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Thanks! Didn't realize that existed.

Replying to this so I can find this later.

I ran Privacy Badger for a while, but I have never actually seen it do anything. Not sure I messed up something, or if it was due to me already having an aggressive block list on uBlock Origin that left PB with nothing to do.

No pre-election analysis had Trump at 0%. Unlikely outcomes happen.

If I put two blue marbles and one red marble in a bag and ask you to blindly draw one, you probably won't be too shocked if you end up drawing the red one. Yet if it happens in an election everybody starts suddenly claiming all polling and statistics are useless.

There are two different processes here: the DMCA and ContentID.

If YouTube receives a DMCA request it will take the video down immediately (in accordance to the law). However, you can counter the DMCA claim at which point the other party has to either drop it or sue you.

ContentID is the non-legal system which essentially blocks or transfers monetization (copyright holder's choice) for any detected copyrighted work in YouTube's database. YouTube developed it to avoid fighting studios.

Since there are no objective standards to determine if something is fair use or not, instead it's a bunch of factors that are all supposed to be weighted against each other by a judge, there is no way for YouTube to determine if something is legal infringement of copyright (Fair Use) or illegal infringement of copyright. The solution here for YouTube is to be conservative and not allow any infringement against the rights holder's wishes.

It's not a great system, but I understand why it is the way it is, and I'm not sure how or even if it could be changed.

It might not be farfetched, but we shouldn't jump to conclusions without proof. People essentially claimed he was bought and paid for by Verizon since the day he took office, before he even had a chance to do anything. All because of what job he had nearly a decade prior. I don't know about you, but that doesn't sit well with me.

Ajit Pai, for example, famously worked for Verizon before government.

Pai worked at Verizon for two years between 2001 and 2003. He was appointed as FCC member in 2012. How much loyalty do you have to a job you held for two years, nine years ago?

Google does not have the power to determine if something is fair use or not, that is up to the courts. You might think something is fair use, and I might disagree. We are supposed to go to court and have a trial to determine which one of us is right. Google is not judge and jury, they can't make that determination.

I think the attraction for writers were network effects. It's kind of like YouTube for text content. Recently, I watched a video about the game Crokinole on YouTube. Afterwards I got a bunch of suggested videos: other videos about Crokinole, videos about other board games, videos about making your own Crokinole board ...etc. Medium does (or was supposed to) do something similar for articles, which in turn should lead to more views on your content.

In Haskell you usually use `otherwise` for the last guard clause, like so:

     f x | x < 0     = ...
         | otherwise = ...

This honestly reads as "working as intended" to me. No side can become the tyrant and get everything it wants and screw the other ~50%.

Not him, but IIRC back when Steam Spy was a thing it discovered that most accounts on Steam only have one game on it. Usually Dota 2 or CS:GO. That makes sense to some extent since Dota 2 is free and CS:GO is often on sale and a lot of people like to Smurf. Anecdotally both of my CS:GO playing friends have smurf accounts.

Although this is a separate issue to the greater point that most people play one game. My bit of anecdata is that me and all of my friends might try out some flavor of the month game or something that caught our eye on sale, but those tend to be one-and-done playthroughs. However, each of us has a game that they play regularly that has an order of magnitude more hours on it than everything else.

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that this is dependent on if you are in a community property state or not. In a community property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin) all income earned by either partner is automatically community property and owned equally by both parties. In a non-community property state you have the right to keep your earned income separate from your spouse.

My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang "Essays on Mind and Matter"

Since everything in physics tells us that FTL travel is impossible (as far as I am aware), then when a civilization detects signs from another civilization in another solar system it knows that 1) that civilization was advanced enough to produce signals into space light years ago, and 2) by the time it reaches it at sublight speeds (hundreds, possibly thousands of years) it will be more advanced still. That means your extermination mission might be facing a technologically superior enemy with home field advantage.

Sounds like what Yik Yak tried to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

Yes, but if you watch the news that fact is never reported. Instead you get story after story of robbery, murder, assault ...etc.

TV news stations care about ratings, papers care about circulation. Fear stories keep people watching/reading.

What you are describing has only been my experience in suburbia. Major cities are a lot more walkable as far as getting to a grocery store or convenience shop or whatever. I'm currently in Chicago and the entire city has a grid layout, no weird U shaped routes anywhere and every street has a sidewalk for pedestrians.

If we were not on an anonymous website, we would probably not start the conversation with “I disagree.”.

I do that in in-person conversations all the time. Although I'm probably more blunt than most.

I've copied lines from a shell script into a makefile and it copied the leading spaces as well. I didn't really think about it and when I ran make I got a bunch of weird errors. I figured out what the problem was pretty much immediately. Overall this was just a minor annoyance for a minute or two, but it does happen. I'm not sure why people pretend that it doesn't.

I don't work with make much anymore (or Python or Haskell), but I've come to see the use of invisible characters to express structure as a mistake. It can make code real neat and tidy looking, but I'm not sure the trade off is worth it. In the past I've resorted to actually having my editor show whitespace symbols to make sure code that looks aligned actually is aligned.

Been a while since I've done Haskell, but the essential breakdown as I understand it is this:

At lowest level you have the Control.Concurrent primitives: forkIO and MVar. forkIO allows you to spin up new Haskell threads (not OS threads) and MVar's can be used to communicate between them. MVar's can be empty or full and block when the operation can't be completed immediately (writing to a full MVar or reading from an empty MVar). They also have single wakeup semantics, so if you have multiple readers blocking on an empty MVar read, only one will be woken up when someone writes to it.

STM has transactional semantics. You can write to multiple STM variables atomically in a transaction, and your transaction will restart if any of your input variables have been written to while your transaction was running. Useful if you need to maintain consistency between several variables at all times.

Async is a wrapper around STM and provides common functions you would often write yourself to express common patterns, but more battle tested.

Strategies are about optimistically evaluating Haskell thunks in parallel. For example if you map a function over a list, now you have a list of thunks. You can use Strategies to now evaluate those thunks in parallel. Key thing with Strategies is that if you remove them from your code (or use a non-threaded runtime) it doesn't affect the semantics of your program, it just might make it slower due to loss of parallel evaluation.

The Par Monad isn't used much, but the key idea there is you build an explicit dependency graph of the values in your computation and the runtime tries to parallelize the nodes in the graph that it can. Similar to what make does if you run it with -j.

The first example is missing the scope brackets likely enclosing the expressions

Sure, but so is the Clojure one. So I guess it's more like:

    fun bar () {
      let x = 5,
          y = 10
      foo(x,y)
    }

    (defn bar []
      (let [x 5 
            y 10]
        (foo x y)))

(print "foo") vs print("foo"). same same.

If you look at things other than function calls, it starts to look different:

    let x = 5,
        y = 10
    foo(x,y)

    (let [x 5 
          y 10]
      (foo x y))

If they were, would the denominator always be 100 or 1000?

The numerator and denominator get automatically reduced to lowest terms (just like you learned in elementary school, so 15/100 becomes 3/20) internally by every implementation I know of. This comes at a performance cost for every operation, but it helps keeping the numerator and denominator from blowing up.

not sure how rounding works -- or even if they do rounding at all

They do not. The point of a Rational type is to keep precise values, so it's up to the programmer to decide when and how values are rounded.

"arbitrary precision floating point" type like ruby's BigDecimal

Not sure how Ruby implements BigDecimal, but Java internally represents it as an BigInteger of digits, and a second integer that represents where in the number the decimal point should go. This means that BigDecimal still can't truly represent a value such as 1/3, since you can't have an infinite amount of 3's, but a Rational can.

I'm not actually sure what domains rational data types are good for.

I'll be honest and say I've never had to use them either, but it's nice to know they exist. The intended use case is when you need to perform calculations and maintain as much precision and accuracy as possible in the intermediate values and such accuracy is more important than speed.

An alternative to live meetings is to move any procedures involving the full House to a web-based medium, similar to HN.

Can't wait for $PARTY party to yell "Conspiracy!" when their comments aren't showing up on the congressional web message board, while $OTHER_PARTY says they were simply "accidentally" deleted by the spam filter. Also something about Russian bots and hackers.

You don't necessarily need something more powerful than Yacc. I think the point was that you can encode errors directly into your grammar. So for some language with semicolon statement separators you can do something like this:

    PROGRAM -> STATEMENT*
    STATEMENT -> IF-STATEMENT | ASSIGN-STATEMENT | STATEMENT-ERROR
    IF-STATEMENT -> ...
    ASSIGN-STATEMENT -> ...
    STATEMENT-ERROR -> TOKEN* SEMICOLON

Naturally doing this in practice is harder than it sounds. Tweaking the Error rules is hard. If you consume too much or too little input you will resume in a spot that can have no chance of ever succeeding, giving way to a cascade of parse errors. I think we've probably all seen a compiler spit out a couple of dozen error messages all stemming from a single root error like a missing closing parentheses or brace.

I must have missed the issue where Batman leaves a burning cross on Mr Freeze's yard.

I think what the other poster was trying to say is that in the US defamation law treats public figures and non-public figures (and confusingly "limited purpose public figures") differently. The standard of "actual malice" applies to public figures only, the standard is lower for non-public figures. Which invites the question of "Is anyone the NYT writes about automatically a public figure?" Or even a limited purpose public figure?

IANAL so I don't know the answer, but I hope the answer is no. Since if the answer is yes it would allow a large media organization to thrust anyone into the spotlight and defame them without recourse as long as "actual malice" can't be established (ie the Covington High kids).

Been a while since I've done Lisp seriously, but I don't believe that's possible, at least in Common Lisp (SBCL). While if responds to symbol function:

  * (symbol-function 'if)
  #<CLOSURE (:SPECIAL IF) {1000C5084B}>

  * (setf (symbol-function 'foo) (symbol-function 'if))
  #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10005205B3}>:
    #<CLOSURE (:SPECIAL IF) {1000C5084B}> is not acceptable to (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION)

  * (setf (symbol-function 'bar) (symbol-function 'mapcar))
  #<FUNCTION MAPCAR>
  * (bar #'1+ '(1 2 3))
  (2 3 4)

Conditionals are not functions in Lisp. They are 'special forms' since they have to control the evaluation of their arguments and functions always evaluate all their arguments.

So, if you want to translate a lisp into another language you have to resort to macros.