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by biot 11y ago
Yeah, I've always wondered why people think Canadians pronounce things like "no doot aboot it". That's basically Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons (ie: a crusty old Scottish accent).
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by biot 11y ago
Can you elaborate on the kinds of work they do? I can't see a senior engineer doing iOS/Android development making that kind of coin, but I can see it for someone who has been working in-depth building out datacenter technology or
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by biot 11y ago
In the video you linked, Terrence Tao calls this result "a completely correct proof" (at around 4:00). Pairs of primes includes but is not limited to twin primes.
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by biot 11y ago
> My job is to help our companies make hardware people > want faster and better than ever before. That took me a few seconds to parse correctly. So you're making "hardware people" want faster and better what
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by biot 11y ago
One of my favorite entries: http://www.ioccc.org/1988/westley.c #define _ -F<00||--F-OO--; int F=00,OO=00;main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO() { _-_-_-_
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by biot 11y ago
Small correction: Heroku is owned by Salesforce.com.
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by biot 11y ago
From what I've seen, it's generally meant to be read ironically. Think "social justice rage" vs "social justice advocate".
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by biot 11y ago
I can only infer from the picture of a person on the couch two-thirds of the way through the article that this is about "Prof. Manjul Bhargava": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava
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by biot 11y ago
Perhaps a bit of a novelty given the rechargeable battery argument others have mentioned. I imagine distributing a bunch of these with batteries and having a central dynamo-powered recharging station that gets shared throughout a community
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by biot 11y ago
Minor point: the screenshot shows "Wiley E. Coyote" but it's actually "Wile E. Coyote". Otherwise, seems like a much-needed service. A lot of what lawyers are used for is little more than mail merge, so I'm hap
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by biot 11y ago
"A meshtag is a "drawable barcode" that you can create by drawing straight line segments at 6 different angles." I count only three angles. The entire grid can be constructed via a series of parallel lines ext
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by biot 11y ago
Just think: if everybody posted article snippets with no commentary, we could crowdsource the entire article being redundantly posted piecemeal to HN and nobody would need to click through to the article at all.
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by biot 11y ago
From behind the paywall: "The government penalties come days after regulators separately started probing Fiat Chrysler’s handling of recalled vehicles with possible cybersecurity flaws, after hackers commandeered controls
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by biot 11y ago
That's fine if you're behind the vehicle right when it starts slowing down. I agree with you that a fatal accident is highly improbable there. But it didn't just slow down a bit and then resume speed. If you watched the video
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by biot 11y ago
> Add four or five more zeros and you'll be in the ballpark. So the 1:10,000 should be between 1:100,000,000 and 1:1,000,000,000? You're saying that, on average, between one hundred million and one billion vehicles woul
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by biot 11y ago
It's utilitarian to the max in that it cares little for graphical design. The layout is fairly functional, though I did initially think the menu links at the top were disabled given that the links below were classic blue underline. I c
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by biot 11y ago
And a stalled/wrecked/slowed vehicle on a highway sometimes results in death: http://i.imgur.com/dgHm3E9.gifv [redundant warning: death] http://i.imgur.com/V6aySGy.gifv You can't control for
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by biot 11y ago
I think the article is confused itself. Above the image it says: On grounds of practicality, "a stove-top percolator would not work", Meharg admits. It would have to be a drip-brewer.
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by biot 11y ago
In response, the journalist would say "This was absolutely a real test; there was nothing fake about it. The conditions were as real-world as you can get: the vehicle was being operated at highway speeds with an average driver behind t
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by biot 11y ago
While one cannot stop breathing air, if there are thousands upon thousands of "air artists" and a handful of Big Air Companies, one can stop breathing air from artists who distribute their air through the Big Air Companies and swi
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by biot 11y ago
I'm surprised these guys haven't gone to the next level and started up their own credit card company. That might allow them to buy frequent flyer miles at the dirt-cheap levels and offer ridiculous signup bonuses for their card. F
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by biot 11y ago
That's a perfectly fine position. However, if the record companies are so abhorrent, isn't Step 0 to stop listening to their music at all? Plus a Step 2 being some form of action to attempt to change the situation. Without that St
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by biot 11y ago
What tools are typically used to develop these algorithms? The site has https://password-hashing.net/faq.html#qd which mentions attempts to formally define the security of a good algorithm though a quick scan of the two pap
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by biot 11y ago
That's one opinion and it's doesn't jibe with what the site creator has stated previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683 "IIRC we first had this conversation about a month after launch.
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by biot 11y ago
The Russians had some amazing firsts with Venus, depending on how you define "visit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera "Among the other results, probes of the series became the first man-made dev
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by biot 11y ago
The article already clearly covers your second case: > First is the duration – the provision seems to apply even > after a customer stops using AWS. In fact, the text of the agreement states "During and after the Term...
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by biot 11y ago
Rule 34? I'm sure someone has trained this on porn already? That'd make for some messed up images.
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by biot 11y ago
> Borrowing its name from ancient stagehands in traditional Japanese theater I would have guessed its name was a play on Cokin, the photography filter company.
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by biot 11y ago
I can't be the only person wondering: how do you pronounce it? Kay-you/Say-you? Kyuh/Syuh?
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by biot 11y ago
And most developers use Stack Overflow (which is built on an MS stack) on a regular basis to find answers to their open source technology questions.

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