Thrymr

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by Thrymr 12y ago
Well, they've got to do something with that half billion dollars. Decisions that don't objectively make sense somehow become possible when you've got that kind of money to spend.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
The Mongoliad is team-written, and it shows. It's a sprawling, uneven work, with interesting parts, but also tedious one. It is in no small part a vehicle for the authors' interest in the technical aspects of fighting with medie
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by Thrymr 12y ago
From the article: > Remember, this is data from comScore... So other metrics may have other rankings. > We say that mostly because we have never heard of “Glam Media,” apparently the seventh biggest web network last year. Sure, why no
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Previous HN discussion on the (now deleted) "Rides of Glory" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080 They also seem to have deleted other blog posts that people have criticized, e.g. "Uberdata: How
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by Thrymr 12y ago
I seriously doubt that a financial incentive would change most maintainers' attitude towards pull requests. What is an appropriate piece rate for a PR review? There are plenty of highly paid developers who are doing a side project for
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by Thrymr 12y ago
That's the first time I've ever heard the pandas API described as "terse".
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What North Dakota Would Look Like If Its Oil Drilling Lines Were Aboveground(nytimes.com)
2 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
It is a real difference when you see that there is a student price posted at the box office, but you can also see that the regular price will apply to you, so you pay that. In an opaque market in which everyone pays a different price, but n
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by Thrymr 12y ago
I'll admit that my comment was tongue-in-cheek and alludes to the fact that units are harder than they seem. I suspect that Runner's World (an American magazine) knows their audience, and that they are mostly Americans (they do ha
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by Thrymr 12y ago
"What will it take to run a 7.2 kilosecond marathon?"
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> Just storing those 4 values in 4 bits is more efficient. That doesn't really work for version numbers > 1. They're not just flags.
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HTTP Considered Unethical(alexgaynor.net)
23 points by Thrymr 12y ago|5 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Agreed regarding the graphing RPL models, but the scientific RPN calculators are pretty solid. The 12C financial calculator is more like those. The scientific equivalent, the 15C, is no longer in production, but the current 35S isn't b
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Another possibility is of a modern forger using old parchment, in this case perhaps not contemporaneous with Marco Polo, but still hundreds of years old. This is a known technique of some forgers.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
My "favorite" Soviet use of nuclear explosions was for deep seismic exploration: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=deep+seismic+sounding+wi...
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Looking forward to time zones support in something like this. Parsing phrases like "4 o'clock tomorrow my time" or "8am on the East Coast" would be useful. Few libraries that try to guess time zones do this well (th
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by Thrymr 12y ago
That was not really an "idea", but the result of collective actions. This is to previous extinctions [1] as premeditated murder is to negligent homicide. [1] with the possible exception of smallpox
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by Thrymr 12y ago
The church wasn't suppressing ancient knowledge for the most part, but it wasn't exactly doing much to produce new knowledge, either. That didn't really get going (in Europe) until the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution, a
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by Thrymr 12y ago
I think you're misunderstanding, icehawk219 was talking about individuals owning their own self-driving cars. That's a separate question from allowing human drivers on the road.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
We're very far from this being the case now, though. Humans are very good at filtering multiple inputs and coming up with a reasonable understanding of their surroundings when sensory input is limited or different form normal. Computer
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by Thrymr 12y ago
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, is 62.6%. "White" and "Hispanic" are overlapping categories for census purposes.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Sadly, US banks seem to be going with chip-and-signature rather than chip-and-PIN. It's not easy to find one that will issue chip-and-PIN.
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The Question of Coverage for Ride Service Drivers(nytimes.com)
2 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Elon Musk thinks autopilot will come before driverless, too: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/tesla-ceo-talking-w... (or at least he did last year). I tend to agree. More cars have things like lane detecti
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> It seems like the author is an Englishman. A UK citizen, probably, but I'd not assume that a guy named "McDowell" from Belfast is English.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
There is another evaluation of Common/Standard Markdown by the author of vfmd: http://roopc.net/posts/2014/eval-stmd
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by Thrymr 12y ago
This one seems to have one, there are no comments at the other HN story. The link it references is: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown
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On Facebook when the earth shakes(facebook.com)
4 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
How much for the armrest?
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by Thrymr 12y ago
The vibration is still going to kill you, though. You don't get pinpoint stars like that in a 30 sec exposure on a tripod on a vibrating surface. Unless it's doing active image correction, I find it implausible.

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