dmurray

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3511.
by dmurray 11y ago
Is that really the AP style? If so I agree it's strange not to keep "the Internet".
3512.
by dmurray 11y ago
I found this very interesting and well written. I submitted it to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11368960
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Shakespeare in the Bush (1966)(naturalhistorymag.com)
58 points by dmurray 11y ago|4 comments
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by dmurray 11y ago
I don't like the language of "below is what our lawyers require we tell you". The lawyers didn't decide that the offer is contingent on a background check, or that the employment is at will. You decided that, the governm
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by dmurray 11y ago
How could somebody have accidentally added a hidden motor and some electrical controls to a racing bike? Why would someone "on her team, who sometimes trains with her" have such a bike? It seems quite clear that either there was c
3516.
by dmurray 11y ago
From TFA: “Today, if Nabila or Zubair or many of the civilian victims, if they are watching on TV the president being so remorseful over the killing of a Westerner, what message is that taking?”
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by dmurray 11y ago
Not while satisfying the requirement that each piece of land be six miles square, with the boundaries running north-south and east-west. In fact that's impossible to do for a single piece of land that does not straddle the equator. One
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by dmurray 11y ago
They don't have to publish all of their financials just yet. With the confidential IPO process, they can send in their mostly-correct figures and go through some back-and-forth with the SEC to ensure they are reporting earnings etc in
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by dmurray 11y ago
>When is the last time you've ever seen any player at a casino ask the dealer to reconstruct the six or eight starting decks that are in a shoe? I've never seen that You see the decks fanned out, each card visible, before they
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by dmurray 12y ago
All of your customers change the passwords to all of their other accounts after doing business with you?
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by dmurray 12y ago
> At that level of accuracy, however, you will find that the rotation of the Earth itself doesn't keep time that well. If the main purpose of the clock was to measure longitude by observing the position of the stars, "only as a
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by dmurray 12y ago
How does this not get all FBI testimony thrown out by judges? If there is an organisation who pays its employees to lie in court, and they are known to suffer no ill consequences for lying, all of those employees' testimony should be c
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by dmurray 12y ago
I had an example with two possible solutions (3 empty spaces were left, and either BRB or RBR would have satisfied the conditions). I meant to take a screenshot after finishing but the final position fades out (and adds numbers everywhere)
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by dmurray 12y ago
It would be possible, but it's illegal to do so in the US with stocks.
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by dmurray 12y ago
>Usually, everyone will focus on keeping the strongest player from winning Do you have any specific examples of how this happens? One of the design goals of Dominion is that there are no "kingmaker" mechanics, so you never have
3526.
by dmurray 12y ago
Not at all. I'd say it's practically impossible if you need each of those relationships to be a 70%+ favourite.
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by dmurray 12y ago
If there is, the 'someone else' would still have to do some rate limiting. Otherwise, once again, I can just run this algorithm for all possible phone numbers.
3528.
by dmurray 12y ago
So that I can cold call someone who might be interested in my product, even though DataLogix only told me the hash of their phone number.
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by dmurray 12y ago
> The trick is that the hash of a phone number captured on Facebook will look just like the hash of the same phone number captured in a brick and mortar store, so the two companies can match the numbers without actually trading them. Thi
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by dmurray 12y ago
I tried this as a college project inspired by the Roger Alsing post. Unfortunately I didn't create anything usable. If I was doing it again I'd use a SA approach or pure hillclimbing like Alsing - as antirez points out in a siblin
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by dmurray 12y ago
> I like how the article looks at the absolute skill levels among professional competitors in chess and professional performers in orchestral music... The chess example is controversial as it is not correct to consider the Elo ratings &q
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by dmurray 12y ago
Some of the claims don't sound right. 99% of all international communications are carried on undersea cables? I imagine a lot more than 1% of international traffic is between countries in continental Europe, for a start.
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by dmurray 13y ago
An example that should show this approach is wrong: Suppose that the jar contains 500 double-head coins and 500 double-tail coins. You pull a coin from the jar, flip it 10 times, and get 10 heads. What is the probability it will come up hea