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A plot here would go a long way.

You can replace your `integers` function with `itertools.count` (same signature but defaults to starting at 0), and `take` with `itertools.islice`.

Yeah, I'm curious to look at data, but I think this will be skewed towards lower digits.

Love this! I'm giving it a try, and I already have a feature request: can you increase the limit on display name and username?

What about Benford's Law?

> Is HN really more anti-Facebook than the general population?

Yes, definitely.

> If so, why?

Because the general population cares less about privacy than HN. But I (not OP) think it goes deeper than that, and I've seen people here deliberately spreading lies about FB.

I have a friend who did his PhD studying Milankovitch cycles in the Netherlands.

When he defended his thesis, his friends presented him with the "milankofiets": a bicycle ("fiets", in Dutch) where the wheels were off-center, and the crown was elliptical (and also off-center). Biking it was very hard, and the speed would vary depending on the phase of each part of the bicycle.

I was in the process of buying the board when I got the Database Error. Came to check Hacker News and discovered why!

Not necessarily. My last name is Ferreira De Almeida. "Ferreira" comes from my mother, and "De Almeida", with space, comes from my father.

I started spelling it "Dealmeida" to avoid confusion.

He works for Facebook.

Good point, I haven't thought of that.

The name "Ruby" is also a play on "Perl" ("pearl").

What if time's arrow can be reverted, and is being reverted all the time, but we don't notice it because, just like and omelet would become an egg, our brain state would revert to a previous one?

As far as we know time could be running in reverse, but the process in our brains would make us feel like it flowing forward. The book "Permutation City" explores this idea, albeit in simulated brains.

> At the same time, the aforementioned party gave billions of dollars in infrastructure projects throughout Latin America bolivarian states, that without a doubt won't make returns in any way.

First and foremost, the money went to Brazilian companies that built that infrastructure.

Second, it was a loan that has to be paid back by those governments.

Third, the loan is covered by insurance.

AFAIK Netflix doesn't give stocks.

Of the top 5 universities in dentistry, oral surgery and medicine in the world, 3 are in Brazil and are completely free:

https://cwur.org/2017/subjects.php#Dentistry,%20Oral%20Surge...

Thank for writing it! I use catt and I love it!

Also, you get more from the taxes than just healthcare. Free education, eg.

Do they also hire "boys"? I think the term you're looking for is "women".

Ok, so how do you define "failure" when you say it's failing?

> the failing of the metric system

How so? It was adopted by every country in the world except for 3.

This effort is just a stunt: http://www.deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-a...

"Semiology of Graphics", by Jacques Bertin. Originally published in 1967, it describes principles of graphic communication, similar to Tufte's work.

I once wrote a decorator that translated the function to Javascript and spawned a web server, allowing the function to be computed in parallel by multiple browsers: https://bitbucket.org/robertodealmeida/parallejax

2^225 < 52!

Seems like if you click on an already marked square it still counts as a turn, so if you double click you get this behavior.

Exactly! I used to be a climate scientist, and wrote open source libraries on my free time. I now work as a software engineer, and I love my job. But on my free time I now make music.

In a million years they will probably think he invented beer.

An important that detail is that they released and acknowledged it was a derivation of Cage's piece. IIRC that was the basic for the lawsuit.

> turning a blind eye