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by cjhveal 7y ago
For those wondering, this is what the resource at hand says about the matter: "To be precise, when this mean is calculated, the sum of the squared deviations is divided by one less than the sample size rather than the sample size itsel
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by cjhveal 7y ago
The basic idea of missile defense is to intercept the incoming missile with another missile. What really matters is detection with enough time to react and fire those intercepting missiles. There are both cruise and ballistic missiles that
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by cjhveal 7y ago
Probably because the threat surface of a cruise missile is similar to a low-flying manned aircraft. There's lots of civilian use cases for GPS under those same conditions, where there's relatively fewer uses for speeds and altitud
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by cjhveal 7y ago
Love it— the geological aspect of it is simulated beyond my armchair level of expertise, so I'm generally quite happy with the results. The political side of the world is pretty well done with simulation in detail, but I'd love to
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by cjhveal 7y ago
Didn’t mean for it to come off as hostile— I meant that your misunderstanding may have come from misreading what I had written, as I don’t think I wrote about an “inland river.” But even as I wrote it, it’s not particularity clear unless yo
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by cjhveal 7y ago
You've misquoted me. I was talking about a large body of water that had a river leaving it, looping around and draining back into it. That's a very peculiar behavior for a river. The Jordan river flows through the Sea of Galilee a
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by cjhveal 7y ago
I really like the maps this generates. For me, plausibility is really important when creating any fictional map, because it's possible to create a map that looks beautiful but depicts a place that doesn't really make sense even wi
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by cjhveal 7y ago
There's likely a feedback loop involved. Commentators who happen to talk about trending topics become popular; their popular platform can bring those topics to a broader audience; that broader audience stokes the hype around the trend
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by cjhveal 7y ago
In the US there is a legal doctrine called fair use, which limits the extent of copyright. There are a number of factors but one of the most relevant here is the purpose and character of the use. If you're using the work to create an a
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by cjhveal 7y ago
Having grown up in Canada, this also characterizes my experience with law enforcement.
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by cjhveal 8y ago
Definitely an odd wording. However, I have some speculation as to why it is this way. Maclean's is a Canadian publication and I think many Canadians have a special interest in the UK, and I think the demographics of Maclean's read
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by cjhveal 8y ago
If I understand the situation, they changed it[0] in 2014 to "move fast with stable infra". [0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/zuckerberg-move-fast-and-break-thi...
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by cjhveal 9y ago
Oh wow, at first I thought this was another ASCII-art to image generator like ditaa[1]. This is much more practical. I'll give this a shot next time I might have otherwise reached for Graphviz or Lucidchart. [1]: http://dita
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by cjhveal 9y ago
For what it's worth, my account is older by ~7 months and I'm not yet halfway there.
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by cjhveal 9y ago
I'd hazard that the difference is in the demand for the products. The total addressable market for crayons is likely much smaller, and would be more quickly saturated if you were to ramp up production. Cigarettes have killer recurring
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by cjhveal 9y ago
DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are not just about making sure your marketing emails don't end up in spam. They protect against certain kinds of email spoofing, sending an email with a forged sender address. While it's a technique often used
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by cjhveal 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious why you'd really want native package loading in vim, except for purity's sake. If you're already using third party packages, is it much worse to just add a package manager? I've been using june
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by cjhveal 10y ago
I'd say the backbone comparison is pretty apt, but I've always felt both strived to be "libraries" of structural building blocks rather than frameworks (for better or worse). Writing express servers feels a lot like writ
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by cjhveal 10y ago
Caffeine does indirectly promote release of acetylcholine (along with the monoamines, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine) via antagonism of adenosine receptors. I've heard anecdotal evidence on caffeine giving people nightmares and vi
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by cjhveal 10y ago
Another possible contributing factor is that Mercury/mercury is a capitonym[0] in that it changes its understood meaning via capitalization, which is obviously obscured when it's used in a headline or as the first word in a senten
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by cjhveal 10y ago
NASA has said this announcement is not about alien life, despite what this article implies. https://twitter.com/NASA/status/778605097798537216
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by cjhveal 10y ago
A programatic interface can be exposed via functions over data structures, methods on objects, or HTTP requests against a server's endpoints, to name a few examples. I think the confusion here arises from a fairly common conflation of
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by cjhveal 10y ago
From my understanding, Amazon Vehicles isn't (as yet) about buying cars, but about selling you the parts and accessories for the vehicles that you do own. Here's their 'Garage' page: https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by cjhveal 10y ago
This is a great article. Proxies really have gotten lost in the hype around ES6. Surely it's in part because JS developers have obvious pain points with async control flow and clumsy syntax, so things like generators and generous helpi
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by cjhveal 10y ago
While thinky is great and does a ton of heavy lifting for me, I've found it a little bit confusing when needing to write more advanced queries. I would personally recommend to start learning reql + rethinkdb with the rethinkdbdash[0] d
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by cjhveal 10y ago
There's a huge difference between being skeptical and being self-deprecating. By all means one should play devil's advocate to their own impulses, but without practicing self-awareness, it's exceptionally difficult to come up
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by cjhveal 10y ago
For what it's worth, they claim to support vim & emacs keybinds (haven't tried).
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by cjhveal 10y ago
For those who are interested in this space, I'd strongly recommend first looking at options outside of your home. If you're in the bay area, here's a hacker/maker space for biology: http://biocurious.org/
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by cjhveal 10y ago
Something similar for Docker & Minecraft: https://github.com/docker/dockercraft (previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10584956 )
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by cjhveal 10y ago
To be slightly more clear, it looks like they're saying that there are two _types_ of neurons, not two physical neuronal cells. From the article's introduction: "We demonstrate that the core decision-making system consists of

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