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Comment · 16 years ago
Quite a few famous hackers seem to have this problem, eg Richard Stallman. I suppose there's a reason the "UNIX guy" stereotype exists.
Comment · 16 years ago
Layperson's explanation - this is a pretty important step to stopping aging in human beings. Telomerase lengthens telomeres, which are end-caps on DNA strands that are slowly whittled away as cells divide; without functioning telomerase human cells can only divide a finite amount of times before dying.
Comment · 16 years ago
AWStats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net/) is decent if you just want some simple log-based analytics.
Don't know what you mean by limited, but logfile-based analytics software doesn't have access to as much data as software that can use other data sources like cookies (ie it has difficulty tracking sessions).
If I might ask, why exactly do you need to make your analytics completely undetectable to users? In most cases tracking pixels and the like have no effect whatsoever on the user experience.
Comment · 16 years ago
Doesn't strip script tags or anything; lots of nasty stuff you could do with this. Somebody should notify them.
https://www.maybank2u.com.my/mbb/m2u/jsp/common/mbbReceipt.j...
Comment · 16 years ago
I'd love to have one too, if you still have any.
Comment · 16 years ago
Isn't Poisson rate-based, ie events over a fixed time period? I'm having trouble seeing where you got the rate from (children per lifetime? but that's hardly a "fixed time period") - all we have is a single number "children/household" with no time dimension.
And most other distributions, ie other than the uniform I'm assuming and the Poisson you're using, require >1 parameters. Since we only have one piece of data (the mean) we would have to make assumptions with these distributions that make no more sense than simply assuming a uniform distribution to begin with.
You'll have to excuse me for any incredibly stupid intuitive leaps; I haven't had a chance to wake up fully yet.
Comment · 16 years ago
The "average number of own children under 18 per family" for "familes with own children under 18" was 1.86 in 2009 (and has been within 0.1 of that since 1978), which means about 1/1.86=~54% of all children are first-borns...
I don't think we have enough information here to actually verify but I suspect 80% vs 54% is still a statistically significant difference.
But it's pretty obvious that the 80% number is an arbitrary guess, so I'm not sure exactly where I stand here.
source: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/fm3.csv
Comment · 16 years ago
The entire source of news.arc is open - eg http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc
Lines 1095-1098 control whether the downvote arrow is displayed or not.
So, to answer your question, yes, it bothers me that there's very rarely a clear enumeration or description of features.
On the other hand, it's been a wonderful opportunity to learn Arc.
(I'm only half joking - Arc was actually my first stab at functional programming and I probably wouldn't have tried it if pg had bothered to document HN's features)
Comment · 16 years ago
the ones with a bit of money will vote with their wallets
The problem with this (regarding China in particular) is that the "ones with a bit money" and the "people" sometimes intersect at very few points.