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I'm harvesting results from the BBC website, and comparing them with estimates from ACPO (http://apcoworldwide.com/docs/default-source/default-documen...).

You can see a feed of results here: https://gist.github.com/inglesp/0b0ba9efcefe54f965be9b042afd...

Caveat: I'm drinking increasingly heavily.

Your comment comes across as spiteful.

Also, from the article: "Over the years many different people and services have participated in the maintenance and running of PyPI. I’m not going to attempt to create an exhaustive list of every person or service who has ever helped, but instead focus on those who are currently involved."

Where's the $9000 come from?

Musicophilia is also strange and wonderful, and very much worth reading.

Is this a "Black Mirror moment"?

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/31/7471901/i-cant-stop-compa...

Unless I've totally misunderstood, I don't think you're right.

For instance, on your first go, drop in column 0. Then, the AI drops in columns 1, 2, 3, 4, leading to this:

    . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . .
    . . . . . . .
    . X X X . . .
    X O O O O . .

Sounds not-so-dissimilar to Tom Stuart's "Refactoring Ruby with Monads" (https://speakerdeck.com/tomstuart/refactoring-ruby-with-mona...) which is excellent.

Yep, we know!

We're @opencorporates on twitter, and I'll make sure we add a link to that from mapthebanks.com later today.

Can you expand a bit on what you mean by "midwifery is illegal"? To me, that sounds as odd as "dentistry is illegal" ...

I don't see your submitted mission in the system, and the link in your post seems broken. Do let me know if you're having any problems.

Thanks for reporting this -- we'll get this fixed soon.

Hi HN,

I work for OpenCorporates, the team behind this, and we were planning to do a "Show HN" in the next couple of days, once we'd got a few wrinkles sorted out.

In the meantime, I'll be around for a bit and try to answer any questions.

Note that this dates from the end of March. So it's not ancient history, but nor is it a response to recent discussions in this area.

Shouldn't parenting be about trust?

He's a pretty atrocious man.

Maybe it's because I'm not American, but I've got no idea what "money is speech" means. It sounds almost Orwellian from this side of the pond.

Can you expand on this?

I've probably recommended earlier versions of this book to everybody who uses Django I've met in the flesh, so I may as well do so here as well.

It's been a great resource, full of years of accumulated wisdom from the authors and the wider community.

I'd far, far rather relearn Go than relearn Scala...

Becoming more friendly... from an almost impossibly low baseline.

He sounds like a lovely guy.

My wife has had the same thing happen to her today. Her Google+, and by extension, her YouTube account through which she promotes her work (she's a musician) were suspended, apparently without any notification.

There's an appeals process, and she's linked to her website and Facebook profile and submitted a photocopy of her passport to prove her name. Does anybody here know how long this is likely to take, or the chances of it being successful?

edit: s/password/passport/

I don't think it does have a technical use. You certainly couldn't use this technique to generate new primes, since the fractions have been deliberately chosen based on the primes they will generate.

As it stands, it's just a fun mathematical curiosity.

Note that since this article was written (2004) CPython performs an in-place optimisation for assignments of the form

    s1 += s2

There are details at point six of http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-type..., where it also says that str.join() is preferable.

Might I ask where you're from and what kind of parties you go to?

You can use pushp and popd for this.

The original docstring is a complete red herring... yours is much better, but I'd go one further and include an example.

I've just done the first week's lectures and exercises. They assume you know Java, but if you don't you're pointed in the right direction for suitable resources.

This is exciting for Django, and it's exciting for OSS in general, as it demonstrates the viability of crowdfunding (certain) OSS development.

Congratulations to Andrew and to all involved.