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by air7 8y ago
Not only that, I think I can hear non-native English speaking twang as well...
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by air7 8y ago
I had a thought that this paradox is essentially a self-referencing paradox akin to "This sentence is false" (which is true if it is false, and false if it is true). Consider Friday: The prisoner know that he will be hanged today,
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by air7 8y ago
> You could easily sniff out account IDs because Tapplock was too lazy to use HTTPS. SSL benefits are generally over-hyped IMO and might give a false sense of being 'Secure' as in this article where such an obviously flawed sys
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by air7 8y ago
It's obvious that piracy is also theft. But adblocking is worse: The damages of piracy are hard to measure (and are therefor overestimated by it's victims) because many "pirates" would not pay for the pirated, non-rivalr
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by air7 8y ago
IMO there's a moral problem with ad blocking, which is that it's basically stealing. Like it or not, many popular websites and services online gain income from advertising. By using them while blocking their ads you're basica
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by air7 8y ago
Claiming that the hardware is ready and we're just waiting on the software is at best a vacuous claim and worse, a fraudulent one. I can hammer two web-cams onto a rotating plank and claim that's "full self-driving capability
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by air7 9y ago
A good solution would be to simply reduce the p-value threshold. The current "standard" p-value in many fields, of 5%, is arguably too high. consider throwing a double six in backgammon has probability of 3%. That means that, on s
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by air7 9y ago
damn it, wsj caught on that no-script caused their content to be un-paywalled...
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by air7 9y ago
Back in the heydays of 2048, I wrote a solver based on monte-carlo search[0]: Given a board state, continue playing in memory using random-moves. Do this multiple times. Choose the best fairing initial move. It does surprisingly well consid
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29 researcher teams analyze same data set – different results (2015)(nature.com)
4 points by air7 9y ago|0 comments
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by air7 9y ago
I've recently encounter Jordan Peterson. He speaks very eloquently about topics such as gender differences from (IMO) a rational and scientific point of view. I'm linking an interview with him which I find fascinating: Both for th
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Sponge like crystals can be used for efficient desalination(phys.org)
1 points by air7 9y ago|0 comments
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by air7 9y ago
In Hebrew we use "up" and "down" to refer to permanently moving to Israel ("up") or moving from Israel("down"). These are such important social concepts that there are nouns too: Someone who moved to
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Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields(arxiv.org)
161 points by air7 9y ago|72 comments
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by air7 9y ago
"Free Will" as a concept just makes no sense. I think it's obvious that any system can be conceptually described as a function of all-inputs-that-affect-it, plus randomness. No room for free will. The only thing free will ha
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by air7 9y ago
This is wrong, IMO. The author states the main risk to LS data is an XSS vulnerability in the website. While true, an XSS in a website is pretty much a "game over" and allows the attacker to get any information and perform any act
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by air7 9y ago
> Even when I'm tackling a tough problem like a programming challenge or trying to type a detailed reply, instead of sitting with the problem in my head I find myself trying to quickly distract myself. Instead of giving myself 10 mi
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by air7 9y ago
I love labors of love like this. It seems that beyond the goal of being useful, there's a strong nostalgic theme to the project which is apparent in the attention to the detail in recreating the old interface as exact as possible. Che
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by air7 9y ago
After reading what was actually accomplished in said time frame, 24h seems excessive...
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by air7 9y ago
This is really impressive for any novice game developer with no regards for their age. Some feedback after playing for a few minutes: It seems the game mechanics only allows the "critical path" of advancing. By that I mean the on
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Ask HN: Catch 22 question – What causes post on HN to reach the front page?
1 points by air7 9y ago|0 comments
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by air7 9y ago
Programming (IMHO) is the art of explaining things 100% explicitly. I have no idea how to convey that concept to children in an artist way, but I feel it's not through Garbage Collection, Inheritance and Source Control. This seems like
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by air7 9y ago
I literally just got out of the shower and couldn't remember if I used the shower gel or not... Absent-mindedness is not (just) a social behavior.
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by air7 9y ago
This page loaded with an auto-starting, non-stoppable, not-mutable video... That's a new bottom mark for me.
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by air7 9y ago
Which way would spoofing this message send the market?
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by air7 9y ago
This reminds me why I don't like induction proofs. Although sound, almost by definition no insight can be obtained from it for either why the proposition is true, or why the proof itself is valid. Here's another proof I just thoug
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by air7 9y ago
Of all the ways a person, especially a rich one, can stroke their ego, philanthropy is probably one of the better ones. IMO "Ego" should not be considered a bad word. We all have one, and we all enjoy stroking it. It's human.
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by air7 9y ago
> "... New York University nutrition researcher Marion Nestle (no relation to the chocolate maker)" I know this is off topic, but what do you make of the fact that the researcher's name is Nestle? Is it a total coincidence
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Ask HN: Do you think autonomous vehicles = AGI (Artifical General Intelligence)?
3 points by air7 9y ago|2 comments
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by air7 9y ago
Ha! I just manually reloaded HN to write the exact same comment almost word for word...

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