Aqueous

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811.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I think being able to easily render mathematical expressions is critical, almost as critical as rendering linguistic expressions, if the web wants to be taken seriously as a place to publish scientific work and not just upload science as a
812.
by Aqueous 13y ago
"I'd rather make improvements to speed, power consumption, size, and cost" I think those are optimizations that you care about - but not the average consumer. We're getting to the point where phones of the same price p
813.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I don't understand - doesn't Google want the web to be a first-class platform for scientific research? Chrome is supposed to be the standards-compliant browser! Not to mention, if scientists have an easy way of creating markup ver
814.
by Aqueous 13y ago
A site that looks like garbage but works really well is much better than a site that looks good but doesn't work at all.
815.
by Aqueous 13y ago
It gets trotted out for a reason - because it is true. All the change of port does is reduce the load avg from brute force attacks and failed connection attempts. You can accomplish the same thing with a fail2ban rule on the standard port.
816.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I move from computer to computer a lot and don't take my SSH config with me. Typing the extra -p 2222 is tedious when it doesn't give me any benefit. The only thing moving the SSH daemon does is give us a slight, conditional perfo
817.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I don't see what moving it to 2222 does that turning off password authentication, requiring public key authentication disallowing remote root login, and fail2banning repeated login attempts doesn't.. Is there a vulnerability in SS
818.
by Aqueous 13y ago
obscurity is not security. nothing's going to stop people from portscanning your server no matter what port it is on.
819.
by Aqueous 13y ago
The last query I wrote had 6 or 7 joins in it, a union, and calculated the frequency of answer responses for a worldwide survey (tens of thousands of respondents) in 0.04 seconds with a 1 million row table. You can accomplish an awful lot o
820.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I just know this is going to be one of those famous archived Hacker News posts one day. This is the kind of thing that changes the game - amazing that you pursued separate deals with these four music services. Record industry - it was a goo
821.
by Aqueous 13y ago
No. He says he 'cannot accept' that argument: 'Before advancing my own arguments for laziness, I must dispose of one which I cannot accept.'
822.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Ten years ago you were right, but I think you are making this out to be some hard-wired component of human nature when it is largely cultural. Something has changed culturally and psychologically in the time since then. The psychological ga
823.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes, I have started to enforce a policy of explicitly declaring val types, but I would almost prefer it if Scala enforced this instead of me.
824.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Maybe it would be better to say, "I'm a pretty good programmer. However, I'm not perfect, and I make mistakes. Static typing helps minimize the mistakes." The one thing I don't like about Scala is type inference. We
825.
by Aqueous 13y ago
As far as i'm concerned the whole libertarian crusader thing was bullshit.
826.
by Aqueous 13y ago
What's unfortunate for DPR is that, even if there is a pirate's booty out there, the whole murder for hire thing and being an accessory, if not a patricipant, in a massive amount of drug trafficking makes it very likely that he
827.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Maybe he buried his BitCoin wallet in the desert.
828.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Another question: According to reports Silk Road and DPR made $80 million in commissions. Yet the FBI has only told us about seizing $3.6 million in BitCoins. Where's the rest of the fortune?
829.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Not just subverting the budget process, but inflicting economic damage targetted at not just a single party or a single individual but all of us. It's like threatening to blow a hole in the boat you are on with others, or shoot the gla
830.
by Aqueous 13y ago
morally, he is no better than a murderer.. our legal system is consequentialist, so the fact there wasn't a murder downgrades his conviction from actual murder to conspiracy to commit murder.
831.
by Aqueous 13y ago
We need to be careful that we are not linking to someone who merely has the same name. Are you sure this is him?
832.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Yeah... No, you're right, you're totally significant.
833.
by Aqueous 13y ago
But journalists are journalists. They have to have a superficial acquaintance with a large number of subjects that is at least mostly accurate. What you've taken years to learn they only have the luxury of a two week or three week dead
834.
by Aqueous 13y ago
The economic value of GitHub is in making team collaboration and communication, the primary bottleneck in team development, that much more efficient. That is hugely valuable, as it increases the economic productivity of companies writing so
835.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I mean, it's hard to say that getting terminal real estate is any easier than building an airport would be :-)
836.
by Aqueous 13y ago
"Nothing is certain but death, taxes, and management fail."
837.
by Aqueous 13y ago
There is no "Linux Platform", unfortunately. I think that's what Steam is doing here. Creating a platform that doesn't exist yet, to bridge PC and console gaming.
838.
by Aqueous 13y ago
Another cool BitCoin video which is not very technical, but has impressive visuals: http://vimeo.com/63502573
839.
by Aqueous 13y ago
worst. user interface. ever.
840.
by Aqueous 13y ago
I mean, points on Google being a broader, more innovative company with a larger vision are well taken. And Facebook is still the college dorm room social network. But it's hard to see how a site with 1.1 billion global users will shrin

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