Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
They got a 3-fold speed up. Seems like they were doing something right.
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by Estragon 15y ago
That reasoning neglects the bias towards papers with interesting results, which leads to a much higher rate of false reports in hot journals.
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Ask HN: Is there a reliable way to sandbox untrusted code?
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by Estragon 15y ago
Abuse of fasting usually has bad consequences, but when it's done for the purpose of studying one's emotional relationship to food and consumption, such abuse is unlikely.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Drawing a superficial parallel to some other poorly understood or fictional organizing principle seems to be the author's main schtick. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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by Estragon 15y ago
This scandal was the trigger for me to finally root my phone and install CM.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The mere wire traffic is insufficient to implicate Chrome because most commercial websites use some kind of tracking service which behaves this way. Try the same experiment with the tracking services reported by ghostery[1] filtered out [1
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's fun to reason these things out, but it's easier and faster to simulate, at least at first. import random, time, collections, pprint sample = collections.defaultdict(float) now = time.time() known_child = ('M', 2)
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by Estragon 15y ago
A funny profile helps a lot too. I copied Dr Evil's family therapy monolog[1] into "The most private thing I'm willing to admit here," and got over a dozen messages in a week, including my first contact with the woman I'm now married to.
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by Estragon 15y ago
This really helped me to understand the thrust of the paper. Much better than Motl's rant.
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by Estragon 15y ago
He claims that the difference between men's and women's interest in tech startups is not skewed enough to explain the skewed male/female ratio in the tech startup world. ("...all of the research I am aware of suggests that these differenc
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by Estragon 15y ago
Motl clearly knows far more physics than I do, but my impression is that he has misunderstood the paper he is criticizing. For instance, a commenter in the fast comments reminds me that $\lambda$ is indeed meant to be a non-quantum
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by Estragon 15y ago
This saying is hard to google for, and quite intersting. Do you have a cite handy?
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by Estragon 15y ago
No, it's a lot more than that. It is a practical method for awakening to aspects of life which most people hide from. Though you wouldn't know it from content-free, gossippy BS like in the OP article.
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by Estragon 15y ago
It doesn't have to be obvious. It can just look like you're thinking.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I use it pretty often for casual alteration of configuration files.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Thanks, beautiful stuff. (The music more than the editing facilities, though those were nice too.)
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by Estragon 15y ago
It appears that not only has code been written, it's been publically deployed and used for social networking. I'd say that's a fair step beyond "nothing to show for it."
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by Estragon 15y ago
Obviously, the solution is bitcoin.
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by Estragon 15y ago
...over one year later and they have nothing to show for it and they're still begging for money. I have no dog in this fight, but your comment confuses me, because there seems to be quite a lot going on. If I look at the "contrib
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by Estragon 15y ago
I'm getting great performance on a netbook with 11.04 and sawfish as the window manager. I log in in classic mode, so I get the gnome panels, and then switch over.
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by Estragon 15y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin
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by Estragon 15y ago
> It's value is down to about $5 Hovering around $4, lately! http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg1zvztgSzm1g10zm2g...
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by Estragon 15y ago
It depends on the type of cancer. For some classes of cancer, there are now treatments which dramatically improve the prognosis, with relatively mild side-effects. This is summarized well in the book The Emperor of Maladies . Pancreatic
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by Estragon 15y ago
That seems very likely.
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by Estragon 15y ago
> Good luck pasting that into an xterm. Try Ctrl-Shift-V.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Ensure that a robust escaping routine is in place to prevent the user from adding additional characters that can be executed by the OS ( e.g. user appends | to the malicious data and then executes another OS command). Remember to
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by Estragon 15y ago
Greece's failure will only destroy banks that France and Germany aren't interested in preserving. They can play the zombie-bank game for a long time. Also, I really disagree that this crisis has evolved from idiocy. It's more a matter of
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by Estragon 15y ago
- Credit markets seized up because no one could tell who was insolvent. - Massive outflow of foreign capital from the US as investors realized what a mess the US financial system must be in. I'm in favor of let
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by Estragon 15y ago
The bold action was the imposition of those regulations back in the wake of the Great Depression. The repeal of them was business-as-usual cronyism for the sake of incremental financial gain.

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