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by dmoney 17y ago
Is this a legitimate copy? Meaning, is PG or the publisher likely to get it taken down?
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13 year old prodigy claims age discrimination by UConn(news.yahoo.com)
41 points by dmoney 17y ago|34 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
We hear about failure that leads to eventual success, but not failure that only leads to more failure.
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by dmoney 17y ago
From that search, what about tptacek, based on the non-standard use of "ROI": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024825
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by dmoney 17y ago
Ugh, talking popover (or whatever you call that). This one has no popover, supports Costco cards (which, last I checked CardPool didn't) and offers cash or Amazon cards in return: http://www.plasticjungle.com/pjweb/
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by dmoney 17y ago
But then you lose a lot of options for exercise. Walking and running are definitely out.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Humor is the gateway drug. If people start upvoting jokes, then HN will turn into Reddit. Then into Digg. Before you know it, you might as well call it HNchan.
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by dmoney 17y ago
until I have to search for something really hard to find that only google can find the answer What sort of things?
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by dmoney 17y ago
The "Pat Signal" for short.
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by dmoney 17y ago
"Fundamentally incorrect" sounds like a pretty nerdy piece of metadata to attach to a statement.
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by dmoney 17y ago
There was an obfuscated C program that worked the same way: a circle of code used to get its own area and radius. I can't seem to find it though.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Part 4/4 ends before the interview is over. It looks like they were re-submitted as a 5-part, but there is no 5/5.
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by dmoney 17y ago
This post indicates they are having problems due to growth: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/b7ko0/we_know_the_site... More slowness than being "down or broken".
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CERN on trial: could a lawsuit shut the LHC down?(newscientist.com)
3 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
Money is the original point system.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Related: Bot Mediated Reality: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028565
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by dmoney 17y ago
What do you mean by "a serious problem with its youth"? High crime rate? Gang activity? Why do you suppose the problem exists?
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by dmoney 17y ago
non-mobile version: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61Q0S920100227
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by dmoney 17y ago
Sun = Middle Earth? Does that make Oracle Sauron?
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by dmoney 17y ago
I wonder if most projects would have a similar curve, and if parts of the curve had different properties (bug count, difficulty to change, etc.)
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"hella" proposed as SI prefix for 10^27(theaggie.org)
15 points by dmoney 17y ago|2 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
Maybe the problem is that "relationships more complicated than linear sensitivity to single variables" are hard to study scientifically, and Western medicine is supposed to be founded on science.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Why a day for a shopping mall and a month for the internet? Also, why just one nearby mall? Why not the entire internet vs. all shopping malls for an equal amount of time? Of course, we'd have to ignore the business the shopping malls do
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by dmoney 17y ago
Take a snapshot of the memory used by the game, then reload that. Or, sniff the traffic to the server and try and reverse engineer the database schema or serialization format.
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by dmoney 17y ago
I've only heard those called "greeting cards".
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by dmoney 17y ago
For me, it really helps to have external structure in which to learn. I had fooled around with computers, but I don't consider that I really learned how to program until CS 101. Getting a job and learning what a big disgusting mess softwa
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Artificial Flight and Other Myths(dresdencodak.com)
57 points by dmoney 17y ago|24 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
I think this would have Wolfram Alpha's problem of trying to be too general, without having invented general AI. How will the system understand what I want? Auto-gifting would be particularly useful. Is there a way to use it without an iP
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by dmoney 17y ago
From what I understand, one objection is that trying an American citizen in an international court violates the right to due process. How? There presumably is a process defined by a treaty which the US has agreed to. The other objection:
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by dmoney 17y ago
The United States constitution forbids anything like the war crimes court [citation needed]

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