a_bonobo

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   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   I'm pretty sure clusters changed in their architecture and their processing power, but you still have to stand in line
2. 1292.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   By time-sharing, does he mean sharing computing time on a cluster? I work on my university's cluster and on bad days, my jobs are queued for 4 hours and then run for 20 minutes...
3. 1293.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   You have a slight typo in that first link, HN interpreted the semicolon as part of the link, fixed: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl...
4. 1294.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   Creeped out - it told me I should be friends with someone I follow & talk to regularly on Twitter, but we've never contributed to the same project. How did it know that?
5. 1295.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   Here's a version optimized for 6" e-readers: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23436680/Think%20Complex... (from this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/commen
6. 1296.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   >Pretentious diction. Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize , eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up a simple
7. 1297.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   Zed Shaw's Learn C The Hard Way [1] makes extensive use of Valgrind, with a nice crash course in [2] [1] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ [2] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex4.ht
8. 1298.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   Thanks for all these links! I skimmed them, and it's fun to see that two of them rip into Ionnadis' work, while Ionnadis rips into the Jager/Leek work... It's also a cool exercise in reproducible research and open peer r
9. 1299.▲
   by a_bonobo 13y ago

   There's a follow-up paper to the one you linked that claims that much less published research findings are false: >We estimate that the overall rate of false discoveries among reported results is 14% (s.d. 1%), contrary to previous
10. 1300.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    Thanks for the paper! So only 4 US ethnicities were tested: African Americans, Caucasians, Chinese and Latinos. That feels extremely broad - especially "Chinese" and "African Americans" combine many, many different genet
11. 1301.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    So you're saying that only good comes from "social technology" while mixed things have come from "high technology", so working in social tech is "morally" better? I think social technology has enabled the
12. 1302.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    I find this study to be slightly unfair - if you're a trained expert in detecting tumors, then your eyes are looking for undefined shadows and tumor-like growth, not for gorillas. If looking for gorillas was their training then they&#x
13. 1303.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    >Modern cars have fewer mechanical linkages than you might think. Even better, the more software and chips there are in your car the "better" the bugs get. Friends of mine had fun problems with a new Audi A5: about 10 times, it
14. 1304.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    > mostly be glad to use driverless cars, Exactly! a) As it says in OP's text, the most dangerous point in driving these automated cars is when a half-distracted driver takes over; having a fully automated car prevents this. b) OP&#x
15. 1305.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    If you mean commenting system as in Disqus etc., then here's my answer: I'm very excited about Discourse - it's still a bit "young" but reasonably mature, BoingBoing's "BBS" runs on it: http:/&#
16. 1306.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    I think this is more gimmick than anything else, like most of the services personal genomics companies provide. SNPs don't tell you much about a person's perceived "beauty" and probably tell you only little about disease
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    >That this has anything to do with some petition he signed at some point seems a bit far fetched. That's an understatement - together with Juli Zeh he's co-authored a book about the surveillance state, has published numerous es
18. 1308.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    >EDIT: Could be people who just wrote "Germany". I think that's it - there's a similar peak right in the middle of Australia with the nearest town being Alice Springs, but I highly doubt commits on the level of Brisba
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    >I sometimes dream of starting a company that does something similar to Google Books There is a company that does this, but only for out-of-print Sci-Fi books, it's called Singularity & Co: http://savethescifi.com&#x2
20. 1310.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    Unintended side-effect: When two gangs fight and people get injured but don't want the police to know about the location of the fight (an illegal clubhouse?), wounds are either ignored or stitched up by backalley doctors.
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    As someone who's read some of Jim Thompson's books (notably The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280), that's not really a spoiler, the books are quite different from that.
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    I'm in that group as well, but it's more or less dead - a problem is that Goodreads doesn't really define what groups are about, and users don't really see in their "timeline" when something new happens in a gr
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    There was actually a publication on this by Microsoft! Basically, the idea is to make the e-mail look as terrible as possible to: >By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to sel
24. 1314.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    Trying to spread apathy? That's a new one. I'm just trying to stop the spread of unreasonable hyperbole on HN which used to be much more skeptical towards links like this. There are enough things to get riled up about (the NSA for
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    I think this is a case where the OP's link left out information - I'd wager the kids' parents have said before this happened that they'd take the kids to another country like the US. Taking their passports prevents this
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    >Are gangs, bullying, racism pervasive? Being German, there are no gangs like American gangs, there is some bullying (nothing rampant) and racism depends on the area you're in - my school had some problems with Turkish and Armenian
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    How much of that page is in fact "fact"? They call Germany's team that picked up the kids a "SWAT" team, even though Germany doesn't have a SWAT team, Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror opera
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    Wikipedia says: >The volume of the Atlantic with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 cubic kilometers 1 cubic kilometer is 1 000 000 000 000 liters, so 354,700,000 cubic kilometers is 354,700,000,000,000,000,000 l. 1 ton of water is 907 l w
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    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    Here's a better source from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/09/fukushima-fallo... Quote: >But the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other experts have said the seepage
30. 1320.▲
    by a_bonobo 13y ago

    450 tons of water is a drop compared to the vast amount of water in the pacific, so feel free to keep on eating fish. As a sidenote: I've recently seen an increase in people submitting overhyped/scaremongering/dodgy as hell p