NhanH

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by NhanH 12y ago
All that you said is true, but I think it's orthogonal to what I was wondering about -- actually, it just raised more questions for me. The common legal advice is "do not talk to cop", which presumably because on average, you
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by NhanH 12y ago
The question that I have every time I read about something similar to this is not about the law itself, but about the human who's applying the law: how/ why/ what is the line of thought that would lead them to (supposedly) kn
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by NhanH 12y ago
That's a magnitude bigger than I thought it should. Guess it's time to move on! J/K, is it possible to share what kind of hardware is HN running on?
904.
by NhanH 12y ago
What does it mean? Is it that the '84-'84 age group has always been the median since the first YC? (Ie. the median is increasing every year?)
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by NhanH 12y ago
> "the Earth is a big place, it was here long before us and will be long after" and "it is a self-healing organism, we can't really be harming it!" Both of them are true , the missing part is whether human is an
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by NhanH 12y ago
In the analogy of nuclear bomb, it's more likely than not a public awareness of nuclear power would have prevented nuclear plant (the good thing), nuclear bomb (the bad thing) is extremely unlikely to not be developed anyway.
907.
by NhanH 12y ago
Seems like it's a popular sentiment to think of Elon Musk as Tony Stark ;). I believe you mean to say "Gates, Hawking and Musk". Stark doesn't tend to talk about AI, he build them.
908.
by NhanH 12y ago
To expand on this a bit, for better or worse, most of human's collective knowledge is still locked up in people head, be it cutting edge researching knowledge, industrial mainstream knowledge, or obscure hobby one. Notice that how in p
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by NhanH 12y ago
Everything you said is correct! There was just a few details I didn't have in my post that make it slightly confusing. "Spreading the work as evenly as possible" and "From each according to his ability, to each according
910.
by NhanH 12y ago
"Spreading the work as evenly as possible" is not communist ethos (likewise, evenly distribution of wealth is also not communist ethos). "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is the classic
911.
by NhanH 12y ago
That's interesting. Isn't one of the common "good advice" in diet was to have a lot of multiple tiny meals throughout the day?
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by NhanH 12y ago
Now it would be interesting if he agree to answer. But can Assange leave the ambassador now? I thought that he would be arrested the moment he left because he broke the house arrest thing a few years ago.
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by NhanH 12y ago
Not to contradict your post. But Stanford is equivalent in term of prestige to any Ivy out there, including Harvard. It seems like you agree with GP so that's probably just a wording matter.
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by NhanH 12y ago
Very minor thing, but funny enough, I was working with MySQL just earlier and need to use my one in a blue moon quota of Full Join ... turned out MySQL doesn't have it :( (yes, I know how to emulate it with union).
915.
by NhanH 12y ago
In my experience, the gap from 7k to 3k actually is mostly about the sense of the game, rather than skill and technique. To be precise, I don't think reading skill is that much difference, but 3k know better what to read, what constitu
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by NhanH 12y ago
You're the first person I've seen that is vocal about having a truly bad experience with Clojure. Even from other people who prefer strongly typed language, I've mostly seen them expressing it as "not their taste",
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by NhanH 12y ago
I don't know where this trick come from, but I've read it a long time ago, and you might find it helpful. Lisp languages in fact have the same(ish) amount of parentheses as any other language, the trick is that the placement sligh
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by NhanH 12y ago
You know, unless my reading was wrong, the conclusion to be made is that: Knuth was right ... Inline seems to be an extreme poor man version of literate programming, isn't it?
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by NhanH 12y ago
I read "false complexity" as "complexity as imposed by a set of rules", as opposes to "complexity as an emergent behavior from very simple rules and interaction". Of course, adding any rule will add more comple
920.
by NhanH 12y ago
Not everyone in those country can do work for other countries -- a majority of them have to do work for other business in their own country. Which leads to the fact that you can hire a BS educated employee in those country for less than $2
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by NhanH 12y ago
Meta: As the last time this was done have showed, every Sunday is probably not sustainable, which lead to progressively worse thread every week. That said, iirc it have been a year since the last popular "Idea Sunday" was on (I st
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by NhanH 12y ago
On a similar note, how should one feel when reading/ learning about people like this? I mean, on one hand, it's rather inspiring to read about the amazing thing that another human is achieving. On the other hand, I can't help
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by NhanH 12y ago
Don't get the wrong impression from that though. Professors absolutely do NOT on average make enough money. Terence Tao is a rare case who have the potential to have their name lasted for the next thousand years in proof and theorem (e
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by NhanH 12y ago
It's interesting that the Dalai Lama stated "after twenty we begin to grow old" -- for the majority of us, that seems to be when life barely begins itself.
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by NhanH 12y ago
I wasn't thinking of personal computer when I wrote the comment. I was thinking about more of a state-of-the-art super computer type (in 2000 that would have been ASCI RED), which would have probably be the same magnitude in term of ph
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by NhanH 12y ago
"I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 10^9, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 pe
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by NhanH 12y ago
I agree with most of the things you said, except on minor point, which I don't know is a wording issue or not: there is no "right to high wages", at best, it's a privileged.
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by NhanH 12y ago
I asked a similar question a month ago, you may find some of the answer there useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976690
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by NhanH 12y ago
Pascal! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. You should write a blog post about how you write a search engine in Pascal. That would at least reach top spot on HN!
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by NhanH 12y ago
It might have something to do with the demographics. Text editor users are developers, power users, or at the very least, very tech savvy (there is also the other extreme of the spectrum, people who know nothing better, but you get my point

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