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Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the US. That is not the case in other wealthy countries. According to this article

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...

This spells bad news for "MICROSOFT B.V.", the famous Dutch software company that has reported being responsible for billions of revenue of the Microsoft Corporation over those years.

The reference to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) here is puzzling. Foremost, the strongest form of the EMH implies that consistent outperformance is not possible, contradicting the rest of the writing and what I believe is its main point: that evidence in the real world is often much stronger than in models. But also when switching from the model world of the EMH to real world markets this application is problematic because of the multiple testing problem. For a trader who recently had a short run of excess profits, the likelihood P(excess returns | skilled) would be high. However, because many diverse traders are in the market and some will show strong performance purely by chance, P(excess returns) or the marginal likelihood of observing such a winning streak would also be high. This dilutes the high likelihood term, leading to a less dramatic update in the posterior P(skilled | excess returns) . Then, the prior P(skilled) should be adjusted to be much more conservative.

Then you can't claim they both rhyme, because I didn't provide that context...

Thank you for the English lesson, but you claim you've never encountered ambiguous overloaded identifiers that you couldn't resolve while developing a parser? "He took the lead"?

In these studies advocating for the unyielding rigor of statically-typed languages, it's amusing that the authors choose to express their arguments in English: a language where "read" and "lead" rhyme, but "read" and "lead" don't. Perhaps a more consistent constructed language like Lojban would have better suited the papers' theses. /s

This online etymology dictionary (etymonline.com/word/sick) says that: The restricted meaning of English sick, "having an inclination to vomit, affected with nausea," is from 1610s.

Usage and etymology may differ, even if over the long term there is little semantic drift, as usage may reflect context and cultural changes.

There is a graph showing the house prices in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and an arrow pointing at 1971 - but unlike the US, the Netherlands left the gold standard already in 1936, and according to that graph the house prices went lower for several decades after 1936.

I read that and I don't think it contradicts my comment, as the firm had the Dutch entity and thus the knowledge of Dutch labour laws at the time of the firing. This is contrary to what the parent supposes.

If you'd read the second sentence of the article, you would have learned that the company has a branch in the Netherlands.

No. 12, Miranda Castle, was completely demolished several years ago

I got microsimulation, which exists and even has a Wikipedia page

Link /vL5R

In Google's Book Ngram Viewer, prepone shows up in a higher percentage of texts in the early 1800s than in text from the past two decades. However, I don't know how accurate the corpus is for those old texts.

The same company issued a long maturity (1000-year) bond, which on the trading floor became known as the Ultra Long Dong, and broke many many trading applications that used 64 bit nanosecond timestamps.

"expertsexchange" only matches the Chinese “cha”, and not "sex" or "sexchange".

I think this should also do a phoneme based comparison, for example the photo sharing website Flickr is pronounced like this word (as a slang word it is well known) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flikker

I hash the personal question using a common hashing algorithm together with (another) passphrase.

I like that bicycling is gaining in popularity outside of my country (The Netherlands), but do you need to re-invent the wheel every time? Simple (theft-resistant) reflector strips have been the norm here for a long time: http://www.fietsen.123.nl/thumbs/300x205h/2010-03/2bs_bicycl...

The Soviet Mars-2 and Mars-3 missions were quite successful (orbiting and landing). Here is a gallery of mars images 1971-1974[1]

The soviets were also the first to land on Luna in 1966 [2] and on Venus in 1975[3]

[1]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMars.htm

[2]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm

[3]http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

6.7% down. It looks like it's already passing it's 30-day VMA. This is bad news because the unfreezing dates have been known since IPO, and the large volume implies that people are eager to liquidate their shares.

There are relatively low volumes but steady price gains over the past month.

This could be a sign that a lot of people want to get into the market quickly without reasoning about the price. When we look in the order book of one of the larger exchanges (mtgox) we see that there is not much market depth on either side[1].

This coincides with large volume peaks when articles are published, for example August 3 when bitcoin broke the $10.00 price this was widely published about (also on HN).

[1]http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html

Batteries don't last and you need access to them in order to replace them, making theft easier. There are systems that integrate a dynamo in the chassis of the bike. It's also more environmentally friendly because you provide the power for the lamp. The article mentions there already is a battery in place powered by either solar or dynamo.

Concerning the design of the bikes, I think there is still room for improvement. The designers can look at the design of the Public Transportation Bike ("OV-Fiets") in the Netherlands[1] which was a major success in a country where there already were more bikes than people before it's introduction.

For a bike that is available 24 you would want a bicycle lamp on the front with a dynamo instead of just reflectors. This is a safety concern because reflectors have proven to be unreliable to signal other road users.

The bike doesn't have any mudguards but I suspect the weather in SF allows that :).

The carrier on the back wheel doesn't look that sturdy and there is a large gap in the middle. A front rack to place heavier cargo on could be a benefit.

What about bright colors so the bike stands out?

[1]http://www.ov-fiets.nl/binaries/content/gallery/OV-fiets/nie...

If you like reducing programs to basic expressions you should read into SKI combinator calculus and the X combinator. Here is a paper that describes the construction of an efficient X combinator[1]. Reading the paper gave me insight in how simple yet powerful combinatory logic is.

[1]www.staff.science.uu.nl/~fokke101/article/combinat/combinat.ps

Here is another image not shown in the article: http://instagram.com/p/N-9yeZoC7_/

The NOS website has a nice design. The sports and events are very well categorised. They even place a thumbnail of the video stream in the floating menu when you are looking at items further down the page (so you don't miss out on anything while reading the articles). The only thing that's missing are other languages than Dutch, is it possible that it's done deliberately to keep people from abroad out?

The bootloader for the kernel (called Pure64) requires this. They chose FAT16 because it's compatible with most operating systems and also not unimportant; it's relatively easy to implement.

The first example is a basic implementation of the 'yes' unix shell utility.