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by arh68 11y ago
I can live with the tasty bananas getting wiped out, but no arabica ? Does anyone know what % of these plantations in Ethiopia use grafted trees? I know grafting is very common in wine (vinifera on labrusca/..) but I haven't lea
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You didn't address the quote directly. You launch an ad hominem attack at the film creators ( privileged ppl ), the film viewers ( angsty privileged ppl ), and finally you criticize the Tyler Durden character. Your post is completely
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Is this more or is it less effective than a large /etc/hosts blacklist? It doesn't seem to be doing anything special like the Privacy Badger. The only relevant sections in the paper I saw were We implement an API based
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Perhaps totally unrelated, but there is a curious property of 1,000,001 I revisited yesterday that only bit me while learning Erlang. 1> <<"A">>. <<"A">> 2> <<65>>. &lt
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How would you build any electronics on a desert island? Seems odd to me. It's like bringing TAOCP without a computer. I'd give up any luxury (probably a guitar) just for a big stack of 8.5x11" and some pens. The Count of M
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Ask HN: Suggestions for a current /etc/hosts DNS blacklist?
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Erlang does it very much like GP's suggestion with the one downside of being 'noisy' with its punctuation (some might say 'clearer'): factorial(0) -> 1; factorial(N) -> N * factorial(N-1). factorial(F
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Homebrew is nice and simple http://brew.sh Bourbon http://bourbon.io CouchDB http://couchdb.apache.org
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Thank you for sharing, I will definitely factor that in. It's harder to find a solid upgradeable workstation than I thought.
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I bought 4 Thinkpads and broke 2: - X60s that I sat on. 1024x768 really sucks. ~$70 - X61 still running strong on ubuntu, 32G ssd too small for anything else. 1024x768. ~$75 - X200s that I loved. 1440x900. Windows and Crunchbang Linux
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I would down vote much more often if it weren't so ambiguous. If I had more options. Sometimes I want to down vote just 0.1, just to say Walter, you're not wrong: you're just an asshole . I also think pointed, honest repli
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I think, therefore I am ? I am, therefore I exist ? Maybe I fail to see the point.
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You're not going anywhere soon, are you? Everything, given enough time, gets reposted. Don't bookmark tangentially useful links, just upvote and check Saved Stories. /newest page is best page
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A close encounter , yes. If it were a continuous value, they'd be proximity minima.
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I call shenanigans on the original NYT article. According to a survey conducted by the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau, six years after finishing college, 57 percent of computer science graduates are working as programmer
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It might seem old, but Try Ruby! http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0
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Many CS papers appear on the Arxiv, if you can keep up with it: http://arxiv.org/list/cs/new
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by arh68 12y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344766 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ZmyWO-QU8
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I found a couple high-framerate videos showing the sweeping motion: [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA18YtiSNyQ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ZmyWO-QU8 The movement is very nice to watch, the j
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All I hear is most stupendous badass of all time : (forgive the long quote) ... self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environ
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by arh68 12y ago
Ok I understand better now. I don't blame you for not learning Clojure for 1 project. Duckling suggests similar projects, for example the Ruby project they list: Chronic.parse('may 27th', :guess => false) #=&gt
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by arh68 12y ago
I don't understand. The project you linked is open source. Can't you just start with their code, and fork?
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I think the Principle of Charity is pretty spot on for 1958. I suspect John Rawls said something assuming good faith, too, given the quotes I've found [1]: In his book A Theory of Justice, Rawls stated that citizens are obliged to ac
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Thank you. The 'code' is bad enough, would never pass review ;)
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Great writeup! I only wish the author had benchmarked the approximate algorithm with phi and floating points too, because it's often 'good enough' >>> fib = lambda n: 5**-.5*((.5+.5*5**.5)**n - (.5-.5**.5)**n)
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Good question. Should the US be sanctioned for DDoSing North Korea? Should the US be surprised when China enacts similar legislation?
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I have to agree there is a slight bias towards White winning, but it really isn't a landslide [1]. And it's probably a cliche by now, but I always liked the saying (apparently by Tarkatower [2]): The winner of the game is t
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Most engineers are GS-12 positions. GS-11 used to be the standard, and in some areas GS-13 is a standard engineer rate. It changes over time. Many use alternate pay bands, so it's hard to compare. Anything near GS-15 and above is p
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I'm not going to self-nominate myself as 'bright', but I liked these 3 books when I was 14ish: What do you care what other people think? by Richard Feynman. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Flatland , by Edwin Abbott.
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JavaScript is popular because browser vendors have not yet agreed on anything better. Remember Native Client? You might as well forget it -- Mozilla didn't sign on. ActiveX is a joke, but if Mozilla & Google et al had moved more

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