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Show HN: Why 42? The answer.
1 points by derrida 16y ago|0 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
How do you check if it has happened or not? Is this based on peoples votes after the predicted time of the event? What if someone wants to make a prediction that involves when something occurs?
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by derrida 16y ago
Just a thought: Whether a prediction is objectively good or not is different to whether the prediction is seen as good or not. If you can think of a mechanism to figure out whether a prediction was good or not after the event has happened,
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by derrida 16y ago
This is yet another example of a trend in culture of what was once a thing associated with production (founding a startup) becoming a type of consumption (this card).
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by derrida 16y ago
Why do they kill this if it is profitable? Why not just give it to the employees?
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by derrida 16y ago
That is interesting, whyy do you say that garbage collection was your downfall?
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by derrida 16y ago
C is the language I use when I just want to sit down and enjoy "resonating with the computer". Python, Java etc feel like I am "working", or "cheating" as the case may be in Python. With C you are conscious of the memory of the computer and
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by derrida 16y ago
There is an irony in people thinking that this degree awarded from Harvard is a lesser degree than the other types, when this degree is awarded purely on academic merit (since admission is based on you already completing some of the courses
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by derrida 16y ago
Have a captcha-like box at the bottom of "submit" with methods that need to be written for some giant program created by the community. The interface that gets implemented could be selected by the community.
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by derrida 16y ago
I am sorry. I was not being sarcastic. I am surprised how many people don't give the basic "Hello" when they make eye contact with someone a go. When was the last time you said Hello to someone you did not know, without any pre-existing rea
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by derrida 16y ago
Saying "Hello" to people works well.
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by derrida 16y ago
Idea: Outsource disgruntled employees to the cloud. Hit the cloud and money can come out of it.... sort of like Mario.
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by derrida 16y ago
Wikipedia is hilarious! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_page
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Wikipedia jumps on the April Fools bandwagon(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by derrida 16y ago|0 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
So, has ANYONE verified this independently yet?
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Wikileaks is Down (503)(wikileaks.ch)
2 points by derrida 16y ago|1 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
How do the artists make money? I hope you are part of the solution, too many operators think they can get art for free by throwing the lable "emergent" in front of "artist".
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by derrida 16y ago
I picked $4999 first game, $4999 second game. As a searcher for all things paradoxical, I fail to understand, what is the paradox?
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by derrida 16y ago
One thing to consider: If these emails did contain evidence of fraud, the evidence would not be permitted in a court of law because the evidence was obtained (I assume) without warrant and illegally.
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by derrida 16y ago
Because the extent of user interaction is the sign-up process?
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by derrida 16y ago
Superstitious belief systems.
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by derrida 16y ago
To the rest of the world, this pretty much spells the end of "hope" in Obama.
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by derrida 16y ago
I love the philosopher that wrote this, John Perry. He wrote this other essay called "The Essential Indexical" that is about how we assign reference to the word "I" in different contexts. Read it if you want an example of what Paul Graham r
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by derrida 16y ago
I will say... "additional plugins required". If your blind you will miss that.
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by derrida 16y ago
Why is this here? This is easy to a)break b)solve IF you a)finished high school maths(australia) b) know about pythons ocr libraries.
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Show HN: Does anyone have any glor.io/us ideas?
1 points by derrida 16y ago|0 comments
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by derrida 16y ago
... and he just changed the HN headline to $50! I did the same double take, thinking the price changed. They changed the price! Sneaky!
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by derrida 16y ago
All of this is to upload the universe of course into some sort of Minecraft game.
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by derrida 16y ago
Imagine spidering twitter for phrases of the type "x is a type of y" in order to form a database of real world objects in an inheritance hierarchy. Now imagine when you have these objects, finding out what these objects do by looking at ver
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by derrida 16y ago
I actually just literally drooled on the keyboard!

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