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by bd 18y ago
If you want to check how it works, here are some users with "topcolor" mentioned in their profiles: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jrockway http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=comatose_kid http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tsall
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For HN: Greasemonkey script for enhancing HN user profiles (clickable links & topcolors)
2 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
I knew a guy that didn't even know his password explicitly, all was just a pattern of finger movements stored in muscle memory.
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by bd 18y ago
You could use innards of some open source PDF viewer (most of them are written in C++). I managed to get away just with using command line PDF->TXT tool that came with Xpdf [1]. Also MuPDF is awesome [2]. Its bare bones demo PDF viewer
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by bd 18y ago
I used it recently for analysis of PDF articles. It's quite good, though as it is written in pure Python, it's rather slow (especially compared to command line tools written in C/C++). I strongly recommend using Psyco [1]. Adding few lines
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by bd 18y ago
Stanford could fill their entering class with kids who had perfect scores on their SATs and still have plenty with perfect scores left over. Just nitpicking - this cannot be true [1]. Stanford enrollments per year are in the 2,000 range,
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by bd 18y ago
Golden quote from Norvig's talk at Startup School: Q: What's your opinion about semantic web? A: Semantic web. Future of the web. And it always will be. Also: If I assigned engineers to (semantic web) formats based on the percentage of p
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by bd 18y ago
You can see the original (almost one hour) GDC announcement video here: http://gdc.gamespot.com/video/6206692/ It's actually pretty impressive, they do show actual stuff (for example high-details Crysis multiplayer with one player on set-
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by bd 18y ago
It would be interesting to see how it compares to Psyco. They do have one test for Psyco, but unfortunately results are not included in the wiki (Spitfire, which is Psycoed version of SlowSpitfire). From my experience, Psyco performs very w
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by bd 18y ago
Non-material things like status or reputation can be still scarce even with limitless energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity#Unavoidable_scarc...
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by bd 18y ago
I went to Nielsen's first example ( http://foodnetwork.com ) with NoScript enabled (meaning it degraded to CSS-only solution) and it worked quite well. It was actually quite hard to get diagonal issue to be the problem, you must follow rath
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419 scammer chats with security company CEO(onlinearmorpersonalfirewall.blogspot.com)
48 points by bd 18y ago|14 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Thanks for noticing. I never started a poll, so I don't have a test case. I made a fix based on how the * marker is rendered elsewhere. Please try if it works for you: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollchart.user.j... (Grea
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by bd 18y ago
Here it is: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpollchart.user.j... And here some are some polls: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:ycombinator.co...
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by bd 18y ago
When you are on some HN poll page, clicking on this bookmark should create a pie chart just above the poll options. For example, here is how it should look like: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/hnpoll.png For this poll: http://
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For HN: Polls chart bookmarklet (and GreaseMonkey script)
20 points by bd 18y ago|7 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Here is a pie chart with the current data from the poll: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=350x170&chd=t:193... Or if you want to see realtime data, you can use following bookmarklet to embed chart directly into this page: ---- j
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by bd 18y ago
I just asked Trevor what was going on. Now you got me really confused. I assumed tlb==Trevor.
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by bd 18y ago
Exactly. Additionally, the AI label is changing its meaning over the time. My AI professors used to tell semi-jokingly that whenever we get computers to solve some task we thought required intelligence (thus we produced AI), the "intelligen
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by bd 18y ago
Anybody else getting (a lot of) errors? All destination pages give me some sort of generic error page (Symfony PHP framework). It seems like they try to do geolocation according to IP and international visitors trigger some untested code pa
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by bd 18y ago
Whole building detoxification because of a single broken thermometer seems like overkill (unless it was some unusually big one). It's important to clean it properly (good ventilation, don't spread it around, don't vacuum clean), but unless
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Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp(zerobeat.net)
31 points by bd 18y ago|8 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Because it looks like one (compared to Gaussian it's skewed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution
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by bd 18y ago
They assume existence of donors already willing to donate, there is no call for extra donations. It's just about how to do more efficient matching. In this case "altruistic donor" could mean, for example, a mother with a sick kid, which she
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by bd 18y ago
is that story of 100 IQ - 60 = 180 - 140 in terms of relative intelligence true? Short answer: no. Longer answer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407083 ---- Also: as katz mentioned above, IQs of historical figures are complete nons
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by bd 18y ago
Besides all popular explanations of "failure to plan" (based on various cognitive biases and reasoning errors), there could be also another effect in play. Even for somebody who could produce a perfect estimate, sometimes it can be more str
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by bd 18y ago
I wanted to make a funny remark, but Urban Dictionary is way better: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pta BTW I think the original term is PUA = Pick Up Artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist
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by bd 18y ago
It's actually not so bad. It's just JavaScript and maybe my code (I wrote JS version). Roger Alsing (who was the original author and inspiration) did later an optimized compiled parallel version that was able to get Mona Lisa in 1 minute 34
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by bd 18y ago
I think they ought to display 1.0333147966386144e40. Actually, they did show the result by default as floats in scientific notation, it was me who changed number display options for easier visual comparison. I assumed quants preferred C++
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by bd 18y ago
Interesting, 35! according to various tools: 10333147966386100000000000000000000000000 (Open Office Calc) 10333147966386100000000000000000000000000 (Excel) 10333147966386144000000000000000000000000 (Gnumeric) 103331479663861450000

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