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by bhickey 15y ago
I wonder how the IRS will choose to treat it. If you solve a block, have you made income or realized a capital gain? When you convert BTC into a national currency, what gain have you realized? (Current_price - Price_at_generation)? It seems
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by bhickey 15y ago
Great, you found a script injection. However, I think you misunderstand "Hacker News"
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by bhickey 16y ago
Are you referring to Addison Lee? I was under the impression that they only used motorbikes for courier service.
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by bhickey 16y ago
You should have put a mailinator.com address in your account profile. If you would, drop me an e-mail (see profile). My employer is hiring. Located near Moorgate. Not a deathmarch. Edit: Hmm.. I think HN hides e-mail addresses. http://bhic
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by bhickey 16y ago
This morning I ran into a No campaigner leafleting at Camden Tube station. When he tried handing me a leaflet, I informed him that I had just voted Yes. As I walked away, he shouted that I must be "LibDem scum".
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by bhickey 16y ago
Floats are great, you just need to understand when to use them! If you want to use them for an application where you're doing frequent multiplications or divisions, I strongly suggest log transforming your domain and replacing your multipli
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by bhickey 16y ago
This is why I advise working for a company with a balanced IP policy. I would never consider doing otherwise. At present, all I need to do is disclose any 'potentially business related' projects to my employer. For 90 days from the date of
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by bhickey 16y ago
I'm not referring to a particular essay. RMS has a large body of work. The point I'm making is that rather than dismiss a critic in that manner, he could have pointed him to something useful. If he'd done that, folks on HN wouldn't be grumb
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by bhickey 16y ago
He could have at least had the good sense to say something like... I am skeptical of your position. I wrote an essay on a similar topic back in 1988, here's a link.
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by bhickey 16y ago
I don't see the price point working. While I'm sorely tempted to shell out $300 for Adobe Lightroom, I am unwilling to use a service that charges me by the image. A subscription model might be more palatable to users. Some cursory searching
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by bhickey 16y ago
This is proving to be an interesting read, but I have much different design goals in mind than the author. I'm interested in simulation, and this sort of RNG is useless for that purpose. I would go as far to say this approach is useless for
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by bhickey 16y ago
The think of the children squad is immune to reason. They'll smear your name and then your colleagues will look at you funny when you wander into the office at 10:30.
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by bhickey 16y ago
Posts of this nature contribute nothing but noise on HN. I've flagged this for removal.
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by bhickey 16y ago
When the company is the first to give a number, you always get the job, and you have a 50% chance of getting a high salary. No... Let's say you're going to the store to get milk. Either milk will be on sale or milk will not be on
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by bhickey 16y ago
As a teaching assistant I occasionally came across cheaters. Dealing with them can be a very painful process. In one case students were plagiarizing homework assignments. The instructor invited the accused into his office and presented them
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by bhickey 16y ago
Zed, could you make your e-mail address a bit easier to find? I don't use twitter and figured you wouldn't want me phoning you up.
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by bhickey 16y ago
I suspect for purposes of key distribution. If <huge company> doesn't feel like playing Zed's game, they could easily forgo issuing a GPG key. By using SSL, he's strong arming them into participating.
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by bhickey 16y ago
Wouldn't ambient occlusion have been a better technique?
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by bhickey 16y ago
I'm an American expat living in London. If I were to start a business, the first thing I would do is leave the UK. My perception is that access to the London market simply isn't worth dealing with the business climate here. Sure, National I
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by bhickey 16y ago
If you're interested in why this sort of approach fails, I wrote a brief post on the subject: http://www.bhickey.net/2011/02/naive-algorithmic-shuffling/
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by bhickey 16y ago
It's rare, but not unheard of even outside of CS. A friend of mine is finishing up his degree at Brown University having never graduated from high school. Instead he joined up and did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a pararescueman.
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by bhickey 16y ago
Be warned: the main source code in the 'src' directory is a real pain to understand as I've experimented with hundreds of slightly different versions. It contains many #if and some gotos, and is *completely optimized
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by bhickey 16y ago
By your own admission you: 1) Hacked PHPFog. 2) Stole their source code and distributed it to others. 3) Unlawfully accessed and defaced their Twitter account. Yes, you're clever, but your behavior is "rash and irresponsible." If I were you
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by bhickey 16y ago
Are these guys trying to get arrested?
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by bhickey 16y ago
What marvels will the singularity bring us? Claustrophobic computers?
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by bhickey 16y ago
I've added Brendan Schwartz to the 'where-people-are' file on the Brown CS filesystem...
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by bhickey 16y ago
This is fairly common in the UK. Over here people use real money instead of funnymoney.
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by bhickey 16y ago
Ever get the impression that NASA is doing a disservice to the scientific process with these sensational media pushes? Arsenic based life anyone?
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by bhickey 16y ago
I don't think you would refer to the raw sectors on your harddrive as a data structure. It may be more useful to view DNA as a just storage medium. There's an encoding scheme on top of the nucleotides -- amino acids are encoded with trinucl
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by bhickey 16y ago
For reasons of HIPAA, this is an appliance rather than a 'cloud based' system?

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