RiderOfGiraffes

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MAKING OF “Futurama 3d (test shot)”(vimeo.com)
3 points by RiderOfGiraffes 12y ago|0 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 12y ago
> The Black Team link inside > your link is broken ... Fixed - thank you.
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by RiderOfGiraffes 12y ago
It looks to me like it has a bug - it doesn't seem correctly to factorize anything with a square factor. It also only need to loop up to sqrt(x), not x, but that's an efficiency issue. It also doesn't correctly use an early
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Research Tactics(intelligence.org)
2 points by RiderOfGiraffes 12y ago|0 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 12y ago
Flag it and move on ...
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
You do realise this is satire, right?
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MinHash - estimating the similarity of two populations(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago|0 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
Nice guess, but no - I know the Bloom filter, what it does, its limitations, its strengths, how it works, and how to implement it. It's one of the tools I have to hand already. But I can see how that nearly matches by description, so
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Ask HN: Trying to pin down both algorithm and problem it solves ...
4 points by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago|3 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
> As of now I'm thinking that I'll never block my kid from > looking at any kind of content. If she happens to come across > some nudity or sex and she has questions about it I'll be open > and honest a
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
No major oddities showing up: http://hnrankings.info/6971454/ I suspect there have been a couple of down votes with people just getting tired of the whole thing and wanting HN to be more about actual hacking. But most
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
Here's some very personal advice. This is my opinion, and others won't agree. However, for what it's worth ... I would suggest that you would benefit from learning how to ask questions. Here's a start: http:/&#x
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
I was half-hoping this submission would just upvote a previous conversation - I guess I'll have to go searching, but I don't have time now. Thanks for your comment - useful.
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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm(cacm.acm.org)
7 points by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago|3 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 13y ago
Why do sites like this deliberately break things? Even when the window has focus <SPACE> doesn't page down, breaking the way I work. Is there a reason? Or are they just out-of-touch with (some of) their readers?
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
I think this should be a good lesson for everyone: don't post code without testing it. There's another point here, though. It seems that you're learning PHP (although in your "About" page you claim that it's one of your skills) so there's
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
Why should there be any direct analog between "things" in the cell and "things" in computing? Perhaps there is no real mapping between the two that either makes sense, or is in any way useful. Not to stop you from trying to find connection
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
Problem with puzzles like this - if you see the answer quickly, what do you do? Any conversation fills up with uninformed, idle speculation, then someone kills it with the answer, then it's kind of all over. What would be interesting would
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Short and Tweet(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
2 points by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago|0 comments
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Windows 8 irony (image)(i.imgur.com)
5 points by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago|0 comments
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
Enter debug mode: So I and others have tested it and it worked for us. That means the sending system does correctly send emails to at least some addresses. You say that when you created the testing account you checked the email you suppl
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
I know this will be of very little comfort, but having read your explanation I tested it, and it works fine for me. Maybe you really did put the wrong email address in your profile page. Did you ever test it?
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by RiderOfGiraffes 14y ago
Based on my experience, and measurements I've made over the years, I would say that one or both of two things happened: 1) You triggered the voting ring detection code, and/or 2) You got several downvotes. I do feel that there is a sizeable
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by RiderOfGiraffes 15y ago
I know Simon, and have watched him work with Conway, Parker and Wilson on the Atlas of Finite Simple Groups. He was phenomenal at performing calculations in groups that no one really understood, his abilities were just unbelievable. Equal
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by RiderOfGiraffes 15y ago
That reminds me - I really must go back to my analysis of the coding challenge I set ages ago. I got most of the way through, but never finished. I ought to complete it. In case you're interested, it was here: http://news.ycombinator.com/
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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
A final thought: If you don't discriminate between the actions of the vast majority, and the actions of those identified as being aligned with your desired intentions for the site, nothing will work. I can probably "prove" that. I think an
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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
That's why I said these are "toss in the air and see what happens" ideas. They aren't expected to work, and finding fault with them is no real challenge. Mutating them into something that does work is more important, interesting and useful
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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
So that's why my submission plummeted so quickly. One person made a reasoned argument for it not belonging, lots of people piled on and flagged it, hey presto, gone. Giving flags more weight is not necessarily the answer. Punishing people
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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Completely experimental - I'm trying to do this "by hand" as a learning experience. I'd be interested if you would tell me if this works: * http://www.solipsys.co.uk/rss.xml Cheers!
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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
As with all these things, I think the problem is complex, and has many intertwingled aspects and factors. I have many thoughts on what the problems are, but fewer on how to fix them. In part, I don't understand the mentality, so find it h

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