darkkindness

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by darkkindness 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I just started reading, and so far it's quite frightening but enlightening. Holiday uses a scary number of examples to show how effective his tactics are. edit: I'm not seeing any deep description of
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Yes, healthcare sounds pretty screwed up. But even though ketamine for depression might never get FDA approved, I think it's still good that these positive effects are still being reported on. The fact that there are new articles on ke
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Very cool! The examples on this page are Scheme implementations of the Examples section of his 2003 paper[0] linked on the page. He goes over the derivation of the programs for these examples in more detail in the paper. [0]: https:/&
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by darkkindness 9y ago
In practice, it's just a little slightly harder than you say, when you have a roommate who shuts the blinds every morning and keeps a white desk light on at night.
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Well, the biological rhythm can be impacted by much more than just late-night activities. I'm not talking about short term things like jet lag. I'm thinking more chronic things like insomnia, chronic illness/malnutrition, emo
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by darkkindness 9y ago
You might be interested in a HN submission from last week, a WaPo story of a brief history of Toys 'R' Us' recent financial troubles. In short: > The company has struggled to pay down nearly $8 billion in debt — much of it
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University of London offering online B.S. in Computer Science for under £20,000(coursera.org)
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by darkkindness 9y ago
...has an anti-procrastination setting which is so unique in our current economy of attention-grabbing!
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by darkkindness 9y ago
> The 21st-century is not looking for humans who serve as calculating machines, but instead it seeks problem-solvers and innovative thinkers. I distinctly recall how one of my grade school teachers justified learning maths: "In the
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Also be aware that it's a beta. It's not necessarily an evil thing to want to get feedback on your software from those who are interested.
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Ah, this is something I didn't know I needed. Nice work!
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by darkkindness 9y ago
As a semi-recent initiate to Haskell, it's really helpful to see such an accessible compilation of important Haskell developments. Although it's easy to find Haskell material to read, it's not as obvious to highlight what&#x2
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by darkkindness 9y ago
The fact that you actually did this is really inspiring!
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by darkkindness 9y ago
I wasn't aware these debuggers existed. I'll have to check them out. The purpose of writing point-free functions is to encourage thinking about chaining functions together instead of considering what really happens to low-level va
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by darkkindness 9y ago
In my own (limited) experience, I'd much rather debug a nasty pointfree expression than debug a deep nest of loops keeping state in mind. Perhaps it is just different kinds of cognitive overhead.
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by darkkindness 9y ago
You are right, it is great that there are endless options and styles to choose. A good chunk of the work is already done for probably every project imaginable! It's nice, especially for personal projects. And for multiple developers, w
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Sorry, I am not following the news, much. What is the context here?
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by darkkindness 9y ago
> But there is more to try–the Beginner’s Guide has a number of different experiments available—from Bit-flip encoders, to Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms. Am I ready to understand a quantum score like this? Well, maybe not just yet. So
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Are you arguing "other countries are not experiencing leaks -> leaks are harmful"? Sorry, I don't follow...
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by darkkindness 9y ago
> “It’s a real paradigm shift, and undermines a great deal of what’s in the textbooks,” he said. Sorry, but is this really that new? I've never been taught that the DNA strands coordinate with each other while replicating, so it see
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by darkkindness 9y ago
Just tried it myself and you are right! That's good news, perhaps I should go back to Safari.
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by darkkindness 9y ago
> treat it as a reminder that your data is out there circulating around and that you need to go and get yourself a password manager and create strong, unique passwords. I think that the real solution to the problem is not to tell people
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by darkkindness 9y ago
> a fresh start might not be the worst outcome. The article gave the implication of having a locked-down internet reminiscent of China's -- losing net neutrality doesn't necessarily mean losing this centralized, tracking and su
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by darkkindness 10y ago
It's so interesting that 'hacking' has a negative connotation while 'intelligence'[1] has the opposite, even though it should really be the reverse. [1] Obviously recent news have made this term more negative, but y
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by darkkindness 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022 Corresponding Hacker News submission.
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by darkkindness 10y ago
The argument is that Wansink is responding to criticism (like the XKCD) with an air of indifference. Wansink's response to the XKCD is simply one of the examples; the XKCD itself is not being used to support the author's argument
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by darkkindness 10y ago
As a lurker, I tend to spend time on the few comments I write, rather than post my thoughts on every topic that needs further discussion. Unfortunately, it's the latter behavior that nets more karma, more often than not. Those with hig
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by darkkindness 10y ago
Here's what I got: http://i.imgur.com/d0lzPv9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NBIKKRX.jpg The tool gives me two pdfs that both hash to b8d36cccd01e5a4569ba01f9d15b54efedcd5d9f. It works... scary!
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by darkkindness 10y ago
GP is raising attention to the fact that battery life hasn't decreased, not that people aren't paying attention to the other features. Sure, people talk about the smaller battery, screen, and performance increases. But it's a
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by darkkindness 10y ago
It's true that you can program in a functional style in almost any language, but it's just simpler for Javascript. Functions are first-class objects in Javascript, and arrays have built-in forEach, map, reduce, and filter -- all u

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