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by eindiran 7y ago
There was a version of it that had 20 something points and was the second story on the front page before being flagged and removed. The link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21416368
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Ask HN: Why was the BBC story about human trafficking removed?
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by eindiran 7y ago
He has a few videos on Numberphile: On the Fields Medal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp3sgYKULp0 On his wearing of decorative lapel spiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4REVI30Qc Beauty vs Utility
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by eindiran 7y ago
Aha! I missed that. How long did it take you to work out the bug here? How did you stumble on to this originally? Was it an organic error, or do you do this kind of thing for a living?
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by eindiran 7y ago
A friend of mine mentioned the Tobacco Master Settlement, and its so unbelievable I thought it was a conspiracy theory, but its absolutely real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre... What a pe
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by eindiran 7y ago
There's also some weird, non-determinism in the beginning where the 'c' after a long chain of failed 'b's overwrites the previous 'a', which he is later unable to replicate. Not to mention preventing arrow
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TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video](numberphile.com)
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by eindiran 7y ago
I just wanted to say that I saw when you posted tumblelog a few weeks back, and your posts on plurrrr and it inspired me to try writing a static site generator and start writing blog posts again. It's a very cool project.
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by eindiran 7y ago
I'm not sure how much I personally buy the idea that playing styles in board games mirror people's behavior when interacting with their coworkers. I play a lot of board games, and tend to do a lot chaotic or risky things (eg why p
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by eindiran 7y ago
The underlying data structure (a trie[0]) is used to create both suffix trees and prefix trees. The 'default' trie is a prefix tree actually. The reason you would want a suffix tree (over a prefix trie) is that suffix trees are qu
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by eindiran 7y ago
The article doesn't mention that the situation is tied to THC vaping (rather than nicotine vaping) until 5 paragraphs in, which strikes me as a dishonest way of playing in to the vaping hysteria. Similarly disappointing is the use of &
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by eindiran 7y ago
The second one means "the enemy successfully got several of our aircrafts". Specifically, definition 3a or 3b for the verb form here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land So potentially the enemy c
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by eindiran 7y ago
I saw the question and immediately though of the argument order of `ln`. I have to look it up every time I use it. "Is it `target` then `link`, or the other way?" Remembering that the order is the same as `cp` seems like a promisi
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by eindiran 7y ago
Yes, by allowing political spam calls to be made, almost certainly. I've gotten well over 50 calls in the last few months trying to influence my opinion for the upcoming November election in San Francisco.
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by eindiran 7y ago
Very cool. OP, what is your previous exposure to concatenative programming? Have you written or used a Forth before? One thing I noticed was that you opted for passing parameters to words directly, rather than placing them on the stack; it
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by eindiran 7y ago
I don't understand how "trauma is universal" is a reasonable interpretation of the facts that are related there. I'm always wary of an argument that hinges on the meaning of a word being changed (the subtle expansion of
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by eindiran 7y ago
The proof of the Theorem on friends and strangers [0] from Ramsey Theory, which is a special case of Ramsey's theorem [1]. I like it because it is a fun proof to show people to demonstrate a few different proof techniques while remaini
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by eindiran 7y ago
I find it a very human contradiction that parents responded both in extreme resentment and by leaning in to it. When it felt like their sons were being stolen away from them, the parents were willing to disfigure them in order to prevent th
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by eindiran 7y ago
I think a big part of that is that historically most games are updated relatively little after they are released, so maintainability of the code base is secondary to not letting the release date slip. But Factorio is a game that has been ge
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by eindiran 7y ago
The way the model works is very interesting: 1. Calculate total mining revenues, across all miners in the Bitcoin network. 2. Estimate that, on average, miners spend 60% of their revenues on electricity. (I believe the origin of this number
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by eindiran 7y ago
I think "this one" refers to the original article's title being really bad: "Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'"
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by eindiran 7y ago
I assume you want to use a text interface rather than a voice interface? Do you have any constraints on the programming language you'll use? I'm going to assume that you'll be okay using Python in my answer. If you were looki
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by eindiran 7y ago
Potentially you could use Unicode encoded in UTF-32, but since there are many fewer Unicode code points than 2^32, there are a lot of valid 32-bit patterns that don't map to a valid UTF-32 encoding of a Unicode code point. As a result,
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by eindiran 7y ago
I think the only potential issue is that it isn't clear what sections of Market are not intended for cars currently from the signs visible from the side streets intersecting it, so major improvements to signage need to be made or unsus
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by eindiran 7y ago
I don't think Levin is making the claim that NASA knows that there is life on Mars and that there is a conspiracy to cover it up. They both are looking at the same results and (honestly) coming to different conclusions. Part of this is
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by eindiran 7y ago
It looks like a lot of people think the presence of the oxidizer perchlorate is the cause of the false positive, but there isn't consensus yet. ``` On August 2008, the Phoenix lander detected perchlorate, a strong oxidizer when heated
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by eindiran 7y ago
Probably the easiest way to solve this problem in the future is to know that the same account posts it each month, so you can just check that account's submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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by eindiran 7y ago
It's probably not a good sign for Samsung that when I saw the headline, I assumed there were more dangerous hardware problems. The Note hasn't been able to escape the history of exploding problems and TSA warnings...
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by eindiran 7y ago
This article captures a lot of the issues that I had with Artifact. I ~really~ wanted to like it; I've very fond of other Garfield games like Magic, Android Netrunner, and Keyforge and had a friend that was very excited about the game.
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by eindiran 7y ago
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