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by archgoon 11y ago
> a company whose motto is, do no evil Actually, it was 'don't be evil'. They've emphasized the difference in the past; but in any case, Alphabet replaced it with "Do the Right Thing"[1]. But yeah; Alphabe
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by archgoon 11y ago
"Everything is linear if plotted on a log-log plot and with a fat enough magic marker." - Mar's Law
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by archgoon 11y ago
> He was recorded saying that he would develop such a persona, were he ever to deign to run for office. Source? There's a quote about him claiming that he'd "run as a republican, since they're the dumbest voters in th
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by archgoon 11y ago
According to this blog: http://www.blog.fictiv.com/posts/50-kindle-fire-teardown * Samsung KLM8G1GEND-B031 - data storage chip * Mediatek ARM Mt8127A - SoC (system on chip) * Mediatek MT6323LGA - integrated circuit
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Arxiv Sanity Preserver(arxiv-sanity.com)
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by archgoon 11y ago
I believe the parents point is that Apple having a signing key is no different in principle than them making an operating system and signing it. Apple possesses information that can compromise a phone, and if it's possible for an signe
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by archgoon 11y ago
The name 'Kronecker delta' is meaningful to me. There are two delta functions commonly used in mathematics, the Dirac Delta function, and Kronecker's delta. One is a discrete function, the other is continuous. Kronecker, a ma
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by archgoon 11y ago
Because it was overly sarcastic. Hacker News, correctly, prefers commenters to make extended comments arguing a point rather than engaging in 'gotcha!' soundbite counterarguments. This is both for improved civility (so that actual
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by archgoon 11y ago
So? They're also solutions, or parts of a solution, to larger problems. They're tools, just like the kronecker delta. 'awk '{print $1'/'$2}' | xargs curl | jq .' None of the those programs things
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by archgoon 11y ago
What do you disagree with? That programmers have a long history of giving things arbitrary and sometimes non-sensical names that only make sense in context? Like GNU? That the original article is directly trying to convince people that prog
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by archgoon 11y ago
I know, right? Seriously, it'd be like naming a popular javascript framework 'Angular' or some other nondescript name like 'Hadoop'.
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LIGO's PyCBC(ligo-cbc.github.io)
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Matlab was used a ton by my schools (UCSC) Robotics and Signals Processing groups. Simulink seemed to be the killer app there.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Suppose that the Energy distribution for a certain amount of light (as seen by earth) was given by /- 1 if f < f0 E(f) = > \- 1/f^2 if f > f0 Then we would have light "at all frequencies
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by archgoon 11y ago
Previously: 915 static unsigned char dh1024_p[] = { 916 0xCC,0x17,0xF2,0xDC,0x96,0xDF,0x59,0xA4,0x46,0xC5,0x3E,0x0E, 917 0xB8,0x26,0x55,0x0C,0xE3,0x88,
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by archgoon 11y ago
There are no people in the final version where the skulls were, and they were around his feet. Also, if that were the case, then we would expect the court characters to also have painted over skulls.
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by archgoon 11y ago
The poster claimed the growth was being driven by gaming. This quarter showed a 30% revenue increase over the previous year. If the gaming industry were to be responsible for the entire growth, they would only need to have spent 1.2 billion
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1951 – SNARC Maze Solver – Minsky / Edmonds [2009](cyberneticzoo.com)
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by archgoon 11y ago
> I'm curious to know which came first? The math definitions. These were invented by Saunders Mac Lane and Samuel Eilenberg back in 1945ish, about a year before ENIAC was built.
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by archgoon 11y ago
No, 'Security Theater' is for when you perform a bunch of actions to make people 'feel' safer without actually making them safer. We accuse airport security screening of being security theater because it is unlikely to b
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by archgoon 11y ago
This post really needs to explain why plausible alternative solutions (ideally ones used in real world open source projects) which are not monoids rapidly lead to having to deal with increased complexity. Otherwise, it's just bringing
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by archgoon 11y ago
Note that XMonad, as the name implies; will only work with Mac windows that are being managed by X. Standard mac windows will not be affected.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Any tool that does syntax checking of a c++ code (correctly) is rerunning the entire compilation process except for the generation of object code and optimization. Since build times are already an issue for C++ projects (even unoptimized),
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by archgoon 11y ago
I remember many years ago attempting to find at my local library a copy of S. Morgenstern's classic "The Princess Bride", but being frustrated at only being able to find the abridged version by William Goldman.
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ASM 4.0 a Java bytecode engineering library [pdf](download.forge.objectweb.org)
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Thank you, I had read the FAQ: http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/faq/faq.html but could not infer why a dragon from Ivor the engine had been chosen. That the author had previously written a proof engine ma
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by archgoon 11y ago
Why on earth would it be surprising that California, with 12% of the population of the United States, would account for 10% of the total shootings? Florida, based on it's population, would have about 61 shootings (it has 60), and Texas
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We want to hear from you on encryption(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
11 points by archgoon 11y ago|1 comments
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Make a Klein Quartic(github.com)
3 points by archgoon 11y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 11y ago
What research / researchers are you following?

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