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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Hawala has been operating primarily for remittances to family back home for decades in the West.
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
This is how the music industry does it with material they send out to different parties like reviewers or magazines with tools like Haulix, except they use watermarks that are undetectable to the ear but encoded in the file itself. Wrt emai
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Can anyone from this project or knowledgable about it comment on why Haskell Platform isn't available for Ubuntu 10.04 which is a LTS release?
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Yes, the resulting digitizations are free to everyone, they are old newspapers like old NYT issues and books whose copyright has expired and are now in the public domain. How do you think you are able to search for so many old books pre-dig
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
One of the main points of reCAPTCHA is to help digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Everytime you use reCAPTCHA, you're helping in this effort. I agree this is a nice alternative if it works for people not using reCAPTCHA bu
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Looks great nodemaker, have you considered adding the /classic page view? http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Yes, I agree but I don't do any Arabic editing in terminal. The only time I bump up against this problem is when in Arabic IRC channels with irssi, and all the letters are separated and backwards. I usually switch to IRCCloud's web IRC when
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
This looks very nice, but you'll notice the Arabic unicode sample is rendering left-to-right, as almost all terminals currently are. I haven't seen any terminal beyond right-to-left specific ones that support proper Arabic yet :/
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Have you ever used it or any other APL? I'm currently getting familiar with K, which is the language Whitney and the company he founded (Kx Systems) after he left Morgan Stanley made, but from an open source implementation called Kona by Ke
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Test-Driven Django Tutorial(tdd-django-tutorial.com)
94 points by eddie_the_head 14y ago|19 comments
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
Khan Academy does not offer lesson plans, just videos and an exercise/practice framework. This is marketplace for teachers to sell and buy lesson plans. Things like worksheets for in-class work, homework to assign, ideas for projects to ass
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
The APL font there is rendering strangely for me, it was the first one posed to me and I recognized it, but a lot of the symbols were rendering as unicode letters with umlauts and other errors. edit: I just finished, 63/75
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by eddie_the_head 14y ago
I think you'd be better served pitching to influential blogs with sizeable readership in your area of business, rather than aiming for a TC or Mashable post. Bloggers specializing in your space are always happy for tips and have more releva
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
That's comparing R and Julia, not R and J.
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
I think you'll find this link very interesting, "Symbology, APL, and Chinese Python" http://clouddbs.blogspot.com/2010/09/symbology-apl-and-chine...
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
I wonder if anyone has written up a comparison on R and J.
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
This one for APL of course: http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/adcolkey.html
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
Really amazing, I haven't seen something this interesting on Hacker News in a long time. Pair programming and mentorship are only a couple of low-hanging fruits this could be used for. Awesome to see socket.io at work and kudos to the team
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
You might find these demoes of Flask with pjax interesting then: http://flaskpjax.herokuapp.com/automobiles https://bitbucket.org/a2c/pjax_flask/overview
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Array languages for Lisp programmers(archive.vector.org.uk)
3 points by eddie_the_head 15y ago|0 comments
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
There is actually a very active social aspect to these Coursera and Udacity etc courses. You clearly haven't signed up yet, check out the forums for each class that are very active, the subreddits (main hub is at /r/OnlineEducation), and th
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
Also join us in #algo-class on Freenode IRC.
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
This is just a little set notation, ∈ means 'is an element of' the set after the symbol. So for example, ∀ n ∈ N n^2 + n + 41 means 'for every n in the set of real numbers, n^2+n+41'. Reading the linked story, that's a proposition for the d
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Udacity CS212: The Design of Computer Programs w/Peter Norvig Promo Video(youtube.com)
1 points by eddie_the_head 15y ago|0 comments
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
And if you do keep notes in Anki, please publish and share[0] them so that others can use them to study from. [0] http://ankisrs.net/docs/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.html#_how_c...
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1225179
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
Relevant, semi-related story about methods an adware-author used to write and conceal his adware in Scheme: http://philosecurity.org/2009/01/12/interview-with-an-adware...
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
Have any of you who are painting him as some rejected genius even read his comments? There is a reason he was hellbanned years ago. His OS is neat and all, but those types of comments shouldn't be accepted and it's the right thing for them
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
The version of news.arc last shipped from arclanguage.org hashes the passwords (I'm not sure what exactly it uses), and that's very old. pg and rtm might've changed it since. I highly doubt that HN ever stored passwords plain text, especial
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by eddie_the_head 15y ago
And in APL: life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.^3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ }

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