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A related question if anyone knows good answers here. What programming languages' de-facto thread implementations are not wrappers around pthreads? I think Go has its own thread im…

How can we build a society that supports volunteer work in open source? Should governments step in and provide open source grants for important projects just like it does for resea…

I really thought that pipenv was an anti-pattern. How hard it is to run "python3 -m venv venv; source venv/bin/activate; pip3 install -r requirements.txt" that one needs to create …

> From the outside, it seems like Javascript developers are all in high school I wonder what the reason is for this kind of behavior to exist only in the Javascript community? Coul…

You are quoting from Wikipedia and that quote is an oversimplification. If you redefine the law like that, then sure, I agree that there are many uniform distributions too where th…

Can you provide an example range of uniformly distributed integers that obeys Benford's law?

Ramanujan also claimed 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12. How does that work? Who can explain this to me?

> creating a new green account and downvoting me isn’t going to change that. It is impossible on Hacker News for a new green account with less than 500 points to downvote someone e…

You just keep going round and round with handwaving that makes no sense. I read your link. I did not see Benford's law emerging anywhere in your link. What does "max is uniformly d…

If you present a weird distribution to begin with, it should not be surprising that every digit does not have the same chance of appearing. That's not the point. We are not talking…

Can you provide a concrete example of a range of numbers that you think obeys Benford's law?

It does not matter what N you choose. The experimental results are always an approximation of Benford's law. The approximation gets better and better as N becomes larger and larger…

That's a fair point. Yes, I thought the same thing too when I read this. It is only introducing restrictions on sequential prime numbers. I doubt it has any bearing on the factorin…

The image was put in public domain. No further exclusive rights are required to sublicense it. You are allowed to pick work from public domain and sublicense it if you want to.

> This is not what happened. They never were granted the rights to sublicense it. This is not what happened. They were granted the rights to sublicense it. Placing a piece of work …

Is Reddit forgetting history? Users migrated from Digg to Reddit in large numbers due to UI changes that users did not appreciate.

Why would this have any implications on cryptography? This does not make factoring an RSA modules any easier.

Squatting can be easily prevented by reclaiming domain names without refund when the domain names have not been used or used illegitimately for more than a fixed threshold period o…

I do a very similar thing except that I have a folder with multiple .txt files named by dates.

An unrelated question. For those using Vim, what plugins do you use to get a SLIME-like development environment? I have read great things about SLIME and how it helps in hot-reload…