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by aportnoy 8y ago
> and it will set down more roots in Asia-Pacific, with offices in Sydney and Tokyo meaning they will provision AWS instances in these locations?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
You should play Firewatch.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I know.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I know.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Wouldn’t be hard if these were put options…
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I think it’s relevant to see in the title what kind of options (call/put) he’s buying.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Funny how they mess with your brain: the illusion is that you are looking at something familiar. The texture is "easy" to look at, but the brain fails to recognize a known object.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Iridium already employs SpaceX for their launches.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
To BUIDL and soon to go bankruptl
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Any infinite set is either countable or uncountable.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
The opposite is true. Take the interval [0, 1], "sample a random real number x" from it. P(x is rational) = 0, P(x is irrational) = 1. Informally, the overwhelming majority of real numbers are irrational.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Not only that, we should expect to always get an irrational number, but always get rationals from a finite subset of Q. I recently asked a closely related question on Math.SE: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/29
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An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication (2000) [pdf](herpolhode.com)
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by aportnoy 8y ago
No offense, but that is really handwavy. In what way does constructive mathematics unlock the door to being closer to all the quantum shit?
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Successfully adding 11 new Chinese characters to Unicode(medium.com)
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Gates Foundation spent $200M funding toilet research(bloomberg.com)
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Please stop with Dunning-Kruger already.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
A more Pythonic way do to this would be id_to_name = {g['id']: g['name'] for g in list_of_genres} And for i in range(len(list_of_genres)) is really a dangerous antipattern better replaced with for
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by aportnoy 8y ago
http://cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/223/notes.html
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by aportnoy 8y ago
This is a fallacy of interpretation (translating verbal representations of events into mental representations of events), not of probabilistic reasoning. The crux I think is that when A. bank teller is juxtaposed with B. bank teller and fem
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by aportnoy 8y ago
I needed those paragraphs about YouTube and Twitch, thank you
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Thank you! In your experience, where approximately is the cutoff 'small/big company' for the purposes of getting an H1B sponsored?
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Ask HN: Is it hard to get hired on F1 OPT?
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Ask HN: Getting hired on an F1 visa
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Any dynamic programming algorithm. Heap sort using an array impressed me as an undergrad. FFT continues to amaze me as a scientific programmer.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
On a serious note, here's a cool story about Apple's emoji: https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-des...
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by aportnoy 8y ago
This just in: Apple has released a new version of its forthcoming bagel emoji. Now including cream-cheese, this aims to address concerns raised about the previous design.
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by aportnoy 8y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231961
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by aportnoy 8y ago
Being bored makes us open HN and read articles about being bored…

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