by techman9 9y ago
The concrete numbers about absolute risk are useful. Thanks.
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The risk of nitrites and nitrates in bacon(theguardian.com)
169 points by techman9 9y ago|169 comments
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Google Song Maker(musiclab.chromeexperiments.com)
2 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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Earth from Geostationary Orbit – 8K Resolution [video](youtube.com)
1 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
CS Educators do this research all the time, but it's pretty challenging to design a CS1 class that's effective but also so radically different from the typical paradigm. There's also a risk you'll set students back if it
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by techman9 9y ago
Any other research about languages in CS1 or about CS1 generally? An easy way to find a bunch: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=lan... ;) On another note, SIGCSE just ended so you can find al
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by techman9 9y ago
Python is probably as effective as C++ for preparing students for more challenging CS classes in other languages [0] [0] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1734437
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by techman9 9y ago
I'm not sure about segmenting intro courses by majors, but there is good research that suggests that segmenting CS1 by level of background knowledge has a significant positive impact on future coursework [0]. I suspect that a larger pr
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by techman9 9y ago
I'd be really curious to see a study of the performance of CS majors in later classes by paradigm of the language taught in CS1 (i.e. imperative/OOP vs functional). I've been trying to keep my eye out for a while, but haven&#
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by techman9 9y ago
C++ has all this "language-specific" overhead that you kind of have to wade through before you can get to doing anything really productive. Python is easy to use and be productive with out of the box, has a complete feature set, d
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by techman9 9y ago
Yeah, the world really needs a load more gatekeeping jerks who don't consider Python a "real" programming language.
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by techman9 9y ago
If you don't know what you're doing, it's easy to misconfigure iptables or whatever and inadvertently allow traffic from the internet to Memcached. A quick Shodan search[1] shows like 90k boxes publicly accessible Memcached.
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What Happens When Millennials Grow Up? (2016)(vice.com)
2 points by techman9 9y ago|1 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
While I see your point, "CEO/Executive Pay" is a poor indicator of waste in these organizations. Fundamentally, Non-profits need to operate like businesses, in the sense that their balance sheets need to remain stable and the
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by techman9 9y ago
This to me smacks of fear and really some perverse form of protectionism. The whole idea of "schooling" is built upon the premise that there is some fundamental set of knowledge that it's important for students to master befo
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by techman9 9y ago
This is why I was never good at biology and hated both classes the classes I took in it. Coming from a CS background, it was so frustrating not to be able to reason from first principles about the nature of our observations.
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by techman9 9y ago
Does the Ethereum VM have branch prediction or speculative execution. I'm not sure how you'd construct a side channel of this nature against it if it doesn't.
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by techman9 9y ago
Evergreen: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html Also: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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by techman9 9y ago
Where did you travel? About to set off on a trip of roughly the same length in Europe. Any recommendations?
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by techman9 9y ago
I think the intent is for this to be a functional art installation more than anything. Of course there are less expensive (and more "practical" ways of accumulating entropy), but this is a very cool art project that provides a pre

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